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JFK conspiracy theories are the only official establishment and government-sanctioned conspiracy theories.
An establishment conspiracy theory is a contradiction in terms. When liberal publishers and movie directors rush to put out materials promoting a conspiracy theory, it’s not only not challenging or exposing anything, it is a cover-up.
And we know what the JFK cover-up was about from Day 1.
At the height of the Cold War, an American Communist who had defected to the USSR, tried to defect to Cuba, who had previously tried to assassinate other patriots, murdered the president of the United States.
He did it in the name of his leftist politics.
That simple fact could not be allowed to stand. It would have moved the U.S. toward an unthinkable military confrontation with the USSR. It would have also led to public demand for a crackdown on the Left.
And so the actual facts had to be suppressed. They were suppressed with conspiracy theories. Oswald had to die in a way that would raise questions. The story had to be tangled in more questions. All of this was not done to get to the truth, but to obscure it.
After the latest JFK dumpster dive, there’s once again nothing there. And there never will be.
There’s no cover-up to be unearthed except the conspiracy theories themselves. Much like the UFO panic, the government and its political allies helped manufacture conspiracy theories to cover up what happened.
And what happened is that the Left got away with one of the worst crimes in American history. Again.
Here I disagree with you Daniel. There is way too much evidence pointing toward LHO not doing this. Some even argue he was not even on the 6th floor. The kill shot most definitely came from the front.
I’m thinking this is the fruition of the presidential warning by Eisenhower. “beware of the military industrial complex (more specifically the intel portion).”
If you watch the Zapruder film you can easily see that a shot came from the front. Kennedy’s head snapped backwards and the brains went on the truck deck. A shot from to the back of the head would not have done this.
Actually, you can easily see that Kennedy was shot in his right temple. Who says he was shot in the back of the head?
Nonsense.
Compare the Zapruder film to any high speed footage of bullets passing through vegetables.
The Zapruder film shows an EXIT wound, followed by the President’s body being thrown backwards
because the limousine takes off.
That simple.
Not proof that Oswald shot him, but the bullet came from 6 o’clock high, which would be the book depository.
BTW _ go to the location.
Only a space alien or time traveler could shoot from the grassy knoll without hundreds of eye witnesses.
And be standing on a ladder too. In the back parking lot of a police station.
That’s the nature of this conspiracy. No one is ever bothered by the shooter having to stand on a ladder. Only that he was in the parking lot of a police station. So obviously, the Dallas police were in on it.
Yes, and the first group of photos I pulled up online clearly show the book depository and Dealy Plaza. And in the Zapruder film, JFK clearly gets shot without his head jerking back immediately, like you noted.
Oswald did it.
I don’t know why Jack Ruby assassinated him, though. Maybe the Mafia felt they owed JFK a favor because they helped get him elected? I’d be much more interested in the files on that assassination than the JFK one, which are just as boring as most people predicted.
JFK: (The Smoking Gun) 2013
Collin McClarem – Dir.
1:29:42
This answers a lot of questions.
Kennedy was shot in his right temple. Watch the Zapruder film. Oswald did it from his sniper position. Rifle, position and ballistics prove it. He was caught red handed. He was only about 75 yards away and everybody in the back seat of the care were sitting on raised seats which made Kennedy an easy target.
The real evidence shows that Oswald alone killed JFK and that there was no conspiracy. There was nobody on the grassy knoll and no second shooter. For years I believed Oswald was innocent. However, an objective examination of all the evidence led me to the unescapable conclusion of his guilt. See in particular Gerald Posner’s book Case Closed and Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Bugliosi and Posner’s books have been destroyed by JFK assassination scholars.
No, they haven’t.
Paid in full when Castro Died and teary eyed liberals wept when Castro croaked and ended up in the place of Fire and Brimstone
Great points.
I used to think that Oswald wasn’t alone, but as I look at the evidence, I’m thinking he was.
A local vocal conservative in my home town told an interesting story a few years ago at a conservative club meeting I attended. He said that he was attending a left-wing college at the time of the assassination. In one class where everyone knew he was a conservative, the professor pointed his finger straight at him the day that JFK was shot and said that it was because of people like him that the president was dead.
Of course, the OPPOSITE ended up being true, but the myth of the “Right” being responsible remains.
My very FAVORITE quote about what happened came from Jackie Kennedy who said at the time…
“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little communist.”
