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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The National Archives Released Thousands of JFK Files' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-21. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
Speaking of that, they've just released all those documents, JFK documents.
Anything come out of that?
Did something come out of it?
Oh, one thing that come out was they were saying that Lee Harvey Oswald was a
Russian asset
and that he had been honeypotted by his wife.
And he lived in Russia in the 1950s.
And they think that in this, I think what Russia is trying to say in this
is that they were responsible for making Lee Harvey Oswald try to kill the
president.
There was so much shit going on with that story.
For anybody that thinks in 2022 that you know what happened in 1963, you're
crazy.
What does it say?
What does Tucker Carlson say?
What does he say?
They spoke with someone who's...
Well, let's play it so we can hear the voice.
It's seven minutes long.
It's long.
Oh.
I don't think we can play it.
Just let me hear a little bit of it.
He's setting it up.
He murders the president of the United States.
And then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by
another lone gunman.
What are the odds of that?
It's one thing if you get struck by lightning, rare but possible.
But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning all on
different days,
you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural events.
But, oh, replied the U.S. government, they are.
This bizarre chain of killings was all entirely natural.
So, less than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House
released something called
the Warren Commission Report.
And the report concluded that while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald
and Jack Ruby had acted alone.
No one helped them.
There was no conspiracy of any kind.
Case closed.
Time to move on.
And many Americans did move on.
At the time, they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was.
It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that, in fact,
it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee
Harvey Oswald.
But even then, at the time, before that was known, the government's explanation
didn't seem entirely plausible.
And some people started asking obvious questions about it.
It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story, that
the term conspiracy theory entered our lexicon.
As Professor Lance Dehaven-Smith points out in his book on the subject,
the term conspiracy theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American
conversation before 1964.
In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report,
the New York Times published five stories in which conspiracy theory appeared.
Now, today, of course, the term conspiracy theory appears in pretty much every
New York Times story about American politics.
It's wielded, now as then, as a weapon against anyone who asks questions the
government doesn't feel like answering.
But despite 60 years of name-calling, those questions have not disappeared.
In fact, they have multiplied with time.
And here's one of them.
In April of 1964, a psychiatrist called Louis Joylyn West
visited Jack Ruby in his isolation cell.
This is chaos.
According to West's written assessment,
he found that Jack Ruby was, quote,
technically insane and in need of immediate psychiatric hospitalization.
Those are conclusions that, puzzlingly,
no one who had spoken to Jack Ruby previously had reached.
Ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew him.
Louis Joylyn West pronounced him crazy.
But what West did not say was that he was working for the CIA at the time.
Louis Joylyn West was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency.
He was also an expert on mind control
and a prominent player in the now infamous MK ULTRA program in which the CIA
gave powerful psychiatric drugs to Americans without their knowledge.
So of all the psychiatrists in the world, what in the world was this guy doing
in Jack Ruby's prison cell?
The media did not seem interested in finding out.
In fact, the New York Times in an extensive 1999 obituary of West never
mentioned the fact that he had worked for the CIA,
much less his time in Jack Ruby's cell, which seems relevant.
So you can see why non-crazy people would wonder about what really happened.
And of course, many have wondered.
In 1976, long forgotten,
the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to reinvestigate the
JFK assassination.
Their bipartisan conclusion?
Jack Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy.
But the question is, a conspiracy by whom?
Well, the obvious suspect would be the CIA.
Why else would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators?
Is there a benign explanation for that?
For maintaining this level of secrecy for this many years?
Not that we're aware of.
And it is illegal.
In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records
Collection Act.
And that act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017, 54 years after
JFK was killed.
The last administration promised to comply fully with that law.
But under intense pressure from CIA Director Mike Pompeo,
withheld in the end thousands of pages of CIA documents.
Today, this afternoon, the Biden administration did exactly the same thing.
That would be thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years.
After the death of every single person involved.
But we still can't see them.
Clearly, it's not to protect any person.
They're all dead.
It's to protect an institution.
But why?
Well, today we decided to find out.
We spoke to someone who had access to these still-hidden CIA documents.
The person who was deeply familiar with what they contained.
We asked this person directly.
Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American president?
And here's the reply we received verbatim.
Quote, the answer is yes.
I believe they were involved.
It's a whole different country from what we thought it was.
It's all fake.
It's hard to imagine a more jarring response than that.
Again, this is not a, quote, conspiracy theorist that we spoke to.
Not even close.
This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is
being withheld
from the American public.
And the answer we received was unequivocal.
Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president.
Wow.
Bro.
Now, some people will help me so-
Bro.
Bro.
Wow.
Jesus Christ.
97% of the documents they said have now been released.
I think as of this time, like whatever, yesterday or something, and people are
starting to look
through those.
They don't expect to find anything in those because there's still thousands of
documents.
Well, I would definitely not let people read the ones that would be looking bad.
I mean, that's the only explanation.
Why can't we read them?
They must be bad.
They can't be good.
Well, they say a lot of great things about the CIA, and we're pretty humble.
I mean, we don't want that.
That's going to cause chaos.
That's why.
The whole place, the country is going to fucking riot.
How will they ever find out?
If they're able to keep shit from us, how will they ever find out?
Even though there's been laws passed and, you know, rulings that they're
supposed to release
it in 2017, like, but why not?
Like, what are you doing?
What's happening?