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ellie

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4. Hi Octafish!
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 01:59 PM
Nov 2014

I thought of you when I read this today in Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/22/the_real_jfk_mystery_50_years_later_why_the_infamous_murder_must_be_reinvestigated/

Here is a tidbit I found interesting:

"n his memoirs, former House Speaker Tip O’Neill recalled that JFK aides Kenneth O’Donnell and Dave Powers—both of whom had been riding in JFK’s motorcade at the moment of the assassination—once told him that they had heard two shots coming from the grassy knoll, across the street from where Oswald is alleged to have fired all of the shots. CIA Director John McCone told RFK that he believed two gunmen had been present in Dealey Plaza."

The information about the aides was in a book titled, "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years." If you go to the Salon article there is a link to the passage in the book and how they were urged to change their story. But I guess they are lying too?

There is an awful lot of these types of stories but we're the crazy ones.

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