<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> announced on Tuesday the creation of a task force geared toward the investigation and declassification of covert government materials ranging from the assassinations of prominent figures in American history to the origins of COVID to UFOs.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) declared that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) will lead the &#8220;Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets&#8221; just weeks after President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order to declassify the assassination files of former President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
&#8220;For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified and the American people are demanding greater transparency. This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions,&#8221; Comer said in a statement. &#8220;The Task Force will build on the Trump Administration’s efforts to declassify records of national importance and ensure Americans get the answers they deserve. Representative Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy. It’s time to let the sunlight in and finally provide answers the American public has long demanded.&#8221;
A press release said the task force has been authorized for six months pursuant to committee rules, and members would be announced at a later date. The Oversight Committee also revealed a battery of <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Task-Force-Letters.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letters</a> that Comer and Luna sent to leaders, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, seeking briefings in light of Trump&#8217;s order and noting they would then request to see relevant documents and make recommendations on the declassification process.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Signed</a> on January 23, Trump&#8217;s directive said the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General would have 15 days to &#8220;present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy&#8221; and 45 days to &#8220;review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Trump said: &#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.&#8221;
The House Oversight task force announcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-discovers-thousands-of-secret-jfk-assassination-records-after-trump-order-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> a report by Axios on Monday that said the FBI found thousands of records that were never submitted to a review board overseeing the release of documents related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Luna, who was first elected to the House in 2022, has been a key player in the bipartisan inquiry into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly described as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
&#8220;The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades. We have spent years seeking information on the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, Reverend King, and other government secrets without success,&#8221; Luna said. &#8220;It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve, which is why I am honored to lead this bipartisan task force that seeks truth and transparency. We will also investigate UAPs/USOs, the Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, and the 9/11 files. We will work alongside President Trump and his cabinet members to deliver truth to the American people. From this moment forward, we will restore trust through transparency.&#8221;
During a press conference with Comer at the U.S. Capitol, Luna suggested the task force&#8217;s first area of focus will be on the John F. Kennedy assassination and then made a stunning assertion that cast doubt on Lee Harvey Oswald <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lee-harvey-oswald-tied-to-cia-before-jfk-assassination-investigator-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">being the lone gunman</a>.
&#8220;I can tell you, based on what I’ve been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty, and the single bullet theory — I believe there were two shooters and we should be finding more information as we are able to gain access into the SCIF before the files are actually released to the public,&#8221; Luna said.
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The FBI has discovered thousands of records that were never submitted to a review board overseeing the release of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Axios reported that 2,400 records tied to the assassination were discovered by officials after President Donald Trump ordered that all records be released.
The records were supposed to have been transferred to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives in compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act.
The still classified records are among 14,000 pages of documents that were uncovered during the review that was ordered by Trump.
&#8220;This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,&#8221; said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination. &#8220;The FBI is finally saying, &#8216;Let&#8217;s respond to the president&#8217;s order,&#8217; instead of keeping the secrecy going.&#8221;
Various U.S. intelligence agencies were requesting that some redactions be made to the records to protect sources and methods.
White House staffers that spoke with the publication said that Trump would &#8220;hit the roof&#8221; if there were any attempts to prevent the disclosure of the records.
When more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages were public, but around 3,000 documents remained classified and another 30,000 had redactions, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-to-be-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. Trump has promised since his first term in office to make all of the files public. Questions have swirled for decades around President Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
&#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,&#8221; Trump said as he signed an executive order forcing the release of the JFK files. &#8220;And everything will be revealed.&#8221;
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BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files<a href="https://t.co/X0GwLocBnS">pic.twitter.com/X0GwLocBnS</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1882531336965312695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on X for the first time in nearly a month on Friday to thank President Donald Trump for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassifying</a> the files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, and father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the JFK and RFK files, along with the files on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. After signing the order, the president told his aide to give the pen he used to RFK Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.
&#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,&#8221; Trump said.
In a post on Friday, Kennedy thanked Trump &#8220;for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory&#8221; of government secrecy. He argued, &#8220;A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens’ ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;JFK warned that &#8216;The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it,'&#8221; Kennedy wrote.
&#8220;The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,&#8221; he added.
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JFK warned that “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers… <a href="https://t.co/cM0lxiycA7">https://t.co/cM0lxiycA7</a>
&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1882848590563065858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to Trump&#8217;s order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General will have 15 days to come up with a plan for the release of the JFK files and 45 days to plan for the release of the RFK and MLK files. The Senate still has to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as DNI and Pam Bondi to serve as AG.
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“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” Trump’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kenned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> states.
The family of MLK also released a <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/king-family-responds-trump-ordering-files-assassination-declassified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> after Trump signed the order and asked for &#8220;the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.&#8221;
&#8220;For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years,&#8221; the King family said.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> signed an order on Thursday to declassify the assassination files of former President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
As he signed the order, Trump said, &#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.&#8221; The president then instructed his aide to give the pen he signed the order with to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary and the son of RFK and nephew of JFK.
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BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files<a href="https://t.co/X0GwLocBnS">pic.twitter.com/X0GwLocBnS</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1882531336965312695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages were public, but around 3,000 documents remained classified and another 30,000 had redactions, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-to-be-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Trump has promised since his first term in office to make all of the files public. Questions have swirled for decades around President Kennedy&#8217;s assassination, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
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&#8220;More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kenned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> states.
All records relating to JFK&#8217;s assassination were to be made public by 2017 as specified by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, but Trump &#8220;accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 and 2018&#8221; while ordering &#8220;the continued re-evaluation of those remaining redactions.&#8221; Former President Joe Biden then allowed agencies to take additional time to review the files and withhold information from the public.
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&#8220;I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s order continues. &#8220;And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.&#8221;
Per the order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General will have 15 days to &#8220;present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy&#8221; and 45 days to &#8220;review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.&#8221;

