James Norwood Wrote:[FONT=&]This is the third program produced by the Reelz network on the JFK assassination. At a briskly paced sixty-minutes, the show provides short responses to fifty questions about the assassination.
While the producers retrieved good documentary footage as the backdrop for the fifty questions, the content was superficial and reflected no attempt to research the new findings in the JFK case over the past twenty years. The show could have virtually been produced in the pre-Oliver Stone, pre-ARRB era.
Another major drawback was the commentators on the program. Featured prominently once again on a television documentary about the assassination was journalist Hugh Aynesworth. During the assassination weekend, this most fortunate member of the mainstream media had the singular opportunity of being present in Dealey Plaza for the assassination, at the Texas Theater for the arrest of Oswald, and in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters for the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby. Instead of using what he calls his "dumb luck" to try to learn the truth about these three events, Aynesworth has for five decades served as the poster boy for the Warren Commission. In this program, Aynesworth calls the Clay Shaw trial "a terrible miscarriage of justice," and he asserts that people don't accept the Warren Commission's story because "it's more fun to believe in conspiracy." Aynesworth apparently cannot see that for a half century, people have raised genuine concerns about the Warren Commission's version of the assassination.
Another commentator on the program was Ruth Paine, who is seen weeping on camera and saying, "the grief is always there." However, it is unclear what is the source of her bereavement. Is it perhaps her own complicity in the setting up of Oswald? The most interesting observation made by Ruth Paine was when she recalled speaking to Oswald in Russian when he arrived at her home in Irving on the fateful night of November 21. However, she does not comment on how it would be possible for an American boy who never made it beyond his freshman year in high school to have acquired a complete mastery of the Russian language.
The best clips are those in which Jim Marrs appears to provide a dictionary definition of the word "conspiracy" and ask if Oswald was indeed the lone assassin, why has the government failed to provide a defensible rationale for the two murders he was alleged to have committed. The program accepts on blind faith that Oswald shot Tippit and goes so far as to suggest that the apartment at 604 Elspeth apartment was the site where Oswald "planned" the assassination because that was where Oswald ordered the gun that killed Tippit. The program's researchers obviously have not studied John Armstrong's findings which demolish the proposition that Oswald ever ordered the pistol just as thoroughly as the recent razing of the Elspeth apartment building.
Sadly, this slick program barely scratches the surface of so many complex topics. Without providing any background on the ballistics, the claim is made as fact that the "first shot" from the Depository Building was the so-called "magic bullet" wounding both the President and Governor Connally. Even the Warren Report was unable to draw such a precise conclusion about the sequence of the gunshots. After fifty questions and fifty insubstantial answers, the predictable conclusion of the program is "we may never know the whole truth." It is clear that the American public will indeed never learn the truth if people have to rely on shallow documentary programs like this one.[/FONT]
Poor, crying, Ruth Paine, still a phony, traitorous, piece of crap.
On a lighter note, Amy Goodman sited a poll that said that only 16% of Americans believe in the WC findings. Funny, we won the war a long time ago but since the MSM and government hang onto their lies, especially the MSM, the world gets worse and worse...
[FONT=&] [FONT=&]This feature length documentary carefully traces the Cold War history of the Kennedy presidency from the inaugural speech to the Bay of Pigs to the Vienna Summit to the Cuban Missile Crisis to policy in Vietnam to JFK's American University Address to the assassination on November 22, 1963. Airing on Directv, this is a breath of fresh air when compared to much of the pedestrian programming at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy's death.
