Dark Legacy

For many, if not most, Americans the material John Hankey presents challenges some of our most deeply held cultural beliefs. That can make the video very hard to watch for many. But that in and of itself does not render Mr. Hankey's hypotheses as false. Can our deeply held, culturally instilled, predispositions prevent us from accepting information, facts, when this information is uncomfortable and threatening to what may be our preexisting world view? Having experienced the national trauma that accompanied the JFK assassination and, along with many others, having the lingering, inescapable impression that the official explanations were blatantly evasive and incomplete, I am glad there are scholars such as Mr. Hankey still working on the matter.

'Dark Legacy' is a film that everyone interested in the Kennedy assassination and its circumstances should watch. It's on Netflix instant streaming, which greatly increases its accessibility.

First of all, the film presented tons of pieces of evidence that prove JFK was probably murdered as the result of a conspiracy. It proves why the single-bullet theory is absolutely ridiculous. It uses government memos to prove the points it makes. Basically, it has more detail and convincing arguments than other works that try to do the same thing. The person who made the film claims that it proves the conspiracy's existence beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe so.

Unfortunately though, even the most casual of viewers could tell that this is a low-budget film. There's nothing wrong with low-budget films, but this one had a couple of spelling mistakes (i.e. "Napoleon" being spelled "Napolean," and lack of punctuation in a crucial sentence (i.e. at one point it says, "Hoover knew that the Bushs were Nazis"). This is not good for a documentary, because it lowers the credibility.

Also, I couldn't help but notice that some of the facts presented were biased after doing some research. #1: Allen Dulles actually was not a Nazi sympathizer. #2: Saying that Bay of Pigs was done without any of JFK's approval or foreknowledge is kind of misleading. #3: JFK's head moves forward a little before going back and to the left.

Parts of this film are eye-opening, and much of it is good film-making. However, it's obviously low-budget and some of it is kind of biased. I guess I'd say the good kind of outweighs the bad.

I started watching this with an open mind, but quickly the one-sided bias became evident. I love documentaries but this is not a documentary. The makers have hand-picked facts and tried to fit them into what they want the story to be. The fact they digitally added a swastika armband on Nixon is an inflammatory image that shows the whole piece can't be taken seriously. I'm open to legitimate facts of a conspiracy and have watched many documentaries that provide facts and leave it to the viewer to form an opinion. This piece is far from legitimate, and it's scary that others have given it a higher rating.

I would love to see a detractor of this film go through the information provided, piece by piece, and explain how or why it should be dismissed - instead of just umbrella-dismissing anything and everything that's been labeled by WHOEVER as a a 'conspiracy theory.' Conspiracies actually exist, therefore it is an absolute fact that some 'conspiracy theories' are valid, & to dismiss an argument solely on the basis of it being labeled a 'conspiracy theory' is idiotic at best. Its truly odd that intelligent individuals can dismiss so many eye witness accounts & mounds of physical & circumstantial evidence, going so far as to vehemently attack anyone that doesn't agree with the Warren Report? If everyone thought like this we'd all still be the loyal subjects of a king, worshiping whatever gods we were told to...

However I digress, Dark Legacy is the most fleshed out, thought provoking JFK assassination theory I've encountered. Again, I would love to see a detractor of the film go through the information provided, piece by piece, and explain how or why it should be dismissed.

This documentary raises some very thought provoking and poignant questions regarding President John F. Kennedy's assassination and the conspiracy and cover-ups afterwards. Who all was connected? It could be a laundry list of people involved, but the links between them are not as shallow as one might think. Plenty of government documents exist to prove the filmmakers point, that is true.

Most, if not all of the people involved in the assassination are now deceased, or have to be close to death. Its been over 60 years at this point. The main focus of the film is George H. W. Bush, and he's been deceased for over six years. The point the filmmaker made about the media and others holding onto a lie could be true, who knows. "The winners write the history and the losers are written about."

In my opinion though, I believe it was a government operation carried out by the CIA, and Oswald was a patsy. There's just too much evidence available to the contrary. And I wouldn't necessarily believe the FBI in most cases, but Hoover had dirt on everyone. If Oswald was Hoover's spy in the CIA, he couldn't have said or done anything without compromising the FBI. Hopefully, one day, we will know the truth in full detail.