I’ve been a shooter of rifles and golf balls since 1956. I was an Army officer from 1968-82. I visited Dealy plaza on foot and quite by accident during a walk around downtown Dallas in 2007. The book depository was and is still there. Looking up at the source of the alleged shot from Elm St , it was clear that such a shot was almost straight down from 7+ stories up and the car would have been moving 50 feet / second from left to right across the shooters sight line. I concluded that making that shot was about as difficult as making a hole-in-one on a 200 yard par 3….. I HAVE made ONE hole in one on a 200 yard par 3 in 68 years of trying. So the shot IS possible but …
Then I walked up to the top of the “grassy knoll” next to the former T&P RR tracks. From there the shot was shorter, only slightly downhill, and at the point of the shot the car WOULD have moving straight TOWARD the shooter and not across his field of vision… more like hitting an 8 iron to inside 8′ on a short par 3.
“….almost straight down from 7+ stories up and the car would have been moving 50 feet / second…..”
Bullshit and double bullshit. The book depository building is only 7 stories tall and Oswald was on the 6th floor only about 75 yards away. The care was barely moving, as the Zapruder film clearly shows.
That was an easy shot but Oswald still only got one head shot out of three.
In Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK,” they raised the question of why Oswald waited for the limo to turn that corner. The easier shot. Why did Oswald not take that shot? Because he was a coward who prefered to shoot a man in the back.
If it turns out there really was a second shooter, then he was the one with the pair on him to shoot JKF in the face.
I dobn’t know about that but after JFK turned the corner, he was on the diagonal street that ran right in front of the book depository building.
Oswald did it.
Yes, you’re right. I was just speculating.
What impressed me when I was there was how small the area was and how Oswald had a perfect vantage to shoot down on JFK. I remember thinking, heck, even I could have done it and I am not much of a gun guy..
As you Oswald was on the SIXTH FLOOR of the building, But the 1st floor of the building was located on ground that was above where the car was on Elm street as it headed down to the railroad underpass when the shot was fired. Check it out some day.
I was wrong about the speed. It was actually reported as 11 MPH or about 16 feet/second. That is still not an easy shot with a rifle aimed 75 degrees down at a target moving in 3 dimensions. Furthermore “recreations” of the shot are not reliable. As Rory demonstrated at Pinehurst its a lot easier to sink a 5′ putt on the practice putting green than it is to sink it to win the US Open.
I don’t know. All I know is that I could’ve made that shot and I haven’t had any training whatsoever. I just have naturally good hand eye coordination. Nebraskans and Iowans thought I had military training back when I lived there.
Aerial photos of Dealy Plaza are all over the internet. Google keeps scrubbing the Zapruder film but it keeps popping back up so I was able too find it.
JFK’s car was moving very slowly and he was seated on a raised pedestal. It was an easy shot. Oswald did it.
Nonsense.
Most of that’s in your head.
It’s an easy 240 foot shot at a target moving less than jogging speed.
Only two questions exist: Did Oswald pull the trigger? Did anyone help him or the shooter?
The only criticism is the weapon itself – an Italian piece of junk. The bullets were consistent with the weapon, but I suppose a question could arise as to whether that weapon – which belonged to Oswald, was the murder weapon.
But – seriously – I could and did make such shots with an AR15 with very little difficulty – when I was a kid in the Army.
So I’m not sure what you’re experience was.
BTW – I have also been down there on several occasions. I don’t live far away.
It’s a tiny place. My back yard is bigger than Daley plaza.
6.5mm Carcanos get a lot of criticism, but most of it is well and truly undeserved.
They were quite a decent rifle and quite capable of making that shot.
Excuse me, but the Carcano carbines available in 1963 were parts guns. The Allied forces after Italy’s defeat ordered all military armaments destroyed, so what Klein’s sold were assemblies made from spare parts. Most were just plain junk. In fact, the gov’t shooters who tested Oswald’s gun refused to fire it after a few rounds as the firing pin was too rusted to be safe.
And yet Oswald assassinated a President anyway,
Why frame Oswald with such a crappy rifle? Stupidity? Or just incompetence?
For a different take on the JFK papers read the last part of this newsletter, https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mongoose-love-thursday-march-20-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=159480509&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3e1jy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Here’s the bottom line on this matter:
The people who know the full unadulterated truth about why JFK was assassinated are all dead and so are the people behind it all. Ergo, the American people can never and will never know the truth about why it happened. Moreover, it’s naive and delusional to think otherwise.
