Monthly Archives: March 2012

As 50th anniversary approaches, Dallas’ nerves still raw about JFK assassination

March 4, 2012
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A “proactive” attempt at denial of free speech by the Sixth Floor Museum. Since they have no plans to use the Grassy Knoll site themselves, COPA will gladly hold our annual Moment of Silence there in 2013. We sent this to the Dallas Morning News: LETTER TO THE EDITOR Your recent article by SCOTT K.…

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Is deception the best way to serve one’s country?

March 3, 2012
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Is deception the best way to serve one’s country? March 29, 2006 Capitol Hill Blue By Doug Thompson http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_060330_is_deception_the_bes.htm The handwritten note lay in the bottom drawer of my old rolltop desk, one I bought for $50 in a junk store in Richmond, VA, 39 years ago. “Dear Doug & Amy,” it read. “Thanks for…

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Dallas News Coverage of JFK Assassination and the death of Lee Harvey Oswald

March 3, 2012
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CBS News Channel 4 KDFW in Dallas has created a website reviving some video footage of their news coverage from November 22, 1963 and afterwards, including a press conference at Parkland Hospital concerning Oswald’s death and interviews about news reports blaming right wing extremism in Dallas for the assassination. Interesting footage of General Edwin Walker,…

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Today’s History Lesson Sixth Floor Museum Restores Texas School Book Depository Sign. Then Hangs It Inside.

March 3, 2012
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Today’s History Lesson Sixth Floor Museum Restores Texas School Book Depository Sign. Then Hangs It Inside. Dallas Observer By Robert Wilonsky Fri., Mar. 2 2012 at 3:35 PM http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/03/sixth_floor_museum_restores_original_texas_school_depository_sign_then_hangs_it_inside.php Got a note today from the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza’s Liza Collins saying that the museum has restored and just re-hung the old 2.5-foot-by-17-foot…

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Errol Morris: The Thinking Man’s Detective

March 3, 2012
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Errol Morris’s provocative documentaries Fog of War and Mr. Death hold out the promise that his new foray into the Kennedy assassination questions may bear fruit. However, we have joined researcher and writer Russ Baker recently in our criticisms of the six-minute interview Morris filmed for the New York Times with Josiah “Tink” Thompson, author…

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