Walter Cronkite Was The Source Of The Core "JFK Conspiracies"

President John F. Kennedy was killed, Texas Governor John Connally and James Teague were wounded during an assassination ambush in downtown Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. The shooting occurred at approximately 12:30pm Central Standard Time (CST). CBS-TV broke into regular programming with a bulletin about ten minutes later. Since television cameras back in 1963 took nearly thirty minutes to cold start, all audiences saw were a CBS News Bulletin card and heard the voice of Walter Cronkite. He reported from the Associated Press that three shots had been fired at the motorcade and that Kennedy was "seriously wounded." Cronkite advised, to what was probably a stunned audience, "stay tuned to CBS News for further details".

Well, the "further details" that Cronkite reported during the next thirty minutes are the source material for the core "conspiracy theories" about the assassination. Yes, and not without a definite caveat dolloped on at the end! These reports, of course, disappeared from the broadcasts as the story became the arrest of the possible assassin.

Iconic Polaroid photograph taken by Mary Moorman.

Below, I have transcribed the relevant portions from a recording of the actual broadcast.

12:40pm CST (all times approximate)

CBS breaks into regular programming with a special report by Walter Cronkite, voice only over a “CBS Bulletin”  logo.

Only twenty minutes after the assassination, Cronkite is reporting about the discovery of two possible assassins: a man and a woman! Rarely reported in pro-conspiracy books and articles and not at all in the anti-conspiracy one, this odd imagery, as it were, would be repeated five years later with the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Also, the infamous grassy knoll makes its first appearance.

12:50pm CST

CRONKITE: After these three loud bursts of gunshot, Dallas motorcycle officers escorting the president quickly leaped from their bikes and raced up a grassy hill. At the top of the hill a man and woman appeared huddled on the ground. In the turmoil it has been impossible so far to determine whether the Secret Service and Dallas Police returned the gunfire that struck down Kennedy and Connally, or whether this couple at the top of the hill, crouched down in their inert forms as the police rushed them were the would-be assassins.

This report contains the first overt mention of shot(s) coming from the grassy knoll and automatic weapon fire. Also, he is reporting "a crowd" surrounding the previously mentioned couple.

12:57pm CST

CRONKITE: Some of the Secret Service Agents thought the gunfire, however, was from an automatic weapon fired to the right rear of the Chief Executive’s car. Possibly from a grassy knoll. And that’s that knoll to which motorcycle policemen were seen racing and where the huddled figures of a man and a woman were seen on the ground with a crowd surrounding them. Which suggests of course, that perhaps, this is where the shots came from. This we do not know as yet positively.

The CBS network now switches to its local affiliate in Dallas. The first report of a Secret Service agent in the President's motorcade being killed is aired.

1:03pm CST

Reporters from Dallas station KLRD-

EDDIE BARKER: One of the Secret Service Agents who was riding with the President was killed. Is that correct?

DICK ?: That is the report at this moment.

BARKER: Dick, has there been any report as to whether or not the assassin was apprehended?

DICK ?: Nothing on the apprehension as yet…

1:06pm CST

Still from Dallas station KLRD.

BARKER: Uh, the report is that the attempted assassins, we now hear that it was a man and woman, who fired the shots, were on the ledge of a building near the Houston Street underpass. Uh, just from memory, that would put…

After this interesting bit of news, a major confirmation of what Cronkite had reported less than twenty minutes earlier, Barker is cut off and the image returns to CBS news headquarters in New York and Walter Cronkite.

CRONKITE: That was a report from Eddie Barker at our affiliate KLRD in Dallas, Texas.

1:11pm CST

Back to Dallas and the caveat of unconfirmed stories, however the reporting of the death of a Secret Service agent continued.