But compelling conspiracy theories sells books so prepare….
Oswald is the most likely suspect.
And Daniel is quite right that anyone and everyone has been blamed – except Oswald the communist.
That said, the real conspiracy – the one no one seems to care about:
How did Oswald come back? (He was virtually deported by the Soviets who thought he was a nut job.)
Who gave him a pass? He was AWOL at one point – an issue that was never clarified. He defected. That’s treason.
Who made it possible for him to just waltz back into the USA and avoid spending even 2 years in Leavenworth?
There are many such questions.
The Conspiracy Theories have all been post hoc – blaming 1963 America and the ’63 American government for the assassination
because of the Bravo Sierra we’ve been forced to eat by the post-Vietnam Federal government.
Plainly put: Space Aliens shot JFK because the anti-American, pro-communist government committed fill-in-the-blank-with-your=favorite-crime against America in the interim.
But it’s obvious:
Communists had infiltrated the government, and they have continued to bleep us, and
the communists just do not want us to connect the dots.
We can call it an entrenched bureaucracy if we want.
But they’re not even good bureaucrats..
Their only qualification is: They hate our guts. And their only achievements are causing damage, destruction, and death.
Thank you, Danniel.
Does everyone forget? No one mentioned an important aspect of the culture at the time and as it is now.. the major media immediately blamed the right wing over most of the nations radio stations as I personally recall and some of the major news TV stations insinuated it was a right wing fanatic.
Before he shot and killed President Kennedy, he shot a General Walker and his Texas home and was never arrested for an attempted murder.
General Walker was a hero of the John Birch Society
Yes, he shot at General Walker from the ally behind Walker’s home. He was never arrested for doing so because the case was only solved after the JFK shooting when it was discovered that the bullet in the Walker case was shot from the same gun that Oswald shot JFK with.
Wrong. The bullet pried out of the wall in Walker’s house was a 30.06. Walker himself did not believe that it was Oswald.
Wow! My respect for Daniel Greenfield just took a major hit. If he read the book The Final Analysis by David Mantik, MD, PhD, he would learn that the lone gunman theory has been conclusively disproved by forensic analysis of the JFK autopsy X-rays. The book didn’t come out until 2024, but he had already disproved the lone-gunman theory way back in 1993, at the ASK conference in Dallas at the 30th anniversary of the assassination. Here is a synopsis that I wrote back then:
The third annual ASK conference, a major conference on the JFK assassination, was held near Dealey Plaza in Dallas from November 18-21, 1993. Dr. David Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. (physics) of the Peter A. Lake, M.D., Center in Rancho Mirage, California, proved conclusively by optical densitometry analysis that the JFK autopsy X-rays at the National Archives are phony composites. He also showed that a bullet could not have possibly traversed Kennedy’s neck, as the Warren Commission said it did, without also causing major damage to the cervical spine, which it did not. Mantik also found a clear trace of fragments from a second bullet to the brain. As if that weren’t enough, he also found an obvious metal object in the skull X-ray that matched the 6.5 mm bullet Oswald supposedly used, but which the autopsy pathologists swore under oath to be unaware of. Mantik’s five and seven year old children had no trouble finding the bullet fragment, yet three pathologists supposedly didn’t notice it in the X-rays! It was obviously added later to the X-ray in a pathetic attempt to frame Oswald.
see https://russp.us/case.htm for the full essay.
Thank you for writing this, so I didn’t have to. Mantik’s work, densitometry analysis of the extant radiographs, reveal the official narrative was an insulting lie to the American people.
The absurd single bullet scenario has the bullet exiting the front of JFK”s neck BEHIND the shirt collar and necktie knot. The neck wound observed by first responders at Parkland Hospital was clearly ABOVE the shirt collar and necktie knot. An ER nurse used a scalpel to cut away JFK’s necktie and while doing so also cut into the shirt collar. The WC asserted that those cuts to the tie and collar were from a bullet passing through JFK’s neck from back to front,
Keep in mind that the original starting point for the improbable path of the single bullet was a wound in JFK’s back below his right shoulder. Bullet hole in his coat and shirt line up with this location. Then it dawned on these evidence manipulators that the public would never buy their scheme with a bullet entering that far away from the back of the neck. So, they invented a non-existent wound “at the base of the back of the neck.” They didn’t have any autopsy photos or charts showing such a wound, so they had a medical illustrator draw some images showing what they needed.
