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[โ€“] Emil@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[โ€“] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

Three letters:

LBJ

[โ€“] Objection@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most of the documents we have were already partially declassified but with redacted parts. We now know more about JFK's rift with the CIA and how the CIA was wiretapping the area Oswald was working and actively recruiting double agents from there.

Skeptics will continue to treat it as equally insane as saying the moon is made of cheese unless they see an official, released document saying, "Please kill the president for me, sincerely, Alan Dulles," but there's about as much evidence as a reasonable person would expect to find in a universe where it happened.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But can we really trust something released by Trump? Sounds like something we would want to hear.

[โ€“] Objection@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Well, that raises the question of whether we can we trust any documents released by the US in general. If the government killed JFK, would they really tell us, even this many years later?

[โ€“] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Manson was also MK Ultra. They allowed him to move between counties in CA while on parole (not a thing at the time) and his "parole officer" wasn't a parole officer, but a UC system researcher whose field was the use of drugs in meth gangs to turn people violent. The whole Manson family was an orchestrated op to undermine the left.

[โ€“] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The whole Manson family was an orchestrated op to undermine the left.

What's the connection between Mansons and the left?

[โ€“] sonori@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

If you want an actually serious answer as to the who, how and why of the assassination and have three hours to spare, I would recommend Sean Munnger (A leftist university professor of modern political history) far to exhaustive series on the topic. For just the CIA, that starts at the 30min mark of Part 2, but builds a bit on previous debunkings.

[โ€“] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Nope and the neat part is you can read it all now.