The research for this program is exemplary for its balanced coverage, and the strength of the program lies in the commentators. The scholars appearing on camera are some of the finest writers and researchers of the history of the Cold War. Historian Michael Dobbs, who has written a superb book on the Cuban Missile Crisis, describes "a kind of universal humanism" which guided JFK through the darkest days of October, 1962. Frederick Kempe, an expert on Berlin in 1961, and not a great admirer of JFK, provides excellent insights into the pressures felt by President Kennedy due to the unique circumstances of Berlin in the first year of his presidency. Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive, discovered secret documents in the Kennedy Library ("Contacts with Cuban Leaders"). The declassification of this file in the late 1990s, revealed JFK's backchannel communications with Cuba with the goal of "more flexible lines" of communications with Castro. James Galbraith, the son of JFK's advisor John Kenneth Galbraith, provides expert commentary throughout this program. The producers even located and interviewed the two interpreters for JFK and Khrushchev, who were present at the Vienna summit in June, 1961.
In JFK's often misunderstood policy on Vietnam, the program meticulously documents JFK's opposition to military intervention in Southeast Asia, dating back to his time in Congress when he personally visited Vietnam. The program reveals that prior to the fateful trip to Dallas in November 1963, the president informed his national security staff specialist on Vietnam, Michael Forrester, that he would undertake "a thorough review of whether the United States should be there at all." President Kennedy's complementary National Security Action Memo 263 articulated his formal policy to withdraw all U.S. military personnel from Vietnam. For scholar James Galbraith, it is "no longer historically controversial" that JFK was resolute in his refusal to send American armed forces to Vietnam.
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, the film is much more than a tribute to JFK's vision of peace and his political legacy. It is also a clarion call to understand why and how he died on November 22, 1963, and why the assassination itself was a turning point in our nation's history. [/FONT]
Marlene Zenker Wrote:Right now I'm DVRing "Lost JFK Tapes/Assassination" on NatGeo. It will be aired again on the following days...
Sunday 11/10 2-4PM MST and Wednesday 11/15 2-4PM MST
I just started watching this - cool archival footage. I am trying to find the video online a the news helicopter is panning over Dealey Plaza, right over the Knoll and people are already gathered there, you can see the railroad yard as well. I am wondering if anyone has ever analyzed these films to see what you can see?
Marlene Zenker Wrote:Right now I'm DVRing "Lost JFK Tapes/Assassination" on NatGeo. It will be aired again on the following days...
Sunday 11/10 2-4PM MST and Wednesday 11/15 2-4PM MST
I just started watching this - cool archival footage. I am trying to find the video online a the news helicopter is panning over Dealey Plaza, right over the Knoll and people are already gathered there, you can see the railroad yard as well. I am wondering if anyone has ever analyzed these films to see what you can see?
10-11-2013, 05:59 AM (This post was last modified: 10-11-2013, 06:24 AM by Albert Doyle.)
Heavy action tonight on FOX News. The show was too detailed to elaborate. It flashed too much information too quickly for the uninitiated. I noticed experts trying to say there was a Records Building shot from behind. I think this was a partial ruse in order to unconsciously impress a shot from behind on the public in order to avoid discussing any shots from in front which would expose the corruption of the gov't in covering it up. There were also too many people saying Oswald took the shots. The only good thing was the truth tellers got some good information in in between the usual Lone Nut bs. And oh yeah, Geraldo showed an excellent interview he did with Marguerite Oswald in 1974 where she came off as an intelligent competent person. Marguerite suggested that 6 weeks after she went to Washington to complain that her son was on a government assignment Oswald decided to come home. Mark Lane and Cyril Wecht were given the last word on Geraldo's follow-up program which started with Bugliosi offering his usual bs. I think FOX was sending the message they saved the truth for the last two guests. I was impressed that Wecht's opening salvo was to openly state CIA did it along with the military industrial complex and other right wing interests because Kennedy went the wrong way on Viet Nam against their vested interests. Bravo. I think Wecht wanted to get the final word out on the 50th.
Marlene, judging by the memorial items on the grass on the north side of Elm, I'd say that helicopter shot was taken on Saturday or Sunday. Nice view, though.
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Marlene, judging by the memorial items on the grass on the north side of Elm, I'd say that helicopter shot was taken on Saturday or Sunday. Nice view, though.
Tracy, can you tell me where you see memorial items? thx
