As noted in the previous post the BBC made a curious omission in their programme about the Kennedy assassination…..forgetting to mention that Oswald was a Communist…whilst also making less than subtle intimations that seemed intended to suggest the Republicans may have shot Kennedy.
Perhaps they should have read the BBC’s own report from the time by Peter Watson:
The BBC’s attitude towards all things American (B.O. besides) today is probably neatly summed up by this appraisal of other American’s view of Texas as judged by Peter Watson at the time, too big, too brash, too rich, too successful:
Then there is this from the BBC:
Minsk’s fond memories of Lee Harvey Oswald
Mystery and infamy surround Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot US President John F Kennedy in Dallas, 50 years ago. So it’s odd to visit a city where people remember him clearly and fondly – and refuse to believe he is guilty.
…..it was somewhat unnerving to hear so many good things about a person whose name is associated with one of the most infamous acts of our era.
I met one of Oswald’s former workmates, Vladimir Zhidovich, at a local cafe. He, like everyone else, told me how Oswald was a “good guy” and he couldn’t imagine him a murderer.
As we parted, he asked a favour. If I ever go to Texas, he asked, would I lay some flowers on Oswald’s grave, from him and the other colleagues at the radio factory?
I still haven’t made up my mind what to do
Yep…that’ll go down well in the US….a BBC journo laying flowers on the grave of a man who killed their president.
It looks as if Kennedy was killed by his own bodyguard, in error.
They keep that secret until he recently died, probably because the bodyguard would not have been a Republican.
Lol, I saw that documentary on Channel 5. But if the secret service man had shot the President why didn’t hundreds of people see him do it?
Interesting to note that in that original BBC report about Oswald, it is claimed that he came back from Russia two and a half earlier. In fact he had only been back in the country for just over a year.
Ah, the bodyguard had a secret, invisible Republican gun given to him by Sarah Palin. The gun was developed in Hollywood on the instructions of Ronald Regan and financed by George Bush. (What do you mean, which one? It doesn’t bloody matter, they are both on the Hate List so don’t be picky)
Sneaky those Republicans, you can’t trust them, they simply won’t roll over and let those nice, friendly Democrats the BBC worship just act as they want. Heck, those evil Republicans even have the cheek to spoil the BBC’s victory celebrations by actually winning elections instead of just handing victory to the Democrats without entering the contest. Just think of all that wasted Champagne at the BBC when the Democrats don’t win.
Oops, I got the wrong Country, that wasn’t America, unless the unbiased Beeb do that there also when the candidate they support wins power.
Wonder what Ralph Miliband and Eric Hobsbawn etc had to say about JFK getting killed.
Or are the BBC archivists, Labour Party types just replacing the Savile incriminating tapes( Edited Highlights version) with a new pair of scissors to remove all reference to this one little “triumph” for Communism in 1963.
Isn`t it about time we began to smear the Left much as they`ve been doing to us all these years?
And I should know-I was a lefty stooge until fairly recently (2004 or so).
Here is an argument that the conspiracy theories are in some way linked to the leftward drift of US politics. The BBC narrative seems to fit this theory.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-jfk-conspiracy-theory-is-the-conspiracy/
And I was a passionate supporter and defender of the BBC until about 15 years ago…(now in late fifties).
Mea culpa…
I think the rot started about 30 years ago but I was the same as you John until maybe 20 years when I came back from my 2nd stint abroad, the early 90s was when the constant stream of “Tory sleaze” stories began, at the time I thought it was just stupid politicians and an active press but soon realised it was a concerted and coordinated effort (Alistair Campbell’s contacts and tentacles, the BBC Political Research and Analysis unit: Bill Bush and Catherine Rimmer. Lance Price, Ed Richards…)
‘the BBC Political Research and Analysis unit: Bill Bush and Catherine Rimmer. Lance Price, Ed Richards…’
That last fellow; any relation to the ex-Brown adviser, now boss of OFCOM, aspiring BBC DG, and the man who many (trusting souls) see as the impartial overseer of all things broadcasting to guard against any future excesses or abuses, like, say, Savile/McAlpine?
http://gaiusmarcellus.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/unacceptable-links-between-labour-and.html
(Love the calibre of Flokker there. Managing one counter, and steeeeetching back even for that one, and then goes to ‘and so on’. Quality).
same guy
I remember a friend of mine who was on the Left (whether he still is I do not know) laughing at me for supporting the BBC. But those days are long gone.
