05-11-2013, 05:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2013, 12:12 PM by James Norwood.)
[FONT=&] [FONT=&]On November 4, 2013, the Reelz network offered a panel-of-experts-style show as a follow-up to its program "JFK: The Smoking Gun." The program featured the two principal commentators from the previous two-hour program: Bonar Menninger and Australian private investigator Colin McLaren. The host was veteran investigative reporter Bill Kurtis.
In the 1990s, Kurtis was also the host for the History Channel on the documentary series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy." Therefore, he is aware of countless witnesses who contradict the information presented in the Reelz documentary. Yet Kurtis lobs softball questions at Menninger and McLaren and mouths platitudes like "We know of course that Oswald used the Carcano."
Federal Judge John Tunheim is called the "hero" of this story. Interviewed exclusively for this program, Tunheim lends his qualified support to Menninger and McLaren by suggesting that SS Agent George Hickey was "inexperienced" and implicitly capable of firing off an errant shot into the President's head. Tunheim reiterates the points he has been making for years in his speeches before groups in Minnesota, as he proclaims that in his role as chair of the ARRB, "We approached the work with a completely open mind" and "the Warren Commission did a thorough job." Tunheim even states that the Warren Commission was composed of "a group of politically wise men."
The program also features a firearms specialist (Leonard Romero) and an MD (Juan Carillo) to discuss the findings of Menninger and McLaren. But it is clear that both of these "experts" have not studied the JFK case. No scholar who has studied the assassination, such as Dr. David Mantik or Douglas Horne, is present to challenge the conclusions of the Reelz program. At the close of the show, Bill Kurtis attempts to pay tribute to JFK by reading a portion of the speech he never delivered at the Dallas Trade Mart.
This is shameful and dishonest broadcast journalismthe exact kind that President Kennedy himself would have deplored.
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In the 1990s, Kurtis was also the host for the History Channel on the documentary series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy." Therefore, he is aware of countless witnesses who contradict the information presented in the Reelz documentary. Yet Kurtis lobs softball questions at Menninger and McLaren and mouths platitudes like "We know of course that Oswald used the Carcano."
Federal Judge John Tunheim is called the "hero" of this story. Interviewed exclusively for this program, Tunheim lends his qualified support to Menninger and McLaren by suggesting that SS Agent George Hickey was "inexperienced" and implicitly capable of firing off an errant shot into the President's head. Tunheim reiterates the points he has been making for years in his speeches before groups in Minnesota, as he proclaims that in his role as chair of the ARRB, "We approached the work with a completely open mind" and "the Warren Commission did a thorough job." Tunheim even states that the Warren Commission was composed of "a group of politically wise men."
The program also features a firearms specialist (Leonard Romero) and an MD (Juan Carillo) to discuss the findings of Menninger and McLaren. But it is clear that both of these "experts" have not studied the JFK case. No scholar who has studied the assassination, such as Dr. David Mantik or Douglas Horne, is present to challenge the conclusions of the Reelz program. At the close of the show, Bill Kurtis attempts to pay tribute to JFK by reading a portion of the speech he never delivered at the Dallas Trade Mart.
This is shameful and dishonest broadcast journalismthe exact kind that President Kennedy himself would have deplored.
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