Tag: assassination
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cia to release details on decades of secrets
from reuters: The Central Intelligence Agency is declassifying hundreds of pages of documents on secret operations from over three decades ago, CIA Director Michael Hayden said. The so-called “Family Jewels” document overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, according to a summary posted on the…
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scientists determine second jfk assassin ‘possible’
from washington post: In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The “evidence…
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watergate plotter may have a last tale
from la times: Howard St. John Hunt remembers the night of the Watergate break-in as a bonding experience with his father. A sweating and disheveled E. Howard Hunt roused his 19-year-old son from a dead sleep to help him wipe fingerprints from the burglars’ radios and pack the surveillance equipment into a suitcase. Then, father…
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the robert f kennedy assassination
from google video/wikipedia: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a gunshot in Los Angeles at approximately 12:15AM on June 5, 1968, and died 26 hours later. The convicted assassin, 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is widely thought to have been acting alone. Sirhan attributed the killing to Kennedy’s support for Israel during…
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new footage of jfk in dallas released
from reuters: Previously unreleased footage of John F. Kennedy’s fateful motorcade in Dallas moments before he was gunned down was released on Monday, a surprising new detail in a saga that has gripped the United States for four decades. The silent 8mm film shows a beaming Jacqueline Kennedy close up in vivid color waving to…
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e. howard hunt dead at 88
from raw story: E. Howard Hunt, an enigmatic figure in 20th-century American political subterfuge, has died at age 88, the Associated Press is reporting. Hunt, who had a key role in the Watergate Hotel break-in that led to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon, “succumbed after a lengthy bout of pneumonia,” the AP quoted…
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hunt claims LBJ may have had JFK assassinated
from raw story: In a soon-to-be-published book, a former CIA agent, convicted for his role as a “plumber” in the Watergate scandal, claims that former President Lyndon B. Johnson may have played a role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to the New York Post’s gossip column, Page Six, “E. Howard Hunt…
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poppy bush attacks jfk ‘conspiracy theorists’
Former President triumphs Warren Commission at Ford’s funeral; Are the Bush’s breaking down?from prison planet: During his speech at yesterday’s funeral service for Gerald Ford, former President George H.W. Bush bashed JFK “conspiracy theorists” and defended the Warren Commission report, another odd public outburst indicative of a crime family whose decades of misdeeds may finally…
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New Eminem Track References Wiretaps, Assassinations & 9/11
A track entitled ‘Public Enemy #1’ on Eminem’s upcoming mixtape The Re-up caught my ear this afternoon. The track features a simple almost militant style beat somewhat similar in tone to his last politically motivated track Mosh.
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jfk’s secret service stand down
“In November ’63, one week after the murder of Vietnamese President Diem in Saigon, and two weeks before the assassination of our President . . . I was sent by my superior officer, call him Y, to the South Pole as the military escort for a group of international VIP’s. This trip had nothing to…
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jfk assassination mysteries persist
from mpr: The chairman of the commission charged with declassifying millions of pages of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy says public access has not diminished the mysteries surrounding the killing. John Tunheim: U.S. District judge. He served as chairman on the Assassination Records Review Board that recommended public release of…
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death of a president
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to…