JFK Document Dump a Reminder That the Press, Once Tasked With Tempering Paranoia, Has Lost All Credibility

All too often the press is a participant in spreading conspiracies, most notably with the Russia collusion hoax, perhaps the most politically consequential one in American history.

Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News via Wikimedia Commons
President Kennedy at Dallas on November 22, 1963. Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News via Wikimedia Commons

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released tens of thousands of documents related to the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, I’m one of those naive Americans who believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in 1963 when he assassinated Kennedy at Dallas. If the Warren Commission had found a smoking gun, we would have heard about it in 1964. The notion that hundreds of staffers, politicians, and conspirers could keep such a secret is ridiculous.

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