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Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy and mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died on Thursday after suffering a stroke a week ago. She was 96 years old.
Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) announced his grandmother&#8217;s passing in a post on X, saying, &#8220;It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week.&#8221;
&#8220;Along with a lifetime&#8217;s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers.&#8221;
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It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week. Along with a lifetime&#39;s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind…
&mdash; Joe Kennedy III (@joekennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/joekennedy/status/1844396302886424963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cheryl Hines, Kennedy Jr&#8217;s wife, shared a tribute and a photo remembering her mother-in-law: &#8220;It has been my great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel. Her charisma, wisdom and strength will live on with me in every memory of her. Bobby and I spent many warm nights in Hyannis Port having dinner with her and hearing stories from her extraordinary life. She always made me laugh. She was never too serious except when she needed to be. She dressed to nines with bare feet. She will be missed. My love is with the family.&#8221;
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My mother in law, Ethel Kennedy, Bobby&#39;s mother, passed this morning. It has been my great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel. Her charisma, wisdom and strength will live on with me in every memory of her. Bobby and I spent many warm nights in Hyannis Port having… <a href="https://t.co/j7faAcU1Bm">pic.twitter.com/j7faAcU1Bm</a>
&mdash; Cheryl Hines (@CherylHines) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylHines/status/1844427957332238617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Maria Shriver remembered her aunt in a touching tribute with several photos, saying, &#8220;My aunt, Ethel Kennedy passed this morning. What a life she led. What a huge family she created and leaves behind. I’m so glad I was able to laugh with her this summer, to share memories with her. She was a devoted sister-in-law to my mother, a one of a kind aunt to me and my cousins.&#8221;
&#8220;She was fearless, funny, smart, incredible athlete, patriot, madly in love with my Uncle Bobby, and devoted to making our country better in every way,&#8221; Shriver continued. &#8220;She was a woman of deep faith. When it got tough, and there were a lot of tough times, she dug in. She relied on her faith like my own mother. They were a pair of strong, determined women. What lives, what examples. It’s impossible to put her life in a caption. I love you, Ethel. Godspeed, and to all my cousins, I send my love to you on this day and on all days.&#8221;
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My aunt, Ethel Kennedy passed this morning. What a life she led. What a huge family she created and leaves behind. I’m so glad I was able to laugh with her this summer, to share memories with her. She was a devoted sister-in-law to my mother, a one of a kind aunt to me and my… <a href="https://t.co/u5ruoc4vye">pic.twitter.com/u5ruoc4vye</a>
&mdash; Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) <a href="https://twitter.com/mariashriver/status/1844415739198882258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://x.com/TimMeadsUSA/status/1844411295392800953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> on social media, The New York Times wasted no time in using the Kennedy matriarch&#8217;s obituary to take potshots at RFK Jr. over his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and endorse Trump.
Paragraphs three and four read as follows:
<blockquote>Her death came a little more than six weeks after her third eldest child, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ended his long-shot independent presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump in his bid for re-election.
Mr. Kennedy’s decision to support the Republican nominee and his earlier choice to challenge Mr. Trump’s Democratic rivals, initially President Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris, caused a painful breach in the Kennedy family, compelling some of his many siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews — heirs to a staunchly Democratic lineage — to speak out in dismay and anger and originally endorse the president, a friend of the family, over Mr. Kennedy.</blockquote>
Kennedy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/politics/ethel-kennedy-dies/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be remembered</a> for her work to champion many of the same environmental and human rights-related causes her late husband valued, beginning with the founding of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit organization. Former President Barack Obama presented Ethel Kennedy with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor, in 2014.

