The Surprising Truth About John F Kennedy: What You Need To Know!

[@ChrisMcCoy-dm5ce]

They never talk about the oldest brother that died in WW2.

[@uToobeD]

I'd never heard of him, so that is true!

[@danieleyre8913]

Nor the sister that they had lobotomised…

[@uToobeD]

@@danieleyre8913 That was mentioned here though?

[@danieleyre8913]

@@uToobeD Yeah but in general; she’s swept under the rug along with Joe Jr.

[@jedgould5531]

@@danieleyre8913 It was mentioned quickly at the very end

[@rockchalkrebel]

"and I mean this in the medical sense." So JFK was the sickest president on multiple levels

[@edelweissdebergbaldrian7696]

Extremely toxic to 🐠

[@jasonmarques1480]

Wilson had a stroke and was an invalid from October 1919 to the end of his second term

[@themoon9442]

@@jasonmarques1480 Very true, but Prof White did say "one of the sickest presidents in American history. It checks out.

[@empireJSS]

@@jasonmarques1480 and FDR could barely walk.

[@jasonmarques1480]

​@@empireJSS FDR was disabled thanks to polio...

[@dstrottman]

He didn't mention Joe Kennedy Jr as part of the Kennedy curse. He died in WWII while flying a explosive laden B-17, flying to Belgium. He was suppose to bail out and the plane flown remotely into it's target. The plane mysteriously blew up before he could parachute out. Could have been radio frequency that detonated the explosives, it is not known.

[@thomasbell7033]

Yes, with one little detail change -- he was flying a PB4Y, the Navy version of the B-24 Liberator which had been converted to an explosives-laden drone, as you say.. There was a B-17 in the formation, but Kennedy was not in that crew. The story of these missions (Operations Aphrodite and Anvil) is fascinating.

[@dakotafred1829]

His father blamed FDR.

[@danieleyre8913]

The plane was a B-24. And it probably just blew up due to the absurd amount of explosives aboard.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@dakotafred1829No he didn’t. You people and these fabrications.

[@fgoindarkg]

​@@danieleyre8913 It exploded just moments after he armed the bomb. By remote control as planned.

[@JohnCraig-o7q]

He faced down Le May and some of the hawks in the Pentagon who wanted an all out assault on Cuba. The world owes him a great deal.

[@lizwallberg859]

I love this channel too, and Mr. White is so well informed and reasoned in his responses that it amplifies our enjoyment

[@mtp4430]

@@lizwallberg859 Mr. White Is what we call a shill And you are what we call gullible And clueless

[@JL-of3db]

Very factual. Good to listen to...

[@ji8044]

While Kennedy may indeed have had a generalized desire for civil rights improvement, that actual accomplishment belong to Lyndon Johnson alone.

[@nordan00]

LBJ loved his Jumbo!

[@oonaghmarguerite6752]

​@@nordan00 Johnson was gross🤮

[@nordan00]

@@oonaghmarguerite6752 True, but as a dude, I find a lot of the shit he pulled pretty damn funny!

[@nordan00]

@DavidJohnRedwood Well, LBJ was fond of telling his pals he was black below the waist, whatever that means.

[@oonaghmarguerite6752]

@nordan00 Well, if you really don't know...below his belt line, he had a buddy he called Jumbo. He had a habit of letting it loose while the office staff was in his office. 😳

[@annalisette5897]

A missed point is that JFK benefited tremendously from the TV age. Increasingly color TV. Nixon may have won in 1960 except Kennedy looked better on TV debates. The Kennedys were extremely good looking and photogenic. A lot of the so-called Kennedy curse tracks back to their own reckless behavior. Even with the assassination, JFK was advised to have a bubble top on the car but he said he needed to be seen clearly and as close to the people as possible. RFK's assassination was a failure of the Kennedy family's own security team who insisted upon him leaving through the kitchen. NEVER take a protected person through a kitchen which is impossible to secure.

[@kevinlynch6396]

Well, yeah. The guy was a total hunk.

[@williamrobinson7435]

Good this! Nice one Mark and team. 🌟👍

[@flaigus]

Fantastic piece. I’ll be looking out for the book. I love this channel

[@sohagahmed1957]

One of my favourite channels to enrich my knowledge. Thank you so much for producing high-quality, informative videos. Take love from Bangladesh ❤️❤️

[@peterdemkiw6858]

I would be very careful, as it seems this chanel is selective on what they say, and seem to be very pro A-merica in the way they ignore facts

[@anthonywutkowski199]

As far as first ladies, Edith Wilson was probably top 3 most important in U.S. History.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

Seriously.

[@anthonywutkowski199]

@@eliburry-schnepp6012 Oh yeah. Wilson had a stroke in his second term and from that point on she was basically the president.

[@joearcher6973]

As a person who served in the Marine Corps for 23 years the only person that can be called a war hero someone who won the Medal of Honor JFK did not win one big misconception

[@danieleyre8913]

@@joearcher6973 Kennedy was a war hero.

[@gman92]

How disrespectful to other men in uniform. Where is it written you have to win Metal of Honor to be considered a war hero. Also, nowhere was it mentioned he won the Metal of Honor. He won the Navy and Marine Corp Metal and Purple Heart. Try reading before writing. Thank you for your service.