I watched Newsnight last night and my low opinion of the BBC fell even further as I watched a journalist attempting to instruct me that what really killed President Kennedy (although he admits they did not actually pull the trigger) was right wing Republicans who do not care about the poor.
The BBC is a totalitarian cancer. When they attacked Thatcher I thought, it is good to have plurality. Let us hear what her opponents have to say. But it was not plurality, it was the bigoted fascism of a bloated Leftist elite defending its own interests.
I appreciate that the utterly nauseating way they fawned over Gordon Brown has gone down the memory hole (just as their nauseating fawning over President Obama will go down the memory hole once he has out of power) because there will always some new Stalinist to gloat over, and for all their desperation it is evident that their totalitarian cravings are utterly sincere. That they are now going after the free press is simply chilling. The BBC quite simply are (to use the technical term) “fascist cunts”.
‘fawned over Gordon Brown’
Nothing like an anniversary of sorts to get the desperate 24/7 media voiders casting about for fillers.
I am managing, just, to occupy the evening sofa-wallow period on catch-up, and have BBC iPlayer to thank for a few definite ‘finds’.
But also some real dross.
I have enjoyed the Fast Jets, Cold War series, and the facts of Labour’s handling of the tech to the Russians and shafting the TSR-2 did not seem their finest hour.
However last night here seemed several dedicated to a bit JFK-raking. I plumped for one that took as focus his last visit to the UK.
Now, it could have been a worthy piece, but for no good reason I could discern it kept defaulting to Uncle Gordon in his wing chair to offer sage opinion on something of clear interest to him, but equally uncertain first-hand knowledge.
As with missing a recent HIGNFY thanks to their addiction the wheeling out the Prescott at any opportunity to ‘humanise’ him, getting Mr. Brown served up to waffle from the fireside simply consigned the programme to the archive again.
How inappropriate to have Brown – who was hard-left in his youth – commenting on Kennedy who was clear-sighted about the threat of global communism.
Just wait until the BBC get around to reporting on the trial of the two Jihadists in the Woolwich murder. It was all Bush and Blair’s fault with their foreign policy, and Blair was influenced by Fatcher. Can’t blame these two young lads,
I understand that the trial starts on Thursday.
It started yesterday and the BNP were outside the Old Bailey with veterans. Nothing from the BBC, but there are rumours about jury selection – six muslims, no women, and I have heard the argument that the court should recess for prayers five times each day. But, I repeat, rumours, because the state media is silent.
Something else that the BBC will be nowhere near….Nor the UAF or Nick Lowles Hope Not Hate for that matter, because they all inhabit the same pod…
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/11/19/ndrew-slaughter-mp-to-share-a-platform-with-promoters-of-misogyny-homophobia-jew-hatred-and-killin/
The collection of speakers remind me of a couple of song titles – “Lead your daughter to the Slaughter” and “There’s a whole lot of Sheikhing going on”. 😉
Shurely you mean “Lead your daughter to the tent where she can be circumcised”?
anything else is anti islamic and therefore racist, or something
Lot of acceptance on here that Oswald killed Kennedy. I remember reading a page article in the Guardian (not that I’d go anywhere near the rag today) on the day following the assassination. It presented evidence that Oswald could not have been the shooter. So there were serious doubts right from the start. Plenty of interesting stuff on the web backing up that initial assessment.
This is the Guardian’s first report:
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/nov/22/jfk-assassination-tragedy-world-archive
No conspiracy on it so far.
This is a year later reporting the Warren Commission…debunks those conspiracy theories ‘Point by point’: