The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository

LEMMiNO · 15.4M views · 2023 · 1:38:11

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a detailed, well-sourced overview that helps viewers form their own opinion.

What it is

A 98-minute LEMMiNO video reconstructing what happened inside the Texas School Book Depository before, during, and after the Kennedy assassination. It draws on testimony to map people's movements and discrepancies.

Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2023 to 2024.

What Hacker News said

Strong rec circumlocution · 2023-09 · on “New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory”

To those who haven't seen it, I'd really recommend Lemmino's video on the assassination [this video] He dives pretty deep into the details, and it helped me form my own opinion of what probably happened

Strong rec jmyeet · 2023-09 · on “New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory”

I highly suggest people go watch "inside the book Depository" [1]. It's long but it gives a good overview of the sequence of events and the discrepancies. Thing is, it's not a conspiracy theorist video. The best part of the video is the last segment where the creator uses all the examples to show just how unreliable eyewitness testimony is, even when fresh let alone decades later. They go on to say that pretty much any conspiracy theory relies on cherry-picking certain details as irrefutable while ignoring others and this is esentially an arbitrary decision based on whatever narrative someone is pushing. Additionally, the details supposedly changed never make sense for a conspiracy that is s

Recommends Tmpod · 2023-09 · on “New JFK Assassination Revelation Could Upend the Long-Held “Lone Gunman” Theory”

Recently watched this detailed and well sourced video by LEMMiNO on a particular prespective, might be of interesting for you: [this video]

Recommends snypher · 2023-11 · on “Review: 'JFK: What the Doctors Saw' eyewitnesses contradict Warren Commission”

This isn't that, but an excellent video on the events of the day, around the building, and left me thinking there could have been any number of other shooters; [this video]

Recommends Hikikomori · 2024-01 · on “How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)”

[this video] Worth a watch if you are interested in this. He reconstructs the physical space and where the people were and moved over time using witness testimony.