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35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 5:19 a.m. PST

Subject: Here Are Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft


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But this is probably the bombshell of all bombshells! 😳

Subject: Kate Hyde on X: "BREAKING: documents from the JFK Files have been released. All I have to say is… WOW. t.co/2NUNE7Up5O / X

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😉

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 5:42 a.m. PST

In my opinion, it will be nothing we didn't already know. Maybe enough to embarrass the CIA and/or FBI for not paying attention to him adequately. But there will be nothing to incriminate anyone. Nothing to satisfy conspiracy theorists. Sorry, guys.

Anyone expecting startling new "information" must have to realize that "they" have had 60+ years to clean the files.

Inch High Guy19 Mar 2025 7:04 a.m. PST

Now do Epstein.

Personal logo Extra Crispy Sponsoring Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 7:48 a.m. PST

Or Trump

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 8:16 a.m. PST

The files will say what "they" want them to say.

My thoughts up until yesterday.
Oswald acted alone. 😱
"The Mob" wasn't all that upset, but thought that "the wrong Kennedy" was shot. Oddly, Bobby thought so too. Chicago and New Orleans were very pissed at the whole Kennedy clan. For good reasons, but they weren't really involved.
Jack Ruby was mobbed up, up the wazoo. He acted irrationally. He "caught cancer" in prison. (I guess it's possible…) The Mob was just as embarrassed by him as the CIA and FBI were by Oswald. Thus, "got cancer in prison". 🙄
Oswald's involvement embarrassed both the CIA and FBI who hated each other and delighted in sabotaging each other. Ooops!

And, no. I don't think for one second that Kennedy would have not escalated Vietnam like LBJ did. Same results. That nonsense comes from the whole "Jack was a saint!" Boston crowd.
By the way, LBJ was truly a scumbag, but I don't think he was involved. 🤷

And when it comes to being bumbling idiots, the main conspiracy theorists outdid both the Mob and Da Gubmint.
Finally, (hah!) there will be nothing in the files except teasers. Vacuuming them TOO clean would be embarrassing to … you know who.

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 8:20 a.m. PST

I likewise dismiss Cuban or Soviet involvement. Sure, Oswald was "an agent", but a pretty stupid and sloppy one. He was nothing but an annoying ass to the USA. A useful idiot.

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 8:29 a.m. PST

Actually some interesting things in the ones in the first article.

Better be careful John, we agree on our views of JFK. 😂

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 8:44 a.m. PST

You know. "Stopped clock… etc.) 😄

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 9:57 a.m. PST

Yes you have to be right occasionally. 😂

Grattan54 Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 10:16 a.m. PST

I agree with you John. Except I am not that harsh on Johnson.

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 11:12 a.m. PST

That's fine. We on TMP sometimes seem to think that our opinions MATTER in the real world. 🙄😄

I love it! Not everything has been released!
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Maybe I should address why I dismiss Cuba and the Soviets.
Russia first. Kruschev considered JFK a callow playboy. He took his measure at Vienna, and was not at all impressed. Why replace him? Since I'm on thin ice here, I shan't mention another President and Russian…. Shut up, John.
Castro certainly hated him, for obvious reasons. (You know. CIA assassination attempts. Bay of Pigs. Minor things, even though JFK pussied out at the last minute.) But since I'm convinced Oswald was the "lone gunman", Castro didn't get around to it. Yet. However… Oswald was a sympathizer, that may have been a motive. 🤷 Ruby deprived us of "enhanced interrogation" of Oswald, so who knows?
The pro-Batista Bay of Pigs lads certainly hated JFK, but they just didn't get around to it.

Let's face it. JFK had a LOT of dangerous people who hated him. Oswald got there first.

Obscure point. Why are all assassins referred to by full name? James Earl Ray. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. John Wilkes Booth.
🤷

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 12:38 p.m. PST

"I shan't mention another President and Russian…."

Don't be so rough on old Barrack. We aren't 100% sure what he whispered to him.
OPPs…. Yes we are! 😉

Subject: Obama tells Medvedev he will have "more flexibility" after election – YouTube


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John the OFM19 Mar 2025 12:45 p.m. PST

Since W liked Pootie Poot, he gave him that nickname. He also thought he could look into his soul. 🙄

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 1:04 p.m. PST

"He also thought he could look into his soul. "

Maybe he can. 😳

Grattan54 Supporting Member of TMP19 Mar 2025 7:44 p.m. PST

I heard one commentator today say that the reason we think there was a conspiracy is the way the FBI and CIA kinda hushed everything up. But the reason they really did that was to cover their butts because they screwed up so bad. FBI had Oswald pegged as a threat and still let him get to the president and the CIA failed to protect Kennedy. I think is vastly more likely than two or more gunmen conspiring to kill Kennedy for Castro or whomever.

John the OFM19 Mar 2025 8:20 p.m. PST

Incompetence explains far more than conspiracy.

Many (a majority?) find it difficult to believe that one man could do this crime.
Yes, many groups may have wanted to kill JFK. and many may have had plans. But Oswald did it before they did. 🤷 He beat them … to the shot.

Some say he was a bad shot. Yet, he was trained by the Marines. From his Wikipedia article:
" Like all Marines, Oswald was trained and tested in shooting. In December 1956, he scored 212, which was slightly above the requirements for the designation of sharpshooter.[21] In May 1959, he scored 191, which reduced his rating to marksman."
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So, he could have done it.

Again, back to Russia and Cuba. Why not allow him to believe he was important? He was "obviously incompetent", but it's always fun to turn loose a gadfly for amusement. Ooops! 😱 There's a lot of loose cannons in our politics today that think they're important and think they ….
Look at that goofy kid in Pennsylvania who was taken out just like Jack Ruby took out Oswald. How close did he come? The classic "lone gunman". 🤷
I haven't seen any credible evidence of a conspiracy. He wanted to be "important". FAFO.

John the OFM20 Mar 2025 1:40 p.m. PST

I thought that this would have had a lot more response.
Could it be that JFK Conspiracy Theorists have run out of steam? 🤔
Huh.

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP20 Mar 2025 1:49 p.m. PST

Probably most are now dead. 😵

John the OFM20 Mar 2025 2:40 p.m. PST

The "History" (sic) Channel at one time had at least 4 shows running with contradictory Kennedy Conspiracies. The one I remember the best featured the French Mob in Marseille. Union Corse?

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