Eric SamulskiWhom shot JFK
July 23rd 2007 07:27
Who am I?
“My greatest journalistic nightmare is that I still don't know who killed Jack Kennedy”.Hunter S. Thomson
And neither do I. What I do know is that the JFK conspiracy is made for film. It’s what every good movie needs. Motive, plot, good/evil, sexy women and a bang-bang ending. Well, a Hong Kong movie anyway.
And it’s because of film that the conspiracy even exists. Without the Zapruder footage – that famous 8mm grainy frame-by-fame account – if that wasn’t there people could believe almost anything. But because of it, anyone with even a shaky half-grasp on reality can see it just ain't right. Stanley Kubrick tells us in Full Metal Jacket that Oswald couldn’t have fired off three shots in the time he was supposed to. There’s a truck load of docos giving motive to a list long and colourful – I hope I never make that many enemies.
The question is; how come no-one has put up their hand. After all this time you’d think someone would have coughed-up with at least a death-bed confession. The reason is simple and this is where film script development comes into play. If you work out a scenario, you have to make it believable. Like science you can’t flop around with crap and hope it sticks.
So here’s a scenario.
You can never rely on people to stay true to the cause. Over time people change. Even astronauts become born again Christians – can you believe that. So you have to keep numbers involved to a minimum. You have three teams completely unaware of each other preform the one task. The assassination. After the job is complete you then have a separate team eliminate the first three teams for reasons that are unrelated. So the last team has no way of connecting the other teams to the initial task. The result is that you’re left with a small hardcore group that initiated the task and considering that they are still active in what they want to achieve they are not about to spill their guts.
Simple.
I’ll leave you with the lasting thoughts of Bill Hicks;
"So anyway a smiling and chirpy presidential hopeful is shown into a darkened theatre by some big cigar smoking brute. Lights go down and a projector rolls and it's the Zapruder film shot from an angle never seen before. Young hopeful is then asked, "Any questions?"
"Yeah. What's my agenda?"
Until next time and happy film-making.
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Comment by Napoleon Hangover
it's all very simple,
JFK forgot who got him into power,
the big unions, and therefore, the mob,
what'd think they were going to do
write off their investment?
Even Sinatra got it,
though he apparently begged for mercy for his Irish-Catholic buddy,
and shed a tear when he died,
but he knew the score.
Of course,
we can't rule out
the shape-shifting lizards that secretly rule the universe and drink the blood of Aryan babies to keep mammalian form, non?