In reality, exposes have shown that JFK assassination conspiracy theories almost all trace to Willis Carto’s publishing network. Right-wingers.
I had a policeman in my family in those days. He said the consensus among police was that JFK was killed to get his brother RFK removed as Attorney General because RFK savaged Jimmy Hoffa and the Chicago mob in public hearings. – and this was after the mob engineered the Chicago vote to JFK and thus swing the 1960 election away from Nixon. See, the police solve crimes and the first question you ask in any crime is Cui Bono or “To whose good”‘. Don’t forget Oswald was killed by the little Chicago crook Jack Ruby. And most of all do not forget that RFK was later killed by the some lunatic named Sirhan Sirhan during his 1968 run for President.
However, RFK Jr. asserts that the bullet that actually killed his father cam from behind – Sirhan was shooting from the front.
Daniel, you are right about most everything, but totally wrong about this. At its base, the JFK assassination was a homicide, murder by gunshot. There is not a single bit of forensic, eyewitness or any other kind of evidence that would convict Oswald in a legitimate homicide trial as opposed to the kangaroo court known as the Warren Commision, Oswald was the victim of a professionally choreographed frame-up. The WC didn’t participate in the frame-up, they just acquiesced to it along with the entire MSM which even to this day still does.
The basic basics. Numerous employees in the depository building and one Dallas police officer placed Oswald downstairs at a time which precluded him from being on the 6th floor from which no shots were fired by Oswald or anyone else. The model of the rifle found was not even stocked by the gun dealer where it supposedly came from. The paperwork associated with the ordering of that rifle has frame-up written all over it. The money order used didn’t even pass through the banking system. The rifle was never tested to see if it had been fired recently. Oswald’s prints were not on it. A test done to his cheeks showed that he had not fired a rifle recently.
In later years former Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry in an interview had this to say. ” We don’t have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle and never did. Nobody’s yet been able to place him in that building with a gun in his hand.”
Here is a question for Daniel Greenfield. Oswald had a high-level security clearance, and he defected to the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war. He boldly renounced his US citizenship and announced that he would fully cooperate with the Soviets. He then came back to the US a few years later, yet he was never charged with any crime. How is that possible? I’m dying to know.
Oswald was clearly a CIA asset and a double agent being groomed as a fall guy.
My confidence in your investigative abilities has been severely diminished by your absurd post. Please get a clue about the JFK assassination!
If every leftist with a security clearance works for the CIA, then the CIA would be the largest employer in America.
Oswald got his security clearance as a radar operator long before any of this happened.
And while a defector to the USSR should obviously not have been allowed back into the U.S., the government was and is rotted through with Communist sympathizers.
Oswald was far from the only American to defect and then realize life in the socialist homeland was not what it was cracked up to be.
The real question no one wants to ask is why the USSR let him go. Quite a few Americans who defected were never allowed to return. Ask Alexander Gelver if you can find his body.
And why the USSR even released Oswald’s ‘wife’ to join him?
And you might want to ask why you’re willing to blame everyone except the Communists for killing JFK?
Oswald was a US Marine at a sensitive military base with a high-level security clearance. He openly espoused Marxism, yet he was allowed to keep his clearance. That alone is fishy. Then he defected to the Soviet Union and announced that he would tell them everything he knew. If he were not a double agent, he would have been arrested and prosecuted for treason the minute he came back to the US, but that never happened. That is beyond fishy.
The fact is that it was the deep state that killed JFK. Back then, the deep state may have been “right wing”, but now it is “left wing”. In either case, the MIC was deeply involved and did not want JFK to end the Viet Nam war for one thing.
So the Deep state put a rifle in Oswald’s hands and forced him to shoot JFK?
Oswald was an open commie, and then some.
