The Kennedy Assassination-Did Oswald do it alone or was there a conspiracy? (war, general)
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What do you think? I think the assassination was planned out by a murkey underground of right wing anti-Castro Cubans and their supporters although I can't prove it.
What do you think? I think the assassination was planned out by a murkey underground of right wing anti-Castro Cubans and their supporters although I can't prove it.
Oswald did it by himself and for his own screwball reasons. Read "Case Closed".
The simplest explanations are generally the valid ones.
I say no and have never seen any valid evidence to conclude likewise. All the grassy knoll, magic bullet, sound recordings, etc counter-theories and counter-evidence have been explained and dismissed except to the hardcore consipracy guys and to those that simply do not know better.
It's like the 9/11 conspiracy theorists - there is some kind of pychological need in people to explain an otherwise senseless act with complex theories, as if to justify it with an important all-consuming act that can offer some kind of closure and satisfaction and comfort to people.
The truth is just too simple and senseless to people - a phycologically disturbed ex-marine (where he was a qualified marksman) with ambigous and confused personal political agendas took out a president from a raised position with a bolt-action rifle.
I like the theory where LBJ, J Edgar Hoover, Nixon and others had a meeting in Dallas the night before and arranged the whole thing. I dont believe it, but it was good entertainment.
There is absolutely no way that Oswald, who failed his marksmanship test on more than one occasion when he joined the Marines, could possibly have a) made a pinpoint shot at a moving vehicle, and b) been standing downstairs at street level no more than two minutes later.
Also, there is a regulation that a President's limo must be moving at a certain speed. Kennedy's was not. The whole thing was a setup, and when Oswald said (on television) that he was only a patsy, he was telling the truth.
John Kennedy had come to the conclusion that our involvement in Vietnam was an unholy mess, and he had resolved to do something about getting us out of there. For this, certain special interests wanted him out of the way. (For that matter, Kennedy had been asserting himself more and more as his term went on--he was no longer the inexperienced rookie by 1963. A horrible loss for our country, that he didn't get a chance to run for another term in 1964).
There is absolutely no way that Oswald, who failed his marksmanship test on more than one occasion when he joined the Marines, could possibly have a) made a pinpoint shot at a moving vehicle, and b) been standing downstairs at street level no more than two minutes later.
Also, there is a regulation that a President's limo must be moving at a certain speed. Kennedy's was not. The whole thing was a setup, and when Oswald said (on television) that he was only a patsy, he was telling the truth.
John Kennedy had come to the conclusion that our involvement in Vietnam was an unholy mess, and he had resolved to do something about getting us out of there. For this, certain special interests wanted him out of the way. (For that matter, Kennedy had been asserting himself more and more as his term went on--he was no longer the inexperienced rookie by 1963. A horrible loss for our country, that he didn't get a chance to run for another term in 1964).
Oswald was a proficient marksman. And the shots were easy anyway.
There are so many lies about this that have become "common knowledge" that reasonable discussion is difficult. If you haven't read "Case Closed" then you can't talk about this with credibility.
I'd like to know who the "interests" were that would kill a president to keep a minor war going.
I read " Case Closed" and it was well written but didn't convince me.
I don't think Vietnam had anything to do with JFK's murder. Something more along the lines of rogue CIA with Mafia...JFK was elected with heavy mob support, particularly Sam Giancana, and it was well known that they were exceedingly angry after he turned on them and went after them via his brother Bobby the Attorney General.
Sure, Oswald was capable. I just don't see him as having the motivation.
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