BARKER: As you can imagine there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the President. One is that he is dead. This cannot be confirmed. Another is that Gov. Connelly is in the operating room. This we have not confirmed. Another is, and apparently this is correct, that one of the Secret Service Agents, whose job it was to guard the life of the President was killed in his line of duty. The President was whisked from the scene of the attempted assassination, or assassination, depending upon his condition of course at this hour, by bus to Parkland Hospital…

Walter Cronkite reads the official bulletin of JFK's death. (photo source: obrag.org)

As these initial reports quietly disappeared, even the reports about the heroic dead Secret Service agent, Cronkite eventually reported the awful, obvious news about Kennedy.

1:38pm CST

CRONKITE: From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: "President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time." 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.

We Hold These Truths...

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

THAT Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin who killed John F. Kennedy and wounded Governor John Connally and James Teague; in spite of the fact "he" stayed at the assassin window for several seconds, ran in a direction away from the exit to secret "his" rifle, ran to the exit, down five flights of stairs, go into the lunch room, buy a coke from the machine and then be confronted by a Dallas Police officer only 90 seconds after the last shot.

THAT the Gulf Of Tonkin Incident, which got us in a shootin' war with them Viet Cong, actually happened; in spite of the fact, revealed years later, that it did not happen.

THAT Sirhan Sirhan was the lone assassin who killed Robert Kennedy and wounded six other people; in spite of the fact that he was standing in front of Kennedy, whose wounds were all from the back.

THAT James Earl Ray was the lone assassin who killed Martin Luther King; in spite of the fact that King's son doesn't believe it is true.

THAT Watergate was just a third rate burglary.

THAT the United States had nothing to do with the hostage crisis in 1979-80.

THAT the John Lennon shooting was the work of a lone gunman.

THAT the Ronald Reagan shooting was the work of a lone gunman.

THAT all the wars of the Reagan/Bush era were merely unending coincidences that had no relation to each other at all, step away nothing to see here.

THAT the Waco fire was a mere tragic accident.

THAT lying about who sucked your cock is a high crime and misdemeanor.

THAT the presidential election of 2000 was fair and balanced.

THAT September 11th was achieved by box cutter wielding terrorists hired by Saddam Hussien, no wait, Osama bin Ladin, well you get the idea.

THAT the presidential election of 2004 was fair and balanced (see above).

THAT it is okay for a private corporation called the Federal Reserve to print worthless money and sell it to the United States government and charge interest.

THAT we must pepper spray peaceful protesters.

THAT we must pepper spray peaceful protesters who think Wall Street is corrupt.

The Portland Police/Occupy Portland Lament

[with apologizes to Lennon-McCartney]

I'm so tired
I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired
My mind is on the blink
I wonder should I get down
Pepper spray another fink
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm so tired
I don't know who to berate
I'm so tired
My club is set on you ape
Thanks to you filthy hippies
I was late to another call of rape
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Mayor he's been putting you on
Well it's no joke
He's doing you harm
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane
Funny how the media don't notice we cover our badges and names

I'm so tired
I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired
Put out that cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh
You deserve everything you get
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Mayor he's been putting you on
Well it's no joke
He's doing you harm
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane
Funny how the media don't notice we cover our badges and names
Funny how the media don't notice we cover our badges and names
Funny how the media don't notice we cover our badges and names

Portland Mayor Sam Adams walks with members of the police. (photo source: seattlepi)

THE JFK CONSPIRACY: The Proof Is In The Warren Report

I believe it is safe to say that no one will ever be arrested, let alone tried and convicted, of deed or complicity, in the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. Mainly because almost all of them are dead. It is unlikely that a notarized document from Oswald or a member of the military/industrial complex exclaiming, "Yes, I shot that son of bitch Kennedy dead!" will suddenly be discovered. Yet, even a cursory examination of the available evidence reveals that a coup d'état was accomplished in America that day.

It is easy to forget, given the distance in time of almost 50 years, that almost every conspiracy theory began with the publication of the very document created to refute conspiracy: The Warren Report.
More importantly, even though the Report's conclusion was that a lone assassin fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building, the evidence included in the Report completely refutes its own conclusion!