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Before it became a content <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VvmY_VDQo" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DH7VvmY_VDQo&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3KrQ2tnnhIiw1c05xguc5p">farm</a> full of AI generated clickbait, Sports Illustrated was at one point a serious publication where major political figures discussed issues of national importance.
That was the case in December of 1960, when Sports Illustrated featured an article from John F. Kennedy, who was the president-elect at the time. The article was entitled &#8220;<a href="https://tomnikkola.com/soft-american/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tomnikkola.com/soft-american/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19ziOfPEJ3u7XhIj0zmnpI">The Soft American</a>,&#8221; and it addressed the crisis in masculinity that America was experiencing in the postwar period, as men took office jobs and adjusted to suburban life. In the article, Kennedy called on men to maintain their physical and mental fitness because the strength of the country depended on it. As Kennedy put it, &#8220;The knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.” It was a sentiment you’re unlikely to hear from politicians these days, expressed with an eloquence and maturity of thought and speech that you’re even less likely to hear.
But it was a theme that Kennedy hit often. It&#8217;s one of the reasons he was elected. For Democrats in the 1960s, masculinity was a virtue worthy of reinforcing and protecting as much as possible. Going &#8220;soft,&#8221; as Kennedy put it, was tempting. It was the natural way forward for a lot of people. But it would ultimately doom the country.
This wasn&#8217;t a particularly controversial point back then, or at any other point in world history. But in the 1960s, Democrats were the political party that most successfully communicated that message to Americans.
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Six decades later, amid another genuine masculinity crisis — as evidenced by plummeting sperm counts, a rash of men who say they&#8217;re really women, declining rates of marriage and so on — Democrats are taking a very different approach. They&#8217;ve realized that emasculated men are easier to control. Weaker men are much less likely to resist wealth confiscation, gun confiscation and other indignities.  And because the modern Democrat Party cares about control more than anything else, they&#8217;re not taking JFK&#8217;s approach. Instead, they&#8217;re doing everything they can to make the masculinity crisis even worse.
Specifically, Democrats are now pushing a new plan to &#8220;revamp&#8221; and &#8220;update&#8221; the entire concept of masculinity for the modern age. This is being achieved through their two new mascots of modern masculinity — their geldings that they’ve been trotting around as a positive example for all men to follow — Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff.
This new ideal man — personified by Emhoff and Walz — is a bumbling cornball. He&#8217;s an obedient lackey who does not challenge anyone or anything, least of all the woman who he happily subordinates himself to. It is certainly no coincidence that the Left’s paragons of masculinity are men who play second fiddle to women. This might sound like one of those forbidden &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; that&#8217;s definitely not happening. But pretty much the entire corporate media has admitted it&#8217;s happening. Here&#8217;s CNN for example, explaining that Democrats are intentionally trying to appeal to men who are not, &#8220;testosterone laden&#8221;:
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“They are doing so in trying to put forward male figures—Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night—who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, gun-toting kind of guy.&quot;
CNN is calling Walz and Emhoff girly men!<a href="https://t.co/0lM751nDfX">pic.twitter.com/0lM751nDfX</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1826705163840881074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When CNN comes out and states that the Democrats&#8217; vice presidential nominee and the vice president&#8217;s husband both have low testosterone — you know this is a message that the party pre-approved. At any other point in American history, this would&#8217;ve been seen as insulting and condescending, and rightfully so. But Democrats no longer believe it&#8217;s remotely insulting or condescending to publicly state, as explicitly as possible, that someone is an effeminate, low-testosterone wimp. That&#8217;s because they want to encourage that behavior as much as possible. That&#8217;s why CNN isn&#8217;t the only media outlet doing this.
The New York Times, for example, recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/arts/television/tim-walz-dnc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/arts/television/tim-walz-dnc.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3x7wqEudqqR6PSX143BOoi">reported</a> from the DNC that Tim Walz&#8217;s prime-time debut, &#8220;offered football analogies and an alternative to Trumpian masculinity.&#8221; The paper stated that &#8220;Mr. Walz contributed an idea of masculinity that contrasted with Donald Trump’s performative, pro-wrestling-influenced machismo.&#8221; According to the Times, &#8220;Not all coaches are men, but there are few pop-culture archetypes more male-coded. There’s the coach as paternalistic strongman — the my-way-or-the-highway leader whom you obey or you’re off the team. There’s the coach as icon — the Vince Lombardis and Tom Landrys whom fans hold equal to political leaders, or greater. But there’s also the coach as nurturer, mentor, character builder, surrogate father. &#8230; Wednesday’s production cast the Democrats as the party of both football and Oprah, balancing the ticket with a little inspirational, male-weepie sports drama.&#8221;
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Yes, they wrote that Tim Walz adds &#8220;male-weepie drama&#8221; to the ticket, and we&#8217;re supposed to think that&#8217;s somehow &#8220;inspirational.&#8221; In fact, we&#8217;re supposed to think that a weepy male is so inspirational that it makes Tim Walz the &#8220;surrogate father&#8221; of America. Who needs your own father when you have a phony, manipulative politician who&#8217;s willing to cry a little on stage as he lies about every possible detail in his biography? Why not have Tim Walz raise your children? That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying. (And by the way, Tim Walz signed a law allowing Minnesota to effectively raise your children if he or she identifies as &#8220;trans&#8221; and flees to the state. So this isn&#8217;t really even a rhetorical question.)
