What are your thoughts?
Because the government classifies things when they’re simply embarrassing. It doesn’t need to rise to “national security threat” for the USA to feel the need to quash the ability of citizenry to talk about it. Even if it’s not all that bad and simply embarrassing. They are way too cavalier about using classification powers because they don’t want their dirty laundry aired.
What’s left to release is probably a lot less exciting than people think.
As with a large portion of conspiracies, the conspiracy was almost certainly the cover up of incompetence
When I was younger, I believed there was a good chance that it was an inside job - the CIA, specifically. This was the only conspiracy theory I ever took seriously.
Now, my beliefs are much closer to yours.
We basically do. The reality is that it’s just not sexy or exciting. All we’re really missing are files that could be related to ongoing investigations of criminal organizations.
Historian Sean Munger has a pretty good video essay on this, but it’s honestly a bit of a letdown.
But that doesn’t reflect my pet conspiracy theory that it was the reverse vampires who did it. Therefore it’s fake.
I’m a reverse vampire (when I donate blood), and can confirm we’re up to no good
Donate blood? What are you a socialist. People should produce their own damn blood and not rely on handouts.
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I prefer the Red Dwarf version where they save him, the world turns out worse, so they send him back in time to kill himself from the Grassy Knoll.
Upvoted for Red Dwarf!
But what is it?
A British sitcom situated in space. Really worth the watch.
…but what is it? 😉
Back in the 60s, the CIA experimented on real-life cheat codes. But after an incorrect use of “BALLOONHEDZ” in '63, the program was canned.
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Hey. Remember when the wife of a Watergate mastermind was on a plane? And also on that plane just happened to be a network news reporter covering Watergate? And that plane crashed? And the Nixon led inquiry didn’t find anything wrong?
And remember when that Watergate mastermind confessed to the Kennedy assassination on his deathbed?
Crazy coincidence, huh?No I remember none of that.
Well you should get your memory checked out because I don’t remember it either and I have a terrible memory.
The Wikipedia article about the flight is a fascinating read. I don’t get where it says an Watergate investigating journalist was on board, but ok.
I see why it is fodder for conspiracy theorizing, but as always it’s also not the smoking gun one can make it seem to be, if one presents only a few selected factoids.
Waiting for everyone involved to die.
Honestly? I think that what happened is some weird fucker who was on the radar of at least two TLA agencies was local when someone shot the president and both of those agencies immediately went “we can never let anyone found out how utterly incompetent we are, we need to cause enough smoke, dust and bullshit that even if someone reaches the right conclusion about what happened everyone else will have plenty of reason to disbelieve it.” I think they executed the easiest coverup in the world because part of their goal was to make sure everyone knew there was a coverup, just not what they were covering up or on behalf of whom. Was Oswald a patsy? Maybe. If he wasn’t he made a lot of really bad decisions in the moment leading up to the first shot being fired, then redeemed himself with some shooting that was so heroically accurate and well-drilled that it bordered on impossible with the gear and positioning he had. Did a bunch of people panic and start trying to ratfuck the investigation? Absolutely. Will they wait until everyone involved’s great grandchildren are in the dirt before they tell us one honest word about this? Also yes.
