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Down The Middle - Jul 25, 2005 - Printable Version
- JFK Assassin Identified!
by Down The Middle
After more than forty years of investigation by government and conspiracy enthusiasts alike, it was revealed this week that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis was the lone assassin in Dealy Plaza, on November 22, 1963. The FBI (that's a Full Blood Indian, I know) announced these latest findings, after what was described as another exhaustive round of intensive scrutiny of the Zapruder film, using the latest in hi-tech imagery. "Once we had the technology in place", a spokesman for the Bureau told the press, "it immediately became clear that the assassin was right in front of our nose, the whole time". "It was in the pill-box hat." the spokesman responded to a reporter's questions about the weapon. "It appears to have been a pearl handled, 32 caliber "Saturday night special". Apparently, three shots were fired, supporting the findings of then Warren Commission attorney Senator Arlen Specter" (R)PENN, however, there appeared to be a brief struggle for the gun after the first two shots were fired, leaving investigators unsure if the final "head shot" was self-inflicted. "We may never know the answer to that" the spokesman concluded when asked, in fact, if the President had taken his own life, "but we're still looking at it".
Shortly after the surprise announcement, Miss Shirley Wannaduya, resident of a local nursing home and former exotic dancer in the employ of Jack Ruby, came forward to admit she had seen Mrs. Kennedy sitting at a table with Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald at the Carousel Club in Dallas, just weeks before the assassination.
So....what? You don't believe this? It seems to make about as much sense as all of the BS that's been shoveled to us by Washington over the years. What really amazes me is that this generation, after all they have seen in their "baby-boomed" lives, are still willing to believe this "twaddle". It seems to me, all one really has to do is open their eyes and mind. A little logic will do the rest.
Just look at a few basic "facts" from 9/11. We have four hi-jacked airliners, transponders turned off and dramatically off course. What does NORAD do? Nothing! That's right! With four very large aircraft in the hands of who-knows-who, flying who-knows-where, to do who-knows-what, NORAD sits back, lights a cigar and.......just watches? It seems to me that if any one of us had been sitting in the general's chair that day, this small irregularity might have peaked our curiosity enough to immediately scramble fighters.....and at least, have a little "look-see".
The word is, NORAD was actually carrying out an exercise, on 9/11.......an air defense exercise with the scenario being "terrorists hi-jacking airliners and crashing them into skyscrapers". Could this be why NORAD just "sat there", leaving New York City undefended and leaving every American with the horror of watching the planes crash into the twin towers.......and then, the sight of those towers crumbling to the ground?
Wait a minute! "crumbling" isn't the right word. In fact, I remember thinking that even with such an impact as this, the towers as a whole were probably in no real danger of falling. Large airplanes and missiles will always cause terrific damage at the point of impact, but will seldom cause a total collapse of a modern steel structure, especially when the damaged section of the building is high up on the structure, itself. The authorities would have us believe that the burning jet fuel melted the steel beams but the majority of the fuel would have burned in the initial fireball. What fuel remained after the explosion would have certainly continued to burn, along with any combustible material within the building itself.....but could these few minutes of fire generate enough heat to actually melt the steel? And if it did, how could it possibly melt so evenly, as to have virtually no listing in the structure above the damaged area...but instead, come straight down, perfectly "pancaking", floor by floor, all the way to the ground?
Knowing how precise controlled demolitions must be to avoid damage to the surrounding area, this almost perfect collapse must have been a one-in-a-million chance of happening this way. But then, the other tower did exactly the same thing! (Whut luck!) Although NYC Firemen are still under a gag order, preventing them from speaking publicly, it is said that many of them heard explosions in the moments before the towers fell, and Firefighters Mike Bellone and Nick DeMasi claim they actually found three of the four recorders while traversing the debris field with three FBI men in an ATV.....and were subsequently told by the agents to "keep their mouths shut".
Barring all other evidence, investigators should be able to rely upon information gathered from the so called "black boxes". For decades, all large airliners have been equipped with two of these virtually indestructible, post-crash wells of information...one which records mechanical functions of the aircraft and the other, recording cockpit voice and sound. The recorders can resist the force of 3600 "Gs" and up to 2000 degrees in temperature.
Although we won out against all odds with the perfect collapse of the towers, we would not be so lucky with the recorders. Our government claims we lost all four of the recorders at the World Trade Center, a phenomenally bad survival rate, considering how few recorders have been lost to destruction over the years...and even more so when you consider that one of the hijackers' passports was found intact, at the edge of the tower rubble. Quite remarkable, I'd say!
Being a reasonable man, I'm willing to listen to any worthy explanation for these "anomalies" that the government may wish to present.........but I am a child of the sixties. I will not believe it, just because you say it's so.
*AUTHOR'S NOTE: I apologize to the Kennedy family and to any readers that are offended by my satire of the terrible tragedy of November 22, 1963. He gave his life for US.
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