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Teksting av Nicolai Winther Hello, everybody.
It's Mike Raines, El Lobo Solo.
We had a lot of scheduling issues, a lot of conflicts going on this week, so I told everybody else, just take the week off.
I got you, fam.
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And as you can guess from the thumbnail and from what you just heard, I'm going to talk a little bit about JFK. No, please don't turn off.
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No, please don't leave.
Anyhow, we will get back to Pizzagate.
If not next week, then definitely the week after.
This is the holidays.
Holidays screw up people's timing.
We've got four people doing stuff.
It's a mess.
It's a mess.
But we'll get it done.
I promise you.
And so, what I am doing today is I am going to be talking about a...
YouTube channel called The Infographics Show.
And The Infographics Show is a pretty big show.
I mean, a pretty big channel.
It's got 14.7 million subscribers.
Their videos have anywhere from a half a million or so views.
There's a video, popular videos.
What happens to your body while you are having sex?
19 million views.
Russian sleep experiment explained.
21 million views.
What happens when you die?
27 million views.
All kinds of other stuff like that.
So they have a...
They have a following.
They have an audience.
And this audience has now watched a video about John Kennedy's assassination that has about a quarter million views.
There's another video that's three and a half hours long.
That states, why was everyone connected to JFK suddenly mysteriously killed?
They put two things in there.
And there you have another video with four and a half million views.
Was President JFK really killed by the CIA? Might have to dig into those videos.
Does those videos seem bad?
Mostly because of the fact that the video that they did that is straight down the middle, total Warren Commission apologetics, the minute-by-minute breakdown of what happened, it's got a bunch of errors in it.
It's got a bunch of really not great errors in it.
And I'm going to play some clips for you of this.
I wish that back when we did the Reiner cast, I chopped that up more, but I don't know.
I don't think I could have helped myself.
I think you would have heard Reiner's voice more than my own.
Would have gone out of control because he had so much stuff to say, but...
This video, again, this one's video is like 21 minutes, and it has five pretty, not great things in it.
The second and third clips I'm going to play are the really egregious things that make me really upset.
The rest, I'm just going to get into it.
I'm just going to explain why I'm not happy about the way they presented the information.
So we're going to open up here with clip one.
This is talking about Lee Harvey Oswald smuggling the gun into the Texas School Book Depository.
It was just another day in Dallas, Texas.
At this hour, most people were only concerned with waking up and heading to work.
One of them was an unassuming man heading to his job at the Texas School Book Depository.
Under his arm was a long package wrapped up in paper.
As he headed into the building, he was joined by a co-worker named Buell Wesley Frazier.
Curious as to what the brown paper-covered object was, Frazier asked him about it.
Oh, it's just some curtains, answered the other man, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Frazier was unaware that these curtains were really a 6.5x52mm Carcano Model 38 Infantry Carbine rifle with a telescopic sight attached to it.
He purchased the Italian-made Carcano from Klein's sporting goods through a mail order for the grand total of $19.95, with the scope included, plus $1.50 for shipping.
Oswald was also concealing a snub-nosed pistol purchased back in January of 1963, a Smith& Wesson.38 Special Revolver.
First of all, Oswald was not carrying the pistol on him when he went to work that morning.
The pistol was located at the boarding house that he was living at during the week, and the Menlicker Kirkano rifle was located at his wife's residency, where she was living with the CIA-affiliated Ruth Payne, which is an inside joke for those of you who heard the Reiner cast.
But Ruth Payne was not a part of the CIA. Rob Reiner shouldn't have done it.
So, this is wrong, and it's really bad that you get something as basic as that wrong.
Later on in the Infographics Show clip, in their video, they do bring up that Oswald went to the boarding house, and they just say he changed his jacket.
When the Warren Commission and anyone who's actually done research into the Kennedy assassination states that he changed his jacket and grabbed the gun.
