"The consequence of the public not demanding that the murder of the head of state be properly investigated has lead directly to the current undermining of the integrity of our democratic institutions, not least the press.  An obvious consequence of the obfuscations of the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee has been the ease with which the 9/11 Commission was able to conceal important truths. "~ Joan Mellen The Last Word on the Assassination The JFK Assassination: the Jim Garrison Tapes see clip Showing Thursday, Nov 20, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] This documentary, a live webcast from UNLV, is the definitive [account] of what happened to President Kennedy in Dallas, and what has happened to America and the world since. ... It features the award-winning, much suppressed 'The JFK Assassination: The Garrison Tapes,' in which New Orleans' DA Jim Garrison tells the details of his case against Clay Shaw, whom he arrested and tried for conspiracy in JFK's murder and the CIA. This myth-shattering film is followed by a panel of 3 of the most knowledgeable writers-researchers in the field: Jim Marrs, author of 'Crossfire,' a foundation for the film 'JFK;' Dick Russell, co-author with Jesse Ventura of NYT best-seller, They Killed Our President; and Joan Mellen, the definitive biographer of Jim Garrison and author of A Farewell to Justice. "The CIA's involvement in President Kennedy's assassination has been an open secret for 40 years. ...I believe that we are now suffering the consequences of allowing lies about what happened to President Kennedy to remain unchallenged. The consequence of the public not demanding that the murder of the head of state be properly investigated has lead directly to the current undermining of the integrity of our democratic institutions, not least the press.  An obvious consequence of the obfuscations of the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee has been the ease with which the 9/11 Commission was able to conceal important truths. I wrote my book to make a small contribution to the need for government accountability and openness; because what is at stake - I can be grandiose for a second - is democracy itself." ~Joan Mellen, professor, author 'Farewell to Justice' "'Dallas Police declare case closed.' Kennedy is killed on Friday, Ruby kills Oswald on Sunday and the Dallas PD says the case is closed (on Sunday). They haven't interviewed a witness, there was no confession, but the case is closed. What type of investigation is that?" ~Jesse Ventura, co author of They Killed Our President "The very word secrecy is repugnant, in a free and open society; and we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, secret oaths, and to secret proceedings...." ~JFK "If Garrison had succeeded in proving that Shaw was one of the ring leaders, and that Shaw was connected to the CIA, he would have pulled  the plug on the conspiracy...and it would have stared in the face the great big letters W-H-Y. WHY was the president killed?" ~Col Fletcher Prouty "Lee Harvey Oswald killed no one at all. ...He had nothing to do with the assassination. ...John Kennedy was killed by a major force. The simplest way to describe it is Central Intelligence" ~ Jim Garrison "no lie can live forever." ~ MlK "John Barbour's film about Jim Garrison might be the most important program about the JFK assassination that's ever been produced." ~ George Knapp "In 1953 a few CIA people managed to make some changes in Iran. In 1954 a few of us in Guatemala made some changes that seemed almost without effort."  ~David Atlee Phillips - CIA Western Hemisphere Chief 1954-1975 When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes [donations are encouraged] feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights... And how very apropos, published on the net Oct 2014: European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure (VIDEO) THIS is our root problem, folks. The CIA/MIC/MOSSAD  and (other) corporate billionaires running the evil empire. If we don't recognize and deal with THIS, all else is for naught. German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte says he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, adding that noncompliance ran the risk of being fired. Ulfkotte made the revelations during interviews with RT and Russia Insider. I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service, Ulfkotte told Russia Insider. He made similar comments to RT in an exclusive interview at the beginning of October. One day the BND (German foreign intelligence agency) came to my office at the Frankfurter Allgemeine in Frankfurt. They wanted me to write an article about Libya and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...They gave me all this secret information and they just wanted me to sign the article with my name, Ulfkotte told RT. That article was how Gaddafi tried to secretly build a poison gas factory. It was a story that was printed worldwide two days later. Ulfkotte reveals all this and more in his book 'Bought Journalists,' where he mentions that he feels ashamed for what he has done in the past.  It is not right what I have done in the past. To manipulate people, to make propaganda. And it is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because they are bribed to betray people not only in Germany, but all over Europe, he told RT. I was a journalist for 25 years and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. I was bribed by the Americans not to report exactly the truth...I was invited by the German Marshall Fund of the United States to travel to the US. They paid for all my expenses and put me in contact with Americans they'd like me to meet, he said.  I became an honorary citizen of the state of Oklahoma in the US just because I wrote pro-American. I was supported by the CIA. I have helped them in several situations and I feel ashamed for that too.  Many other journalists are involved in the same practice, Ulfkotte added. Most of the journalists you see in foreign countries, they claim to be journalists and they might be. But many of them, like me in the past, are so-called 'non-official cover.' It means you work for an intelligence agency, you help them if they want you to. But they will never say they know you.