By Donald Jeffries
"I Protest"
December 2, 2025
I recently watched the latest television network special on the JFK assassination: "Truth and Lies: Who Killed JFK?" from ABC News. While the names and faces were different, it was indistinguishable from all the other disinfo pieces produced by CBS, NBC, the Discovery Channel, etc. in the past. I watched it so you don't have to.
In 1963, there were only three television networks. On November 22, CBS, NBC, and ABC launched unprecedented coverage of President Kennedy being shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Not the actual shooting, of course. That was never shown. They set the template for all television news to come. They simply passed on official pronouncements from local law enforcement, the FBI, and the White House, which were consistently inconsistent and defied all common sense. NBC signed an agreement, in the wake of the biggest story of the twentieth century, to air only information that supported the government's official narrative. Six decades ago, a bunch of "journalists" who are almost all long dead, agreed not to do what they were supposedly paid to do; investigate and question. Dan Rather was then a young reporter for the Dallas CBS affiliate. He was front and center, and breathlessly went on the air to relate how he'd seen a copy of the Zapruder film.
That home movie was taken by Dallas dress manufacturer Abraham Zapruder. Giant "free press" outlet Life magazine paid Zapruder a huge sum of money for the film. Surely, you might think, this representative of the public's right to know did so in order to beat the competition to the punch, and air the film is as many creative and profitable ways as possible. Actually, they buried it for twelve years. Suppressed it completely, like the Epstein Files. John D. Rockefeller would have been proud. If that seems like an odd thing to do, how odd was it that we had to rely on this grainy home video, to see exactly what happened in that presidential motorcade? There were a few other home movies of the event, including the never seen "Babushka film" (so called because the camerawoman wears a Russian scarf), which had the best view. Where was all the professional footage? The press was normally in front of every presidential motorcade, with their cameras trained on the smiling, handsome president. Not this time. Instead, they were packed into a bus several cars back in the motorcade.
Now, ABC News knew this in 1963. NBC knew it. CBS knew it. They also presumably knew that their ambitious local reporter Dan Rather was lying when he said that the Zapruder film showed JFK's head going forward with great velocity. The film shows the exact opposite- the president's head going back and to the left with tremendous force. Since the government claimed lone nut Lee Harvey Oswald was firing from above and behind, this obviously defied the laws of physics. They knew that there were multiple witnesses the government wasn't interested in. At least six people who independently saw someone resembling Oswald running and entering a station wagon immediately after shots were fired. The Umbrella Man, pumping an open umbrella up and down on a sunny day. He was never identified, just like the Babushka Lady. The hole in the limo's windshield. The absolute failure of the Secret Service to react to gunfire. Limo driver Bill Greer turning around instead of speeding away to safety.
The mainstream media knew all this and more. They knew that more people thought shots were fired from the front- the infamous Grassy Knoll- than from the building where Oswald worked. Look at the film- everyone is rushing for the Grassy Knoll. No witnesses are looking at, or interested in the Texas School Book Depository Building, where Oswald was a lowly paid worker. Only two mainstream journalists at the beginning were willing to actually do some digging. Jim Koethe was a Dallas Times Herald reporter, rumored to be working on a book about the case. Less then a year after the assassination, he was killed by a karate chop to the throat as he exited the shower. Really. "Natural causes," I suppose. And Dorothy Kilgallen, famous panelist for the TV show What's my Line? but also a real journalist, was deep into researching what would have been a blockbuster book on the case. Instead, she died under very suspicious circumstances in November, 1965. Her voluminous files were never found, and her best friend, who had once dated the young JFK, died a few days later.
Walter Cronkite, the trusty soul who provided the voice of the Giant Owl at the Bohemian Grove occult rituals for decades, and late in life bragged about being proud to be "seated at the right hand of Satan," narrated a putrid 1967 CBS apologia for the Warren Report. Dan Rather followed suit in another comical "investigation" aired in the mid-1970s. NBC busied itself with discrediting Jim Garrison, and ABC aired a horrific 40th anniversary special in 2003, hosted by the Canadian high school dropout Peter Jennings. How do you go from high school dropout to national anchor? That's even more impressive than college dropout turned billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. At any rate, the power of the medium was so strong that one of my sisters watched it and then told me that I was "wrong" about there being a conspiracy. How do you compete with that? The same fellow who dominated that 2003 special with his computer "animation," Dale Myers, also dominates this new ABC special.
I argued with Dale Myers briefly decades ago on one of the biggest JFK assassination forums. With all due modesty, he really did run away with his cyber tail between his legs. But here I was, watching him spew out his nonsense again, with no one there to contradict him. ABC had nothing but shills for the official fairy tale as talking heads on this "investigative report." Oliver Stone was there, sitting next to his good buddy Jim DiEugenio, whom I know and have interviewed. Stone was given a few sound bytes here or there, and DiEugenio had one short comment. They didn't even flash his name onscreen. Jefferson Morley, who has been on a couple of shows with me, was there to provide his very truncated view of conspiracy, but even that was too much for ABC. Unless I missed something, he was only allowed one brief comment as well. There were the usual haggard "reporters," who have absolutely no knowledge of the subject, and are ordered to spout the nonsensical party line. You want that six figure- hell, maybe seven figure Christmas bonus, don't you?
There was a young Black man, who was so unimpressive that I've forgotten his name. He was listed as a "social media influencer." Probably has millions of fake followers. At any rate, he was a blatant DEI plant, who was born decades after the event and had absolutely nothing pertinent to offer. To be fair, he was no worse than the worn out ABC News veterans who displayed their mind boggling ignorance for maybe 250,000 viewers. That's the hilarious thing about network television; they don't seem to understand how few people watch them now. Cronkite's audience is as dead as he is, although hopefully nowhere near the right hand of Satan. And yet, I'm sure that ABC pays these "journalists" huge salaries. It's a crony capitalist business model thing, you wouldn't understand. Any number of alt media figures draw a larger audience than these dinosaur networks do. So they know they're not reaching millions. And yet they continue to lie. They must lie. Deception seems to give them sustenance.
If they simply had given Stone, DiEugenio, and Morley an equal amount of screen time, as opposed to giving so much of it to the absurd arguments of Myers, then however many people actually watched it might have become at least a bit educated on the subject. But, as always, our state controlled media has to make certain that the playing field isn't level. The referees are on their side. They make the rules. They rig the game. I've been down this JFK assassination rabbit hole for fifty years now. Not many are left who have seniority on me. But the research conferences aren't interested in me, so you know the television networks aren't going to call. I know the facts. I've studied this thing well enough to understand how big a lie the official story is. I'm not going to entertain notions of a limited plot, from "rogue" elements, or a benign coverup. This was a massive conspiracy, involving very powerful forces. Journalists not yet born in 1963 continue to peddle these lies. That's how powerful they are.