So it is super strange that they believe that Oswald was carrying the Mgr Carcano on him and packing a handgun inside the Texas School Book Depository.
Which, as I've brought up many times, if Oswald had a handgun, he should have just stepped off the corner of Elm Street and just killed the president right there.
No muss, no fuss.
Sniping is tricky.
But again, Oswald did not want to get caught.
That was the whole reason why he did what he did.
Second mistake, which is a very weird mistake in this clip, which those of you who listened to me talk about this stuff before, you might have caught it.
If you did, give yourself a big round of applause.
They said that Oswald said the bag contained curtains, which is really strange because that makes no sense.
Because if the bag contained curtains, then Buell Frazier would have been very confused because the bag was obviously solid and curtains are not solid.
They're floppy.
So when he's looking at this bag and says, yeah, what's in the bag?
And Lee says, curtains!
Buell Frazier's like, no, those are not curtains.
What the fuck are you talking about?
And this is very strange also because, again, this video is...
The full Warren Commission was right about everything, which may be the reason why this video has only a quarter million views compared to our other Kennedy conspiracy bullshit, which has far higher view rates.
Again, this has only been out for a month.
Who knows?
Who knows how people consume their content.
But the fact is that if you were going to do this, you should give more context.
If you're doing a minute-by-minute breakdown of the Kennedy assassination, Then you should have broke it down by explaining that on Thursday afternoon, Oswald gets the ride back to Marina's house from Ruel Frazier, and that this breaks Oswald's routine, because Oswald didn't do this.
Oswald...
Went to see his wife on Friday, came back to his boarding house on Monday, spent the weekend over there.
He did not go to see her on Thursdays.
So if you're trying to implicate Oswald in this crime, which is what this video is doing, show that context.
And then also bring up the fact that Oswald left $170 in his wedding ring on the nightstand before he left for work.
Give us more guilt of Oswald.
Give us more evidence against the man.
Do not get basic things wrong and say that it was curtains and not curtain rods.
Don't say that he was packing his Smith& Wesson on him when he was going to work that day.
These are easy fact checks.
The curtain rod thing blows my mind.
How do you get that detail wrong?
How can you be so right about everything and then brick it because you miss a word?
That's very strange.
It's just a very confusing situation.
Now, the video gets a lot of other stuff right for a while.
It's mostly boilerplate, Kennedy in Dallas stuff, and they talk about the ad that they saw, and Kennedy telling his wife we're heading into nut country.
And that's the thing that's really frustrating about this video, is it gets a lot of things right, but then it gets other things very wrong, which you don't want to do.
You want to get everything right.
You want to fact check your sources and your information.
And finally, after a while, we get to the assassination itself.
And what's very weird in the animation for the assassination is that they have Kennedy and Jackie and Governor Conley in the car riding through Dallas.
They don't put Nellie Connelly in the animation for some reason, which is very important because she's the one who infamously states, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you, and all that stuff.
She's an important character, but they just don't draw her for whatever reason.
I don't know who was on the animation team and who was on the animation committee who was like, leave Nellie Connelly out.
She clutters up the car.
We want the car looking cleaner than this.
Strange.
Just strange.
Now we're going to get to the assassination, and these are the two clips that I basically made this video for, or this podcast for, because boy howdy, this is bad.
This is just egregiously bad.
We are now getting to the throat wound of the president and how they talk about this.
12.30 p.m.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
A bullet had been fired and struck President Kennedy.
Over on his elevated position, Abraham Zapruder is still rolling and captures the whole thing.
His film would later show that after the initial injury, Kennedy had disappeared, ducking out of view from behind the back seats of the limo, just as the car passed a nearby road sign for the Stemmons freeway.
The footage shows that JFK's mouth was wide open, his face locked in an anguished expression.
It's likely he was screaming.
The bullet went through his throat, causing what was undoubtedly an excruciating wound.
Kennedy's hands were balled into fists, arms raised in front of his face and throat.
