Conspiracy Theory Website

http://www.ctka.net/home.html

The Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination (CTKA) website was created in response to a conference that its publishers attended in 1993 entitled the Chicago Midwest Symposium on Assassinations. Those who were present decided to create a political action group in response, which, in their words, would ‘…urge the executive branch of …government to re-open the unsolved assassinations of the 1960s-i.e…President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King’ . The site therefore proclaims its information as the political truth, with direct opposition to American governmental arguments centering upon the hiding of records from public knowledge. CTKA asserts a debunking of assassination myths and falsehoods, announcing themselves as ‘activists’ who seek to lobby for, as they state, ‘…full disclosure of all records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy’ . The range of information therefore is extensive in relation to the Kennedy assassination, and at a lesser extent, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.
Yet, the organisation claims that all of their information is more reliable than that of the government’s, using bias assimilation as a method of proving their ‘reliability’. As a result of the postmodern culture in which we live however, there becomes a realisation of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s concept of the death of grand narratives, in which knowledge no longer pertains the truth. Thus, when referring to websites that claim to offer authenticity of opinion, the reader must retain some notions of suspicion. This conception particularly applies to conspiracy websites which, although declare a presentation of ‘facts’ along with ‘evidence’ of governmental deceits and inconsistencies, provide no real basis to express other opinions or outside views. As a result, the websites become an airing of bias which aims to debunk the government and not the conspiracies.