The Kennedy Assassination (November 22, 1963) 50 Years LaterPaul Craig Roberts Or just turn to the contemporary films, taken by tourists watching JFKs motorcade that are available on YouTube, which show clearly the Secret Service pulled from President Kennedys limo just prior to his assassination, and the Zapruder film that shows the killing shot to have come from President Kennedys right front, blowing off the back of his head, not from the rear as postulated in the Warren Commission Report, which would have pushed his head forward, not rearward. I am not going to write about the assassination to the extent that the massive information permits. Those who want to know already know. Those who cannot face the music will never be able to confront the facts regardless of what I or anyone else writes or reveals. To briefly review, the facts are conclusive that JFK was on terrible terms with the CIA and the Joint Chiefs. He had refused to support the CIA organized Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs Operation Northwoods, a plan to commit real and faked acts of violence against Americans, blame Castro and use the false flag events to bring regime change to Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs case that the Soviet Union should be attacked while the US held the advantage and before the Soviets could develop delivery systems for nuclear weapons. He had indicated that after his reelection he was going to pull US troops out of Vietnam and that he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces. He had aroused suspicion by working behind the scenes with Khrushchev to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis, leading to claims that he was soft on communism. The CIA and Joint Chiefs belief that JFK was an unreliable ally in the war against communism spread into the Secret Service. Robert Kennedy knew what had happened. He was on his way to being elected president and to holding the plotters accountable for the murder of his brother when the CIA assassinated him. A distinguished journalist, who was standing behind Robert Kennedy at the time of his assassination, told me that the killing shots came from behind past his ear. He submitted his report to the FBI and was never contacted. Acoustic experts have conclusively demonstrated that more shots were fired than can be accounted for by Sirhan Sirhans pistol and that the sounds indicate two different calibers of firearms. I never cease to be amazed by the gullibility of Americans, who know nothing about either event, but who confidently dismiss the factual evidence provided by experts and historians on the basis of their naive belief that the government wouldnt lie about such important events or someone would have talked. What good would it do if someone talked when the gullible wont believe hard evidence? Secret Service pulled from JFKs limo Zapruder film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q91RZko5Gw James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, Simon Schuster, 2008 Operation Northwoods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. 