Rather obviously it's because the vast majority of people worldwide
who have any opinion whatsoever about the assassination, no matter
what that opinion is, have formed their opinions almost exclusively
from watching the movie "JFK," and/or reading no more than three books
about the assassination, and/or reading no more than three webpages
about the assassination, and or watching no more than three Youtube
videos about the assassination. Since even the majority of serious
conspiracy researchers freely acknowledge that the vast majority of
books, webpages, etc. devoted to the assassination are often wildly
inaccurate, it is little wonder that some of us feel a continuous
compulsion to set the record straight. I myself have long ago lost
count of how many times I've heard and seen people continue to repeat
and repeat and repeat, mindlessly, the proven myths:
The motorcade route was suddenly changed less than 24 hours in advance
to pass by the TSBD. Provably false beyond all possible doubt.
The Warren Commission claimed that the single bullet paused and
changed direction multiple times; Kevin Costner is given lines in
"JFK" claiming this exact thing. Provably false beyond all possible
doubt: the Warren Commission never claimed anything even remotely like
that.
The shadow of the rifle in 133-b, one of the "backyard photos," is
clear evidence of fakery. Provably false beyond all possible doubt.
The average 10-year-old child, with absurd ease, can duplicate the
same effect merely by facing the sun at any time of day on any day of
the year whenever the sun is not directly overhead by tilting any long
narrow object to the right AND forward; I myself demonstrated this
conclusively in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AuNDNpY4f4
Still to this day, as far as I know, not one person, not one, has even
tried to post a video anywhere on the Internet that comes within one-
million light-years of refuting this. I do, however, know of several
conspiracy believers who have specifically told me that they
absolutely refuse to even try to prove me wrong, and absolutely refuse
to go outside in any type of sunlight to even try to find out if I
really am wrong or not.
Another myth: Jack Ruby kept hinting, and hinting, and hinting, that
he knew about a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, and that this was the
reason he begged Earl Warren to bring him to Washington. Provably
false beyond all possible doubt. What Ruby actually said (and what
the conspiracy authors NEVER quote) was that he believed that right-
wing groups in Dallas such as the John Birch Society were trying to
implicate him in the assassination of the President because he was
Jewish, and for this reason he said he felt safer testifying in
Washington rather than in Dallas. Also, when he kept saying over and
over and over that the world would never know of his claims, it was
quite obviously because he was never told at the time that his WC
testimony would eventually be published. Look at the testimony if you
don't believe me: nowhere does anyone tell him that his testimony will
be published, ever.
And possibly the biggest myth of all:
A substantial number of Dealey Plaza witnesses said they thought that
the sounds of the shots came from multiple directions. Provably false
beyond all possible doubt. More than 90% of the witnesses who thought
shots came from any direction even remotely consistent with the
"grassy knoll" specifically said that they thought ALL of the shots
sounded as if they came from there, or else named no other direction
in their statements. More than 90% of the witnesses who thought shots
came from any direction even remotely consistent with the TSBD
specifically said that they thought ALL of the shots came from there,
or else named no other direction in their statements. More than 90%
of the witnesses who thought shots came from any direction even
remotely consistent with the railroad yards specifically said that
they thought ALL of the shots came from there, or else named no other
direction in their statements. More than 90% of the witnesses who
thought shots came from any direction even remotely consistent with
the Triple Underpass specifically said that they thought ALL of the
shots came from there, or else named no other direction in their
statements. In short, no matter what direction each individual
witness named in her/his statements, more than 90% of them
individually named only one direction for all of the sounds of
gunfire, no matter how many or how few shots they said they recalled.
There was a firm consensus that all of the gunfire came from a single
location. The lack of consensus was simply one which location that
was.
John King