It seems so real. It seems like I was there?

In truth I was not. The event seemed so real, that of planes striking the Twin Tower and the falling of massive Twin Towers. This brings back memories of President Kennedy's assassination to me, like when Jack Ruby killed the accused assassin of the president Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police station while being transferred to the Dallas county jail on Sunday 11/25/63.

Ruby Shooting Oswald in the Garage of the Dallas PD

While President Kennedy was being buried in Arlington, VA, the Ruby-Oswald event was shown over and over and over.

This is the same in my mind as that of the Twin Towers falling to the ground, over and over again. Not much else was shown of other events happening during the first days after the horrible events of 9/11. The news showed briefly the Pentagon being first hit by a helicopter near the helo-port, about 20 feet way from the point of impact.

On CNN, during an interview with Tom Clancy, a brief film clip was shown of Building 7, a 47-story building leased by Larry Silverstein. Dan Rather also commented on Building 7 falling to the ground. Rather stated that falling debris from one of the Towers caused the building to collapse.

Going back in time to 1963, Dan Rather was only one of a handful of reporters to see the Abraham Zapruder film stuck to the story that the President's mortal headshot came from the rear causing him to pitch forward. Was this true? No, it wasn't but that was it. Rather had spoken and the nation believed it.

Critical Moment: Mary Moorman Shoots Photo at Frame Z-300

Most importantly, it was assumed by the American public that Zapruder was the only person photographing the death of the President. This was not so. A young woman named Mary Moorman took a Polaroid photo that ran in a magazine, "Four Days," and numerous newspapers that fateful weekend. Shortly after the Warren Commission Report was printed and made available to the American public LIFE ran additional frames of the Zapruder Film to help make sure the Warren report Would remain as fact.

Then, in 1967, LIFE printed three frames of the Zapruder Film just prior to the President receiving his first shot and a couple frames taken by Patsy Pascal showing the Presidential limousine speeding off toward the Triple Underpass on Elm Street. That was it!

The public, through the media, bought the report hook, line and sinker. That was it for years and the Warren Commission Report remained uncontestable until Watergate. The report said that the sole assassin of President Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. Then in 1976, reporter, Geraldo Rivera, showed a "bootleg copy" of the Zapruder film on ABC Television. Robert Groden, a researcher, supported by famed comedian, Dick Gregory, said that the Zapruder film showed the President being shot from the front, not the back as the Warren Report said. This started a grass root movement in America to question the Warren Commission report.

DCI McCone -SS Chief Rowley Memo Citing Oswald Worked for CIA.

Jumping forward, Larry Silverstein, the owner WTC Building 7, stated that the building was "pulled." That suggests to me that the building had to have explosives placed in the building within a 7-hour period immediately after the second plane struck the second Tower. Impossible, the building fell to the ground at 4:30 pm. His statement became problematic, and a conspiracy theory started to take place around what happened at ground Zero.

As in the game of "Badminton," the birdie (pro and con) started going back and forth across the net. This caused my head again to spin. It is my opinion that the Kennedy Assassination was a conspiracy. The question now is: was 9/11 committed solely by Osama Ben Laden or was components of our own government involved somehow with the pilots that flew into the Twin Towers. Did a conspiracy exist, which caused both events to take place?

If one consults a dictionary, a conspiracy is a crime involving more that one person. Even in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1965, a conspiracy existed, and yet even today John Wilkes Booth remains the sole assassin in most American minds, despite the fact a handful of others involved in the conspiracy were hanged. Then we again continue to day saying the word conspiracy, to the public it means that no facts support a conspiracy, it is, in fact, a theory supported by facts, not opinions. A theory needs a hypothesis based with facts. Even though facts back up a conspiracy in both the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 the information backing a conspiracy is ignored mainly because the word "conspiracy" is attacked by persons not wanting to examine the theory. Conspiracy, theory, and opinions…my head is spinning again. Here is an opinion on this, there is an opinion on that. Everybody had an opinion about something. Is it bases on facts? That is the question?

Looking back and then forward, to make a comparison, those who filmed of the assassination of President Kennedy, and the video recordings made of 9/11 have a lot in common. All the recorded images then became the possession of the FBI, along with sound records of the events.

I know for myself when I worked in the composing room of a newspaper that a recording of the shots recorded the number of shots fired at the President were quickly gotten rid of, and the three shot scenario would remain etched in stone. Throughout Life, little things begin to creep into one's mind. When one thinks of how we got into the Iraq wars one and two. My head again spins. In the first Gulf War, it crystallized when a young girl testified before Congress saying that babies we taken out of incubators, and thrown against a wall. As it was later learned, the woman worked for a major advertising company in New York City. In the second gulf war it was Osama Ben Laden who did the dastardly deed of taking down the Twin Towers at ground zero. But wait a minute! Instead of going into Afghanistan and killing Bin Laden, we started a war with Iraq based on weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq by a person dubbed as "Curve Ball." After invading Iraq no weapons of mass destruction was found. How strange, "Curve Ball" said they were there. Very Fishy!

The Bush Administration then talks out both sides of its mouths: first there are and then there aren't weapons of mass destruction, as Ben Laden gets kidney dialysis. Where is Waldo! (I suspect that when Congressman Curt Weldon announced that Ben Laden had died through his sources, last year it was ignored) My head begins to spin again.

