ABC News Presents The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
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Actor: JFK, Peter JenningsBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
Published: 2004-04-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
DVD Reviews of ABC News Presents The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
DVD Review: "God bless the truth that fights toward the sun, they pour the lies over it and think that it is done." Pete Seeger
Summary: 1 Stars
This so-called "documentary" is beneath contempt.
The narrator, Peter Jennings, does something quite revealing at the beginning of the program. He points out that there are so many conspiracies regarding the Kennedy assassination that "we don't have time to delve into all of them." ... And so what does the program do? It delves into *none* of them.
In other words, here's a purported documentary that seeks to debunk the idea that JFK was killed as part of a conspiracy and then convenienlty sets aside consideration of *any* of the conspiracy theories being offered.
Moreover, along with this set-aside of conspiracy theories there is a set-aside of the truckloads of FACTS that back up these various conspiracy theories!
-- No mention is made of the fact that the majority of people present at the assassination site, including the police, pointed to and rushed the grassy knoll.
-- No mention is made of the witnesses who swore that they saw Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby together before the assassination.
-- No mention is made of the fact that assassination attempts, via a conspiracy, were foiled in Chicago and Miami before Kennedy went to Dallas.
-- No mention is made of the unlikely number of "accidental deaths" of key witnesses in the case.
-- No mention is made of Kennedy's promise after the Bay of Pigs fiasco to "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces."
And on and on.
Instead of pointing out these facts and attempting to rebut them, the program simply ignores them.
In place of an intellectually honest confrontation with these facts, the program -- rather I should say the "show" -- spends an inordinate amount of time on:
a.) Oswald's "personality" -- in other words his a priori predisposition to being (guess what?) a lone nut. (Lone nut, lone gunman -- get it?)
b.) Oliver Stone's obviously flawed and at times ridiculous movie "JFK." and
c.) Jim Garrison's inconsequential trial of Clay Shaw.
Interestingly enough, the show does something that is *common* to all claims that Oswald and Oswald alone killed Kennedy. It maintains that the reason why people are inclined to believe in a conspiracy is that they simply can't accept that a great man such as John Kennedy was shot by a loser, a nut, "a nobody." That the balance between a great man, on the one hand, versus a lone assassin on the other just doesn't sit well with the American public.
But this is nonsense. The majority of Americans don't believe the Warren Commission, especially today, because they know incontrovertible *facts* about the American government and American mainstream and how they operate. ...
They know that not just the government but mainstream media *lie* about what the government does. It knows full well about the lies regarding Vietnam, the lies regarding Watergate, the lies regarding the Iraq War, and now the lies regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (You might recall that initially, incredibly, BP said *no* oil spilled; the government dutifully backing them up.)
The American public knows full well about the myriad lies put forth by the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and the State Department. *That's* why they distrust the Warren Commission, a joke of an investigation. That's why, try as this show might, it falls flat on its face trying to convince anyone with even a *shred* of knowledge that Oswald acted alone.
And the general population's knowledge of how the government and how mainstream media lie is not based on "theories," it's based on facts.
... Did Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon lie about Vietnam?
... Was Vietnam a threat to the United States?
... Was Nixon lying about Watergate?
... Did the CIA overthrow governments in Guatemala, Iran, Chile?
... Did Nixon, McCarthy, HUAC, et al lie about "The Red Menace"?
... Were there WMDs in Iraq?
... When the vote to go to war with Iraq came up in the Senate, did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld *and* the mainstream of the Democratic Party lie about the threat posed by Iraq to the security of the United States?
... Think maybe the same lies are being perpetrated as regards Iran? But don't worry *that* question will never be explored by ABCNBCCBSCNNTIMENEWSWEEKTHENEWYORKTIMES.
This longstanding *history* of lying is not based on conspiracy theories or mere conjecture; in fact, quite the contrary -- it's there in plain sight.
It's always quite remarkable, breathtaking really, when one sees mainstream media in the United States gearing up to propagandize the American public. That Peter Jennings was able to host this show with a straight face is a tribute to his fealty to the power elite in general and his ruling elite neighbors/colleagues in particular --the ruling elite only getting upset at each other when really important issues are being debated, such as which yacht wax they prefer.
For a documentary that's not only intellectually honest but that also puts the Kennedy assassination in the *context* of what was going on at the time -- re. the the FBI, the CIA, the Cuban crazies, the right-wing crazies and the Mafia -- see "The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History" - http://www.amazon.com/Murder-JFK-Revisionist-History/dp/B000BT96PK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1255789741&sr=8-2
By contrast, Peter Jennings' apparatchik piece of garbage treats the JFK assassination like a fairy tale -- wherein the good prince is suddenly and brazenly taken from us by the evil lone gunman. As if virtually nothing was going on politically besides that oft-told media-inspired fairy tale -- a fairy tale "FPC" ("For Public Consumption") -- long since dismissed by serious investigators into the JFK assassination.