The Independent ran a similar <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-dnc-harris-speech-vice-president-trump-b2600129.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-dnc-harris-speech-vice-president-trump-b2600129.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0EP6UbVG8VaitgogrDonpC">headline</a> pushing Tim Walz as the symbol of masculinity, which is how you know this is all coordinated: &#8220;Tim Walz is clearly a midwest ‘man’s man’. But he’s the antidote to toxic Maga masculinity.&#8221; The Independent wrote, &#8220;The image of a high school football coach is often one of a whistle-clutching neanderthal. &#8230; Walz and the Harris campaign are making a point of highlighting the ways that the Minnesota governor has sought to break that cultural mold – like when the then-football coach took the initiative to sponsor a gay-straight alliance at the school where he worked.&#8221;
Yes, because nothing says &#8220;masculinity&#8221; like a grown man who, for some reason, helped to organize a gay club at his school so that he could talk with children about their sexuality — all before he eventually put tampons in the men&#8217;s bathroom. That&#8217;s what masculinity means to Democrats in 2024. It means that you&#8217;re willing to advance Left-wing politics at every available opportunity. It has nothing to do with your character, or your physical attributes or any of that. As long as you&#8217;re a loyal servant of the party, that makes you &#8220;masculine.&#8221;
For a white guy like Tim Walz, playing the role of a loyal foot soldier means that he has to be willing to be mocked, openly, for his skin color. So Tim Walz has happily played along with that. As I&#8217;ve discussed before, he appeared for this scripted moment with Kamala Harris, in which she mocks him for being white and he nods submissively. Watch:
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Listen, I’m just not much of a spice guy. <a href="https://t.co/u9yadJBMh2">pic.twitter.com/u9yadJBMh2</a>
&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1824215589662998607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum, Inez Stepman summed up what we&#8217;re seeing here as well as anyone. She <a href="https://x.com/InezFeltscher/status/1826657669442404789" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;The Tim Walz packaging is meant to present a &#8216;welcoming&#8217; invitation to white men as part of the rainbow coalition: join the DNC, and become merely a joke, not a villain.&#8221; As Stepman put it, Walz is playing the &#8220;bumbling, useless, non-threatening white dad in your typical corporate commercial,&#8221; which is &#8220;the only non-oppressor role for white men available in that worldview. &#8230; Same reason it’s white *dudes* for Harris and not white *men* &#8211; the latter too dignified, too threatening, there must be an air of degradation and court jester to the thing.&#8221;
This is what Democrats are now presenting as &#8220;what it means to be a man.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a top Democrat in the Michigan state senate to explain:
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Dems have the right message w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a> on what it means to be a man: joyful, family-focused, fun AND a hunter, veteran, and coach working arm-in-arm with a competent woman. Not the toxic hyper-masculinity that denigrates women on display in the GOP. (shoutout <a href="https://twitter.com/dudes4harris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dudes4harris</a>) <a href="https://t.co/HNCbyjoUEc">pic.twitter.com/HNCbyjoUEc</a>
&mdash; Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1821925519220453570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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No one on the Right, anywhere, has stated that being a man means you don&#8217;t care about your family. Nobody — at least no conservative — has ever suggested that real men don’t love their daughters. In fact we have always said exactly the opposite. We have always said that the first thing a real man does is protect and care for his family. That has been our message all along. It’s the Left that condemned such ideas as paternalistic and patriarchal. Also, needless to say, no one on the Right has stated that men can&#8217;t be happy, or that men can&#8217;t be veterans, or that men can&#8217;t &#8220;love football.” Nothing she&#8217;s saying there makes any sense; it&#8217;s a complete strawman. She&#8217;s lying because she wants viewers to go along with her framing, which is that Tim Walz is the definition of &#8220;what it means to be a man.&#8221; That is what the highest levels of the Democrat Party have told their lieutenants to push, so that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing.
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But if you&#8217;re not buying the Tim Walz pitch, there&#8217;s always Doug Emhoff, who was just forced to admit (many years after the fact) that he cheated on his first wife by having an affair with the nanny. He also refused to say what happened to his child after he got the nanny pregnant — stating only that he went through &#8220;tough times,&#8221; because everything is always about him. This is apparently another paragon of masculinity, according to Politico. They <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/21/doug-emhoff-dnc-speech-kamala-harris-00175319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>: &#8220;Meet Doug Emhoff: Dad-in-Chief. The second gentleman’s words aimed to humanize Harris as not just a policymaker, but a successful woman who balances her career and family. &#8230; The White House might be getting a wife guy as the country’s first-ever &#8216;first gentleman.'&#8221;
Yes, Doug Emhoff is a &#8220;Dad-in-chief.&#8221; He&#8217;s a real &#8220;wife guy,&#8221; for cheating on his wife and lying about it for years. Time Magazine agrees. They reported on what they called &#8220;The Doug Emhoff model of masculinity.&#8221; They <a href="https://time.com/7013458/doug-emhoff-dnc-speech-masculinity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, after Emhoff&#8217;s speech at the DNC, that: &#8220;It was a relief to have an alternative model of manliness to admire and aspire to than the one often projected on the culture.&#8221;
These media organizations, like the Democrat Party that controls them, know exactly what they&#8217;re doing here. They know that Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are not presenting an &#8220;alternative model of manliness&#8221; at all. They are in fact projecting the exact opposite of &#8220;manliness&#8221; because they want to destroy the concept of manliness entirely. They are projecting cowardice and submissiveness because cowardly and submissive men are their core constituency. That&#8217;s why, in the span of just 60 years, the so-called &#8220;Soft American&#8221; has gone from the bane of Democrat Party, to their model for America.

