The Mainstream Media Was Scared to Investigate the JFK Assassination
It’s not difficult to understand why the mainstream media failed and refused to investigate the JFK assassination. To understand the reason, just think about how Columbia University and the big law firms Paul, Weiss and Skadden Arps have capitulated after being subjected to pressure from President Trump. Why wouldn’t the mainstream media behave in the same manner after being subjected to pressure from President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. national-security establishment?
Lyndon Johnson was one of the most vicious and ruthless politicians in U.S. history. Every mainstream media outlet knew that. He was also one of the most crooked and corrupt politicians. The mainstream media knew that as well.
Everyone also knew that while he was vice president, Johnson could not bend people to his will by threatening to use the massive power of the federal government to do bad things to them. Everyone also knew that when Johnson became president, that principle no longer held. Everyone now knew that as president, Johnson wielded the power to destroy them or even have them killed by either the military, the CIA, or some other part of the deep state.
If John Kennedy had not been assassinated, it is a virtual certainty that Johnson would have been criminally indicted and convicted for official corruption. He very likely would have been sentenced to serve time in a U.S. prison. He never would have become president. The assassination saved him from that fate.
Prior to the assassination, there were two newspapers in Texas who were investigating aspects of Johnson’s corruption. Immediately after Johnson was elevated to the presidency, he made telephone calls to the heads of those newspapers and pressured them into shutting down their investigations. Both of them capitulated and shut down their investigations.
LIFE magazine planned to run a story on Johnson’s corruption in its Friday, November 29, 1963, issue. Once the assassination took place on November 22, LIFE cancelled the story and replaced it with assassination coverage. That makes sense. What also makes sense is that LIFE never published the corruption article. That’s undoubtedly because Johnson was now president.
Did Johnson telephone major U.S. newspapers and order them not to investigate the JFK assassination? He didn’t need to. He simply needed to send them a message stating that they were never to go down that road. That message came in the form of the Warren Commission report on the assassination. Once Johnson heartily endorsed the official lone-nut narrative set forth by the former head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, and other mainstream officials who were serving on the Warren Commission, every newspaper in the land got the message: If you know what’s good for you, accept the official lone-nut narrative, no matter how ridiculous it might seem, and let’s just move on.
What is fascinating is how the mainstream media adhered to its non-investigativ
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