[@joearcher6973]

Check your facts it is a federal law passed after the Civil War that only Medal of Honor recipients can be called Heroes when the award was created thanks and have a great day

[@DianaMayeDesigns]

@@joearcher6973 You need to check your own facts. There is no such law. For starters, the Medal of Honor is the highest medal you can earn, it is also the rarest medal to be awarded. Secondly, there are several other awards that are given that is just as high, but not as rare. Example: Bronze Star, Silver Star. These awards are awarded for acts of heroism in combat. My dad, god bless his soul and may he rest in peace, would be considered a war hero because he earned the bronze star for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War. He also was offered the purple heart for almost dying but he turned it down because he felt he was doing just what any soldier should do... Being considered a war hero does not, never has it, stemmed upon whether or not someone has earned the rarest medal awarded in combat.

[@sjw4life546]

A "ladies man" who didn't let back problems stop him from bang bang bang bang bang. Also, for me I think domestically LBJ was a better president than JFK. JFK got the ball bouncing on many historically significant policies, but LBJ actually scored the points. Civil Rights legislation was the inciting incident that fractured the Democratic Party and paved the way for the implementation of the southern strategy by the republicans. Poverty programs was the inciting incident that paved the way for the implementation of class warfare by the republicans.

[@thomasbell7033]

Yep. I was 8, in the 3rd grade when JFK was shot. You have summerized the succeeding political events quite succinctly. And now we are ruled by the "patriotic scoundrels" that Dr. Johnson warned us about 250 years ago.

[@archangeljophiel2019]

It has nothing to do and who was the better president. It has to do with Kennedy, a president who got killed based on what he was going toe to toe against. This country sees him as an American martyr.

[@archangeljophiel2019]

It has nothing to do who was a better president it has to do with JFK is painted as an American martyr.

[@madaro504]

Joe K was absolutely one of the worst people who ever stained the earth.

[@archangeljophiel2019]

Here is my take on why LBJ isn't too popular compare to Kennedy. It is because Vietnam for one thing. Some black people thinks Johnson was lowkey anti-black. Johnson seem like he wasnt relatable too the mass. Some people thinks he is creepy looking guy along with Nixon. JFK was probably the first president that dipped into pop culture accidentally. I don't think he wanted the pop culture status but 60 years later and now we are here and he is still in the pop culture world. Also people see him as a preaident turn into an American martyr.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@archangeljophiel2019 Johnson gets blamed for Vietnam and civil unrest, which he inherited from Kennedy. And Kennedy gets credited with Johnson’s achievements.

[@elagabalusrex390]

Because his presidency was cut short by his assassination, as well as the other reasons this historian gives, I don't think Kennedy can described as a great president - he simply wasn't there long enough. But he was certainly showing signs of potential greatness at the time of his death; He was (rare for a modern democrat) in favor of sweeping tax cuts, he was becoming increasingly anti-war and opposed to the power of the deep state agencies, he was an advocate of civil rights, he projected an image of glamour and charisma that attracted the young to politics. Had he lived to complete his term(s), it is likely that American history in the second half of the twentieth century would have been very different.

[@danieleyre8913]

I don’t think so. His successor Lyndon Johnson was much more capable and successful. But who holds him up?

[@elagabalusrex390]

@@danieleyre8913 Not many, mostly because of the Vietnam war. Pretty much the only ones who view Johnson favorably today are those who are in favor of the welfare state which he, along with FDR, largely created. (I do not happen to be among that group of people).

[@danieleyre8913]

@@elagabalusrex390 Well you’re not a historian whose analysis is informed, follows the historical method, and which leads to accepted facts. By your own admission you are fanciful. Kennedy was more gung ho over Vietnam than Johnson was. If you don’t hold Johnson’s presidency in high regard then it’s a safe conclusion that you wouldn’t also hold a hypothetical continuation of the Kennedy presidency.

[@elagabalusrex390]

@danieleyre8913 Maybe not, but at least I can come up with a civil reply to a comment without resorting to personal slights against the intelligence of someone I've never even met. So I am not a professional historian - Allan Lichtman is, and look where his reputation is right now.

[@danieleyre8913]

@ Hahahaha I don’t know what world you live in but Lichtman has a respected reputation.

[@andrewlamb8055]

Excellent episode … if that is the right word? 👏👏⭐️⚔️😎

[@chrisd997]

in the rest of civilised world and particularly in the west, he is the epitome and template of what an american president should be.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@chrisd997 Nope. The standard was Jimmy Carter or Barak Obama. Kennedy was nice but he was also a sleaze and a nationalist.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@chrisd997 Nope. The standard was Jimmy Carter or Barak Obama. Kennedy was nice but he was also a sleaze and a nationalist.

[@danieleyre8913]

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama were better templates. Kennedy has a few black marks such as womanising.

[@chrisd997]

@@danieleyre8913 come on man, Carter and Obama ? A hint to you in case you have not travelled to much outside . Check how many countries have Kennedy names in many of their streets

[@Kllanderer]

@@danieleyre8913how is that a black mark for a president? It’s his personal wife! It shouldbonly matter to him and her wife.