Day Four Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

The Message From Democrats Is Clear: Real Men Aren’t Welcome

The Message From Democrats Is Clear: Real Men Aren't Welcome

Democratic National Convention

Doug Emhoff

Kamala Harris

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Tim Walz

The presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Trump may well help decide the election in November; the history of televised presidential debates suggests that their effect can be significant. One factor that makes this debate so unusual is that is  being held far in advance of the presidential election.
The first televised debates occurred in 1960, when Vice President Richard Nixon debated Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy. In the wake of the two parties conventions, Nixon held a six-point lead over Kennedy in most polls. The four debates were held on September 26, October 7, October 13, and October 21.
The first debate was seen by 65 million viewers; Nixon had been campaigning extensively and had <a href="https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/history/debate/kennedynixon/kennedynixonscholarly.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost 15 pounds</a>. In addition, Nixon refused to wear makeup while Kennedy did, leading to Kennedy looking refreshed while Nixon’s five-o-clock shadow made him look more haggard.
Howard K. Smith, who moderated the first debate, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/09/22/60-minutes-that-shook-the-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said decades later</a> that television legitimized Kennedy as a candidate.  “One night elevated Kennedy,” he said. “He had been known as a ‘boy senator.’ But the person who came into the studio that night wasn’t a boy. He was a man.”
“60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt agreed: “When it was all over, I said, ‘My God, we’ve just elected a president of the United States.’ But I also remember saying, ‘I’m not sure we should elect one this way.’ We were just looking at two performers and picking the better performer.”
The next televised presidential debates occurred in 1976 between President Gerald Ford and Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. The three presidential debates (a fourth vice-presidential debate was held between the GOP’s Robert Dole and the Democrat’s Walter Mondale) were held on September 23, October 6, and October 22. Carter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/debates/history/1976/index.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> years later, “If it hadn&#8217;t been for the debates, I would have lost. They established me as competent on foreign and domestic affairs and gave the viewers reason to think that Jimmy Carter had something to offer.”
1980 featured only one debate between former California governor Ronald Reagan and President Carter. The first presidential debate was held on September 21, but because independent candidate John Anderson was invited Carter did not participate. After Reagan did quite well, Anderson’s poll numbers plunged. Carter and Reagan debated alone on October 28. Reagan won handily, largely because of him asking whether Americans were better off than they had been four years before and his oft-repeated statement to Carter, “There you go again.” An ABC poll after the debate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/30/archives/tv-instant-poll-steals-pastdebate-scene.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> two-thirds of respondents thought Reagan won. Reagan had been running as much as 8% behind Carter before the debate, which occurred one week before the election. He then crushed Carter in the election.
In 2000, George W. Bush debated Al Gore on October 3, 11 and 17. Time Magazine <a href="https://time.com/archive/6927910/the-debate-on-tv-what-happened-to-al-gore-attack-debater/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> of the first debate, “The pundits and the polls agreed: Gore had won the debate. Then he lost: within a week, Bush had opened up a lead in several polls, as voters apparently decided they were tired of Professor Know-It-All.” Bush narrowly won the election.
In 2012, three debates were held between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, on October 3, October 16, and October 22. Romney had been trailing in polls until the first debate, which people thought he won, thus helping him <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/politics/obama-debate-election-2012/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surge into the lead</a> in Gallup and Pew polls. But Obama did much better in the second debate, propelling him to victory in the election.
The 2016 debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump occurred on September 26, October 9, and October 19, and proved to be a major exception. Clinton was deemed the winner of each debate in virtually every poll. But in the end, Trump won the election.

President Carter and Ronald Reagan Debating

Presidential Debates And How Much They Can Matter

Jimmy Carter

Joe Biden

Richard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> attempted to celebrate the late Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday — but X&#8217;s Community Notes quickly reminded the public that the FBI was responsible for wiretapping MLK.
The FBI shared a photo via X, showing the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial juxtaposed with the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;This #MLKDay, the #FBI honors one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of fairness and equal justice for all,&#8221; the caption read.
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This <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLKDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLKDay</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FBI</a> honors one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of fairness and equal justice for all. <a href="https://t.co/tj9EUoXsFK">pic.twitter.com/tj9EUoXsFK</a>
&mdash; FBI (@FBI) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1746910418436513980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Community Note that appeared after the photo was posted cited several articles from <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes-how-the-fbi-tried-to-destroy-mlk-with-wiretaps-blackmail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mlks-family-feels-vindicated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>, and read: &#8220;The FBI engaged in surveillance of King, attempted to discredit him, and used manipulation tactics to influence him to stop organizing. King’s family believe the FBI was responsible for his death.&#8221;
In December of 1999, a jury found that King had been a &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mlks-family-feels-vindicated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victim of a conspiracy</a>&#8221; rather than a lone wolf attacker when he was shot in 1968. An attorney for King&#8217;s family said during the trial that the cover-up after King&#8217;s assassination had involved not only the FBI, but also the CIA, the media, and U.S. Army Intelligence.
Documentary film director Sam Pollard explored the FBI&#8217;s interest in the Civil Rights leader in his 2020 film titled &#8220;MLK/FBI&#8221; — and he set the stage by explaining, &#8220;The first fear that [FBI director J. Edgar Hoover] had was that King was going to align himself with the Communist Party, which &#8230; J. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with destroying.&#8221;
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During a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/14/rfk-jr-defends-wiretap-mlk-00135543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO interview</a> that was published on the eve of the holiday, independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family&#8217;s role in approving the wiretaps on King.
&#8220;They were betting not only the Civil Rights Movement but their own careers. And they knew that Hoover was out to ruin King,&#8221; Kennedy explained. &#8220;My father gave permission to Hoover to wiretap them so he could prove that his suspicions about King were either right or wrong. I think, politically, they had to do it.&#8221;

Dr King Speaks at Sproul Plaza in Berkeley

FBI Slapped With ‘Community Note’ After Trying To Celebrate MLK Day

FBI Slapped With 'Community Note' After Trying To Celebrate MLK Day

Civil Rights

General

Dozens of anti-Israel protesters wrought havoc at one of the busiest airports in the U.S. on Monday, blocking traffic and chanting anti-Israel slogans from their vehicles.
The anti-Israeli demonstrators launched their “Flood JFK For Gaza” demonstration, forcing police to temporarily block off the Belt Parkway, a prime route to JFK. On Monday, 60 flights were delayed at JFK, FlightAware reported. The Chief of Transportation for the NYPD reported that the demonstrators headed for LaGuardia airport, writing: “The protest car caravan originally near JFK is traveling W/B on GCP at 27 Ave. The right and center lanes are blocked and are headed towards Laguardia Airport.”
The use of the term “flood” by anti-Israel demonstrators is an oblique reference to the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,220 Israelis, which they <a href="https://lieber.westpoint.edu/legal-context-operations-al-aqsa-flood-swords-of-iron/">called</a> the “Al Aqsa Flood.”
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🚨UPDATE🚨 The protest car caravan originally near JFK is traveling W/B on GCP at 27 Ave. The right and center lanes are blocked and are headed towards Laguardia Airport. <a href="https://t.co/UaDRl2iUbP">pic.twitter.com/UaDRl2iUbP</a>
&mdash; Chief of Transportation (@NYPDTransport) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDTransport/status/1741916778723156354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Of the 60 flights delayed at JFK, 15 of them were delayed because of the anti-Israel protesters, who impeded traffic for over two hours, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/01/metro/anti-israel-rally-at-jfk-airport-causes-new-years-day-travel-nightmare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A viral video also showed a large balloon flying in the air near JFK Airport as the anti-Israel demonstrators blocked traffic.
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BREAKING:
Anti-Israel protesters launch a large balloon in front of JFK Airport, trying to shut down the airport.
They launched the ballon as planes were landing and taking off.
They were clearly willing to gamble with the lives of hundreds of people. <a href="https://t.co/V0O8LvnG9q">pic.twitter.com/V0O8LvnG9q</a>
&mdash; Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1741957706607395214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Many have accused the protesters of launching the balloon and endangering the lives of holiday travelers, but the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), which owns and operates JFK, issued a statement saying, &#8220;We do not have any information about any balloon.”
According to The New York Post, a law enforcement source confirmed that the &#8220;balloons were flown over the Queens airport as the protest was ongoing.” The FBI is reportedly investigating who let the balloons go as they could have posed a potential risk to incoming and outgoing aircraft.
Prior to the demonstration, NYPD Chief of Transportation Chief Philip Rivera posted on X, &#8220;If anyone is flying out of JFK Airport today, please plan to travel to the airport ahead of time. There are planned protests today and will cause delays. We don&#8217;t want anyone to miss their flights!”
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If anyone is flying out of JFK Airport today, please plan to travel to the airport ahead of time. There are planned protests today and will cause delays. We don&#39;t want anyone to miss their flights! Safe travels and Happy New Year.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nypdconnecting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nypdconnecting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nypdprotecting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nypdprotecting</a> <a href="https://t.co/qpErgidNCi">pic.twitter.com/qpErgidNCi</a>
&mdash; Chief of Transportation (@NYPDTransport) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDTransport/status/1741879598411923535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Before the New Year’s Day incident, on December 27 anti-Israel demonstrators <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-airport-access-roads-at-nycs-jfk-airport-lax/4985362/">blocked entrance roads</a> to airports John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens and Los Angeles International Airport in California; 62 people were arrested.

Police limited access to JFK Airport to block pro-Palestinians

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On November 22, 1963, CBS News anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalism-is-dead-no-this-time-it-really-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Cronkite</a> interrupted a soap opera — first to broadcast the news that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-secret-service-agent-who-witnessed-jfk-assassination-raises-questions-about-magic-bullet-theory-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John F. Kennedy</a> had been shot, and then a second time to share the devastating news that Kennedy had been killed.
The interruption came during CBS&#8217; regular broadcast of &#8220;As the World Turns,&#8221; at 1:40 p.m. ET, and began with just the words &#8220;CBS News Bulletin&#8221; on the screen because they went to air too fast to get the cameras ready to go.
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60th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Breaking news from CBS and Walter Cronkite. 
RIP Mr. President <a href="https://t.co/pcBymLCz9Z">pic.twitter.com/pcBymLCz9Z</a>
&mdash; 🌵 RC 🌵 (@DesertHemi556) <a href="https://twitter.com/DesertHemi556/status/1727351880609907058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Here is a bulletin from CBS News,&#8221; the report began. &#8220;In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy&#8217;s motorcade in downtown Dallas. First reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.&#8221;
CBS cut back to &#8220;As the World Turns&#8221; after the announcement had been made, but it was not long before the network preempted the program again — this time with the cameras rolling — to fill in the details of what had happened.
The camera showed Cronkite in the newsroom instead of behind the customary anchor&#8217;s desk, announcing the news to the American people just as he himself received it.
&#8220;This picture has just been transmitted by wire,&#8221; Cronkite said, holding a photo of Kennedy&#8217;s vehicle. &#8220;It is a picture taken just a moment or two before the incident, If you could zoom in with that camera, we get a closer look at this picture &#8230;&#8221;
About one hour after the initial bulletin, CBS News was back with Cronkite, still in the newsroom — and he delivered the devastating confirmation that Kennedy had died.
&#8220;From Dallas, Texas, the [news] flash apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time,&#8221; Cronkite said, removing his glasses and appearing to struggle to keep his own emotions in check as he continued, &#8220;Two o&#8217;clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.&#8221;
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&#8220;Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas but we do not know to where he has proceeded. Presumably, he will be taking the Oath of Office shortly and will become the 36th President of the United States.&#8221;

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The White House appeared to blow off criticisms after President Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. President to not make an appearance at any of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-plans-to-commemorate-9-11-with-stop-in-alaska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official memorial sites</a> on September 11: Ground Zero in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania — the place where passengers brought down hijacked United Flight 93.
President Biden, who was on his return trip from Vietnam, opted instead to stop in Alaska to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks ever executed on American soil. Vice President Kamala Harris made the trip to Ground Zero in his place.
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy said that he asked why the president had chosen not to be present at one of the major memorials himself — and the administration had responded with an analogy.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pdoocy</a> asked the White House why POTUS is not in NYC on 9/11.
DOOCY: &quot;The analogy that I was given is that 22 years after Pearl Harbor, U.S. Presidents were not still going to visit Hawaii.&quot;
Wow&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/KcfD7lf3sz">pic.twitter.com/KcfD7lf3sz</a>
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&#8220;Our focus the last couple of days has been President Biden, here in South Asia,&#8221; Doocy explained. &#8220;And when I asked a White House official why it is that President Biden was here and missed the 9/11 commemorations at the attack sites, the analogy that I was given is that 22 years after Pearl Harbor, U.S. Presidents were not still going to visit Hawaii.&#8221;
But presidents have continued to visit Pearl Harbor on December 7, although not every year. The late President George H.W. Bush, who served in the Pacific Theater himself, was on hand for the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack in 1991.
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Someone tell <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> comms that Bush 41 was onsite on the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor <a href="https://t.co/3PbE4W9VV1">https://t.co/3PbE4W9VV1</a> <a href="https://t.co/oXz0N5Rf3l">pic.twitter.com/oXz0N5Rf3l</a>
&mdash; Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1701324273288204640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;FFS, GHWB was at Pearl Harbor for the 50th anniversary in 1991. FDR was at Gettysburg for the 75th anniversary in 1938. These places don&#8217;t stop being important,&#8221; Judianna posted via X.
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FFS, GHWB was at Pearl Harbor for the 50th anniversary in 1991. 
FDR was at Gettysburg for the 75th anniversary in 1938. 
These places don&#39;t stop being important. <a href="https://t.co/XghPsB4IfJ">https://t.co/XghPsB4IfJ</a>
&mdash; Judianna (@Judianna) <a href="https://twitter.com/Judianna/status/1701328518926528868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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To make matters worse for the White House, several pointed out the fact that the 22nd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack — December 7, 1963 — fell just weeks after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. JFK, a U.S. Navy veteran, had visited the memorial six months earlier in June of that year.
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Uh, presidents WERE still visiting Hawaii 22 years after Pearl Harbor. Here is JFK doing just that: <a href="https://t.co/01QlQNKgkz">https://t.co/01QlQNKgkz</a> h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/thekytikat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thekytikat</a> <a href="https://t.co/LzXOHPRkXw">https://t.co/LzXOHPRkXw</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1701321051169226824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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WH Blows Off Critics After Biden Skips 9/11 Memorials: Presidents Weren’t Going To Pearl Harbor After 22 Years

