John Fitzgerald Kennedy – Protesters Crash “The 50th” Ceremony

[struggle4progress]

Added by Daniel Worku on November 23, 2013

... First, there were the nearly 5000 “approved guests” who enjoyed a well-organized, coordinated event which the City of Dallas spent immense effort to put together and administrate ...

... There was a large group of protesters, who appeared to take issue with what they viewed to be an infringement of free speech, who experienced the honorary ceremony in a much different manner than the specially approved and invited guests.

First, the event for the protesters started a few blocks from Dealey Plaza at Belo Garden ...

Ideas amongst the protesters varied quite a bit. however, the group appeared to have a clear consensus in a few areas, namely that they believed that due to the selection process and subsequent exclusion of non-invitees along with supposed limitations put on the group regarding the distribution of printed materials, that their free speech was being infringed upon ...

http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/john-fitzgerald-kennedy-protesters-crash-the-50th-ceremony-exclusive/

[longship]

1. Meh! No indication of what it was about?

Not worth a click through on my low band limits.

Will DUrec anyway in the hopes somebody provides some amplification on what this was about.

[Holly_Hobby]

2. Looks like Alex Jones was there,

upset that there were Invitees and he wasn't one of them. Although it does seem weird to me that the general public wasn't invited.

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[Warpy]

3. It looked like a gaggle of conspiracy theorists

While the ceremony honoring JFK was fancy, the protestors looked like they cleaned out a couple of pool halls, regulation wear for most US protest movements.

The conspiracies from the signage were all over the map.

[longship]

6. They are always all over the map.

They may be called conspiracy theorists but they have no theory, at least nothing cogent, let alone a single cohesive narrative. The number of putative perps expands every year.

*CIA
*FBI
*CCCP
*KGB
*Castro
*Cuban national US citizens
*The mafia (lots of room to wiggle there)
*LBJ
*George HW Bush

The only person apparently not responsible for the JFK assassination is Honey-Boo-Boo. I won't hold my breath though with these kooks.

[Warpy]

7. I've got a lot of questions

so I understand part of it. I just know I don't have any of the answers.

[longship]

8. What the JFK conspiracy advocates want is questions, not answers.

They question all the facts and have few answers.

That's their problem. They have no theories at all. Or, rather they have a multitude of conjectures, none of them coherent with each other and none supported by any evidence.

The purpose of the conspiracy theorist is only to question, to add confusion, with zero resolution.

Meanwhile there is bountiful evidence of what happened in Dallas 50 years ago. I lived through it as a teen ager, a newspaper boy at the time, a somewhat precocious kid who gobbled up everything about those events. Nobody in my family was very far away from Walter Conkrite that weekend.

I once entertained a question of a conspiracy, but the forensic evidence against Oswald is just too strong. The conspiracy inevitably shrinks to "did anybody put Oswald up to this?" When one delves into Oswald's personality and that of previous assassins, the answer becomes fairly clear and the conspiracies fade into obscurity, or possibly lunacy (Alex Jones).

Well, that's my story. Others will have to answer on their own.

[Warpy]

9. You nuts? Conspiracy theorists have ALL the answers

as they merrily fulminate away, each contradicting his brethren.

A lot of people want to shut the questioners down. It makes me wonder about them.

[struggle4progress]

5. There's lots of different stuff going on here. One is that the City of Dallas

held an event on the 50th, but only for a relatively small number of select invited guests

Then the police blocked off the area, with a perimeter three or four blocks from the event site to exclude "undesireables", as seems to have become increasingly common in recent years -- plus ça change ...

Your guess is probably as good as mine about what views the protestors may have held in common:

[Hekate]

4. Months ago a DUer complained bitterly here about the guest list & co-ordinated events

Perhaps he will see this thread and elucidate the issues as he sees them for us.