What I would like to do is focus on three examples of evidence which explicitly show that the official version is incorrect and hence a conspiracy in the truest sense of the word did exist. With this knowledge we can see that a coup did happen and we as a people and as a nation have suffered from the repercussions that reverberate to this day. To begin, let us look at the well worn official version of the assassination in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy, his wife Jackie, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie were riding in an open air convertible as part of a motorcade through downtown Dallas.

The presidential motorcade in downtown Dallas. Left to right: Texas Governor John Connally, his wife Nellie, President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jackie.

Obama Thinks You Are An Idiot

President Obama's Veteran's Day remarks expose his belief that Americans are a bunch of idiots. We are incapable, he believes, to look beyond his statements to see how hypocritical he is, what a mass murderer he is and that he continues to receive support from Wall Street. We are apparently incapable of doing simple google searches which easily belie his remarks. See this and this for some background.

Photo source: C-Span

Random Thoughts Of A Random Guy...

I was alone in the desert. I was hot. I was sweaty. It was dry. The sun was beating down. I was beating down. There was no bush to beat around.

How did I get here? This was not typical. Normal, some would voice. Abnormal, I knew. Certainly against nature. Nevertheless, here I was and maybe it was Abby Normal after all.

But it was summer and it was cool. The sort of summer that drove me to write like this. Like Hemingway? But there was no white entry parlor. No white staircase. No shotgun in my hand, muzzle stuck in my mouth. And no reason to pull the trigger. There was no need. The image of brain matter slung like a bloody rice against the wall...no. Not for me.

AS THE BLOOD Drips From The Lips Of The Left

The Left, the Democrats, the Progressives, have blood dripping from their lips as they relate the latest Obama murder in the form of Moammar Gadhafi. As with every other murder done in the name of this administration, the Left licks its lips describing yet another "head" in the Obama trophy room. I find it sickening and repulsive coming from a party (the Democrats) or a so-called movement (the Progressives), this satisfaction of murder. This is coming from the same folks who branded "war criminal" and "murderer" (and rightfully so) on Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, et al. But, there it is, lying there naked in its own sordid truth: the bloodthirstiness of the Left equal to and more grotesque than that of the Right.

President Obama and Libyan Dictator Gadhafi in happier times. (photo by Michael Gottschalk; Associated Press)

Overlooking for now how this continuing excuse for perpetual war, this Libyan War, has dragged on well past it's original "days, weeks" assessment, it is worth noting how it was declared "over" many times, much like Osama was declared dead many times, or even the Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, and now, at long last, that butcher of Tripoli, Gadhafi. Hillary Clinton's wish that Gadhafi were killed apparently came true! Because, dead men tell no tales. And like Saddam, Osama, etc., Gadhafi certainly had a lot of tales to tell. Oh well, so much for that. And so much for the Left examining these conveniently timed murders for being just that, or how Obama seems to be "cleaning up" so many of the Bush/Cheney enemies.

Because the Left now wallows in death and bathes gleefully in the blood, they sicken me more than Republicans who do the same. For the Left should find these murders, extrajudicial or otherwise, repugnant. For calling the Republicans "murderers" they now stand in the shameful light of hypocrisy. Wipe that blood from your lips before you speak to me again.

AH, Saturday Morning Cartoons

When I was a kid, getting up at 7am on Saturday morning was not a chore because the television spewed out cartoons. It seemed like it did for hours. Then the parents would send us outside to expend the rest of our cereal sugar rush until lunchtime.

In the later life, You Tube offered me a chance to try out one of their contraptions. This one they dubbed "Go Animate". Since I am a poor artist, I stretched out this promo offer of Google, er, uh, I mean You Tube's and managed to get to produce 2 [wow a lot of twos] cartoons out of the deal. Using templates a casual viewer of ye ol' You Tube would recognize, here are the only cartoon's I've produced so far, as they say....

"Osama Dead? Osama Alive?"

CARTOON #1

"Illegal War"

CARTOON #2

Enjoy it fer cryin' out loud....