WH Blows Off Critics After Biden Skips 9/11 Memorials: Presidents Weren't Going To Pearl Harbor After 22 Years

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A former secret service agent — who was just feet away when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated almost 60 years ago — recently broke his silence surrounding the “magic bullet” theory, raising questions of a possible second shooter if not even more than one.
Paul Landis, a young federal agent at the time, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times he had been assigned to protect first lady Jackie Kennedy as the president’s motorcade strolled through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas, on that tragic day in November 1963.
Landis recalled dodging Kennedy’s flesh and brain matter after the final gunshot of three bullets fatally pierced through the back of Kennedy, exited out of his throat, and then hit the shoulder and wounded the back, chest, wrist, and thigh of then-Texas governor John Connally Jr.
Landis said he found the 6.5-millimeter bullet fired from a  C2766 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle lodged in the back seat of the president’s limousine, where Kennedy had been sitting at the time of his death, and placed it on the president’s hospital stretcher for investigators. But that timeline of events differs from what U.S. investigators officially reported in the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Warren Commission Report</a>.
“There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,” Landis told The Times. “All the agents that were there were focused on the president.”
“This was all going on so quickly,” he added. “And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’”
According to the commission report, authorities concluded that the bullet shot by former Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald, was found on Gov. Connally’s stretcher after it fell from his thigh.
Landis, whom the Warren Commission never interviewed, said that the bullet possibly moved from the president’s stretcher to the governor’s while they were side-by-side, although the report ruled out the possibility that the bullet came from Kennedy’s stretcher.
He said he also believes the bullet popped out of Kennedy’s body before authorities removed the president from the vehicle.
Nearly six decades after the Kennedy assassination, Landis had believed that Oswald was the only gunman on the scene. But now Landis said he’s “beginning to doubt” himself.
“Now I begin to wonder,” he added.
Landis’ account reportedly will be included in a forthcoming memoir, “The Final Witness,” which the Chicago Review Press is scheduled to release on October 10.
James Robenalt, a Cleveland lawyer and published author, told The Times that “if the bullet we know as the magic or pristine bullet stopped in President Kennedy’s back, it means that the central thesis of the Warren Report, the single-bullet theory, is wrong.”
Robenalt, who helped Landis recall his memories of Kennedy’s assassination, said if such accounts prove accurate, it could likely reopen the question that Oswald did not act alone. He further argued that if a separate bullet hit Gov. Connally, it’s questionable whether Oswald fired it because he could not have reloaded his gun that fast.
Earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — JFK’s nephew — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-kennedy-jr-says-overwhelming-evidence-suggests-cia-was-involved-in-jfk-assassination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the assassination and cover-up of his uncle. The CIA denies the claim made by RFK Jr. on its website, calling the theory a “lie.”
But in response to Landis’ account in the New York Times report, RFK Jr. <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1700688502826938588" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in an X-post</a> that “the magic bullet theory is now dead.”
“This preposterous construction has served as the mainstay of the theory that a single shooter murdered President Kennedy since the Warren Commission advanced it 60 years ago under the direction of the former CIA Director Allen Dulles whom my uncle fired,” RFK Jr. wrote. “The recent revelations by JFK’s Secret Service protector Paul Landis have prompted even the New York Times-among the last lonely defenders of the Warren Report-to finally acknowledge its absurdity.”

John Connally with Jackie and John F Kennedy

Former Secret Service Agent Who Witnessed JFK Assassination Raises Questions About ‘Magic Bullet’ Theory: Report

Former Secret Service Agent Who Witnessed JFK Assassination Raises Questions About 'Magic Bullet' Theory: Report

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