So this is really strange.
The first shot, they're making it sound like the first shot hits Kennedy and does this damage.
And this is going to be compounded by the next clip when I play it.
But I'm going to go over what was said here and how wrong this all is.
The idea that Kennedy's mouth was open is completely at odds with the Zapruder film.
And it is also completely at odds with what just was said by our narrator and by the people watching.
Because if you have your hands balled up in fists pressing against your neck...
It is very hard to have your mouth wide open so that you are screaming or gasping.
And none of that is accurate.
The Bruder film does not show Kennedy's mouth open.
It shows Kennedy's mouth is closed.
And the other thing that is so bizarre about this is that the narrator states that the president was likely screaming.
What on earth would make you think that this was something that could be debated or there could be pro and con arguments for this?
Because of this Bruder film, because of the assassination of President Kennedy being so fascinating to Americans since the moment it happened, Every second of the assassination sequence has been broken down in painstaking detail.
We know the reactions of the people in the car and what was happening to them.
And what we know from the Warren Commission testimony of Jacqueline Kennedy and Governor and Mrs. Connelly None of them heard Kennedy make any noise whatsoever during the course of the assassination.
That he was completely silent the whole time.
And this is very funny for me because I remember when I was young, I played Trivial Pursuit.
And Trivial Pursuit actually had an unbelievably incorrect...
Question and answer on it, where it stated, whose last words were, my God, I am hit.
And the answer was John F. Kennedy.
And this comes from one of the Secret Service agents that was more in front of the limo than the Connellys and Jackie.
And that Secret Service agent claimed he heard that.
And that feels like lionization.
That feels like you're trying to make Kennedy this larger-than-life figure who is...
Going out in a heroic way where he's been struck by a bullet and he cries out, my God, they got me!
And then is finished off.
So thanks for the myth-making, Mr. Secret Service Agent.
Thank you, Trivial Pursuit, for getting that horribly wrong.
And, yeah, very silly.
Because again, he was shot in the throat.
He was not going to be talking very verbosely at this point.
I don't even know if screaming was really within his capabilities in that moment.
Because, yeah, getting shot in the neck sucks.
And so they get that wrong, and also they made that sound like it was the first shot.
And this next clip, this is clip three, obviously.
You're keeping track of this.
You're not being deceived by me.
I ain't tricking anybody.
But this next clip continues that process of just being aggressively wrong about the sequence of shots, and now we get into the headshot, which they're really weird about.
So here we go.
In the same instant the first shot was fired, a Secret Service agent named Clinton Hill reacted.
He'd initially thought the gunshot was a firecracker until he saw the president lurching out of view.
Hill leapt off the running board from the car directly behind the presidential limo and rushed toward JFK, but it was too late.
Bang!
Another shot.
Some witnesses would later report hearing a third shot too, but what's not up for debate is that the second bullet struck Kennedy.
It hit him with such force that his skull practically exploded.
This was also caught on the Sabruder film.
Just before he lost consciousness, John Connolly saw what he believed to be a chunk of JFK's brain fall onto his trousers.
12.31pm.
I've never heard the Connolly trouser brain thing before.
Both Connellys said that they were splattered by brain material and wound gore from Kennedy's headshot.
That they were just hit with debris from the president's head.
That statement about Connelly having brain on his trousers, I've never heard that.
That's very strange.
But you heard the way the commentator talked about everything, and they made it sound like there were two shots fired in the assassination and that people sort of heard a third shot.
Maybe there was a third.
And this is incredibly strange.
Again, this is not at all the sequence of the assassination, according to literally everybody.
Even conspiracy theorists who have multiple, multiple, multiple shots, way beyond three, everyone pretty much agrees that the first shot missed and that people misheard it.
The narrator of this story sort of crunches those two things together by stating that Clinton Hill thought he heard a firecracker and But then he saw the president lurching out of view, which, again, he makes it sound like Kennedy was moving, that he was bobbing and weaving after being hit, but he wasn't.
