WP: No Closer to Cracking the Kennedy (assassination) Case

No Closer to Cracking the Kennedy Case
Meeting Yields Few Answers on Assassination
By George Lardner Jr.
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, November 21, 2005; Page A13


The conference was optimistically titled "Cracking the JFK Case," but it was widely noted that many of the speakers and members of the audience had grown gray hair or lost much of it while looking for the answers.

One of the presentations at the three-day session revived doubts about the famous "single bullet theory" that the House Select Committee on Assassinations thought it had resolved in the late 1970s. Another demolished persistent claims that the Zapruder film -- the "clock" of the Kennedy assassination -- had somehow been altered or contradicted by other photographic evidence. Still another speaker demonstrated how the sounds on Dallas police tapes showed that four and perhaps five shots had been fired -- meaning that at least one other person besides alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had squeezed a trigger.

None of that solved the whodunit, although the conferees could still count themselves and like-minded historians and researchers winners in a way. Three out of every four Americans think President John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, was the result of a conspiracy. Almost as many think there was a coverup.

But the proposition that drew about 135 people to a Bethesda hotel this past weekend -- that it is not too late "to solve the greatest mystery of the 20th century" -- has less traction with the public. According to the most recent poll, conducted in 2003 for the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, 75 percent of the public does not want another government investigation.

Washington lawyer Jim Lesar, president of the nonprofit Assassination Archives and Research Center, the main sponsor of the conference, was undeterred. "The lone assassin theory" -- the Warren Commission's conclusion in 1964 that Oswald was solely responsible for the killing -- "is more discredited than it has previously been," he said in opening remarks....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/20/AR2005112000830.html

as long as the murderers keep the keys to the archives--and keep on murderering witnesses and enemies.

America became a Macchiavellian empire sometime after WWII. I never get used to it. But it's true. Like PK Dick believed, the Nazis won that war, and we are living in that alternate universe.

with the passage of the National Security Act. America became a permanent wartime nation with the passage of that act. The end of the cold war only meant necessitating the creation of a new threat to justify the permanently expanded military powers.

Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998)

A bit hard to believe. Solving JFK's assassination could have some serious (and probably beneficial) repercussions on accountability.