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The Men Who Killed Kennedy [VHS]

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The version here, is missing the three "good" episodes -- the ones that aren't the same old clips we've seen for 40 years. "The Men Who Killed Kennedy, the Final Chapter" is the one you want.
If a version doesn't have;
. The Love Affair
. The Guilty Men
. The Smoking Gun
-- Then don't buy it.

Parts 1-6 are great. But Parts 7-9 are a MUST SEE.

DO NOT BUY THIS, MAKE THEM OFFICIALLY RELEASE PARTS 7-9

THE FINAL CHAPTER:

Part 7: Smoking Guns: (The Secret Service failings and possible autopsy fraud and cover-up)

Part 8: Love Affair: (A Woman comes forward claiming to be Lee Harvey Oswald's mistress.)

Part 9: Guilty Men: (See the allegations that Lyndon B. Johnson had JFK killed.)

I own parts 7-9 and they are the best parts!

It's time we find out why JFK was killed and why our government continues to cover it up.

Parts 1-6 are great. But Parts 7-9 are a MUST SEE.

THE FINAL CHAPTER:

Part 7: Smoking Guns: (The Secret Service failings and possible autopsy fraud and cover-up)

Part 8: Love Affair: (A Woman comes forward claiming to be Lee Harvey Oswald's mistress.)

Part 9: Guilty Men: (See the allegations that Lyndon B. Johnson had JFK killed.)

I own parts 7-9 and they are the best parts!

It's time we find out why JFK was killed and why our government continues to cover it up.

This DVD is a good overview of the assassination of Kennedy. True, it does focus on the conspiracy theories and it is not an unbiased look at the evidence; however, the interviews with people who have a lot to say are engrossing and the "evidence" produced is thought provoking.

There is no doubt that evidence exists to dispute the findings of the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President Kennedy. This DVD presents a lot of that evidence in a organized fashion. It is good to actually see the people interviewed who say the shots were coming from the grassy knoll. I liked looking at the photographic evidence that critics claim show a person (badge man) shooting from the knoll (I don't see anything). The DVD at least allows you to see the people and the evidence and make a lot of judgments for yourself.

A lot of the witnesses are not convincing to me, and a lot of the so called evidence just looks like junk. I have a natural tendency to distrust testimony from strippers (or former strippers) and I don't see what others say is clearly present in certain photographs. I am a lawyer (not a trial lawyer) so I suppose I look at evidence a little differently than most and probably take a more skeptical view, but I still like to see it myself and not let someone else tell me what something shows or who to believe.

I think the DVD does raise significant questions about the killing of the President as presented by the Warren Report on the assassination. I have read portions of the Warren Report and I have read a few books on this subject authored by both the critics and those who support the Commission's conclusions. While I would say this DVD does contain some speculation that is impossible for the viewer to make an independent decision on, and it contains a lot of language that is less than clinical, it does present a lot of solid evidence. Actual interviews with the Dallas police officers who were there and who talked with Oswald and Ruby are just invaluable. So are a lot of the other interviews. Just a list of those who have been sent to an early grave that had facts to support a shot being fired from the grassy knoll is unnerving. To see some of those same people on screen telling their story near in time to the killing of the President is compelling. If you believe what they have to say a lot of the Warren Commission's findings are not accurate.

If you are not interested in mysteries this isn't for you. In the end there are a lot of theories that can be supported depending on which set of facts you find to be most important. The assassination of President Kennedy is a mystery because so much is left unexplained. For example, there is no doubt the evidence in the National Archives has been corrupted. The brain is missing and at least some other evidence has disappeared. Once evidence has been tampered with a person is allowed to believe it is all under suspicion. The evidence is the foundation of analysis, and when that is gone mystery remains.

So the viewer will not get a solid "we have it all figured out" explanation at the end. No murderer jumps up to confess in the last scene and reveal all. The mystery remains and the uncomfortable feeling that comes with mystery - real mystery - is there. We will probably never figure it out because the list of "oops" or whatever is almost endless. Criminal incompetence on the part of the Secret Service, incompetent medical examiners, missing evidence, incompetent police procedures, consistent failures to follow even the most elemental criminal evidence protection steps, failures to tape or record critical interrogations, failure to follow up important information, investigators ignoring certain aspects of the case (who were the men who displayed Secret Service credentials to the police on the day of the murder), inconsistent statements from important witnesses etc. This is a real mystery.

A lot of people are murdered every year without explanation. The real world can be a messy and inhospitable place. We tend to want to think that the murder of the President of the United States would be different. With some of the best police agencies in the world working on the case we could figure it out and close the file and be at least comfortable with the idea that we know what happened. This film will not allow you to think that way. This was a messy event with a lot going wrong - as it usually does - and this DVD lets you know that. No nice world tied up in a nice package with a bow on it. No...this is reality. And a lot of it.

A very good DVD and well worth the price.

