Total CRAP on the History Channel.

[Archae]

There's this series of shows that the History Channel keeps dredging up and running, called "The Men Who Killed Kennedy."

Like ALL such shows, they are very long on wild accusations, and extremely short on actual evidence.

And the suckers who believe this crap fall for it.

History Channel errs with 'outrageous' assassination series

By Bud Kennedy
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Who killed JFK?

Maybe I did. Or you.

I was 8. The record will show that I was present in class that day at South Hi Mount Elementary School.

What's your alibi? Hmmm?

Better think one up quickly. Before this week is out, a cable TV series may blame the assassination on you or me or anyone alive in Texas in 1963.

Maybe my entire fourth-grade class was hiding behind the grassy knoll. Or maybe hundreds of gun-toting Texans were lurking in the Texas School Book Depository. Or maybe those TV reporters shot the president. They all seemed mighty excited over the first 'round-the-clock TV news crisis.

Honestly, are those ideas any more foolish than the thesis of a British series this week on the so-called History Channel, blaming the assassination on a conspiracy of powerful Texans -- including then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson?

Even Oliver Stone's JFK didn't try to sell a story this wild. And that was a movie fairy tale.

"It's sick," Liz Carpenter, the former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson, said Wednesday from Austin. "It's outrageous and unconscionable for the History Channel to show something like that."

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/7307745.htm

[yowzayowzayowza]

1. Too bad ...

The article doesn't actually deal with the facts supporting the "show" and falsely claims it smears staff members. Valenti isn't even mentioned in the "show."

"Sadly, President Johnson and the staff members who are wrongly smeared by the conspiracy theorists are no longer alive to defend themselves," Tom Johnson said in a statement co-signed by former LBJ aide Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. "The History Channel has distorted history beyond recognition."

On edit: Itz guaranteed to be entertaining when the "good ole boys" start goin' at each other.

[RummyTheDummy]

2. Back and to the left.....back and to the left.....back and to the left.

That's all the proof I need.

[liberalcapitalist]

3. they blame it on a right-wing conspiracy

of which LBJ was a part of. It isn't that far-fetched, dude. I mean, tapes show that LBJ and J Edgard Hoover were in cahoots, and we know the tactics Hoover used and his hatred of Kennedy.

[newyawker99]

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