[@LuzMaria95]

JFK is my favorite president.

[@jimcronin2043]

With respect to civil rights, JFK was a lot more talk than action. He was unable to accomplish very much in terms of legislation because he was unable to control the southern wing of his own party, especially in the US Senate. He was unwilling to reach out to northern Republican senators because he was ultra-partisan. LBJ, a veteran of the Senate, was able to negotiate with Senate Republicans for their support of the Civil Rights bills of 1964 and '65 and succeeded in their passage. Many people want to ignore this because of LBJ's record on the Vietnam War. But the facts speak.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jimcronin2043 Kennedy was more gung Ho over US involvement in Vietnam than Johnson was, Johnson inherited it.

[@danieleyre8913]

The Kennedy’s were more gung ho about Vietnam than Johnson’s was. Johnson inherited that mess.

[@abc_13579]

You're so right. It was LBJ who got the legislation through, not JFK. LBJ was great at handling Congress. He skillfully used JFK’s memory to pressure congress into passing the legislation as a memorial to JFK. I'm not a fan of LBJ, but we need to give credit where credit is due, as you mentioned.

[@danieleyre8913]

@ Johnson had a great relationship with most of his party. Jack Kennedy on the other hand did not.

[@michaelandrew964]

In the tragedy category I think you missed saying the eldest Kennedy brother Joe Jr. blew up in a plane in WW2

[@lynnedelacy2841]

Interesting from those doodles it looks like JFK couldn’t spell ‘decision’

[@kroulinka]

I like this channel 👍

[@abc_13579]

One important thing you left out when discussing the Cuban missile crisis is this: One of the reasons why Khrushchev thought he could get away with planting missiles in Cuba is due to the weak impression Kennedy left on him when they met in person. Had JFK come across tougher in that meeting, Khrushchev probably wouldn't have tried to play his Cuba card. I applaud JFK for the way he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis; still, his inability to project strength in his meeting with Khrushchev is part of what led to the crisis in the first place.

[@adampryor4662]

We need a new JFK

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Sure. A president that tells his brother to kill an actress. Great guy.

[@charlesflohr1815]

I’d settle for a Johnson at this point.

[@edsr164]

We had one, he is called Barack Obama. But we didn’t give him credit and voted the Tea Party into Congress.

[@adampryor4662]

@edsr164 Barack has been president for the last 4 years

[@mattt233]

​@DavidJohnRedwood you hit the nail on the head.

[@lemon_j22]

Interesting. Thanks!

[@powerfrenzy]

I, Er, ah.... love to see Clone High referenced ✨

[@joyleenpoortier7496]

This was excellent

[@williampeek7943]

You missed that the oldest brother died in a plane explosion during WW2.

[@abc_13579]

The name of JFK's brother that died in a plane crash was Joseph P. Kennedy, not Edward. It was in World War II.

[@alaintremaine3302]

To claim "Roosevelt defeated fascism" is not telling the whole story, Mr. White. Fascism was defeated in Italy, as was National Socialism in Germany. Spain, despite being an authoritarian dictatorship under Franco, assisted by the Italian fascists and German National Socialists during its Civil War, was not free or democratic from 1945-75.

[@johnsutton3600]

you were doing great until the end. Oswald did not kill him and it was a conspiracy and that is the OFFICIAL govt story according to the HSCA, for such a well read person you need to read just a little more

[@moonlightbay4814]

Mmmmmm...no. The HSCA (House Committee on Assassinations), like the Warren Report,and every other large scale investigation, found that Oswald killed JFK. You might be thinking of the last minute addition to the HSCA report after it examined what was purported to be an audio Dictabelt recording of the assassination, which the committee was assured by "audio experts" contained the sound of 4 shots. In the light of that evidence, the HSCA hurriedly concluded that there was a second shooter (but that the shot from the second shooter missed everyone and presumably disappeared into thin air). They still concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy. Not long after the publication of the HSCA Report, due to an astonishing series of events (look it up! It's very funny!), the recording was not only found to have been made after the assassination had taken place, but in a totally different location from that of the assassination - the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was en route to when he was shot. In 1988 the US Department of Justice rebuked the HSCA's conclusion of a probable conspiracy. Beware conspiracy theorists telling stories. Stick to the work of proper historians like this guy.

[@aaronz7056]

a) Read this: HSCA was all set to conclude Oswald acted alone until those acoustics experts came forward at the last minute with their dictabelt recording... which the Justice Department and the Ramsey Panel subsequently investigated and discovered was erroneous and invalid as evidence, completely debunking it more than 40 years ago. b) All credible evidence demonstrates Oswald did this and on his own.

[@MaxTheSaint1885]

No credible evidence suggests that Oswald alone assassinated President Kennedy. The ‘facts’ you seem to treat with religious reverence come from the deeply flawed Warren Report. Basic lines of questioning throw the entire Oswald single shooter theory out of the window. You need to do some proper reading and research and not just believe what you see on the mainstream news or Wikipedia just because it is from an ‘official source’

[@danieleyre8913]

@@johnsutton3600 Oh yes because you know more that an academic historian (en sarc). Oh and the HSCA agreed with the conclusion that Oswald did it! So that shows how much you know. What they differed on was that they said he was most likely part of a wider conspiracy. That was based on some last minute acoustic evidence that was purported to have recorded a 4th shot. But that was soon completely discredited.