As for Peter Jennings' integrity, why pick on the man? -- his lack of integirty is no different than that of his compatriots: Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Brian Williams. ... When Peter Jennings was alive, what do you think would have happened if he had gone to his bosses at ABC and sayid "How's 'bout we do an investigative report on Disney. (Disney being the parent company of ABC.) Yeah, we'll investigate how they treat their American workers, and the fact that they run sweatshops in third world countries." ... ABC being owned by Disney, he would have been fired in a New York minute.
Not that the thought would even cross Jennings' mind -- self-censorship being the most effective kind of thought control.
And what do you imagine would happen if Tom Brokaw of NBC got the bright, albeit democratically-appropriate notion of doing a report on General Electric. Its sweetheart contracts with the Pentagon; the fact that General Electric consistently underpays what it should in corporate taxes, and that for three years running didn't pay *any* corporate taxes. ... Well, seeing that General Elelectic owns NBC no doubt the thought never closed Honest-Upright, Bought-and-Paid-For good ole Tom's mind.
Think anyone over at CNN will say anything essentially or fundamentally negative about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that are making Corporate America rich -- CNN owned and sponsored by the leading ranks of Corporate America.
No, Peter Jennings, like all bought-and-paid-for corporate mouthpieces, did his job and was amply rewarded. Like the political establishment, meaning the Democratic-Republican duopoly, he was nothing more than a servant of the economic elite.
That he did this via the cockeyed premises this "show" purports, and in so blatantly and outrageous a manner, brings to mind what Hitler said in "Mein Kampf" about The Big Lie; namely, if the lie is big enough and outrageous enough and is told often enough, that, so those in power hope, the lie will take root.
Though I doubt in the case of this piece of crap-nonsense Jennings and ABC got away with it -- albeit ABC et al are still at it, still trying to pour cement over the lies.
No one in mainstream media would dare violate the self-censorship rules that effectively prohibits any challenge to the righteousness (and inevitablility) of the political establishment or the predatory motives of American foreign policy.
For more on Peter-The-Spinless Jennings, see "The death of Peter Jennings and the state of the American media" -- [...]
Quoting from that article by David Walsh:
"During their maudlin tribute to Jennings on "World News Tonight," his colleagues at ABC referred to him as a "consummate reporter." He was no such thing. A penetrating journalist would have had no difficulty in uncovering and exposing the Bush administration's lies about weapons of mass destruction, the supposed ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda and all the rest. If he had done that, he would have left a legacy of real value.
"But if Jennings had seriously questioned the behavior of government officials over Iraq "on behalf of the public," he would not have kept his $10 million-a-year salary, nor received grateful tributes from George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Democrats John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi after his death. ...
"One cannot point to a single broadcast of his that expressed a deep concern for (the) lives and difficulties (of average people) -- along the lines of Edward R. Murrow's Harvest of Shame in 1960 -- or revealed some harsh truth about America that led to genuine soul-searching.
Instead, for the most part, he adapted himself to the tabloidizing of American television news, hosting programs, for example, about "The Search for Jesus" and UFOs. ...
"Public opinion in the US is formed by a painstaking process, a daily cycle through which the media fixes its "take" on events and transmits that to its viewing audience. On the morning television programs (NBC's "Today" and ABC's "Good Morning America" in particular) the basic stories are laid out.
"Often a major government figure will be interviewed. The American people are told what their concerns and opinions are. On the three network evening programs, one is given the official version of what happened during the day, the events are packaged and tied up neatly. The anchor person sums up the day and puts it all in perspective.
"If a significant event takes place late enough in the day so that the official line has not entirely been worked out by 6:30 or 7 p.m., there is always ABC's "Nightline" at 11:30 p.m. or the comic monologues on the late-night talk shows. By the next morning, the cycle begins again. In this manner the American ruling elite strives to create a national consensus.
"The process has been more or less perfected. The problem, however, is that the entire media machine has been systematically discredited by its deplorable role on every major political question of the last two decades.
"The evening news programs and their avuncular anchormen, in particular, fulfill a quite significant function. These individuals are not simply talking heads, mere empty vessels. Their job is to hold the country together, particularly at those moments when events threaten to get out of hand in a country so heterogeneous and so internally divided along social, ethnic and demographic lines. The demeanor and voice of a Jennings are meant to reassure the public that everything is under control, continuity has been preserved, the old institutions are operating smoothly. ...
"(Now minus not only Peter Jennings but also Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather) America is headed into uncharted waters, without a number of the reassuring faces and voices that in the past conferred the imprimatur of legitimacy on so many lies and crimes."
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