Why the Mainstream Media’s Reluctance to Investigate the JFK Assassination?
One of the things that has long fascinated me about the JFK assassination has been the extreme reluctance of the mainstream press to aggressively investigate the assassination. Let me provide just one example of this phenomenon. It involves the autopsy that the military conducted on the body of President Kennedy on the very evening of the assassination.
Beginning in the 1970s, a team of Navy enlisted men began telling a remarkable story. They said that on the evening of the autopsy, they had carried President Kennedy’s body into the Bethesda Navy Hospital morgue in a cheap shipping casket.
Why was this a problem? The president’s body had been carried into the morgue at 8 p.m. by a military color guard consisting of members of the various armed forces, not by a team of sailors. Moreover, at the 8 p.m. entry, the body was inside the heavy, ornate casket into which the president’s body had been placed at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The autopsy officially began at 8:15 p.m.
Moreover, one of the sailors stated that he had gone to next floor up in the Bethesda facility and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy entering through the front door. Why was that significant? Because the vehicle in which they had just arrived at 6:55 p.m. contained the Dallas casket. That sailor knew that the Dallas casket had to be empty because he knew that the president’s body was downstairs in the morgue.
That team of Navy sailors stated that they had been forced by high military officials to sign sworn secrecy oaths as to what they had witnessed. They were threatened with severe sanctions if they ever revealed what they had seen or done.
Wouldn’t you think that this would be something worth investigating? After all, sneaking the president’s body into a morgue in a shipping casket and then later bringing it back in inside the heavy ornate Dallas casket would not ordinarily be considered something normal. I would think that any reasonable person would conclude that this is rather unusual — something worth investigating.
After all, let’s assume that that team of Navy soldiers was lying. Wouldn’t that be a story in and of itself? Why would they lie about something like that? What would motivate them to make up this fantastical story? When would they have gotten together to jointly concoct the tale? Why didn’t the Pentagon or the officials involved in the autopsy openly and publicly condemn them for
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