[@rawfreddy]

Dude looks like Dirty Den from EastEnders.

[@abc_13579]

It was LBJ who got JFK’s civil rights legislation passed. The country was still mourning the assassination, and LBJ-who was incredibly adept at working Congress, and who had strong personal beliefs that the legislation should pass-wisely used the momentum to pressure congress into passing the legislation in JFK's memory. Had JFK not been assassinated, or had a less adept politician become president in JFK's place, it’s highly questionable whether the legislation would've passed.

[@georgeosborn3223]

Let us not forget that the southern Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[@esb82]

Why is the video quality so low?

[@kazzy1001]

Bro did not waste any time with Mimi

[@josephschenkenfelder1876]

What about Joseph P. Kennedy, jr., John’s older brother who died in World War 2??

[@jabbyjabocs]

Well, he wasn't quite as noxious as his brother, Bobby.

[@jsullivan2112]

Why is a History Hit video only 720p in 2024?

[@davidniven9901]

That is very cheap. I might buy it.

[@jsullivan2112]

@ Haaaaaaaa! That took me a second and I thought you might be a bot but I got it. Cheeky!

[@davidniven9901]

@@jsullivan2112 I made a joke! Yaaay!

[@raymondmurphy9593]

Despite JFK medical issues he looked extremely healthy, you can't judge the book by the cover .

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

The Banshee called their names

[@adamrichardson6821]

@ 10:41: pretty reasonable Anton Chigurh expression.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

No mention of Edith Wilson as an important first lady?

[@shutincharlie3461]

No, because they almost started the war to begin with....its like saying if i bring a can of gas and a lighter to your house and then I don't light your house on fire i saved your house from burning down.

[@themoon9442]

The French and the Vietnamese started it long before the Americans got there.

[@marsspacex6065]

He later became the mayor of Springfield as mayor quimby.

[@richardsweeney197]

Have you done research at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. There is a lot there in the archives. I worked tthere forca couple of years.

[@LoanNguyen-tn9on]

The greatest President in the history of the United State!

[@ji8044]

lolololololol

[@mademoisellelanoire4632]

Wow, thank you for your insight! JFK is still famous today and undoubtedly one of the most iconic president that America has ever had! I think his father had terrible advice for his sons, mine would have been something along the lines of “sex is very serious and important, enjoy yourself in that way only with someone you really like and someone important to you”! Conditions for the minorities in America improved drastically in the last decades to the point that they will form majority in the future and that is something I am not happy about at all hehhe! But anyway, I know that the US has had its sins but despite everything, it is truly a great nation, one of the greatest to ever exist! Lots of love to America from across the world! Cheers!

[@BlueRaven-q2x]

Why not mention the Americans had Missiles in Turkey pointed at Russia? A little too much hero worship and not enough objectivity.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@BlueRaven-q2x I agree. This historian knows his stuff, but he is unfortunately clearly enamoured with Jack Kennedy and biased toward him. Kennedy wasn’t that good.

[@MarkHarrisonBNE]

It actually was mentioned.

[@mtp4430]

You’re way off on your assessment of Oswald as the assassin and murderer of JD Tippit

[@sallyside8855]

In what way?

[@danieleyre8913]

@@mtp4430 It’s an accepted fact. And somehow I think an academic historian knows what he was talking about. Oswald is the only credible suspect and the evidence against him is overwhelming.

[@mtp4430]

@@sallyside8855 In what way? Both of those statements are pure bullshit.

[@mtp4430]

@@danieleyre8913 I am a capable historian myself. And I’m old enough to have lived through the whole ordeal and witnessed in real time this whole disastrous coverup. Were you even born at the time? Excepted fact? By whom? Certainly not by the evidence. Oh please. You don’t get enough oxygen to your brain, do you?

[@mtp4430]

@ 😡

[@richardgrant418]

Why watch an historian spend over half an hour answering the sort of questions an 11 year old would ask

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

The Kennedy accent is not a Boston accent. It's really unique to them because of the fact that many of them split their childhoods between Boston and the UK.

[@NoUploadJustComment]

It could be argued that RFK jr. is a major part of the Kennedy Curse with the damage he has done to the family's reputation.

[@danieleyre8913]

Its reputation wasn’t that great anyway. Michael Kennedy’s moronic skiing death Jack Kennedy Jr crashing his plane Ted Kennedy’s car crash. Bobby Kennedy being a creep. Jack Kennedy being a womaniser. Associations with Joe McCarthy. Eunice almost marrying him Rosemary’s lobotomy The list could continue.

[@mjrtom2501]

Check out the secret service Agent in the car behind the President holding an Assault riffle loaded with fmj rounds and why did the secret service destroy all documents and reports for that day ?

[@danieleyre8913]

The Secret service did no such thing. Where did you ever get such a ludicrous idea from?

