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<\/a><\/p>\nSpeaking of separating truth from rumor, from now through the end of the month we are going to be inundated with accounts of President John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination which occurred in Dallas, Texas fifty years ago; on November 22nd<\/sup> 1963. In fact the TV specials have already begun with Rob Lowe starring as Kennedy on the History Channel movie depiction of Bill O’Reilly’s book, “Killing Kennedy” and a two part JFK profile runs this week on PBS. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing some of them\u2026absolutely dreading others because I know a few just won\u2019t be able to contain themselves and be digging up tired old conspiracy theories that seem designed to whip the conspiracy nut jobs into a frenzy. Oh, oh\u2026did I hit a nerve?<\/p>\n Are you one of the 56% of Americans who still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald had lots of help pulling off the murder of our president..maybe from Russia, or Cuba, the mob, Lyndon Johnson or some other far fetched conspirator? \u00a0What part of the Warren Commission report do you take issue with? The magic bullet, the missing bullet, the pristine bullet..the angle of the bullet..Oswald\u2019s marksmanship, Oswald\u2019s ability to fire the shots in such short time, Kennedy\u2019s head went back after being hit?<\/p>\n If you saw Oliver Stone\u2019s movie JFK in which he made a hero out of the embarrassingly inept prosecutor, Jim Garrison, you saw the truth twisted\u00a0 by Stone that went way beyond dramatic license. Kevin Costner\u2019s portrayal of Garrison was such that the end result of the film was a noticeable shift in the public\u2019s view of the assassination and renewed suspicion that our government wasn\u2019t telling us all the facts about it.<\/p>\n Ten years ago, on the 40th<\/sup> anniversary of Kennedy\u2019s assassination, ABC did, what I believe to be the most exhaustive and very best examination of Oswald, the conspiracy questions and the shameful presentation by Oliver Stone. Judging from the number of comments I\u2019m getting lately, there aren\u2019t that many who give a rip one way or another but I\u2019m going to keep writing anyhow.<\/p>\n I would ask, though, that you take some time \u00a0to watch this program. Believe me, I had lots of questions, myself about the assassination too and no, I wasn\u2019t swayed by the dramatic music in the presentation or the convincing voice of the late Peter Jennings.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that sometimes the truth isn’t as dramatic as Oliver Stone or any of the other conspiracy nuts would have you believe it is.<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sYmLf749K5U[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When news came out about these two Miami Dolphin linemen suddenly out of pro football..one quitting because his teammate kept bullying and threatening him, the other kicked out of the league for doing the bullying and threatening, brought to mind a similar story about a high school classmate of mine; Gene Vostad. \u00a0Gene was a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTen years ago, as many 80 percent of Americans did not believe Oswald acted alone. Since then, as more people have seen honest undeniable factual reports such as ABC\u2019s \u201cBeyond Conspiracy\u201d in 2003, the number of doubters, according to a recent AP poll, is down to 56 percent. So there\u2019s still a good chance more than half of you think I have my head up my posterior.<\/p>\n