Fifty-Five Years Ago, We Were Warned

It was an extraordinary yet now forgotten event: on July 15, 1967, NBC gave New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison nearly half an hour to rebut an earlier NBC show that had criticized how Garrison had conducted an investigation of people he thought were involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The segment was extraordinarily because today we are accustomed to the major news outlets only allowing one point of view to be heard. It was doubly extraordinary because Garrison took the opportunity to explain to the American people that they were being lied to by the political and media elites, in words that are even truer today than they were when he spoke them.

Garrison’s central point was that the findings of the Warren Commission that investigated the circumstances of the Kennedy assassination were false, a claim that he neatly established by showing that the Commission’s reconstruction of the path of a bullet that supposedly hit JFK and then passed into the body of Texas Governor John Connally was physically impossible. Garrison contended that Lee Harvey Oswald was not and could not have been the lone assassin of Kennedy, and that he was, in fact, a CIA operative. The hit on Kennedy, according to Garrison, was a CIA operation emanating from the agency’s dislike of the Kennedy administration’s moves toward a thaw in the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

That’s an eminently plausible theory, as it coincides with the warning that Kennedy’s predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, issued about the military-industrial complex and its interest in keeping the nation embroiled in endless wars (the Vietnam war was just heating up at the time as a proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union). In the course of explaining it, Garrison made several statements that could have been uttered by any astute observer of the political scene in 2023. Above all, he said: “Many of the things that the major news agencies have been telling you are untrue.” Well, yeah.

Garrison declared that “information concerning the cause of the death of your president has been withheld from you,” and likened the official explanation of the Kennedy assassination to a fairy tale. “Anything which is untrue,” he explained, “is dangerous. And it is all the more dangerous when the fairy tale becomes accepted as reality simply because it has an official seal of approval, or because honorable men announce that you must believe it, or because powerful elements of the press tell you that the fairy tale is true.” He said that powerful forces in the U.S. were withholding information and lying to the people in what they thought was the national interest, and stated: “There’s no room in America for thought control of any kind, no matter how benevolent the objective.”

Yes. Yet today, 55 years later, the thought control is worse than ever. Consider the silencing of Donald Trump, even while he was president of the United States. On Nov. 5, 2020, The Verge reported that “cable networks, broadcast networks and Twitter cut short their broadcasts of President Donald Trump’s speech from the White House briefing room Thursday; some outlets fact-checked the president’s unproven statements rather than carry them live. Trump began his remarks by baselessly claiming that Democrats were committing ‘fraud’ and trying to ‘steal’ the election.” YouTube likewise restricted videos claiming that the 2020 presidential election was not entirely on the up-and-up until just a couple of weeks ago, when it suddenly began allowing this topic to be discussed again. Why now? Election fraud allegations aren’t dangerous “disinformation” anymore?

No, it’s just that now we’re far beyond any point at which the injustice that was committed could be remedied. But back in 2020, the networks and the social media giants decided that they knew what was best for you, and that it was best that you not even hear what Trump was saying. They deliberately withheld information from us in service of their agenda, just as Garrison contended back in 1967 that they did regarding the Kennedy assassination.

There are, of course, myriad other examples of this. YouTube is still at it, just days ago banning an interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the elites claim contains “misinformation” regarding the deadly COVID vaccines. Networks devoted no time at all to evidence of Biden’s influence peddling, while giving lavish coverage to Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. And that insufferable and smug authoritarian, Barack Obama, lamented in May the decline of the media establishment’s stranglehold on the sources of information: “When I was coming up,” he reminisced, “you had three TV stations … and people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn’t, what was real and what was not.” Ah yes, it was a lot easier back then to control what people saw and what they didn’t, and to maintain a narrative. Now, however, the elites are still doing it well enough.

Jim Garrison told us of the dangers of all this long ago. NBC was actually canny to give him time, as it could then point to its having done so as evidence that it was actually a neutral and even-handed news source. But it wasn’t then and it isn’t now; nor are the other primary news outlets. As they did in Garrison’s time, they have an agenda to push, and they push it relentlessly and with considerable ingenuity. Most Americans today still think that while in totalitarian regimes such as National Socialist Germany and the international socialist Soviet Union, the news outlets just pumped out regime propaganda, we have a free press here that tells us the truth. That assumption is testimony to the power of today’s propaganda. The news outlets didn’t give us the truth in 1967, and they don’t today. Americans should watch Garrison’s remarks and realize that the same forces are still in power, and even more effectively controlling the discourse now than they were then.

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Chris Wolf

10 months ago

The insipid useful-idiot cronies of the Biden regime have an overarching talking point and all-encompassing big lie about how the rest of the world will never prioritize “zero emissions” unless the United States leads them over the cliff.
Like the sociopaths they all truly are, they properly identify the equation but misrepresent the factors: If the United States can throw off this Beltway-Globalist Bureaucratic-Elite Climate-Change tyranny, then the rest of the world will take inspiration and crush their own little Biden-obama’s.

