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Rant: My friend told me my conspiracy takes were too shallow, I changed my sourcing habits
I used to just watch YouTube videos and call it research, but my buddy Matt said 'you're just repeating talking points, dig into the primary documents.' So I started reading old congressional hearing transcripts from the 1970s on the JFK files. Has anyone else found that going to original government records changes how you see these debates?
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mason36128d ago
Yeah, "dig into the primary documents" sounds good but those 70s hearings are just the Church Committee stuff, not the actual classified files. You still need the FOIA releases and ARRB records to get the real primary docs.
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johns1828d ago
Man you nailed it with @mason361. The Church Committee stuff is a good starting point but it's like reading a summary someone wrote on a napkin compared to the actual files. I spent a solid weekend once digging through the ARRB records online (the ones that are actually declassified, not the redacted mess) and it's a whole different ballgame. The FOIA releases from the late 90s especially have details that never made it into any hearing, things that change how you read the official timeline. Makes you wonder what else is sitting in some vault that we'll never see, you know?
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