Beyond Conspiracy
Narrated by the late Peter Jennings, goes over reenactments and interviews with all the major eyewitnesses, police, FBI, and other still living members who were are the center of investigating the case in 1963, thoroughly disproving a conspiracy. 1 hour and 30 minutes. Produced by ABC-TV.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19O2HkSXenJghET7V7vojPlTdi2uPhZu9/view
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
In this PBS Frontline documentary, they discuss the entire life of Oswald, including his troubled youth, overbearing mother, death of his father before he was born, and his decision to convert to Marxism and immigrate to the USSR. He then came back to the US where he found his life throughly unfulfilled, beat his Russian born wife, and fathered 2 daughters which he had great difficulty supporting because he had not finished high school and had dyslexia. The documentary details how he sympathized with the Cuban Castro regime and desperately wanted to travel to Cuba to become a revolutionary. One presupposed theory as to why he decided to kill Kennedy is because of a quote from Fidel Castro warning American politicians that if they continued to decide to try to kill him, they should expect the same. In his desperate mindset to prove to be a truly leftist revolutionary, he decided to assassinate Kennedy -- and he was in exactly the right place at the right time. Ruth Paine, a woman his wife was living with at the time, had happened to find work for him in the weeks leading up to Kennedys visit at the Texas School Book Depository, which the Dallas Morning News, and other papers had printed would pass right below the Depository on his parade through downtown Dallas to the Trademart where he was scheduled to have a luncheon and give a speech. 2 hours and 53 minnutes. Produced by PBS.
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4yqW9-b4ExzS251WmNYTi1LMVk/view
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4yqW9-b4ExzUlJkRWNPV2xpZUk/view
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4yqW9-b4ExzcG5WQ0ZKaEpzaVE/view
Oswald's Ghost
Although this veers into some conspiratorial territory, including interviewing Oswald's lawyer (hired posthumously by his mother), Mark Lane, and other's, it does a good job of examining the some of the botched aspects of the Warren Commission, and throughly debunks Jim Garrison, the main character used in Oliver Stone's JFK film, and a known pedophile. The DA of New Orleans attempted to try a suspect in the assassination of JFK. Worth a watch, but you can mostly disregard the grandstanding of Mark Lane and others who try to convince you that there was a conspiracy. Produced by American Experience on PBS.
https://vimeo.com/150198102
The Body of JFK
I have uploaded this documentary I downloaded ages ago that I thought was very well made titled "The Body of JFK" produced by the BBC and I was unable to find anywhere online in a easily viewable format. This Youtube video is UNLISTED so I please ask that you do not share it around widely, or find some way of downloading it yourself such as with a program like Jdownloader at http://jdownloader.org/.
As I wrote for the description of the video:
"This is a BBC produced documentary of the forensic analysis of John Kennedy's body and all the major health problems he had, including a bad back that was caused during the time his PT boat was split in two by a Japanese destroyer, the Amagiri, and Kennedy had to drag one of the sailors on his boat to a nearby island by holding a rope in his teeth with the sailor attached to the other end. This crippled Kennedy for life and was one of the contributing factors in his assassination, as the Ace bandages he had to wear underneath his suit prevented him from being pushed down below Lee Harvey Oswald's sightline, thus allowing for the fatal headshot.
It also discusses his Addison's disease, his treatment for that with large doses of cortisone, his injections of testosterone an anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS), his incredibly high cholesterol level, and his quack doctor feelgoods who injected him with everything from amphetamines to opioids to benzocaine to try and alleviate his back pain.
The documentary also delves into his extramarital affairs with his secretaries, and the pain it caused Jackie Kennedy when she learned about them. John Kennedy most likely had an increasingly high libido due to the large amounts AAS he was being injected with.
