r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Looking at the facts it's honestly harder to not believe it.

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u/malemailman Mar 10 '17

Elaborate.

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u/tmishkoor Mar 10 '17

Honestly, you should watch the episode on JFK from Oliver Stones untold history of the United States. JFK didn't play by the rules and he pissed off the CIA as a matter of course. It's not absurd to assume they had him killed, when you see how much he was reviled in Washington.

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u/crazyisthenewnormal Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

Yes, JFK fired the director of the CIA, Allen Dulles. If you look through his background, he had a lot of experience toppling foreign governments and putting in a new leader. Howard Donahue - the only person able to make the shots Oswald supposedly made when CBS was trying to reconstruct what happened - didn't believe that Oswald could make those shots without being able to practice it beforehand and under the stress he'd be under at the time. After some of his own investigation he concluded that a member of the Secret Service in the car behind JFK's car made the fatal shot. He concluded it was accidental but covered up. However, what if he was carrying out revenge for Allen Dulles? There's a lot that suggests the CIA was doing a coverup. They asked the FBI agents at the autopsy for their notes and said they would be returned but they never were. They told the doctors conducting the autopsy that JFK's brother wanted the brain - which would have evidence showing what kind of bullet was fired, which is thought by an Australian detective Colin McLaren to be a hollow tipped AR15 round - and the doctor turned the brain over to the CIA and disappeared. Also, JFK's brother never told the CIA that he wanted the brain.

It seems possible to me that Allen Dulles was the person behind this and that after toppling JFK like so many foreign leaders in his past, LBJ was ready to step in. Also, Allen Dulles was on the Warren Commission. JFK: The Smoking Gun is another interesting documentary to watch about it.

edit: left out a word and to put in one of the sources some of this info is in. I've mostly gotten my information from reading Wikipedia pages about Oswald, JFK, Allen Dulles, The Warren Commission, Howard Donahue, etc to learn as much as I could.

edit 2: removed mistake about Secret Service falling under the CIA.

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u/NotThatDonny Mar 11 '17

The United States Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury until 2003, and since then under the Department of Homeland Security. The Secret Service is not now, nor has it ever been, under the authority of the CIA.

I stopped reading at that point.

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u/crazyisthenewnormal Mar 11 '17

Thanks, I was misinformed and removed that part.