OCCUPY PORTLAND - Day 1 - new video documentary

It was certainly an interesting day in the annuals of marches in Portland. The crowd, which I estimated to be near 10,000 at one point, was, how can I say, cordial. Of course, as you will see in this short documentary, there are many underlying causes to bring out an overnight camp out in downtown Portland. I mean, Portland! Home of the sit-lie ordinance among others, and here the mayor let's them stay overnight, but gotta be out of there by 9am! What will happen next? What do you think? Portland has not seen a mass occupation of property in a long, long time.

So far, as of Day 5, Occupy Portland continues to occupy two downtown parks. The Portland Marathon went off without a hitch, despite some shrill interweb postings predetermining what the protesters would do to their marathon. The police are now trying to get Main St. between the parks reopened.

I hope you enjoy and share this video.

http://youtu.be/hVjTpOAOZwk

WHAT IF THERE WAS A BOOK ABOUT YOU AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT?

Yes, the interweb is still a bit of a Wild West kinda place all right. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Amazon books was selling a book about me (yes, me) starting at $39 [plus shipping & handling] all the way up to $50. It is a small 68 page paperback that seems to be available in several languages. How is this even possible I wondered?

It is because in this era of free content there are several publishing companies that exist for no other reason than to publish books complied from these free sources. The free sources in question are Wikipedia, as the cover proudly exclaims, "High quality content from Wikipedia articles". In the case of the book about me, the publisher is Betascript Publishing which is part of a company called VDM (which ironically has a Wikipedia entry), a company based in Germany (it's always the Germans!) with offices in Argentina and Latvia. There are three "editors" credited for the book about me whose names I'll pass on putting in the blog post. Nevertheless, they managed a 68 page book about me from this Wikipedia entry and another about Stark Raving Theatre and who knows where else (and now that you have read the links you know about me without having to spend $40!).

OBAMA: EXTRAJUDICIAL MASS MURDERER

[includes 2nd update]

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money."
- Pierre-Henri Bunel

President Obama (source: Reuters)

President Obama has taken this propaganda and run with it, making George W. Bush almost blush. It is Obama who has now taken to using extrajudicial force against Americans with the supposed killing of Al-Qaida stalwarts Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Like Osama bin Laden before him, al-Awlaki had also been pronounced dead many times before. Also, like bin Laden, the U.S. Government went after him, not to question, but to kill. Instead of capturing these men who must have had vast amounts of information on the supposed evil, check-under-your-bed terrorist network, the commander-in-chief did not hesitate to kill them. Now does that make any sense to you?

"JOHN LENNON WAS A CONSERVATIVE" - DISINFORMATION

Disinformation comes in all forms and from a variety of sources. Lately, folks on the interweb seem to be getting a bit of kick out of the proclamation that John Lennon was a conservative. Yes, the man President Nixon and his cabal tried so mightily to deport, was actually a dyed in the wool Republican! But it is disinformation, which in this case also doubles as a synonym for outright lies.

Iconic photo of John Lennon by Bob Gruen.

Real god fearing Republicans, who still haven't forgave or never bothered to research Lennon's statement about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus Christ, were able to squeal merrily that Lennon was a closet conservative.

A LIST OF REAL MSM NEWS BLACKOUTS

As shown in a previous post, the Wall Street occupation news blackout is pure disinformation. Here are some MSM news blackouts that are real (and some of these point up that, yes indeed, the shadow government CAN keep a conspiracy secret).

WALL STREET PROTESTS "NEWS BLACKOUT" DISINFORMATION ON FACEBOOK

I am beginning to wonder if people and some of my friends on Facebook have lost the ability to conduct a simple google search. The current example comes in the form of: "Media Blackout of Wall Street Protests" and the like. It appears all one has to do after posting such a provocative headline is to link to sites like Al-Jazeera or any so-called left-wing blog or whatever and PRESTO, instant (and in this case needless) controversy about the evil MSM.

And this image comes to us from the decidedly MSM outlet CNBC.

