Rant: That Kennedy assassination audio tape they hid for 50 years

I found out last week from a Freedom of Information request that the Warren Commission had a 17-minute gap in the Dallas police recordings from November 22, 1963. One guy on a history forum dug through the raw files and discovered it wasn't a technical glitch - they deliberately erased gunshot timestamps. I read the full transcript he posted and it shows dispatch logs that contradict the lone gunman timeline. Has anyone else looked at the actual NARA files or is this just another rabbit hole with no payoff?

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max_cooper2112h ago

Have you looked at the actual audio files yourself? A buddy of mine who's big into this stuff spent a weekend at the National Archives digging through the police tapes. He said the gap is real and the erasure is too clean to be an accident. He played me a snippet of the raw audio he recorded on his phone, and there's this weird silence where the dispatch chatter just cuts off mid-word. He matched it with the old transcripts and found the missing timestamps line up with when witnesses reported hearing shots from the grassy knoll. It's not some wild conspiracy nonsense, just hard evidence that someone wanted those few minutes gone.

sean_barnes2411h ago

Man that's the thing about this stuff, it's never just one isolated piece of evidence. It's like when you notice one weird pattern at work or in your neighborhood, and then suddenly you start seeing the same kind of convenient "mistakes" everywhere, like someone's always covering their tracks. The fact that the erasure lines up with the witnesses just makes it feel less like a technical glitch and more like that feeling when you realize your bank statement has a charge you don't remember making.

evan_davis9h ago

@max_cooper21 but what if it's just the recording equipment glitching out from the heat that day and there's nothing more to it?