Daniel, we can argue about the communist angle all day long, but that doesn’t negate the basic facts that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at 12:30 that afternoon, and he didn’t own a rifle, and there is no forensic evidence of any kind showing that fired a rifle that day. As to the defection, a secretary who worked at the US Embassy in Moscow observed that Oswald seemed to have a relationship of sorts with the head people there. In a radio appearance after he returned to the US he made a verbal slip when he said that while he was in Russia he was under the protection of the US. A clerk at the State Dept. who was researching defections asked the CIA for a list of defectors who were real and not real. In a major screw-up by the CIA they actually sent him a list that included Oswald as not a real defector. When Oswald was in New Orleans he worked out of the office of one Guy Bannister. Bannister was a retired senior FBI agent, who once headed the Chicago office. He was violently anti-communist. Once when his secretary expressed some concern about Oswald associating with the wrong Cubans Bannister told her, don’t worry he is with us. A Senator whose name I can’t remember but I think it might have been Schwieker once said something along the lines of “With Oswald everywhere you look you see intelligence connections.”
My favorite flaw in the assassination evidence. First let me say that a shot or shots were fired from someplace to the read of the motorcade, but not from that particular window. There were hundreds of people milling around in Dealy plaza that afternoon, but the WC could only come up with one man who claimed he saw the whole thing. His description of what he saw had more holes in it than a colander, but the WC used him anyway because he was all they had.
Simple exercise. The next time you are across the street from a building with at least six floors, do this. Imagine it is a pleasant afternoon during the lunch hour. The streets are filled with people. Then all of a sudden someone fires three rifle shots in quick succession out one of the 6th floor windows. BAM, muzzle flash, smoke, BAM muzzle flash, smoke, BAM, muzzle flash, smoke. Then try to convince yourself that could have happened and you along with everyone else in the crown probably wouldn’t have even noticed it. That is what the WC would have you believe.
Osswald was a false defector to the USSR run by the CIA, particularly by a spook named James Angleton. When Oswald and his family arrived in Hoboken, NY aboard a Dutch passenger liner they were not met by the FBI or military police. They just went on their way like any other innocuous passengers. At one point in his employment history the “defector” gets a job with a defense contractor in Dallas that makes classified maps based on U-2 spy plane photos. Later the “defector” applies for a new passport good for travel to the USSR and gets within 24 hours.
When word spread about Oswald’s supposed defection the Marines, he used to work with didn’t buy it. They were in agreement that it had spook operation written all over it.
BTW Guess who the official CIA liaison to the WC was – that’s right James Angleton. And then there was former head of the CIA Allen Dulles on the WC itself.
Holy cow. I can’t believe you still believe the Oswald-did-it scenario. There is a veritable mountain of evidence that shows Oswald was not the gunman. Indeed, we have solid evidence that Oswald was not even on the sixth floor the Book Depository building when the shooting occurred but was downstairs eating lunch and watching the motorcade. I’m just very surprised to see anyone on FPM’s staff who still buys the Warren Commission’s fairy tale. It’s abject nonsense.
Just one example: Oswald supposedly used FMJ ammo, but the ammo that hit JFK’s head behaved nothing like an FMJ round. No FMJ bullet in the known history of forensic science has ever deposited a single fragment, much less several fragments, on the outer table of the skull at its entry point and then left a snowstorm of tiny fragments at the opposite end of the skull from the entry point. Even Dr. Larry Sturdivan, a wound-ballistics experts with the House Select Committee on Assassinations, has admitted that the 6.5 mm object on the outer table of the skull seen on the JFK autopsy skull x-rays could not possibly be an FMJ missile. Not on this planet.
I’m just very surprised to see the Oswald-did-it myth repeated on this website.
Oswald’s alleged shooting feat would have been anything but “easy.” When the Warren Commission conducted a rifle test with three Master-rated Army riflemen, not one of them was able to duplicate Oswald’s alleged shooting performance. Of their 21 shots, 19 missed the head and neck area of the target boards, even though they were firing from only 30 feet up (not 60 feet), were firing at stationary targets, were not firing through a half-open window in the cramped quarters of the sixth-floor sniper’s nest, and were allowed to take as much time as they wanted for their first shot (a luxury that Oswald would not have had). Not one of their shots in the second and third series even hit in the head and neck area nor even in the lower-back area of the target boards.
A handful of riflemen, literally two or three, in later rifle tests barely managed to score two hits in three shots in under 10 seconds, superficially appearing to duplicate Oswald’s alleged shooting feat. However, these were all experienced riflemen, and the rifle tests did not include the alleged murder rifle itself but used other Carcano rifles (ones that were much better maintained than the alleged murder rifle), did not include firing in the cramped conditions in which Oswald would have had to fire, and allowed the riflemen to practice with the Carcano rifle shortly before the test. Furthermore, most of the riflemen in the later tests failed to duplicate Oswald’s supposed performance even under the above-mentioned easier conditions.