The slam-dunk invasion of Iraq has long past. Iraq is now in Civil War, according to, Thomas L. Friedman, author The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Usually a civil war is between two parties, but in the case of Iraq, the civil war is not only between the Sunnis, and Shi'ites, it includes about ten other lesser groups. This is backed by a kill rate of about 1500-2000 civilians a month. The death rate reminds me of Vietnam when I read the daily posting of deaths in Vietnam. The postings were for both sides.

This time, that isn't the case, General Tommy Franks said, and I quote, "No death rate are needed."

John Hopkins University did a survey in Iraq on how many civilians were killed. Their figure was 650,000 thousand deaths of civilians in Iraq, not 30,000 that the Bush Administrations said. The truth is: during the start of the second Gulf war more bombs were dropped than WWII. The media mainly showed the bombing of Iraq, concentrating on the media slogan “Shock and Awe,” while ignoring many other aspects of the invasion and the human cost.

The Bush Administration currently, to me, is like an out of control gambler trying to make up for his losses. Any excuse is given, even though it is clearly a lie to support his habit. The way it is going, the collapse of the Twin Towers may be like America, if reality is dealt with soon.

Remembering, Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident started a war just like the search for weapons of mass destruction did in Iraq. Shortly before the Vietnam War started, the death of the two Diem brothers occurred. This helped flame the civil war that would start between North and South Vietnam. (Just like the division that still exists 50 years alter the Korean War ended.) It may well be we will be in Iraq for the next 50 years, even with a successful outcome.

Getting back to a point, the invasion of the second Iraq war was on the drawing board long before its invasion. Sadly, also the patriot act was written before the invasion to take away our right as citizens of the United States. George Orwell, 1984, is well and alive today.

Here's a reminder: Brown and Root (which later became Kellogg's, Brown and Root) is a war profiteer, a carpetbagger, well placed in the Pentagon ever since the Eisenhower Administration. They enjoy "No bid contracts," receiving huge amounts of money, all of it unaccounted for. Oh well, no one in the government seems to care.

"The beat goes on"…ever since the Eisenhower Administration when "Ike" warned the American public in his farewell address to "beware of the industrial complex."

Eisenhower's words should have been taken seriously.

The troops serving in Iraq today are volunteers with good intentions but are being used, overspend and most likely will be thrown away after their tour of duty is over. No draft.

Shame on America!

Americans needs to know, the media replaced the parents wisdom expressed at the supper table years go, lost today, TV rules. Walter Cronkite, took the place of our parents.

Sadly, no one seems to care. Then news today appears to be proproganda, what we see in various news outlets controls on minds. Proproganda is nice a word, but it is accurate today. The media says they tell the truth, however where is the fact checking of years past.

An authoritative voice sounds like the truth, but is it really? Does the media voice lie? The public seems to believe what the Cronkite's of our world say is the truth. Always fact check!

Adolph Hitler had the voice, he also told "The Big Lie" that lead the German nation to ruins. Perhaps Bush is doing the same. The difference, Bush doesn't appear to have a clue, and his taking his matching orders from Dick Chaney.

Thank God for the Internet! It is the crack in the wall that lets the light come in. (Leonard Cohen) . The Internet has become the fact checker of the media. Just Thank God!

The once owned media that was once owned by many proprietors, today are owned lock stock, and barrel by only 6 families. Shame on Congress and the lobby in Washington, D.C.!

Persons like Murdock and Turner rule the news roost. Profit is their motive, not the truth. It's never to have enough money to pay their employees. I know I been there. My head spins when I watch TV, don't think to hard, accept that is said. It's for your own good. Black is white, white is black. "The beat goes on." In fact, it is "The Dead Beat" that goes on and the American people suffer the consequences.

Remember the film shot on the day Kennedy was shot and those shot on the day 9/11 occurred? It took thirty years before most of the film taken that day in Dallas was made public. It has been five years, and the FBI has not released the all the films that it confiscated on 9/11. Remember regarding 9/11, we are only shown what the government wants us to see,. Where's the footage (beef)? Where is the footage showing something striking the Pentagon?

Over, over and over again the footage will be let out when it suits our government. he agenda has to be maintained. Remember, a cover-up is not good for you but it is good for the government.

Don't forget about a DVD made by two college students, "Loose Change," that challenges the official story of 9/11 or the work of many researchers who for the past four decades have been trying to bring out the truth of what really happened to President Kennedy on the day he was assassinated. Media like, Popular mechanics, comes out of the woodwork from time to time to make sure the official story stands. The media supports them. God forbid one of the advertisers gets upset and pulls his advertising. Profits rules.

Rule number one, through an infinite number: Profit rules, Capitalism rules.

Today of the Communist threat has been replaced by the Terrorism. The war on terrorism is like the war on Communism. But it cannot be "won" because it is a made up idea by corrupt leaders to repress us. Five years have passed since 9/11, and Congress has now has been recently taken over by the democrats in both the house and Senate. But will they ever seek the truth?

Time will tell.

This article is written in memory of President Kennedy who was assassinated forty-three years ago on November 22, 1963. Please keep the eternal flame burning in Arlington Cemetery where President Kennedy is buried while he lives in the hearts of those who still care.

You can email Roy Schaeffer at Royschaeffer@aol.com.