Finally, the documentary discusses the day of his assassination and how the bullets penetrated his body, including the fatal headshot, recreated here with very good forensic accuracy, dispelling the notion that the head shot came from the front or "Grassy Knoll" area in Dealey Plaza."
https://youtu.be/GP2cbDpxV9w
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Books:
There are two excellent books on the subject of throughly debunking the the conspiracy of the JFK assassination and pointing the finger directly at Oswald. Although, the killing of Oswald by Jack Ruby would plant seeds of doubt in generations of Americans as a plot to try and silence him, these books demonstrate that that could not possibility be the case, and Jack Ruby was just as unhinged a personality as Oswald.
"Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK" by Gerald Posner is the shorter of the books and goes over step by step how Oswald could be the only shooter in the JFK assassination. Having lived in Dallas myself and visited the 6th Floor Museum, you can gaze out the window and see how short of a shot a marksman graded marine sharpshooter could have easily shot JFK in his limousine going only around 10mph as it turned onto Elm Street. If you're ever in Dallas, I highly recommend visiting the museum. It's well worth the ticket price of $15. Getting back to the book, it is a short & light read and debunks most of the major conspiracy theories brought up over the years, such as how the bullet trajectory could not have produced wounds in both JFK and Gov. Connally. But, the conspiracy theories in this example, neglected to understand that the Governor was in a jump seat that was sitting lower down than JFK and at an angle that would have produced the wounds that it did. The bullet was not a "magic bullet" and if you look at exhibit of what the conspiracy theories called a "pristine bullet", you will see that exhibit CE399 was not pristine at all. It was a standard NATO bullet, meant not to deform and shatter, after they were purposely designed to do that according to the Geneva Convention signed after World War I so as not to cause undue pain and suffering to the soldiers and simply outright kill them.
You can pick up this book on Amazon for as low as 99ยข for a hardcover or paperback book, or $10 for the Kindle edition. http://amzn.to/2s6I4qA
The next book is those true researchers who have the time and the patience to read through this 1648 page book and another 1000+ pages in footnotes. "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of the Charles Manson family murders, is a step by step reconstruction of the entire assassination, almost tracing Oswald's daily step by step in his means, motive, and opportunity to kill the president. It goes over each and every frame of the Zapruder film, it goes over every shred of ballistic evidence, and every single person associated even remotely with the JFK assassination, tearing to shreds any notion of conspiracy.
This book is a bit of a rarity and can go for $50-75 and higher in print form. So, I recommend you look for it at your local library. But, this is definitely Bugliosi's magnum opus, and if you are a hardcore conspiracy believer, I highly recommend you seek out this book and read it, as it will clear up so many things and questions you had regarding the assassination. http://amzn.to/2quCgGf
I did take the time to read both of these books and found them both generally fascinating, but if you are looking for a shorter read, Bugliosi did create an abridged version of the book titled "Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy". It goes into detail just the four days from the Friday the president was assassinated to the Monday President Johnson makes his speech to the Congress. It's a much shorter book, coming in at just 688 pages (which sounds like a lot, but it's so good, you can breeze right through it). After reading this, I knew I had to read Reclaiming History because it was so well written that I wanted more.
http://amzn.to/2rfrhUs
Finally, one good website on the JFK assassination can be found at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sites.htm You can also view the mock trial between Vincent Bugliosi and Gerry Spence on David Von Pein's excellent site (and other network of sites) here: https://on-trial-lho.blogspot.com/
David Von Pein has several YouTube channels dedicated to preserving the network news, TV shows, radio broadcasts, and other shows that were on during the JFK assassination. You can view them here: http://dvp-video-audio-archive.blogspot.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_mQgKpqDBPDWF-pHRTMgg. Unfortunately, many of his other Youtube channels got taken down by the original copyright holders. However, after corresponding to David Von Pein, he has let me know he has a master archive list of all his JFK related videos on his blog site located here: http://dvp-video-audio-archive.blogspot.com/2016/12/dvp-audio-video-master-index.html It covers just about every audio and video recording of JFK's speeches made, as well as news coverage on the day of his death. If you are a researcher, or looking to write a paper on JFK, this would be an excellent place to visit.
If you have any other information you want to share (I really don't want to get into a JFK conspiracy theory debate with anyone) you can contact me on Twitter @pogue25 or leave a comment in the Disqus comment system below.