[@karlkuhn1997]

I heard an interesting theory, that the records were destroyed because that agent shot Kennedy in the back of the head by accident responding to the shots fired by Oswald. Obviously there is no conclusive proof.

[@bocephus5088]

why would a night club owner kill an assassin in custody? why would a cia employee who was over experiments having to do with mind control (m.k. ultra) visit ruby when he was in custody? whats with the "magic bullet" and how would the round not be deformed? oswald wasn't acting alone.

[@sba8710]

Most people think Lyndon Johnson was behind JFK in Texas.

[@nohbuddy1]

Oswald did act alone. Get over it

[@varalys]

The magic bullet is explained by the governor in the seat in front have a seat that was set lower and off to the side a little. So the ballistics when that is actually taken account of (and not lied about like the JFK film) line up just fine.

[@aaronz7056]

This is what happens when people get their info from Oliver Stone. The recovered bullet is badly damaged at the nose and flattened down one side, consistent with causing those wounds, as medical and forensic evidence clearly demonstrate, and it was matched to Oswald's rifle.

[@pintpot]

@@sba8710 He was - 2 cars behind. What most people think and what the evidence shows are 2 very different things.

[@makesabsolutelynosensetome]

720p in 2024 outstanding

[@hittjett]

The take on Oswald destroyed the credibility of everything else in this video for me.

[@sallyside8855]

This says more about you than it does about the events of Nov 63. The evidence points to Oswald.

[@MaxTheSaint1885]

@@sallyside8855The evidence does not point to Oswald at all. The evidence cited in the Warren Report was designed to demonstrate that Oswald was the culprit but even a slight level of critical thinking would eliminate any chance of serious consideration that Oswald assassinated the president. Stop reading Wikipedia or watching the mainstream news and do some proper thinking for yourself

[@danieleyre8913]

Well then you’re an idiot. What he said is historical fact.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@AlesPickar What are you imagining?! Ahahaha ah no. Oswald would have been sentenced to sit on old sparky for shooting JD Tippit alone! The evidence against him is overwhelming. He was tailed by a citizen after clearly hiding from police cars. He hid in the cinema without paying, entering a film already more than 30 minutes into its showing. He violently resisted arrest. The gun that shot Tippit was found in him. Paraffin tests showed nitrates all over his hands. He matched the cop killer seen by witnesses and was identified by them in lineups. His statements to police were full of lies and contradictions and all highly incriminating. As for assassinating Kennedy; the snipers nest was found on the floor he was assigned to work on. He owned the assassination weapon. The weapon was also found on the floor. His prints were found on the rifle and all over the nest. His shirt fibres were found all over the nest and on the paper bag. The paper bag was used to carry in a suspicious package that morning. He was the only depository employee who could not be accounted for during the event. He matched the description of the shooter seen in the window. He shot through from the crime scene without notifying anyone. The list could continue. There is no way he would have escaped justice, you and your ilk believe your own delusions.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@AlesPickar You make me laugh. There is no way that Oswald would not have been sent to the electric chair. The evidence against him both assassinating Kennedy and murdering JD Tippit is overwhelming.

[@yvonnerogers6429]

👍🏻

[@darrenjosephgregory]

Christ on a bike, I thought Clinton was a randy boy!

[@Tocktail]

JBP will become the new JFK.

[@ltrillium1000]

Nothing new

[@SwP_1986]

Enjoyed that 👍🏻 Ruined at the end by saying it was Oswald 🙈😂

[@moonlightbay4814]

That's historians for you - proper research, not unfounded conspiracy theories.

[@SwP_1986]

@ how anyone can believe that is beyond me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@moonlightbay4814]

@@SwP_1986 I'm happy to explain. Ask anything you like.

[@SwP_1986]

@@moonlightbay4814 how was Lee Harvey Oswald (a US marine, who while working with the U2 spy planes in Japan, was taught the Russian language), how was this “communist nut” who defected to Russia, then allowed to return to the US (with a Russian wife!!!) and never even questioned on his return?? Or was he an intelligence asset? Why was Kennedys motorcade route changed the night before to pass the place where Oswald was given a job just a month before? And where the car had to make a turn that slowed it to well under 40mph? Against usual protocols. Why was the bubble top removed and secret service not on the vehicle like all his motorcades before? Why did the warren commision change witness testimonies? Why do we have to ignore statements from pathologist who worked on Kennedy at Parkland? Why did Gerald Ford admit moving the bullet wound on the back of Kennedy for the autopsy sketch? Saying it was for the good of the American people? Why is the head of the Warren Commission the ex head of the CIA who Kennedy fired after the Bay of Pigs disaster? Why are there 2 types of lead in police officer JD tippet if Oswald was the only shooter? Why do witnesses say there were 2 men who ran from this shooting?

[@SwP_1986]

@@moonlightbay4814 why did they insist Oswald did not know David Ferrie. Then years later they released a file with a photo of them both serving in the Civil Air Patrol together. A civil air patrol that was headed by D.H Byrd, who owned ….. the Texas School Book Depository.

[@uToobeD]

Is it just me or does this guy have a Michael Corleone vibe?

