{"id":43027,"date":"2019-01-21T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43027"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:50:21","slug":"a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43027","title":{"rendered":"A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/01\/20\/a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations\/\">A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day a group of academics, journalists, lawyers, Hollywood artists, activists, researchers and intellectuals, including two of Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s children, are calling for new investigations into four assassinations of the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of over 60 prominent American citizens is calling upon Congress to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/USAkennedyJ.htm\">John F. Kennedy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/USAmalcolmX.htm\">Malcolm X<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/USAkingML.htm\">Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a>, and Senator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/USAkennedyR.htm\">Robert F. Kennedy<\/a>. Signers of the joint statement include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/education\/news-wires-white-papers-and-books\/farris-isaac-newton-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isaac Newton Farris Jr.<\/a>, nephew of Reverend King and past president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Reverend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/USAClawsonJ.htm\">James M. Lawson Jr<\/a>., a close collaborator of Reverend King; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Kennedy_Townsend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend<\/a>, children of the late senator. The declaration is also signed by numerous historians, journalists, lawyers and other experts on the four major assassinations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other signatories include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/JFKblakey.htm\">G. Robert Blakey<\/a>, the chief counsel of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/JFKassassinationsC.htm\">House Select Committee on Assassinations<\/a>, which determined in 1979 that President Kennedy was the victim of a probable conspiracy; Dr.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/jfkassassination.net\/russ\/testimony\/mcclella.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert McClelland<\/a>, one of the surgeons at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas who tried to save President Kennedy\u2019s life and saw clear evidence he had been struck by bullets from the front and the rear;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/JFKellsberg.htm\">Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who served as a national security advisor to the Kennedy White House;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/Richard_A._Falk\">Richard Falk<\/a>, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and a leading global authority on human rights; Hollywood artists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alec_Baldwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alec Baldwin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Sheen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martin Sheen<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rob_Reiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rob Reiner<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oliver_Stone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oliver Stone<\/a>; political satirist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mort_Sahl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mort Sahl<\/a>; and musician&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Crosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Crosby<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/john-f-kennedy-portrait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/john-f-kennedy-portrait-540x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32592\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JFK: November 22, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day a group of academics, journalists, lawyers, Hollywood artists, activists, researchers and intellectuals, including two of Robert F. 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