Originally published at: Finlad declassifies its long-secret intelligence report on JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald | Boing Boing
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Which is an interesting historical tidbit but adds nothing new, really.
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Not to be confused with the Klaus Kinski Hotel, which houses only madness.
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JFK’s assassination sucked, but the reality is that there isn’t any weird conspiracy there… but conspiracy theorists seem to use this event as a conduit to deeper conspiracies, because we look back on it now as a bright young political star snuffed out in his prime.
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Yeah, everybody knows Ted Cruz’s father was the mastermind behind the whole thing.
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Nonsense. NASA did it. Cui bono, and all that.
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Kurki is Finnish for crane.
AFAIK it’s now called Klaus K.
Named after this guy:
The most famous of the medieval lords of Laukko was Klaus Kurki, the tragic hero of a ballad called The Death of Elina.
The other hotel:
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it’s still gobsmacking to me that before this year, i’d never heard jfk was in texas due to the fallout of him using troops to enforce desegregation at u miss
the conspiracy talk hides the racist hate… just like it does today.
( eta: major hat tip Heather Cox Richardson )
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SSDD!
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Why would they have kept this classified? It reveals nothing, and keeping anything classified in the context of an assassination seems like it would only feed conspiracy theories.
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I’d wager why all intelligence agencies keep information like this classified. Because they’re spying on a whole number of citizens for various countries and they don’t want methods, targets, or what countries they’re spying for / assisting leaked.
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Like the third secret of Our Lady of Fátima.
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Famed TV writer/producer Don Bellisario served in the same Marine unit as Oswald. Didn’t think much of Oswald personally. Like Oswald, Bellisario was also “Marksman” rated and thought little of conspiracy theories.
Bellisario wrote the Lee Harvey Oswald episode of Quantum Leap as a direct response to Oliver Stone’s “JFK”.
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How can you be so sure?
The absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. 
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ohman. and of course the currently featured review on the imdb page reads for fucking real;
The whole cartoonish picture of Lee Harvey Oswald is ridiculous and it is even likely that Oswald wasn’t even in the Texas School Book Depository when the shots were fired.
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Between 1959 and 1961, Marine Corps Pvt. Kerry W. Thornley wrote a novel about a fellow Marine who had defected to the USSR. Little did he know that his friend, Lee Harvey Oswald, would later be accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
Through the fictional character Johnny Shellburn, “The Idle Warriors” gives rare insight into the mind of the man who allegedly committed the most infamous crime of the century.
“The Idle Warriors” is the story of a troop of Marines in the Far East - getting laid, pulling pranks, eating, drinking, and talking about life. It’s a story similar to any number of films and books from that time, both in style and content. But because the book was based on Oswald, it remains an eerie novelty, like the appearance of Fidel Castro as an extra in a Busby Berkeley film. Kerry’s introduction itself makes the book well worth reading.
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