May 05 2024 37 mins 8
It’s core findings remain untouched. Its conclusions have stood the test of time. In this episode we see the tour de force that lies at the foundation of this seminal chapter in The Warren Report: Chapter Three. While subsequent research has expanded on the insights we gain from this chapter, which distilled the most important work of the Warren Commission, nothing has seriously contradicted its fundamental conclusion. What has deteriorated is not the Warren Report conclusions. No, those have stood the test of time. What has deteriorated is the American people’s ability to separate fact from fiction and to accept fact even when it is staring them in the face–as it is here. Will Americans continue to follow the carnival barkers of conspiracist thinking? Americans through “Their government,” as FDR would say, has, with the Warren Report, done them the favor of representing them well. Will the Americans people in the age of Trump accept the truth or follow the carnival barkers?
