Kick a corpse why don'tcha? Who really killed JFK!

Publication: Globe

Date: 5 Nov. 2011

The headline in the Globe reads 

 

"Secret tapes reveal: Who really killed JFK!
- and it wasn't Oswald!

48 years after the fact and they can still sell magazines with conspiracy stories.  It says something about the deep trust Americans have in the institutions of authority.

Kick a corpse, why don'tcha? Who killed JFK?

Publication: Sun
Date: 25 April 2011

Things are topsy turvy on the cover of the Sun this week. It was the Weekly World News that had a story about the End of the World, which is usually the exclusive property of the Sun itself, while the Sun had a headline about who killed JFK (as usual, not Lee Harvey Oswald, because how would that be news?).

JFK stories are usually in the Globe or the low rent Examiner, the major suppliers of Hey Old Timer Gossip, which I count as stories about people famous before I graduated high school back in the early 1970s.

Go figure.

Kick several corpses, why don'tcha?JFK's killer's coffin for sale!

Publication: Globe
Date: 20 December 2010

Talk about Hey Old Timer Gossip! The Globe tells us you can buy Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin, though they add "Body not included".

The story is true. Oswald was buried and exhumed, then buried in a different coffin, and the original box is now for sale at a Los Angeles auction house. If you collect rare coffins, this could be the prize of your collection.