TAKING A TURN TOWARD THE SURREAL

You know things have taken a turn toward the surreal when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's annual speech before the United Nations General Assembly is beginning to make some sense. Oh, certainly he resolutely refuses to examine his own country with such a microscope and continues his obvious anti-Semitism, but that's what makes it surreal. I mean that's the way it is: he speaks of some truth but is vilified because, well, the United States describes him as a "madman".

Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

And the "madman" undermines legitimate research by co-opting ideas from others (I'm talking to you, too, Ron & Rand Paul) for his own country's agenda. In religious tone, his speech is not all that different from many given by George W. Bush or his recent heir apparent, Rick Perry. Yet, when viewing certain world affairs, his assertions defy the rhetorical questions.

WHY I WON'T VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA AGAIN

When I voted for Barack Obama in 2008, he was probably one of least corrupt politicians to come down the pike in awhile. Sure, there was that real estate problem[1] and the way he got himself first elected was more clever than corrupt[2]. But, in the scheme of things, those transgressions paled in comparison to the actions of George Bush II, Bill Clinton, George Bush I and Ronald Reagan.

In Short, A Stark Raving Theatre Brief

Written by Rod Harrel

©1998, 2004 by Rod Harrel, all rights reserved

all photos by Tammy Harrel-Fraley

           Portland, Oregon in the late 1980’s saw the Establishment concerned about the “leftists”. There were groups in the city which had ties ranging all the way from the “evil” Sandanistas in Nicaragua to the “evil” Democrats in Washington, D.C. Whenever Republican leaders like ex-CIA Director, Vice-President and eventually President George Bush or his stalwart Vice-President Dan Quayle came to town, protests naturally greeted their visits. Sometimes these protests were peaceful and sometimes they were not. The Reagan/Bush cabal referred to the city as “Little Beirut”. It kinda gave Portland a reputation.

SHUT UP YOU JEW-HATING LEFT-WING COMMIE PINKO BASTARD!

To believe anything but the official government/media version of 9/11 is to invite comparisons to the scum of the earth. It makes you a conspiracy theorist, it puts you on the same level as people who deny the Holocaust they say; which is about as scummy as it gets.

With the officially announced killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1st, 2011, the government laid 9/11 right at our feet just in time for the tenth anniversary. The government/media version of 9/11 parades before us the same falsehoods, implausibilities and denials. Very few will be allowed access to media to counter the official version and those that are will be equated with anarchists or Holocaust deniers.

If you are still reading this, you may be wondering what I think. Holographic planes? Mini-Nuke bombs? Missiles? Phony jumpers? Phony planes? Phony terrorists? No. Those and many other disinformations distract from the real two questions about 9/11. Yes, two questions, just two.

Trillions of dollars were spent safeguarding this countries' airspace from planes and missiles since 1945. The AP reported that NORAD jet fighters had "...67 scrambles from September 2000 to June 2001..." and yet on September 11th the United States failed to intercept 4 hijacked airliners. All the years of training, all the money that was spent and there was a complete and utter failure of the system to such an extent that the Pentagon itself was struck over one hour after the attack began.

How is that possible?

Second, watch this clip from the BBC. They report that WTC building #7 (aka the Solomon Brothers building) has collapsed, yet right over the reporters' left shoulder there is building #7 STILL STANDING. They report a collapse of a building that won't collapse for approximately 25 minutes.


How is that possible?

SHOOTING ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET - PART 3

WARNING: bad language ahead!

I love film making!!!

First, I should point out that I learned my film editing chops with film. It was one of my favorite parts of the process being tactile and real and non-linear. Then, along came video with its original linear or it's the highway attitude. And then, digital, sorta like film, sorta like video. And it is non-linear. However, digital comes with a large caveat: the computer. It's not like film, which you can actually hang your "clips" on the wall.

THE 9/11 DRINKING GAME!!!

I was ruminating about doing a rewrite of an earlier blog post when I thought, what the heck, I'll just do a new video and post it on my blog.

Here's a warning: strong language therein!
ENJOY!