from PC World: BBN, another defense contractor and ARPANET

[rich]

the famous police microphone from the motorcade-- which I thought the
folks in the 1978 investigation revealed they heard four shots on the
dictaphone thereby re-enforcing the conspiracy angle? which was later
debunked but I think as a result of the 78 inquiry, people believed
even more that a conspiracy did exist

rich

On 9/8/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From ARPANET then to today, and another JFK conspiracy
> theory and acoustical analysis..........
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> BBN, Raytheon and a fresh JFK conspiracy theory
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> Last week we learned that Raytheon, long one of the nation's most powerful
> defense contractors, is acquiring venerable BBN Technologies, a networking
> pioneer perhaps most famous for its role in designing the ARPANet, precursor
> to the Internet.
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> In writing about the deal on Buzzblog, I included this footnote way done at
> the very end of the item: "History buffs will tell you that BBN is also
> known for having conducted acoustical analysis in 1978 for the House Select
> Committee charged with investigating the assassination of President John F.
> Kennedy 15 years earlier."
>
> A reader who identified himself only as V12Merlin offered this provocative
> tidbit in response:
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> "One of the BBN engineers who worked on the Kennedy acoustic analysis thing
> was a close friend of mine, from my own Cambridge days. He told me at the
> time that what the team was ordered by someone high up not to publish what
> they actually found."
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> Now I've been a Kennedy assassination buff since reading a table-top version
> of The Warren Report in my grandparents' living room back in high school,
> but I'm neither willing nor able to vouch for the veracity of what
> V12Merlin's friend told V12Merlin some 30 years ago. However, another reader
> who identified himself as Joe Kraska, a former BBN employee living in San
> Diego, was in no mood to just let the comment slide. Writes Kraska of the
> alleged coverup:
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> "Because, you know, as we know, the noodle-backboned folks working at BBN,
> having found the real origin of the assassination of an American president
> would have all the ethical prowess of a peanut, and keep mum quivering in
> their boots because a Mysterious Evil Power (tm) ordered them not to tell
> the truth. We know now at least, how much faith you have in the fidelity of
> your fellow men. That's just sad."
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> And that's telling him, all right.
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