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

You're correct that Oswald acted alone. Oliver Stone's film is the most idiotic mess I've ever seen! I also believe JFK would have pulled out of Vietnam and ended the Cold War. Oswald killed him because he originally admired him, but felt betrayed by his stance against Castro whom Oswald was obsessed with. Also he was a self-proclaimed Marxist who hated America and JFK was at the time the main representative of America. Third it was a psychological breakdown he had over his wife Marina. She rejected him so he was getting back at her. 4th it was opportunity; he worked in the TSBD and found out the motorcade would go right by him. Most important the assassination was historically inevitable, Oswald being in a sense an unwitting tool of a force we know little about.

[@omgiddy]

This is a bit silly of a stance to take in this day and age with all the evidence pointing to it being multiple gunmen. I'll ask this one common sense question to see what your answer is, why did Oswald not shoot him while the car was coming down Main Street? Coming directly towards Oswald, the easiest shot possible, guaranteed success. Why wait until the car is driving away? Doesn't make much sense unless they were waiting for the perfect moment to crossfire.

[@charlesingram2776]

​@@omgiddyI'll ask you one common sense question.. How do you explain off the mountain of evidence against Oswald? The rifle,the paper trail for the rifle, the prints, the fact he left work without permission right after the shooting, the paper bag,the cab ride,the bus pass, the fake ID, the shells at the Tippit scene, the 12 witnesses that seen him kill Tippit or fleeing the scene, the jacket stashed under the car,hiding in a theater and trying to kill a second cop.... See? It's all nonsense. No conspiracy exists.

[@omgiddy]

@@charlesingram2776 No one says Oswald wasn't involved, I'm sure he was in some capacity. But acting like he's the lone gunman when all the evidence shows otherwise is silly. The killing blow was from the front, which doctors that worked on Kennedy's body confirmed. Are you saying they have no idea what they're talking about? Or the multiple witnesses that heard shots from the knoll and multiple other directions? Makes no sense that Oswald wouldn't have taken the shot directly coming towards him on Main Street, and instead waited for a WAY more difficult shot (which is borderline impossible to achieve the 3 shots he did with such accuracy with such a terrible rifle).

[@danieleyre8913]

⁠@@omgiddyWhat are you guffing about? There is NO evidence that anyone other than Oswald was involved! Nothing new has come up in the 60 years since! And the simple reasons why Oswald didn’t shoot Kennedy as the limousine approached are that 1) It would have been too conspicuous, more people would have looked up and seen him 2) approaching targets are always more difficult than retreating targets, clearly you don’t hunt or shoot much 3) The Driver and Connally were in the way! And no this is no basis to say that there must have been crossfire. That is illogical. There is not a shred of evidence for any other shooters, and it is almost impossible that other hypothetical shooters could have escaped detection and capture. Dealey plaza is not that big a place. Only three shots were heard. Only Oswald fired them.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@omgiddy More layers of absolute rubbish! Did you get this from Oliver Stone’s movie or something? Oswald used a Carcano M91/38. This used to be the standard Infantry service rifle of the Royal Italian army during the Second World War! Of course the gun was more than good enough for the task! The gun is one of the best former service bolt actions! At the time of assassination; Oswald’s rifle was just over 20 years old and had spent most of its life sitting in Arsenals and only occasionally fired. And only two of Oswald’s shots hit Kennedy. I’ve already been over your clueless idea that Oswald should have shot Kennedy while approaching. The entrance wound was at the back of Kennedy’s skull (the exit wound was to the side, with large adjacent fracturing to the bullet hole). So of course the headshot came from behind! The Parkland doctors never disputed the autopsy findings, and there was no frontal entrance wound, that is conspiratard fiction. Only the railway workers on the viaduct at the bottom of Dealy plaza thought that the shots may have come from the car park area. Most witnesses said they came from the building and window. The carpark/railyard area was extensively searched, nobody could have hid there and the only access point not covered was a set of railway tracks still conspicuous. There was only one shooter and that guy was Oswald. Face it and grow up.

[@kevin02mulder]

brain worm 🪱

[@ET_Bermuda]

I don't like George W Bush, but I remember he had over a 90% rating after 9/11. No one was higher than that.

[@archangeljophiel2019]

Now he doesn't consider the top 10 of the u.s. presidents. It is usually both Roosevelt, Washington, Lincoln, Adams, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, Coolidge, Polk, Jackson, Kennedy, Grant are consider the top best u.s. presidents.

[@karlkuhn1997]

​@@archangeljophiel2019 I don't agree with Jackson (but he was a very popular President)

[@Dollymix001]

tuned out as soon as he tried to push the lee harvey oswarld narrative

[@buzzsrighthook3582]

Smart move. That way you'll never learn what one of the world's foremost experts on Kennedy can tell you about him, including the overwhelming evidence against Oswald.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@Dollymix001 how puerile.

[@BastardSprinkler3000]

Oswald acted alone? Bro......

[@treadstone1970]

Oswald didn't act at all. He was as he put it, a patsy.

[@pintpot]

Try to find a historian who thinks anything else.

[@aaronz7056]

@@treadstone1970 If you could have been bothered to watch the entire clip you would see Oswald only says he is a patsy in relation to being hassled by cops for having lived in Russia and he in fact never attempted to blow any conspiracy framing him to anybody.