He was statuesque, and that he only, quote-unquote, went out of view because he went behind the sign.
It wasn't because he was moving.
It was just Zapruder's Field Division vis-a-vis the limo that Kennedy was moving.
Out of sight for a split second.
And also, they stated that Kennedy was hit and then went out of sight and then came back and into sight.
And that's not true either.
Kennedy was waving and just living the life.
And then right after he comes out from behind the sign, that's when his arms go up.
His arms don't go up before the sign.
So everything about the sequence is wrong in this video.
It's very strange.
I don't know how they decided to write a script for a Warren Commission defending Oswald did it by himself video.
And then you just make these basic, basic errors that you claim the first two shots did all the damage and that maybe a third shot was fired at some point.
Who knows?
Who cares?
That's not an argument.
That's not accurate because if you're doing this, if you're talking about how Oswald did it, When the police look into the sniper's nest, they find three spent shell casings.
So that means the three shots were fired.
I mean, it's really weird.
I don't understand how these kinds of errors get through a proof writing.
I don't know how these errors get through a fact check.
It's very strange.
So...
Boo on them.
That's basically all I can say about that.
It's just know your shit.
Review, research this material, and then write your script so they actually get stuff right.
And you can add more information.
You can do stuff to inform your audience.
You can talk about the first shot missing and hitting James Tagg.
James Tate does not come up in this video, which would make conspiracy theorists very eager to chirp and be like, hey, you didn't bring up James Tate, you're hiding shit, you're magic bullet, blah, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff.
The early Oswald stuff, they didn't put that in.
They left a lot of meat on the bone, and then the stuff they did put into the video, they got stuff wrong, which is ridiculous.
And now we're going to do a quick little pause for an ad break, sneak that in there, and be right back.
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Transcription by CastingWords we are back.
And so we got through the headshot and all that good stuff.
Now, these last few clips may be a little nitpicky, but I think this is important because when you are talking about the Kennedy assassination, you need to not step on landmines where the conspiracy theorists can come at you and start arguing things, and they have a leg to stand on.
So you don't want to say things that help their case.
You don't want to say things that embolden them and make it so that they're like, hey, hey, hey, I caught you.
Oh, we caught you lying.
We caught you talking about a thing that is proof that Oswald got jammed up by the police and that he's innocent and all that crap.
You don't want that.
You want to just present a strong case for Oswald's guilt and that's it.
And so here is the infographic show stepping on a rake.
Paraffin tests conducted by police confirmed that Oswald had fired a gun recently, though the results were not entirely conclusive.
Paraffin tests are bullshit.
They were like lie detectors.
There's a reason why you don't hear about paraffin tests now.
It's because they were junk science back in the 1960s.
And they've always been junk science.
There is nothing valid about them.
And any conspiracy theorist who's researched this enough will start jumping up and down screaming about how this statement about the paraffin test confirming that Oswald had fired a gun recently is bullshit.
Because the conspiracy theorists can say, not really.
He didn't fire a gun because he had chemicals on his hands from handling newspapers all day.
And all the printing ink and all that good stuff was there.
And that's what caused the false positive on his hands.
And when they did a paraffin test on his cheek, there was no residue there.
There was no positive result for paraffin on the cheek.
And in order to fire a rifle, you have to press it against the side of your face and So a paraffin test on your cheek should turn up residue of gunpowder, and it didn't.
So QED Oswald is innocent.
The paraffin test is a favorite of conspiracy theorists to try to establish Oswald not being the shooter.
So, why you would bring the paraffin test into a Warren Commission defending video is very strange.
Because...
It just shows that you don't know the subject matter and that you're throwing darts at a dartboard trying to make Oswald look bad when this is one of the weakest pieces of evidence you could possibly use.
It's very strange.
I don't know what they were hoping for with that.
And now we go to the final clip of this video, which talks about Jack Ruby.
