Ignoring Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty
Harry" that opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
yourself.
My Paper Route They don't have
paperboys anymore, and that's too bad, it was a great experience for
a young boy to learn about running a business.
'Mr. X' in
the screenplay ''JFK'' is loosely based on Col. L. Fletcher
Prouty USAF (Ret.) who served as Chief of Special Operations
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years.
There is no doubt that Prouty's credentials are in order,
but the film Oliver Stone says that his mystery man is
'loosely based' on Prouty, who may have made up much of what
he told. More
Intensified
with the release in 1992 of Oliver Stone's movie ''JFK'',
many believed a New Zealand paper knew everything about the
assassination almost before it happened, including
everything about Lee Harvey Oswald. More
From
the 1991 movie "JFK": District
Attorney Jim Garrison meets "Mr. X".
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is
assassinated in Dallas. District Attorney Jim Garrison meets
with "X", a high ranking former military officer
at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. to inform Garrison of how
close he's getting in his investigation of the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. X's layout of a potential Coup d'état
involves Kennedy's plan to withdraw from Vietnam and the
collusion of the CIA, Mafia and other government agencies to
assassinate the president. Oliver Stone's JFK is based on
the book "On
the Trail of the Assassins" by Jim Garrison.
The official narrative
only gets more implausible, especially when you hear the
stories of these secret super-spies. More
The
Kennedy Assassination still captures the interest of those
that believe it was a conspiracy. President George Herbert
Walker Bush was a CIA operative in 1963 and many believe
this is a photo of him at the scene in Dallas. More
In
1998 the Houston Chronicle marked the 35th anniversary of the
Kennedy assassination. The article is no longer on the paper's
website, but the ''Wayback
Machine'' saved it.
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Here are some
of the more intriguing discrepancies and theories surrounding
the last successful assassination of an American president.
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Internal correspondence from
the National Archives and Records Administration reveals a
fierce bureaucratic war over the documents in recent years,
pitting the Archives against the CIA, FBI and other agencies
that want to keep those documents on Kennedy's assassination
secret. Many, including President Nixon, were sure the CIA did
it, and when he accused the agency head in the Oval Office, it
was met with complete silence. More