Bursting the Conspiracy Bubble

Researchers and production assistants at all of the major news outlets had probably better cancel their weekend plans.  The National Archives are supposed to release all of the "secret files" the Government has been holding on the Kennedy assassination today.  Those poor reporters will now have to spend the next 72-hours pouring over transcripts of questioning sessions conducted by federal investigators,typed reports of "tips" that came into law enforcement across the country, ballistics reports, witness statements, travel records, internal memos and phone records--all in search of "proof" that JFK's death was the result of a conspiracy, and not an act of one idiot.

The release of the materials today is actually a direct result of Oliver Stone's movie JFK back in the 1990's--which led to a renewed interest in assassination conspiracy theories.  He led millions of Americans to believe that the Government knew what really happened--and that because it would "threaten the power structure in Washington", evidence was being covered up.  So to appease the masses, there was an agreement to release all archive documents in 2017.

So now it will be the job this weekend of those researchers and PA's to find that proof.  To somehow link together a tip here, a plane ticket receipt there and a witness statement in another file to prove that the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro, the mob, the CIA, the FBI, the Dallas Police Department and the nebulous "Military Industrial Complex" all colluded to kill President Kennedy for the combined reasons of blocking Soviet missles in Cuba, revenge for the Bay of Pigs Invasion, cracking down on organized crime, promoting civil rights and not wanting to step up military intervention in Vietnam.  That was the reason that Oliver Stone and his conspiracy theorists wanted us to believe, right?

Here is what all of the documents that will be released today will show: that the Federal Government and other law enforcement wasted a whole lot of money, time and resources on a wild goose chase trying to support the cockamamie conspiracy theories.  We will find out that entire departments at the FBI and CIA were dedicated to re-examining all communications between Moscow, Havana and Washington in the years before November of 1963 to see if there were any "hidden instructions" on carrying out the plot to kill Kennedy.  We will probably learn a lot more about every single person that Lee Harvey Oswald ever met in his entire life, where he bought everything he owned, and where he had been every minute for the ten years before getting that job at the Texas Book Depository.

And once we finish up going through all of those records we will find that there is NO credible evidence at all to support a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.  But rather than finally put this to rest, all today's release of records will do is fuel a new demand to release "the real evidence that the Government is obviously still hiding".