Just what the major media think of as news is often mysterious. On 16 May, enormous publicity was given to the release by the Pentagon of the missing frames of the videotape of whatever it was that hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Yet these new frames showed nothing of consequence – they certainly did not show an American Airlines jet – and failed to rebut the conspiracy theories about the crash which variously allege that the building was hit by a missile, a much smaller plane, a drone or even a truck bomb.

The previous day, Douglas Horne, former Chief Analyst for Military Records of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), issued a statement at a press conference in Washington on the Kennedy assassination in which he stated, inter alia, that: “Within our [AARB] deposition transcripts and interview reports is unequivocal evidence that there was a US government cover-up of the medical evidence in the Kennedy assassination…

“(1) The autopsy report in evidence today, Warren Commission Exhibit #387, is the third version prepared of that report; it is not the sole version, as was claimed for years by those who wrote it and signed it…

“(2) The brain photographs in the National Archives that are purported to be photographs of President Kennedy’s brain are not what they are represented to be; they are not pictures of his brain, but rather are photographs of someone else’s brain…

“(3) There is something seriously wrong with the autopsy photographs of the body of President Kennedy.