Aliens, Starlink and JFK
As a 16-year-old, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, my world stopped. Of course, we had no information about his very active social life, his purported involvement with the significant other of a Mafia figure, the hatred from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the anti-Castro Cubans need for revenge for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, or the USSR’s desire to off him. He was young, inspirational, had an amazing wife and two beautiful kids, and was a visionary who wanted us to help the world through the Peace Corps and by going to the moon.
鈥婭 was filled with deep despair because he died on a Friday, and he had eaten a five-minute boiled egg, crisp oven-broiled bacon, toast with butter and orange marmalade, fresh orange juice, and coffee with hot milk.
鈥婳ur Catholic president had eaten meat on a Friday. That meant, based on my strict Catholic upbringing, he would be going to hell for eating that meat. Even though in 1966, Vatican II revised its rules on Friday abstinence, I was pretty sure it was too late for Jack.
鈥婤ecause his assassination moved me so completely, I became deeply engrossed with conspiracy theories about the murder. The New Orleans district attorney, Jim Garrison, wrote a book that detailed his investigation into the assassination and his prosecution of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder JFK. He firmly stated that the CIA and anti-Castro Cuban exiles were involved in a larger conspiracy.
鈥婸ittsburgh’s then coroner and renowned forensic pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht, consistently rejected the Warren Commission’s findings. He believed there were two shooters and suspected a cover-up involving entities like the CIA and possibly military figures.
鈥婬eck, I even had a guy who claimed to be a retired federal agent tell me he believed the assassination was a set-up.
鈥婽hen, in 1991, Oliver Stone produced a movie about the assassination that amplified a great many of the conspiracy theories. He blended enough historical facts with speculation and took substantial creative liberties to keep these conspiracy theories alive.
Finally, the JFK files were released!
鈥婣fter nearly 62 years after Nov. 22, 1963 and JFK’s death, I waited anxiously to see what happened. Well, there were no significant changes in the theory that Oswald acted alone, and the files do not support conspiracy theories involving additional shooters or larger plots.
鈥婭t was kinda like waiting to hear the messages from the Virgin Mary to the kids at Fatima. At least they got a vision of hell, predictions about World Wars and warnings about moral decay and Church challenges.
So, if you’re waiting to find out the Dominion voting machines were part of a scheme to manipulate U.S. elections, don’t hold your breath. If you want to meet those millions of Social Security recipients who are over 120 years old, it may be a long wait. How about the claims that the FBI staged the Jan. 6 attack?
鈥婸eople in my own family insist the moon landing was fake. How do you explain the moon rocks, photographs, and independent verification from other countries including our enemies? Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo missions. Two people can’t even keep a secret. And, by the way, the astronauts did have protection from the Van Allen radiation belt. Check with Australia and the USSR. They tracked the entire trip. But if you wanna believe the whole thing was a hoax, that’s your right.
鈥婸eople get excited about these theories because they offer simple answers to complex problems. They appeal to people because they promise hidden truths and scapegoats for complex issues. The one thing they really do is create a distrust of authority, which may be their ultimate goal.
鈥婣re there unidentified flying objects? Was Jeffrey Epstein murdered? Did aliens build the pyramids? Did Starlink throw the last election? Are we living in a computer simulation?
鈥婱aybe someday you will have your own John F. Kennedy nothing-burger.