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In reply to the discussion: Who was responsible for the JFK conspiracy theories? [View all]MinM
(2,650 posts)37. Sen. Richard Schweiker[R-PA]:"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards"
"The Warren Commission was set up at the time to feed pablum to the American people for reasons not yet known .. One of the Biggest Cover-ups in the history of this Country occurred at that time." -- Sen. Richard Schweiker (6:30 into the 1978 documentary above)
From 1975 to '76, Schweiker chaired a subcommittee under the "Church Committee" that looked into to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In an interview on Face the Nation, he claimed the original investigation "was snuffed out before it even began" and that "the fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was to not use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence officials who directed the cover-up." ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schweiker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schweiker
A couple of side notes...
1) It's very powerful watching Senator Schweiker's smackdown of the Warren Commission.
2) You will never see a Republican like Richard Schweiker again. The Koch Bros & Co. would never allow it.
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Bad site, true, but the Washington Post article is legit, I think. Here's a different source:
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#17
If you want to believe the government's story, that's your prerogative but why would
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#49
I may be mistaken, but didnt you alert to have this thread locked? And someone alerted on
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#58
So it was a coincidence that both alerts were leveled against posters that you disagree with?
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#60
Yeah, Oswald was a "radical leftist" who hung out with right-wingers in Dallas and New Orleans.
Zen Democrat
Sep 2013
#28
Notice how this simple fact of where they were sitting is completed ignored by the CTers?
zappaman
Sep 2013
#50
Why do you want fewer people to learn what happened to President Kennedy, Bolo Boffin?
Octafish
Sep 2013
#72
It never gets mentioned that the Warren Commission members did not all agree with its conclusions.
dflprincess
Sep 2013
#30
Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press
Octafish
Sep 2013
#46
Paranoid schizophrenics, others with mental health disorders that cause disordered thinking
REP
Sep 2013
#10
Sen. Richard Schweiker[R-PA]:"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards"
MinM
Sep 2013
#37
It was a lack of trust in its own government by the people which gave rise to the JFK conspiracy
Samantha
Sep 2013
#21
That make sens. Today RT is doing a lot of the same job : alienate The US left from the Center. Nt
Sand Wind
Sep 2013
#39
After 2 congressional investigations I thought we had most of the answers but this documentary
KurtNYC
Sep 2013
#41
we need a bullwhip toting, hard nosed investigative journalist to get down to the bottom of why
dionysus
Apr 2014
#109
Warren Commission, Dorothy Kilgallen, the fact that Dallas cops let Oswald get shot
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#95