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We live and die by the truth

Posted by Aaron - 13/03/06 at 07:03:00 am

I’m at it again. I’m trying to figure out who killed JFK. Already 3 steps into my 4 step process, the headway is good.

Step 1. Watch the movie JFK on TV. So I might have only watched the last 1 or so, but the speech Kevin Costner gave as his closing argument convinced me. CONSPIRACY??? I think so. Costner lays it out. The facts don’t add up and the government suppressed evidence that would have exposed the truth. Why was the public never shown the entire Zapruder film? Why are the thousands of Dallas police, FBI, CIA and Secret Service documents about the assassination unavailable to the public, well at least until 2035 or something and by then, I’ll be in my 50s. Allow me to quote Costner (Jim Garrison) at length:

“The Warren Commission thought they had an open-and-shut case. Three bullets, one assassin. But two unpredictable things happened that day that made it virtually impossible. One, the eight-millimeter home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder while standing by the grassy knoll. Two, the third wounded man, James Tague, who was knicked by a fragment, standing near the triple underpass. The time frame, five point six seconds, determined by the Zapruder film, left no possibility of a fourth shot. So the shot or fragment that left a superficial wound on Tague’s cheek had to come from the three shots fired from the sixth floor depository. That leaves just two bullets. And we know one of them was the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy. So now a single bullet remains. A single bullet now has to account for the remaining seven wounds in Kennedy and Connelly. But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the Warren Commission chose to endorse the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Spector, one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people. We’ve come to know it as the “Magic Bullet Theory.” This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission’s claim of a lone assassin. Once you conclude the magic bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, you’d have to conclude that there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition, there had to be a conspiracy.”

If you read the entire quotation, you might just agree with me.

Step 2. Watch the Zapruder film. It’s not the prettiest piece of cinema out there and I do get sort of queasy, but it is pretty good evidence. The fatal shot to Kennedy had to have come from someplace else, not from LHO in the Book Depository building. (Side note: what is a Book Depository building?)

Step 3. Further research. I read two pages of David R. Wrone’s The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK’s Assassination. It is available at the Kalamazoo College library but I think I left it in the Writing Center so it might now appear back on the shelves for awhile. The two pages confirmed two things for me. 1) Someone else much smarter, more committed and with much more time on their hands has already examined the issue at length. So much so, he has already written a book on it. I doubt Wrone is the only person to have written a very thick and academic looking book on the Kennedy assassination. However, while our new library is really big and nice and has a coffee shop inside of it, we have only one book with the word “Zapruder” in the title. There is a movie too, but I don’t know how to check those out. AND 2) that people have been trying for 40+ years to figure this whole mess out and still, we don’t really know who shot JFK. This leads me to believe that no matter how hard I work on the conundrum, which won’t be very hard, I will never reach a different conclusion or uncover any new evidence. This is fine with me.

Step 4. Figure out who shot JFK. Like I said above, I am only three steps into my four step process.

3 AM TV

Posted by Aaron - 12/03/06 at 07:03:00 am

TV sucks at 3 AM and I have to wait 3 hours to watch Formula One racing. I want to watch a good historical movie. I really want to watch good night and good luck but that is no where near coming out on basic cable. The weather channel says its going to rain all over southwest Michigan. But it looks like Sunday afternoon should be prime for sitting on my porch and listening to country music. I wanna be a cowboy but I think a political science degree from kalamazoo college shoots that one in the foot. Wild On: Mexico is on E!. Wild One is a great show because you don’t learn anything about the places they are and you see lots of girls who all look the same. I has led me to believe that no matter where I am, I will always be able to be frustrated by women. Thanks E!, you are really awesome. I think arachnophobia is on AMC right now. I am not going to watch it because if I do, I will probably have dreams about spiders and then think about spiders for days. The last time I watched a scary movie, it was about zombies, I couldn’t stop thinking about zombies. I thought about them everywhere. I remember distinctly thinking about zombies at the mail hut once. The connection, probably none. I think some lady just found a lump on her breast in the shower on We (Women’s entertainment). That’s not uplifting so I am going to change the channel. John Mayer looks like Matt Damon, connection, YES. He is singing under water right now and there are animated animals swimming with him too. The little monkey is way cuter than John Mayer. In fact, the litter monkey is totally the cutest thing ever. I want a little animated monkey. Cock fighting on this channel.

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