# Truth and Reconciliation Committee (JFK, MLK, etc) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480 "2019-01-27T13:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/1 "2019-01-27T13:28:46Z")
Sixty prominent citizens are marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by calling for new investigations into the assassinations of 4 men – assassinations that changed the world – John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The group – The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) – believes all 4 assassinations were the result of conspiracies that were covered up by the government. Members of TRC include Mort Sahl, Oliver Stone, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, David Crosby, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and MLK’s nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/2 "2019-01-27T14:31:08Z")
Yes, that is a thing that is happening. Being as you posted this in this forum, I’m assuming you have some strong feelings about this. What are they? Personally (to get things rolling) I think it’s a dumb idea. These people aren’t looking for truth. They’re looking for vindication of their false beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/3 "2019-01-27T14:32:42Z")
And why didn’t they invite Richard Belzer? His feelings are going to be hurt. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/4 "2019-01-27T14:49:03Z")
You lost me at David Crosby. Seriously? Why should any one care what he thinks about such things? RFK Jr is an anti vaxxer, why would anyone listen to him? Between them they ought to be able to provide all necessary funding for this endeavour, plus I feel it’s good busy work for these types, and if it makes them happy, what’s the harm? So…_shrug…?_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/5 "2019-01-27T14:51:03Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Sixty prominent citizens are marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by calling for new investigations into the assassinations of 4 men – assassinations that changed the world – John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. > > The group – The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) – believes all 4 assassinations were the result of conspiracies that were covered up by the government. > > Members of TRC include Mort Sahl, Oliver Stone, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, David Crosby, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and MLK’s nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr. 1. Why did you post this in the Pit? 2. Do you have anything to say about the subject? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/6 "2019-01-27T19:53:52Z")
Mort Sahl is still alive? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/7 "2019-01-27T21:30:19Z")
The OP is a Mort Sahl fan. This is bogus. [The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa))) is actually a South African investigation established after apartheid. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/8 "2019-01-27T22:33:29Z")
Oh sure JFK, MLK, … all the time with those guys. No one ever tries to bring out the truth about Teddy Roosevelt arranging a hit on William McKinley. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/9 "2019-01-27T23:00:49Z")
This could be just the break the Paulsen campaign was looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/10 "2019-01-27T23:03:22Z")
I’ve always said that if a government conspiracy wanted to kill a President, they’d arrange to isolate him in a remote location, away from White House staff and other witnesses, and then make his death look like natural causes. You know, like the way they killed FDR. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/11 "2019-01-27T23:04:26Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > Mort Sahl is still alive? Sure, that’s what they want you to think. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/12 "2019-01-27T23:44:50Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > The OP is a Mort Sahl fan. > > This is bogus. [The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa))) is actually a South African investigation established after apartheid. There have been [many, many TRCs throughout the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_truth_and_reconciliation_commissions), not all of them called by that specific name. Which doesn’t mean this particular example isn’t bogus. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/13 "2019-01-28T01:57:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure, that’s what they want you to think. So it’s a brain-washed JFK with plastic surgery? Fiendishly clever. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/14 "2019-01-28T02:10:29Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > So it’s a brain-washed JFK with plastic surgery? Fiendishly clever. The clues are out there. If you play the second side of _Anyway … Onward_ backwards, it says “I buried Sahl.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/15 "2019-01-28T02:31:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The clues are out there. If you play the second side of _Anyway … Onward_ backwards, it says “I buried Sahl.” I thought Sahl was the walrus. And where the hell did Joe DiMaggio go? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/16 "2019-01-28T02:53:29Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Members of TRC include Mort Sahl, Oliver Stone, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, David Crosby, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and MLK’s nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr. What, Wavy Gravy and William Hung were busy? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/17 "2019-01-28T03:09:41Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Oh sure JFK, MLK, … all the time with those guys. > > No one ever tries to bring out the truth about Teddy Roosevelt arranging a hit on William McKinley. And nobody ever wants to look into the one _consequential_ assassination of the Twentieth Century: Archduke Franz Ferdinand! Why was he in Sarajevo _really_? Who sent him into the path of the assassins? Who ensured he’d die? Who benefited from the First World War? Well… who got a country out of it, _hein_? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/18 "2019-01-28T17:46:59Z")
Moved to… MPSIMS I guess? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/19 "2019-01-28T17:50:33Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Sixty prominent citizens are marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by calling for new investigations into the assassinations of 4 men – assassinations that changed the world – John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. > > The group – The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) – believes all 4 assassinations were the result of conspiracies that were covered up by the government. > > Members of TRC include Mort Sahl, Oliver Stone, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, David Crosby, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and MLK’s nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480/20 "2019-01-28T18:05:01Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > > > The OP is a Mort Sahl fan. > > > > This is bogus. [The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa))) is actually a South African investigation established after apartheid. > > There have been [many, many TRCs throughout the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_truth_and_reconciliation_commissions), not all of them called by that specific name. > > Which doesn’t mean this particular example isn’t bogus. Also, how _ever_ did you figure out that the OP was a Mort Sahl fan? That was something he was keeping a closely guarded secret. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-and-reconciliation-committee-jfk-mlk-etc/828480.md?page=2)