2 November, 2017
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JFK Files unravel gov’t conspiracies By Rena Patel ‘19 Copy Editor
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he assassination of former President John F. Kennedy has fueled conspiracy theorists for almost fifty years -- until now! The government released thousands of documents concerning the Kennedy assassination on Oct. 27th and historians and conspiracy enthusiasts alike have been pouring over the documents since then, trying to decipher what truly occurred during the President’s fateful visit to Dallas on November 22, 1963. JFK was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30pm while riding in a presidential motorcade with his wife, Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connolly, and Connolly’s wife, Nellie, in Dealey Plaza when he was shot twice, once in the neck and once in the head. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital. That much, is indisputable. The rest however, has been analyzed more than a literature student has analyzed Moby Dick. Video footage of the assassination from amateur cameraman Abraham Zapruder remains one of the only intact videos of the assassination. Little footage, government secrecy,
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and Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK, have contributed to one of the most complicated conspiracy theories to date. Mobsters, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, and even JFK’s Secret Service Agent and his wife Jackie have all been targeted in various theories. The government had planned to release all documents related to JFK’s assassination on Oct. 27th, which was mandated by John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. However, the law did state that the sitting president at the time of the record release
could withhold some documents if they could cause governmental harm. President Trump has withheld over 500 documents citing these concerns, however, it seems that the majority of the withheld documents are in relation to Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald (JKF’s assassin). Trump is legally allowed to keep these documents under wrap until April, so we’ll have to wait to fit all the pieces together until then, but right now, we seem to have more than enough material to shovel through and make sense of. Whether or
not these documents will bring us closer to discovering the truth or will simply be more fuel for an already large fire is yet to be determined. Until the release of the remaining documents, however, interested readers can content themselves with the release of new information about the United States’ convoluted attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. As revealed on Oct. 27th, the United States’ Cold-War-era plots to overthrow communist Cuba reached a fever pitch around the time of Kennedy’s assassination. A recently-declassified government memo documents the haggling which took place between Cuban exiles and mafia “businessmen,” arguing over a fair price for one Castro assassination (or alternately, a discounted package deal to take out both Fidel and Raul along with Che Guevara.) As the United States monitored these private backdoor deals, government officials also debated means of sabotaging or overthrowing Cuba’s government, including the suggested use of biological warfare to destroy Cuban agriculture.
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We should not advertise consent as ‘Sexy’ By Hannah McCarthy Potter ‘20 Staff Writer
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he Consent is Sexy Campaign (CIS), has been adopted by various colleges and universities as a means of, “sparking conversations about consent, to reduce levels of sexual assault, and reduce levels of abusive attitudes and behavior,” (consent). The CIS campaign is helpful for creating awareness about the importance of consensual sex; however, the campaign does only that. It opens a needed conversation in a cheeky manner and stops there. When the majority of DOS approved parties’ assert the necessity of sexual consent by stating, “Please, always remember that consent is sexy
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AND mandatory” our community attempts to broach the topic of consent in a palatable manner. Yet, out community then ignores the needed next steps which we must take to combat the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. Although the CIS campaign does start a necessary conversation about consent, by equating consent with sexiness, we undermine the necessity of sexual consent. We effectively ignore that consent may also encompasses a no, a statement that need not be sexy, and refuse to acknowledge the systems that promote sexual assault.
continued on page 2 Graphic courtesy of Gabrielle Garcia ‘19.
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