Fic: Can't Catch A Break (1/1)

Title: Can’t Catch A Break (1/1)
Author: BradyGirl_12
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Bucky, Natasha
Continuity: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Genres: Angst, Drama
Rating: G
Warnings: Major Character Deaths (Canon)
Spoilers: For Avengers 3: Infinity War I (2018)
Summary: Steve struggles with the loss of Bucky…again.
Date Of Completion: February 24, 2019
Date Of Posting: March 9, 2019
Disclaimer: I don’t own ‘em, Marvel and Paramount do, more’s the pity.
Word Count: 1589
Feedback welcome and appreciated.
Author’s Note: I wanted to get this one out before Avengers 4: Endgame hits the theaters! :)

( Steve stared up at the stars as he sat on the ground with his knees drawn up. A campfire crackled beside him, warm and comforting as he tried not to shiver. Maybe it was from the cold, or maybe from the hollowness inside him. )

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Did You Know...?

Have you ever noticed that whenever someone proposes an alternate theory to the official conclusion as promulgated by the Warren Commission on John F. Kennedy's death (Lee Harvey Oswald did it by himself), the mainstream media goes into action labeling them 'kooks', 'nuts', and 'charlatans'?

When Oliver Stone made the movie JFK, he was viciously attacked even before the movie premiered. Any time CBS or the New York Times or Life Magazine (or any mainstream media) ever did a story on the assassination, they never entertained the possibility of a conspiracy.

Dan Rather, a fledgling reporter from WFAA-TV in Dallas on November 22, 1963, saw the Zapruder film soon after (the American public were denied that right until 1975 as the film was bought from Abraham Zapruder by Time-Life and locked away in their vaults) and declared that the President's head went violently forward (indicating the headshot came from the back) but as anyone watching the film from 1975 on can see, the movement was backward. Rather's career took off soon after, ultimately reaching a $6,000,000 paycheck as CBS Evening News anchorman. When asked why he had described the movement as forward, he said, "I must have blinked."

The famous muckraking reporters of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century are long gone. Clark Kent and Lois Lane would be ashamed. The biggest story of the 29th century was never really investigated by the American press. Why? View Operation Mockingbird (not Marvel's Bobbi Morse), about the CIA infiltration of American journalism:

"Conspiracy FACT #3: Operation Mockingbird" (Watch on YouTube)