Passing the Torch – The JFK Assassination in the
Post-50 Media Frenzy Society
Dealey Plaza at 12:30 pm November 22, 2003
By William Kelly
The theme of the recent Wecht Conference in
Pittsburgh was “Passing the Torch.”
In his inaugural address JFK said that the torch was
being passed to a new generation, a younger, smarter, better educated segment
of society that had been tempered by war, and looked forward not to a prolonged
Cold War, but a peaceful coexistence that would allow everyone to thrive and
prosper. With his assassination, the torch was then passed backwards, back to the older generation – LBJ, Nixon and Reagan kept hot the Cold War, and the infrastructure of government they set up is still functioning today, - the National Security State that continues to suppress the records related to the assassination on grounds of national security, so even if the assassination isn’t considered relevant to the new generation, it is certainly considered relevant by the CIA, NSA, ONI and the other agencies of government that hold assassination records they won’t let anyone see.
Since I have been studying and researching the
assassination of President Kennedy since 1969, I marked down the 50th
anniversary as when I would hang up my hat, throw in the towel and finally
consider the case closed, at least as far as my interest is concerned. I sort
of feel like Tony Summers when he says that after this year, as public interest
fades, he is finished with the JFK
assassination and will move on to other subjects, having given it his best
shot.
In 2017, the last official JFK Assassination
document is scheduled to be released by the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), so maybe I’ll get back into the game then, if I’m still
around.
And while Dealey Plaza and Dallas has been Ground
Zero as far as public interest in the assassination goes, that won’t
necessarily be the case after the 50th anniversary, as the interest
shifts to Washington and the release of the remaining records.
Jim Lesar, the president of the Assassination
Archives and Research Center (AARC) is planning on a conference focused on the
records in Washington in September 2014, the 50th anniversary of the
release of the Warren Report, with the hope that the interest generated will
carry over into the New Year
Then it was pointed out that the president elected
in 2016 will decide whether to go along with the law and release the remaining
records or agree to keep some of them sealed, so the JFK Assassination records
will be a campaign issue in the next presidential election. At the time of the assassination, it may have been in the national interest to keep certain records sealed, but now, 50 years later, it is in the national interest to release the records.
I didn’t name my blog JFKCountercoup because I know
that those who killed JFK took over the powers of the government, I called it
that because if true, it will take a pronounced counter-intelligence
investigation to uncover the cover-up, figure it out and solve the crime.
JFK said that problems created by man can be solved
by man, and I said that crimes conceived by men can be resolved by men, but in
this case, I also realize that the effort needed to reverse the damage done to
democracy at Dealey Plaza must be more powerful than the one responsible for
the one that overthrew Kennedy.
And I believe that we are almost there. We now have
most of the evidence in the case in the public domain, thanks to the JFK Act,
and we pretty much know what’s there, we have the testimony and statements of
most of the critical witnesses, and we have the public support to require
Congress to oversee the laws of the land and release the remaining sealed
records related to the assassination. The files should be released not to blame anyone for the crime, but so
the public can be informed as to everything that happened and make up their own
minds on what and what not to believe.
Those responsible for the crimes that stemmed from Dealey Plaza are dead, but their legacy lives on in the continuing cover-up and withholding of government records that rightly now belong to the American people.
New people are now in office, new people with no ties to the old regime, and they should be pressured to release the remaining records now, in our lifetime.
And in memory of those who were part of this historic struggle and didn't live to see this day
RIP –
Phil Melanson
Penn Jones
George Michael Evica
Arlen Specter
Tim Carroll
Jack White
Sylvia Meagher
Kevin Walsh
Harold Weisberg
Gaeton Fonzi
Jay Harrison
Gene Case
Roger Feinman, Esq.
Jack McKinney
Carl Oglesby
Jack McKinney
Carl Oglesby
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