[@omgiddy]

@@pintpot The doctors that worked on Kennedy's body seem to think otherwise.

[@pintpot]

​@@omgiddy Actually, no. Look at their testimonies. They are all on line and Googleable. It will take you some time. There were 16 of them (Akin, Bashour, Baxter, Carrico, Clark, Curtis, Dulaney, Giesecke, Hunt, Jenkins, Jones, McClelland, Perry, Peters, Salyer and White) Also, remember that those doctors had no idea about where the bullets had come from, where the shooter was, the position of Kennedy's body both times he was hit. Their job was to try to save the life of the President. Once they realized he was dead, they stopped working on the corpse. They didn't even turn the body over on the gurney. This means that, not only did none of them see the back of JFK's head, none of them even saw either of the entry wounds. They are perhaps the most misquoted people in history. Go look at their sworn testimony. They agree on nothing. Two of them even thought that Kennedy's head wound was on the left side of his head (Giesecke and Jenkins). One didn't see any wounds at all on the body at all (Hunt).

[@tylerdebo2467]

Just Lee Harvey? Lol

[@kevinlynch6396]

His friends just called him Lee

[@treadstone1970]

Another loony lone nutter spreading the fiction and fabrications.

[@pintpot]

Yes. This guy is a historian, not a "researcher".

[@moonlightbay4814]

@@kevinlynch6396 Did he have friends?

[@danieleyre8913]

Yeah. It was just Oswald. He didn’t need any help to do it, it wasn’t a very difficult assassination. Well… …except for his work colleague Buell Frazier giving him his ride in that morning, not knowing that he was also transporting in the rifle. Other than that: Oswald had all he needed.

[@jaymo8206]

Btw...Oswald was a patsy. All physical evidence indicates two shooters. The Zapruder film shows JFK and Connally reacting seperately to TWO shots, not one bullet. Connally stated on film that he heard the first shot that struck JFK before he himself was hit by a 2nd bullet. At Parkland hospital the trauma room doctors saw and documented an entry wound in the throat and the exit wound at the rear of the President's head. The jacket JFK wore that day had an entry bullet hole 6 inches below the right shoulder in the back. The fatal head shot came from the right front of the limo as indicated by the impact forcing JFK rearward alongside brain matter and skull fragments that landed on the trunk which Jackie Kennedy climbed up.to.retrieve. It's all in the Zapruder film. The Magic Bullet is a total BS fantasy. There were at least 4/5 shots fired that day. One bullet missed and struck the pavement. JFK was struck twice from the front. Once in the back.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jaymo8206 Do you know what’s really funny about this “Oswald said he was the patsy”? Beyond the fact you’re taking his word for it at face value; he didn’t even mean patsy in the sense of being set up anyway. Go and listen to the entire quote; he meant he was a patsy in the sense that he was being persecuted for being a communist.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jaymo8206 As for the Zapruder film and the second shot; I don’t know what you imaging you’ve seen, but Kennedy’s arms begin to rise at either frame 224 or frame 225. A lapel on Connally’s blazer flips up at frame 227 and his Stetson is dropped at frame 228 or 229 (228 is blurry). By frame 230 Connally has snapped back to sitting forward. That entirely correlates with them being hit by the same round. The frames are about 1/20th of a second apart. Connally’s testimony isn’t gospel, as per usual he probably didn’t mentally register that he’s been hit until a second or so after the fact. The entrance wound in Connally’s back was not flush, indicating that the bullet was tumbling, which aligns with it having already passed through Kennedy’s neck. Furthermore; Connally’s chest wounds were from a bullet on a diagonal path. So it’s only possible that he was hit while he was twisted-turned, a shot passing through his badly while he was facing forward could’ve only come from a position out in the open that everyone would’ve seen. The only people who call that second shot the “magic bullet” are you conspiracy clowns, the same people who call the Carcano that Oswald used the “humanitarian rifle”. There’s nothing “magic” let unusual about the bullet’s path. Connally was sitting in a jump seat to the front-left of Kennedy and was not facing forward when hit. And they were on a downhill incline. The trajectory is straight until it left Connally’s body.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jaymo8206 The Doctor at Parkland who fronted the press told the media that there was an entrance wound to Kennedy’s throat. However he stated time and time again over the years following that that assessment was mistaken. Parkland didn’t perform any autopsy, they merely futilely tried to save Jack Kennedy’s life. Only two of the Parkland doctors said that they saw an exit wound at the rear of the head. All the other staff say they got it wrong, and that one of the two was just an attention-seeking grifter. The autopsy at Bethesda assessed and photographed the small entrance wound hole at the back of the skull and the exit wound hole to the side, with associated fracturing. The images and x-rats are very easy to find.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jaymo8206 The reason why the bullet hole on Kennedy’s jacket was at a position 2 inches (hahaha not 6 inches) lower than the entrance wound is very simple: Kennedy’s jacket was bunched up. This bunching is easy to see in photographs. And usually happens when one sits with in a suit jacket. And was exacerbated by his back brace. The entire idea that the real entrance hole is moronic, because such a round would have first had to pass through the automobile body.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@jaymo8206 The vast majority of witnesses heard three shots fired. The largest minority heard four shots, most of them were at the bottom of the plaza or far away, so they probably just heard an echo effect. None of the witnesses at the knoll such as groundsman Emmett Hudson nor Abraham Zapruder & his secretary heard nor saw anyone there. Three recently expended shells were found at the snipers nest on the 6th floor of the book depository. Three 6.5mm shells, the calibre of the bullet recovered and the rifle found. And the sniper in the window was seen by several people on Houston St. Guess who matched the shooter’s description? If anyone looks at either aerial photographs of the Plaza or diagrams/maps; they can see how small and compact the plaza is, and how almost impossible it was that there could have been a shooter out in the open that escaped observation and capture. That picket fence at the top of the grassy knoll was actually a boundary fence for a big open car parking lot and railyard (Dallas union station is close by). There was a big manned switching tower with panoramic views (the switch man saw nothing), and there were only 4 access points. 3 of those access points would have been blocked by people, leaving the remaining a railway spur with tracks at the back of the book depository. Aside from it being highly conspicuous and slow & hazardous to run along train tracks; to get there from the boundary fence would have mean running diagonally across the yard in full view of everyone, and they would have exited along Houston st where plenty of people would have seen this hypothetical gunman anyway. So that only leaves this hypothetical gunman to have hid underneath the automobiles parked there or maybe among the railway wagons. But the entire area was comprehensively searched quickly after the assassination. So there’s next to no chance he could’ve escaped capture. Especially as he would have had to pick up the spent shells and somehow also hide his firearm. More time ticking away. It’s always been impossible and just ludicrous that there was another shooter. There was just the one shooter from the book depository.

