{"id":20175,"date":"2016-04-22T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2016-04-22T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T01:06:30","slug":"how-cbs-news-aided-the-jfk-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20175","title":{"rendered":"How CBS News Aided the JFK Cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/04\/22\/how-cbs-news-aided-the-jfk-cover-up\/\">How CBS News Aided the JFK Cover-up<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Special Report:<\/strong>\u00a0With the Warren Report on JFK\u2019s assassination under attack in the mid-1960s, there was a chance to correct the errors and reassess the findings, but CBS News intervened to silence the critics, reports James DiEugenio.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the mid-1960s, amid growing skepticism about the Warren Commission\u2019s lone-gunman findings on John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination, there was a struggle inside CBS News about whether to allow the critics a fair public hearing\u00a0at the then-dominant news network. Some CBS producers pushed for a debate between believers and doubters and one even submitted a proposal to put the Warren Report \u201con trial,\u201d according to internal CBS documents.<\/p>\n<p>But CBS executives, who were staunch supporters of the Warren findings and had\u00a0personal ties to some commission members, spiked those plans and instead insisted on presenting a defense of the lone-gunman theory while dismissing doubts as baseless conspiracy theories, the documents show.<a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10706\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35-300x169.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35-300x169.jpg 300x, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35-260x146.jpg 260x, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35-160x90.jpg 160x, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-f-kennedy-35.jpg 456x\" alt=\"john-f-kennedy-35\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though it may be hard to remember \u2013 amid today\u2019s proliferation of cable channels and Internet sites \u2013 CBS, along with NBC and ABC, wielded powerful control over what the American people got to see, hear and take seriously in the 1960s. By slapping down any criticism of the Warren Commission, CBS executives effectively prevented the case surrounding the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy from ever receiving the full airing that it deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that historical significance, the internal documents \u2013 compiled by onetime CBS News assistant producer Roger Feinman \u2013 show how a major mainstream news organization green-lights one approach to presenting\u00a0sensitive national security\u00a0news while blocking another. The documents also shed light on how senior news executives, who have bought into one interpretation of the facts, are highly resistant to revisit the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How CBS News Aided the JFK Cover-up Special Report:\u00a0With the Warren Report on JFK\u2019s assassination under attack in the mid-1960s, there was a chance to correct the errors and reassess the findings, but CBS News intervened to silence the critics, reports James DiEugenio. In the mid-1960s, amid growing skepticism about the Warren Commission\u2019s lone-gunman findings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3849,11931,1372,13608,12368],"class_list":["post-20175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cbs","tag-james-dieugenio","tag-jfk","tag-john-kennedy","tag-warren-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions\/20177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}