Unheard: The Silence of the MSM on the Luna Hearings
By Matt Douthit
We've come to the point where 62 years after the crime of the century—finally, its most important testimony has been given to the highest inquest chamber in the land—only for two news outlets to pick it up. Ultimately, the New York Post and NewsNation are just reporting the news and have turned the page. But this JFK assassination hearing before the House Oversight Committee could be colossal in getting us to the final turn in the maze…a new honest investigation.
Testifying via ZOOM, 90-year-old Abraham Bolden—the first black Secret Service agent, handpicked by JFK himself—gave his knowledge of a prior Chicago assassination attempt. Skeptics might say Bolden is "the only source" for this—but it's supported by six other plots that failed. Skeptics have also gone ad hoc: “Now, of course, memories fade over time…Might Bolden have been conflating the Vallee story with [a 1963] rumor?” When basically all you have left is the old shibboleth, “memories are unreliable” excuse—then you have no case. Bolden was railroaded for trying to tell the truth, was imprisoned, the key witness against him later admitted they lied to get the conviction, and Bolden was subsequently pardoned by President Biden. And Jim Douglass corroborated the Chicago Plot story in his fine book, JFK and the Unspeakable.
Also testifying was 88-year-old Dr. Don Curtis, one of the physicians who tried to save JFK's life. He had the courage—to stand up—and say in public—under oath—in front of the world—what all the other Parkland doctors did not do: "The wounds I saw were not consistent with the government's conclusion Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone." Dr. Charles Crenshaw came close with his 1992 book, Conspiracy of Silence, but Dr. Curtis finally did it. Curtis also revealed that neurosurgeon Dr. Kemp Clark told him he saw an entry wound in the temple. Skeptics might point out this detail is absent from the autopsy report—but it's supported by 17 other eyewitnesses who saw it. In fact, as the late Don Thomas graphically pointed out via magnified photos one of the autopsy photos—the infamous "Stare of Death"--does indeed indicate this. A frontal shot, of course, disproves the official story.
Another witness was Doug Horne, former Assassination Records Review Board staff member, who rang the bell on missing autopsy materials, from bullet fragments to photos and X-rays. Skeptics, of course, will be skeptical—but it's supported by sworn witnesses, the authorized book The Day Kennedy Was Shot and the official inventory itself. The inventory tells us the National Archives once held 29 X-rays, 73 B&W photos, 55 color photos, blocks of tissue sections, 119 slides, and the brain. All that's there now are 52 photos and 14 X-rays!
Horne left us with these powerful, thought-provoking words: "You don't change the autopsy conclusions four different times within 2 weeks after the President's death if a lone nut killed the President."
Next to Horne sat Judge John Tunheim, former head of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). He, along with Dan Hardway, former staff member on the House Select Committee on Assassinations(HSCA), laid out what they described as actions by the CIA to obstruct their investigations. In regards to the now infamous George Joannides file, skeptics have avowed: "But the ARRB looked at it and found nothing of relevance to the JFK assassination." However, Judge Tunheim addressed this very point: "The CIA misled us…What we got was something very small…The staff was told that was all they had on Joannides, which is clearly incorrect."
Perhaps the biggest question garnered from the hearing is this: If the Joannides file "does not contain any material relevant to the JFK assassination," as skeptics claim, then why is it suddenly missing and can't be found?
Another voice heard that day was presidential historian Alexis Coe, who made a dissenting declaration: "As far as the files—no hidden truths, no real disclosures, no shocking revelations." This is a vastly different conclusion from what JFK historian Jefferson Morley had announced 2 months before: "There's a bombshell in here. The National Archives released the declassified testimony of James Angleton—the counterintelligence chief—from 1975. And this document indicates that Angleton recruited Oswald as a CIA source or contact, that he monitored Oswald's movements, political contacts and personal life for 4 years, that he had a 180-page file on Oswald on his desk when the President left for Dallas. So, this is a big breakthrough, there's definitely a bombshell." (Piers Morgan Uncensored, YouTube, 3/20/25)
Ms. Coe did raise an important point: "There is so much concern about coverups with the CIA when it comes to Kennedy, and I don't see that same concern being translated to Martin Luther King and to his records. It feels like Hoover 2.0." But it was at this important moment that she was cut off. Will the King case be explored by the Luna Committee? Two good witnesses would be Judge Joe Brown and author John Avery Emison.
Judge Tunheim left us with these words: "I'd like to see a time when everything has been released, unredacted. It's 60-something years since the assassination. The assassination was closer to World War I than we are to the assassination. Let's release the materials, and that's my plea here, is just get everything out, let people decide what they want."
The truth hasn’t spoken its final word—another hearing is not optional; it’s essential.
(The second hearing may be viewed here)
