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  1. As a US representative, Ford was a member of the #WarrenCommission, which investigated the #assassination of President #JohnFKennedy. The experience affected him profoundly. During a site visit to the Texas School Book Depository, the members of the committee took a rifle similar to the one used by Lee Harvey Oswald & looked through its scope at the traffic below. “Kennedy had been my friend,” Ford later recalled. “The thought we were reconstructing his assassination sent a chill down my spine.”

  2. Why a #JFK #murder bombshell landed with a thud. "the bigger issue is that the 21st century’s #internet fueled flood of #misinformation — and their centrality to #Trump-fried right-wing populism — means a lot of folks, especially liberals, will no longer touch anything with the faintest whiff of conspiracy theory." inquirer.com/columnists/attyto #magicbullet #socialmedia #Facts not #fiction #democracy #WarrenCommission #Congress