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Jefferson Morley
Personal blog · jfkfacts.orghistorypolitics
Jefferson Morley writes JFK Facts, a personal blog at jfkfacts.org about history and politics. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Jefferson Morley's JFK site covers the Kennedy assassination, including records releases and rebuttals to conspiracy theories, such as an article on why the Bush oil-business CIA theory is false. Commenters link it as a source.
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Authoritative journalism that seeks to clarify the causes of JFK's assassination and to abolish the official secrecy that still surrounds it.
What Hacker News says?
counterconspiracy (noun) : a conspiracy to oppose or undermine something (such as another conspiracy) The big agencies are pretty well versed on this, look at the system approach they take on this one: https://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Countering-W... It is not the details of this specific conspiracy that is interesting, but the systematic approach to tackling it.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Countering-Warren-critics-040167.pdf
on “Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages”There are a lot of goofy theories about the JFK assassination, but I don't think you can dismiss all of them. The theory that makes the most sense to me is that Oswald was part of it, but that he also was set up to be the fall guy. There is evidence that Oswald was recruited by US intelligence when he was a teen in the Civil Air Patrol, and that he had gone to the Soviet Union as a false defector (the Soviets did th…
Comment linking /was-oswald-a-cia-operative-or-not/
on “JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release”The article about the oil business specifically mentions the JFK assassination conspiracy theory, and links to evidence of why it is false. http://jfkfacts.org/about-that-lame-bush-conspiracy-theory/
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on “Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)”