(Daily Signal)—Now more than ever, it appears that the institutions meant to uncover the truth about Nov. 22, 1963, were the very ones that buried it.
At a recent congressional hearing, stunning eyewitness testimony suggested President John F. Kennedy was killed by shots that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have possibly fired. Dr. Don Curtis, who assisted in the trauma room at Parkland Memorial Hospital, asserted that the fatal wounds he saw came from the front and not from the back, as the official Warren Commission Report declared.
History did not get the story wrong by accident. That was made clear by another witness. Douglas P. Horne of the 1990s Assassination Records Review Board testified about missing autopsy photos, altered film footage, a suspicious 90-minute gap in the chain of custody of JFK’s body, vanishing bullet fragments, and even the disappearance of the president’s brain.
A separate researcher on Congress’s 1970s House Select Committee on Assassinations described obstruction by the CIA when his team tried to investigate Oswald’s travel to Mexico City. Dan Hardway recalled an intelligence officer dismissing his authority, telling him, “You represent Congress. What the ‘F’ is that to the CIA? You’ll be gone in two years, and we’ll still be here.”
This routine has become all too familiar. The government hides and the public is left to piece together scraps of evidence in pursuit of the truth—from JFK to Jeffrey Epstein, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Butler, Pennsylvania. Until Congress reforms the 1966 Freedom of Information Act and reclaims its authority, the cover-ups will continue, and so will the collapse of public trust.
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