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I came back to this post after thinking about it during the day. Perhaps it would be more useful to have a general thread in which members can record all interesting media reports in the lead up to the 50th, rather than just this particular one. So I changed the title. [Alan, can you move it to JFK General?]
What do you think?
Please feel free to add your own news stories. Here is my first offering.
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Oswald in Minsk (BBC report)For members' interest, a BBC radio report from Minsk which attempts to follow in some of Oswald's footsteps.
Surprisingly balanced, I thought, for an MSM point of view:
Kate Adie (introduction): "It might be 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but there is still heated debate about the circumstances of his death, and particularly about Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing him."
KA: "... and he [David Stern] found that people there still remember Kennedy's supposed killer ...".
David Stern (reporter): "Lee Harvey Oswald - his name can evoke a range of emotions: anger among those who believe him to be the lone gunman who assassinated President Kennedy, militant disbelief among those who don't. And perhaps most of all, a yearning among those who want to know what exactly happened during those fateful November days in Dallas ...".
DS: "I was not hoping to find the smoking gun, so to speak, conclusive proof that Oswald was, in fact, Kennedy's killer. No, too many people had sifted through the details of Oswald's life ... and failed to come up with any nugget of evidence."
DS: [reporting Ernst Titovets] "I couldn't believe my ears. I deeply believe he was innocent. He was incapable of killing anybody."
DS: "No-one believed that Oswald could have assassinated the US President."
DS: [reporting Vladimir Dzedovich (sp?)] "If [you] ever go to Dallas, [please] lay some flowers on Oswald's grave, from [me] and the other colleagues at the factory."
DS: "Dzedovich's appeal came from the heart. He obviously cared for Oswald."Maybe, just maybe, there is hope that one day the MSM facade will crack. (OK, lock me up).
Full report available from:
www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fooc/allScroll down to the August 17th edition and download to listen.