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turtlebrat

10 months ago

Reply to  Chris Wolf

How can we accomplish this feat? They are entrenched in every part of our lives and and control the government and have been infiltrating everywhere and brainwashing many generations for a very long time. They control most of everything. We were asleep and allowed it to happen. If we now undertake a bloody revolution before they can take all of our weapons and if we are too busy to fight on two fronts it leaves us open to conquest from without by their allies and if we do not fight to destroy the evil within it leaves us open to conquest from within. We gotta think Machiavellian. Sorry, but it is true. Good guys can finish last. But it is not hopeless if we are dedicated to ending and destroying this well planned long term undertaking leading to this madness. Everything they do is to destroy and is the result of a well planned long term strategy. “We will bury you” was well said.” The Declaration of Independence sums it up very clearly about what must be done and the Founders knew human nature and sacrifice. Prayer as well is an undertaking that we must do to gain hope and assistance from our Creator.

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Snowedin

10 months ago

The media is so corrupt and has been controlled by the deep state for many years. There are still people who believe that Oswald shot the rifle that killed Kennedy. Oswald was not in the room. It was LBJ’s hitman. The rifle that was in the depository was different than the one Oswald purchased. The angle of the depository was wrong for how the shots were placed. There were several reasons why Kennedy was taken out. The CIA, FBI, SS, Cubans, Mafia, and the mob were working together and were all responsible. I knew this years ago as it was exposed to me by a classmate whose father was in the John Birch Society.

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Underzog

10 months ago

I think the bullet tumbled in a way that made it lose only a little mass at the rear. I don’t fqll for this”magic bullet” theory.

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JoeyJ

10 months ago

We were, indeed. But I don’t think that even Garrison anticipated that the Deep State would take control of EVERYTHING.

It’s like the example where the Mafia takes over all aspects of a small town.

Where do you go to find justice?

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Adellad

10 months ago

Reply to  JoeyJ

The Pearly Gates. I can’t see anywhere down here.

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George

10 months ago

Reply to  JoeyJ

Snipers.

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heidi

10 months ago

To this day, even some reputable Republicans (John Solomon comes to mind) routinely demonize & insult McCarthy who was exposing communists in govt & culture.

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ORRN31

10 months ago

When was this aired on NBC? At 3:00a.m.?

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Sly

10 months ago

Eisenhauer knew early on the CIA was a monster in the making and sadly he ok’d the Bay of Pigs fiasco that Kennedy inherited. He tried to warn the country but by then giant octopus already had spread its tenticles everywhere. The CIA and mafia had common goals back in the day and worked with each other quite often to accomplish them. The Dulles brothers along with the elder Bush and others had their own visions of America and how to profit from it. Sadly the ‘ media’ was corrupted and sucked in and the rest is history.

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BobV

10 months ago

I seceded from the banana republic on 11/4/2020. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. As far as being lied to by fake news and the swamp, that goes back to the Kennedy administration over 60 years ago. It was a power struggle back then, but now is downright depopulation effort to murder 90% of America.

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John Acord

10 months ago

We all are in th egrip of Satan’;s demons. I fear that only a cataclysmic war will save a remnant. If you want to be prepared for this war, I suggest you visit http://www.nukerefuge.com and download their Nuclear War Survival Manual. It may save your life and the life of your family.

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Pray Hard

10 months ago

Mostly what I remember about the assassination is that an enormous pall of uncertainty, dread, angst and fear fell over America and that nothing was ever the same again. It was incomprehensible. It was like an invisible Satan came to Earth and began to rule. Some people thought the military killed him, some thought it was the New York mafia, some thought it was the Dixie Mafia, some thought it was the CIA, some thought it was LBJ and that he wanted both Kennedy and Connally killed (which is very plausible). Regardless of all of the above, I still feel a seething rage because whoever did it had no right to do it! And, here we are, almost sixty years later, still in the dark, being treated like children even more than during that time.

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bill

10 months ago

That’s about how it’s always been: the military-industrial complex is real and wants us in wars all the time – it’s so good for business.

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Roger Grant

10 months ago

So Jim Garrison was right all along. The original push back was that it was too grand a conspiracy that the outlined.

And then it was just what he said it was. Well done Garrison.

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Hardrock

10 months ago

When Kennedy was shot, the shooter was close near the crowd. They couldn’t hear the shot(s) because there is the strong possibility a Whisper Barrel was used on the firearm. The inventor of the Whisper Barrel may have had some at length involvement. He was Mitchell Werbell III, he had been a military officer and had apparently worked for the CIA. Watch the Redford movie “Three Days of the Condor.” You will see the Mailman using a Whisper Barrel on the gun it was originally designed for. That being the Ingram.

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