As a US representative, Ford was a member of the #WarrenCommission, which investigated the #assassination of President #JohnFKennedy. The experience affected him profoundly. During a site visit to the Texas School Book Depository, the members of the committee took a rifle similar to the one used by Lee Harvey Oswald & looked through its scope at the traffic below. “Kennedy had been my friend,” Ford later recalled. “The thought we were reconstructing his assassination sent a chill down my spine.”
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1963, #JackRuby shot and killed #LeeHarveyOswald, preventing the latter from ever going to trial for killing #JFK. While the subsequent #WarrenCommission proclaimed Oswald the sole gunman, Ruby's act on this day has fuelled #ConspiracyTheories ever since.
Lee Harvey Oswald, born October 18, 1939

Page One of "Other Oswalds," a four page strip drawn by Danny Hellman for DC Comics/Paradox Press' "The Big Book of Conspiracies," 1995

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Magic Bullet Mystery Deepens - Rep Anna Paulina Luna and Joe Rogan

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I'm slowly rebuilding my #rare #book #eBay store this summer, one book a day over the next three months. Today, a #1stPrinting in #likenew condition of #EdwardJayEpstein's 1966 #Inquest, the first-ever mainstream book to question the results of the #WarrenCommission, kickstarting the #JFK #assassination #conspiracy theory that Jim Garrison made internationally famous a few years later. Yours for $100 or your best offer! https://www.ebay.com/itm/156284523504
"Inquest" (1966), by Edward Jay Epstein, 1st Ed. 1st Printing, JFK conspiracy | eBay

First Edition, First Printing. Provenance: Acquired at an estate sale in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, June 2021.

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Why a #JFK #murder bombshell landed with a thud. "the bigger issue is that the 21st century’s #internet fueled flood of #misinformation — and their centrality to #Trump-fried right-wing populism — means a lot of folks, especially liberals, will no longer touch anything with the faintest whiff of conspiracy theory." https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories-bidenomics-20230912.html #magicbullet #socialmedia #Facts not #fiction #democracy #WarrenCommission #Congress
Why a JFK murder bombshell landed with a thud | Will Bunch Newsletter

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✧ assassination of John F. Kennedy ✧

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, occurred on November 22, 1963, while Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He was shot from the Texas School Book Depository by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkl...

#ParklandMemorialHospital #Dallas #Texas #JackRuby #WarrenCommission #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

#NationalArchives today released thousands of pages of formerly classified material related to the assassination of President John F. #Kennedy. (Looks like almost all of these are previously known pages with their redactions restored.) #JFK #CIA #WarrenCommission #Oswald
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2022
JFK Assassination Records - 2022 Additional Documents Release

Have a question about JFK Assassination Records? Ask it on HistoryHub! The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is processing previously withheld John F. Kennedy assassination-related records to comply with President Joe Biden’s Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on the Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, requiring disclosure of releasable records by December 15, 2022.

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