And yuck, we're getting right back into the hole, giving the conspiracy theorists a case, giving them evidence, helping them out.
Live news cameras had been trained on the Dallas police headquarters where he was being held.
When he was mortally wounded by a local nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, a man thought to have ties with the mafia.
Unconsciously, Harvey Oswald would be bundled into an ambulance and taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the very same hospital where doctors had attempted to save JFK from the wounds Oswald had inflicted on him.
Unfortunately for the presidential assassin, he was to face the same outcome.
Lee Harvey Oswald was declared dead at 1.07 p.m.
that afternoon, 48 hours and 37 minutes after he shot and killed President Kennedy.
Why do you bring up that Jack Ruby was connected with the mob?
What does that do to help your case against Oswald?
All you're doing is inflaming the conspiracy theorists and giving them some red meat and telling them that a mobbed-up nightclub owner whacked the assassin to silence him to prevent the truth from coming out.
And again, this video is designed to be a minute-by-minute breakdown of what is happening.
So, why do you not fast forward to Friday night?
Well, actually Saturday night.
Why do you not fast forward to Saturday night and have the police commissioner tell everybody that Oswald's going to be transferred at 10 o'clock?
Smash cut to 10 o'clock is when Jack Ruby actually wakes up.
Smash cut to Oswald's transfer being delayed.
Due to an interrogation running along and Oswald wanting a change of clothes.
Smash cut to Ruby getting the phone call from one of the women that worked at his nightclub needing some money.
Him going to Western Union at 11.17 and then walking down the street and shooting Oswald at 11.21.
Your whole gimmick is that you're doing a minute-by-minute breakdown of the assassination process.
It would fit the motif of the video perfectly to do a minute-by-minute breakdown from 10 a.m.
on Saturday morning to 11.21 on Saturday morning.
To show the moving pieces.
To show Ruby this process of getting into the Dallas Police Department and shooting Oswald.
Showing Oswald and what he was doing inside the Dallas Police Department before he was shot.
There's so much you could have done in the theme of this video that they elected not to do.
And instead, they just sort of run through the Oswald assassination very quickly.
They don't dwell on it.
They don't build the story.
They just say, oh yeah, Ruby shot Oswald.
And by the way, Ruby might have been mobbed up.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
Which is...
I don't get it.
Are they trying to play both sides?
Are they doing a Warren Commission video but winking at the conspiracy theorists and letting them know that the conspiracy theorists...
Look, conspiracy theorists, we know we're doing a Warren Commission video, but you're really right about this.
The CIA did whack the president.
I truly cannot wrap my head around what the intent of these little breadcrumbs is.
Not to mention the just outright mistakes that were made by the video earlier.
So really frustrating.
I don't understand so much of this.
Because they did an hour-long video and then they did a three-hour-long video about Kennedy.
So it's not like they needed a tight 21 minutes for this.
They could have packed this into a half hour and gave more context, gave more details, really explained the evidence against Oswald.
And instead, they left a lot of that out and they put in a bunch of stuff that Isn't helpful.
Doesn't coordinate the idea that Oswald acted alone.
Doesn't present that well to the audience.
Again, if you're doing a minute-by-minute breakdown, you could have talked about the eyewitnesses, the two people outside the Texas Public Depository who saw Oswald, the three employees on the fifth floor, who heard him firing over their heads.
You could have actually have broken this down and given a lot more information in the context of this kind of video, in the breaking down the minute by minute, the second by second account of what happened to the assassination of President You just boofed it.
You just absolutely punted it.
So that is the video.
I know this is only a half hour, so this isn't a standard Hellworld episode, but this is the holidays.
I do apologize for the brevity, but we will try to get back on the bicycle next week, get back to Pizzagate, probably wrap that up, and then we'll try to figure out what the next deep dive will be.
But we'll talk to you then.
And if not, I will make something.
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You'll have something to listen to next week.
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