This is probably the most complete documentary available on the assasination of J.F.K.. This video leaves no doubt that there was a definate conspiracy to kill J.F.K. in Dallas. It also proves that Oswald was merely a patsy and had nothing to do at all with the shooting. It brings forward several new witnesses as well as proving a complete cover-up by the Dallas Police Department and the F.B.I.. A must have for anyone interested in the events of November 22,1963. Well worth the price, as it clocks in at a little over 6 hours! It takes a long look at all the evidence and features a ton of information. A MUST HAVE!

I originally saw this series on The History Channel and was enthralled, disturbed and, ultimately, angry as hell.

This is the least sensational, most clearly presented documentary on the JFK killing I've ever seen. All of the people interviewed are credible--some you'll recognize--and the program, by the time you reach the fifth and final episode, has so completely destroyed the Warren Commission Report that you'll wonder how this outrageous cover-up has managed to survive this long.

This is first-class detective work, well-presented and--to boot--entertaining as hell. Every high school kid in America should be required to view this before graduating (I'm glad to see the teacher above is doing so!).

This quiet little documentary--done by the BBC--blasts away the Kennedy assassination myth more effectively than Stone's movie hoped to, as admirable as his attempts were.

And while anybody who's done any reading on the JFK matter is already familiar with who was probably behind it, this program for the first time makes a convincing case as to who the actual shooters were. The also manage to track down Woody Harrelson's dad in prison for an interview (he has been long considered by many to be one of the "three tramps" in Dealey Plaza that day; some even suspect he was one of the shooters).

Truly horrifying and compelling. A must-see. I own it, and I will show it to everybody I can.

6 Parts ? No ! There are NINE. As you may have seen on the
History Ch. this week. But although H.C advertised TMWKK:
The Final Chapter foe sale it has now been supressed.
Reason: "Legal Issues" ?!? Now Amazon is "Out of Stock" or
No Listing. Clue: Search on Barr McClellan.

You are getting only half the truth.

I think it was Vince Palamara who said this is the definitive investigation into the assassination. That is correct. Five stars isn't enough.

I could say more about what these dvds reveal but that would be ruining it for the viewer. Just check it out. You won't be disappointed unless you're a die hard believer in Oswald's guilt and the other garbage the government has been feeding us about this for the last 40 years.

To me anyone who watches this dvd series and still believes the government's story is a fool.

The most frightening aspect of this story for me is the killing of civilian witnesses. Really the main purpose of the Warren Commission investigation was to identify all of the important witnesses so they could be killed.

But this shouldn't be surprising. These are people who started an entire war. Human life meant nothing to them.

We can see the hand of fate in this assassination and the events that surrounded it. So many things could have happened differently.

If only:

1) people acted on Ruby's anonymous phone call and did not bring Oswald through the basement of the police station. the original plan was probably to have Oswald killed by the police when he was arrested.

2) the FBI didn't confiscate the babushka lady's photo which probably clearly captured badge man firing

3) someone would have seen any of the shooters, grabbed them, and had them arrested

4) Kennedy wasn't killed but perhaps only injured or not hit at all

But none of these things happened. For this we must give credit where credit is due to the FBI, the CIA, the snipers provided by the mafia, and good old 'Lyin Lyndon'. The people who did this weren't stupid.

If any of these things did happen they would have had contigency plans anyway. But it would have been harder to continue the lie for all of this time.

We also see how individuals that became involved with those dark forces perhaps began to have second thoughts.

Ruby trying to warn them to change the plans about moving Oswald.

Badge man 'shaking and crying' immediately after shooting Kennedy. Who knows why he was so upset. Obviously this was a high pressure situation and every second mattered at that particular time.

Lyin Lyndon eventually had a nervous breakdown. Did he perhaps have regrets about what happened and after observing what went on in Viet Nam ? Who will ever know ?

These are people who sold their souls but maybe were having second thoughts.

Fate had determined that those who carried out this plot were not going to pay for their crimes in this world (at least not at that time).

Fate had determined that over time people would eventually unravel this mystery. Miraculously enough evidence survived including important video and photographs to allow the courageous investigators to eventually figure out what happened.

President Kennedy's wife was fortunate she wasn't killed also.

I don't think it would be that easy or even possible to do something like this today. That was a different time.

There's two additional episodes of this epoch dvd series which names names about who the conspirators were. However the hypocrites have taken legal action to prevent these dvds from ever being shown on tv or sold again.

I have them though since I copied them from my vhs tape to dvd. I give them away to people.

