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The Truth JFK

An image of John F. Kennedy captioned "THE TRUTH". (PROSE: Who Am I? [+]Joseph Lidster, Cheapserve website fiction (BBC, 2006).)

You may be looking for the Monk's "Truth".

The truth was information that was true.

History[]

In March 2005, Staff Sergeant A. Frederick told other UNIT officers on a secure operations board that, following Operation Mannequin, that "simple truth acknowledgement and standard position [was] maintained". (PROSE: Operation Mannequin [+]BBC webteam, U.N.I.T. (BBC, 2005).)

At the same time, Mickey Smith took over the Who is Doctor Who? website to prove the truth about the Doctor to the world. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).) A tribute for Clive was put up on the website where it was mentioned Clive had many dreams and hopes of uncovering the truth. (PROSE: Dummy Massacre [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).) Around a week later, Mickey wrote more about his undertaking to prove the truth to the world, about how he had assumed Clive's mantle and how the truth was too uncomfortable and scary for most people to handle, hence their willingness to forget. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)

After the Slitheen craft crashed into the River Thames on 6 March 2006, Mickey, (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) going by "Mx", wanted Rose Tyler to tell everyone the truth about the Doctor, given his own efforts to uncover information about the Doctor weren't truly successful despite his best efforts. (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)

When Mickey shared the passwords to the UNIT website to the readers of his website a couple of days later, he told them to "nose around" to find "hair-raising" truths about how the Slitheen weren't the first aliens mankind has met which UNIT had dealt with. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)

During the Sycorax invasion of Earth on 25 December 2006, (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005).) Sgt A Frederick believed that UNIT should only tell the press "as much of the truth as they can handle." (PROSE: Project Rooftop [+]BBC webteam, U.N.I.T. (BBC, 2005).)

In 2007, David R, a conspiracy theorist, had a picture of John F. Kennedy on his Cheapserve profile, with the words "the truth" on it. (PROSE: Who Am I? [+]Joseph Lidster, Cheapserve website fiction (BBC, 2006).)

In around mid-2010, George Thompson believed that he knew the truth about his elderly neighbour Mrs Rossiter — that she was really a witch. (PROSE: My Special Book [+]Mark Gatiss, The Brilliant Book 2012 (The Brilliant Book 2012 fiction, BBC Books, 2011).) She was not a witch. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011).)

In the "Shadow World", the Veritas contained a truth so powerful those who knew it committed suicide; (TV: Extremis [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).) this truth was that everyone and everything was a simulation. The Veritas only existed in this simulation, however, one source posited that it may potentially exist in the real universe too. (PROSE: "Earth" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Simon Guerrier, Una McCormack and Jonathan Morris, BBC Books (2023).)

When Davina McCall asked Ruby Sunday what she was hoping for should she and her team find somebody from her family, she replied "Just the truth." (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2023 (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Sutekh's use of the perception filter to create an entirely new person with the face of Susan Triad in each place the Doctor's TARDIS landed in meant that each of these people had a character, a history and a truth about them, despite not previously existing. (TV: Empire of Death [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)

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