Gaslighting: A Longtime Bipartisan U.S. Government Tradition
A different JFK shooting story stares us right in the face, yet we look away
So much gaslighting around the origins of COVID and the (non)effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. It reminds me sharply of all the gaslighting around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Ooops. I mean the Warren Report.
411 Elm St. in Dallas, Texas, is the address of the former school book depository where Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. On a weekday, when the building would be full of employees. Sure. Assassins always pick hiding spots packed with people.
Anyway, the old depository is still located on the northwest corner of Elm Street, which heads west one way, and Houston Street, which runs north and south. There was a straight shot available to anyone on the sixth floor of the school book depository, but that’s not what happened.
At least not according to the Warren Report.
The straight shot out of the school book depository building would have been when the motorcade was traveling north on Houston Street before turning left onto Elm heading west. At that point, Oswald would simply have fired down directly at the president from that spot, the corner window on the sixth floor. That corner window is right above the intersection of Elm and Houston.
But according to the official line, the supposedly lone assassin waited until the motorcade traveled further west along Elm, across from the grassy knoll and fence that outline the northwest corner of Dealey Plaza.
Why would any assassin not have taken the best and straight shot? The shot when the motorcade reached the corner of Elm and Houston. After all, the sixth-floor corner window directly overlooks the intersection of Elm and Houston.
Instead, to hit the place where the motorcade reached when the shooting began, the assassin would have had to lean out the window and fire at a sharp right angle. I know this because I have stood at that window on the six floor of the former school book depository. It is now the Sixth Floor Museum and the building is now used by Dallas County.
A complicating factor is the presence of oak trees lining the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. Texans call them the “live oak” because, unlike deciduous trees, these trees do not drop all their leaves in the autumn. They shed them one by one and are still leafy in late November.
Let’s put this together. From the sixth floor of the school book depository, the assassin would have had a straight shot as the motorcade turned west onto Elm Street from Houston. You would think any assassin worth his salt would take this shot. And not at a time when lots of other people were in the building.
Instead, Oswald supposedly waited until he had to shoot sharply to his right. Through a line of leafy live oak trees that might further obscure his line of sight, depending on the vehicle location and the assassin’s position.
Nope. Not buying this bunch of hooey. I was a preteen when the Warren Report appeared. I didn’t buy its lone assassin conclusion then and I damn sure don’t buy it now.
After Kennedy was shot, Oswald sure didn’t act like an assassin. He went home, took a shower, and then went to a movie. Most assassins have vanished long before the police/FBI have a clue about who might have done it.
How, indeed, did the authorities broadcast Lee Harvey Oswald’s name as a suspect less than half an hour after the Kennedy shooting?
After all, three decades later it took every FBI agent in the country searching flat out for two days before they could name suspects in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
I have no idea what really happened in Kennedy’s death. There has been endless speculation, and the absurdities in the official story I have pointed out are just the beginning. Others have done extensive research and pointed out many, many more flies in the official cover-up ointment. Ooops again. The Warren Report.
Fast forward to the ongoing epic government gaslighting about the origins of COVID and the (non) safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines.
My Substack colleague Steve Hirsch has worked like a Trojan to get the U.S. and other western governments to comment on his analysis of all-cause mortality data, which show that the vaccines not only did not stop the spread of the virus, but killed millions of people.
Crickets from those in charge. And unless the earth really does roll over on its axis, crickets will be all the rest of us ever get about the COVID vaccines’ true impact and mortality rate. After all, U.S. media are now a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Pharma, Inc.
Precisely because no one most likely ever will know the true story about Kennedy’s murder, there is a hole in my heart that I cannot seem to heal. I often wondered why JFK’s death was always so searingly personal to me until I started writing my paranormal fiction series, Stoneslayer.
When I finished the tragic end of the fourth book, I wondered no more. Let’s just say that in a past life, I was the only surviving child of an assassinated parent.
Happily for lovers of truth, or at least moral clarity, some enterprising storytellers decided to do their own investigation a generation later. The BBC put together a remarkable documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
I have watched it, and you can also watch the entire series at no charge on You Tube. Pack plenty of popcorn and an even bigger big bowl for your outrage.