A couple of especially interesting highlights:
Soviet officials believed right away that it was an “ultraright” coup
As of 1965, KGB claimed to have data that implicated LBJ in the plot
A couple of especially interesting highlights:
Soviet officials believed right away that it was an “ultraright” coup
As of 1965, KGB claimed to have data that implicated LBJ in the plot
I’ve been listening to an audiobook of JFK and the Unspeakable and if even a sliver of what the book describes is true, it makes it very difficult to believe the official version of events.
Aside from everything else, one of the biggest things that has always stuck out to me (besides the magic bullet) is that the head wound seems entirely inconsistent with a shot from behind, and lines up much better with a shot coming from the fence/grassy knoll (since the head immediately went back and to the left). There were also witnesses who claimed they heard at least one of the gunshots coming from that area.
Related, there was a great documentary that came out this year called JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass that covers this and other questionable aspects of the assassination pretty well.
best scene in the Movie , "Back and to the Left" - Rewind - "Back and to the Left" .. it was full of so many details i totally forgot , but "Back and to the Left" was profund .
That's from Stone's first film on JFK, no? I haven't yet seen Through the Looking Glass.
Yep, that’s from the first JFK.
Through the Looking Glass is a full blown documentary and not a dramatization (unlike JFK), but I thought it was great and highly recommend it.
https://youtu.be/OSzszCTWFwg
My favorite scene of any movie. I was on the edge of my seat with my eyes glued to every frame. Every piece of the movie is threaded together in that climax :chefs-kiss: .
This copy is better quality I think.
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"Ten to twelve men. Three teams. Three shooters. The triangulation of fire that Clay Shaw and David Ferrie discussed two months before..."
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THEY'VE WALKED THE PLAZA.
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THEY KNOW EVER INCH.
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THEY'VE CALIBRATED THEIR SIGHTS.
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THEY'VE PRACTICED ON MOVING TARGETS.
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THEY'RE READY!
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KENNEDY'S MOTORCADE MAKES THE TURN FROM MAIN ONTO HOUSTON.
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IT'S GONNA BE A TURKEY SHOOT.
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They don't shoot him coming up Houston, WHICH IS THE EASIEST SHOT FOR A SINGLE SHOOTER IN THE BOOK DEPOSITORY!
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THEY WAIT!
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THEY WAIT UNTIL HE GETS IN THE KILLING ZONE BETWEEN THREE RIFLES.
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KENNEDY MAKES THE FINAL TURN FROM HOUSTON ONTO ELM, SLOWING DOWN TO SOME 11 MILES AN HOUR.
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The shooters across Dealey Plaza tighten, taking their aim, waiting for the radio to say
"GREEN! GREEN!" or "ABORT! ABORT!"...
:shrek-pixel-despair:
The witnesses are often overlooked. If there were one or two outlier witnesses who claimed to hear something from the knoll that would be one thing ("chaos of the moment" blah blah blah), but it was like FIFTY fucking people who claimed they heard shots there, by far the majority. On amateur footage you can even see groups of people rushing over to the knoll to investigate.