Jeff Marzano

Men Who Killed Kennedy

When it comes to the JFK assasination??? Well lets just say as numerous polls indicate, most people don't believe what was put out by the Warren Commission. The British documentary series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", was the only televised challenge that had the guts to speak it's mind, namely through producer Nigel Turner. First presented in 1988, Turner and his team assembled a great deal of testimony and research to dispute the "all so convenient and miraculous" facts that were offered up as gospel. "The Single Bullet Theory" being the weapon to blow away all those that dare doubt their government. But then being British myself and realising like many others what the killing of JFK has had on not just US but World history. I made sure that I watched this series when it had first aired on A&E. And what a revelation! Now I had already had my eyes opened, when the 1973 Burt Lancaster film "Executive Action", laid out many of the same findings, only hidden within the semi-fictional framework of not naming anyone. But this series started to fill in the gaps and start naming the cast of characters. Now this subject is certainly something that you can literally write volumes on, but to my simple way of thinking, you either blindly believe that one single person could kill JFK -with the worst possible choice of rifle; getting himself photographed with said rifle beforehand; being lucky enough to have Kennedy totally exposed in the limo -a virtual sitting duck; having in the first place, the luck and money to get discharged from the Marine Corp and being granted without any troble at all,a visa to Russia -and so on and so on, not to mention all those convenient deaths, accidents and suicides for years to come. Well to my mind at least -theres room for doubt!

It's the absolute body of doubt that makes the case for the series. Although serious damage was done to it's credibility when the so called "Marseille-drug hitmen connection" was prooved false. But that does not or should not alter all the evidence it has prooved. Which brings us to the final three installments of this nine part expose. Certainly the most controversial and indicting of all -part 7. "The Smoking Guns", part 8. "The Love Affair" and finally the bombshell part 9. "The Guilty Men". These three parts were aired on the History Channel on the 40th anniversary of the assasination. The first night the channel aired all three, I missed it. But the second night when they were repeated, a station disclaimer was added before each commercial break and the show aired without any cuts. Still, anger had been raised but the parent company Disney, held firm. They were released on dvd together with the rest of the series and then -they were suddenly no more. Totally pulled from release with the company deeply apologizing for having aired the series in the first place. Evenso, I managed to tape them from that second night anyway and I'm glad I did. Talk about in demand! That final part 9. "The Guilty Men" produced in 2003, the part that implicates Lyndon Baines Johnson himself, through none other than one of his attorneys Barr McClellan. Incidently at the time of all this, his son Scott just happened to be George W. Bush's press secretary. Now you don't have to panic if you missed the airing or couldn't get your hands on a copy of the tape or dvd, because Barr McClellan put it all down in his book "Blood, Money & Power" which is still available on Amazon. I guess LBJ's dedicated and ageing supporters, felt safe in the fact that the public don't read much anymore.

In conclusion though, this is a series worthy of debate. Personally I believe there was a conspiracy and a big one! Oswald was the ultimate fall guy and it wasn't just the presidential limo that took a big RIGHT turn into Deeley Plaza that November day. As for papers being released in the future, well you got to believe if anything was written down it's long gone now, along with anyone who even slightly witnessed anything. Such is the way with history and the struggle for power and wealth. And again being British -just look at our long, long history of bloody murder and state secrets!

The first six chapters of The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a must read before viewing chapters seven , eight and nine. I do agree with another reviewer in respect to this series lacking cohesion. However, I consider this "brainstorming" in a way and a chance to see how complex this operation was. Who participated in it and who covered it up will be explained in the remaining three chapters. The Zapruder film sets the stage for everything to follow. From the Zapruder film, we know that Kennedy was shot from the front. Since the Parkland Doctors also confirm this , we are sure there was a cover up since the autopsy photos show no rear exit wound. The Love Field Secret Service Standown confirms it was an inside job. These facts are enough to conclude we were not told the truth and one could just stop there. I guess what many people are asking is the government to finally admit the aformentioned obvious facts, but they continue to deny it, bringing from OJ Simpson fame, Michael Boden to try to convice us one moves in the opposite direction of the force of a bullet! You will see in the final chapters two doctors clearly stating both the neck and head wound are wounds from the front. You cant tell from Zapruder where the neck wound comes from. But it is clear to anyone where the head shot came from. My roomate, who is an ex-Marine, stated he never saw the Zapruder film beyond the sign before. I am sure this is the case for most people. When he did see it , he couldnt believe the whole film was kept from him all this time ( he is 40) and that it is so obvious that the shot is from the front. Also, he pointed out the light reflecting on the bullet as it comes from the front. This is obvious to a soldier. Ironically, just like Nostradamus predicted. " A lighting bolt will kill a great leader during daylight and the assasin will never be found" You would have thought they would have thrown in the towel when the Zapruder film came out but not these people. Finally, forget the less credible people and concentrate on the ones who are stating facts, like Cyril Wecht and Fletcher Prouty. They know what they are talking about, and are very credible people. Enjoy this series and prepare yourself for the final chapters, which will knock you off your feet when you see the now infamous Love Field video where during the start of the fatal motorcade Secret Service Agent Henry J Rybka begins to jog alongside the presidential limousine. He is immediately called back by his shift leader and commander of the follow-up car detail, Emory P. Roberts. Rybka's dismay and confusion is made manifest by his unambiguous body language: He throws up his arms several times before, during and after the follow-up car passes him. He was not being allowed to do his job. Incredibly , the frustrated and patriotic Rybka did not enter the follow up car and was left behind at the airport! This video is available on the banned last episodes and is detailed online in a grimly narrated version ( the music is from the funeral , with the President riding to his death) . Just Google -Secret Service JFK Love Field video.