[@scatto365]

You obviously haven't looked into the Waren Commission's omissions. If you had you would know LHO probably didn't fire a shot.

[@themoon9442]

Prof White is one of the world's foremost experts on Kennedy. Of course he's looked into the Warren (not 'Waren') Commission's omissions. If you genuinely think that Oswald "didn't fire a shot", then you have to explain who did fire from the 6th floor window. How did they get into the building, up 5 flights of stairs, fire the shots, get down 5 flights of stairs and out of the building without anyone noticing. Even Oswald didn't manage to do that and he worked there. How much more difficult would it have been for someone else to have done it?

[@scatto365]

@@themoon9442 Sorry about the typo...that is upsetting to me - I didn't proofread. The rest of my comment stands

[@themoon9442]

@@scatto365 There's a running joke on another youtube page about the JFK assassination that conspiracy theorists can never spell the names of the people involved in the events of Nov 63 correctly. You constantly see "David Ferry", 'Ruth Pain', George de Mohrenschilt', Wesley Frasier', 'Linnie May Randle', 'Roy Truely', etc. You are part of a proud tradition. I missed out the most important one... ...Officer Tipit / Tipitt / Tippet / Tipet / Tippett, etc. In what sense does the rest of your comment 'stand'? How did Oswald get the nitrate deposits on his hands which, according to the lab reports says "the pattern on exhibit #3 [Oswald's right hand] was "typical of the patterns produced in firing a revolver". You can see the report sheet for yourself if you Google, ""[Various Reports on Paraffin and Nitrate Tests of Lee Harvey Oswald] Page: 9 of 18". You also didn't answer my point;... You have to explain who did fire from the 6th floor window. How did they get into the building, up 5 flights of stairs, fire the shots, get down 5 flights of stairs and out of the building without anyone noticing. Even Oswald didn't manage to do that and he worked there. How much more difficult would it have been for someone else to have done it?

[@danieleyre8913]

@@scatto365 Do you honestly imagine that a history academic hasn’t read the Warren report and memorised it?! And what “omissions” are you imagining? Of course Oswald was the assassin! It’s silly enough to believe he didn’t act alone, but to imagine he didn’t do it is ludicrous. The evidence against him overwhelming.

[@scatto365]

@@danieleyre8913 Ok. I'm imagining it. You are very insightful.

[@lloydrobeau5126]

Oswald was NOT the only shooter !!!!!!! Too many flaws in that story !! Heritage of Stone, READ IT !!!!!

[@sallyside8855]

No, don't read any books about the assassination, especially not Jim Garrison's. Just look at the evidence. The evidence all points to Oswald. It is possible that Oswald was involved in a conspiracy, but there is no credible evidence for it and, if you study the sad, lonely life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the one thing you realize is that he is the last person on Earth that you would want involved in your conspiracy. He was contemptuous of any form of authority and always plowed his own furrow - not one of nature's team players.

[@danieleyre8913]

Oswald was the only shooter and there is no flaw in that accepted fact. The numerous laughable conspiracy theories, all of which are merely far fetched speculation, on the other hand

[@danieleyre8913]

Nope Oswald acted alone and there are no flaws. It’s a fact.

[@lloydrobeau5126]

Read Jim Garrison's book, Heritage of Stone, you will be shocked !!

[@sallyside8855]

You'll be deceived.

[@danieleyre8913]

Yeah I was shocked. At how stupid it was, and that anyone could ever fall for it.