So it is simply erroneous to say that Oswald’s alleged shooting feat would have been “easy.” In fact, his supposed shooting feat has never actually been duplicated. No Oswald rifle test has ever included all the conditions under which Oswald supposedly fired (a half-open window and a cramped sniper’s nest among stacks of boxes with a large pipe near the window).
It should also be mentioned that Oswald was at best an inexperienced, mediocre rifleman. On his best day at a Marine Corps rifle range, he barely managed to qualify in the second of three rifle qualification categories, and that was while firing at stationary targets with a semi-automatic rifle (not a manual bolt-action rifle like the Carcano) and after days of practice just before the qualification firing.
What makes the WC’s rifle test so significant is that int included the alleged murder rifle itself, the Carcano rifle that was reportedly found on the sixth floor, from where Oswald allegedly fired his supposed three shots. The Master-rated riflemen who took part in the test reported that the alleged murder rifle had a difficult bolt and an odd trigger pull. In addition, the FBI found that the rifle’s scope not properly aligned.
All the later rifle tests, such as the 1967 CBS rifle test, used better Carcano rifles. None of the rifle tests ever involved participants who had the same limited rifle skills and experience that Oswald had. The House Select Committee found that those who saw Oswald shoot in a gun club in Russia said he was a poor shot. Nearly all of Oswald’s former Marine colleagues said he was a poor shot who had no interest in guns, and several of them noted that he was rather uncoordinated. David Ferrie, who knew Oswald well, said Oswald was a terrible shot.
The forensic evidence in the JFK autopsy skull x-rays proves Oswald was not the gunman. Oswald allegedly used fully metal jacketed (FMJ) ammo, but the JFK skull x-rays show that the ammo that hit JFK’s head could not have been FMJ ammo.
The skull x-rays show a few tiny fragments on the outer table of the skull near the presumed entry point on the back of the head, and they show a snowstorm of fragments in the right-frontal part of the skull. No FMJ bullet in the history of forensic science has ever deposited a single fragment, much less several fragments, on the outer table of the skull at/near its point of entry, nor has any FMJ bullet left a snowstorm of tiny fragments inside the skull.
Even Dr. Larry Sturdivan, a wound ballistics consultant for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, has acknowledged that the 6.5 mm fragment seen on the rear outer table of the skull in the JFK autopsy skull x-rays could not possibly have come from an FMJ bullet. Dr. Cyril Wecht, a former president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, stated that the 6.5 mm fragment could not have come from an FMJ bullet.
Not one of the FMJ bullets in the Warren Commission’s wound ballistics tests behaved in this manner. Not one of them deposited a single fragment at or near the entry point, and not one of them left dozens of tiny fragments inside the skull. FMJ bullets are in fact designed *not* to do these things. I might add that the skull damage done to the skulls in the Commission’s wound ballistics tests looked quite different from the damage done to JFK’s skull.
I discuss this evidence at length in my book “A Comforting Lie: The Myth That a Lone Gunman Killed President Kennedy.” I also discuss this evidence in an article on my JFK assassination website:
Forensic Science and President Kennedy’s Head Wounds
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYMrT9P4ab2BtENAqI_0dQSEY6IJWczi/view
I’m staying out of this rabbit hole. Instead, I’ll wait for Dale Gribble’s take on the whole affair before I venture into the deep end. I may be paranoid, but I try to be sensible about it.
Is this a serious article or clickbait? IOW, the real conspiracy theory is that there was no conspiracy? That the government planted seeds of doubt to cover up the fact that “THE LEFT,” however you define it, killed JFK because…just because he was anti-communist?
The author was obviously not around during the 60s, or if he was he was still reading comic books. That the US government purposely planted all these seeds of doubt to hide the fact that Oswald was a commie and JFK was not is simultaneously the simplest explanation and the most convoluted.
In 1963 there was no hesitation by the usual suspects (media, government, “experts”) to blame “Russia” (the USSR) and Communism for anything whatsoever. That’s back when “commie ….” (fill in the blank) was a general-purpose slur, an easy label for people who disagreed with you. Kind of like “Nazi” or “fascist” today.
By Thanksgiving, 1963 everybody in America plus his grandmother already knew of Oswald’s communist sympathies, his background,, his wife’s occupation, and the name of their pet turtle. Everybody, but everybody, was blaming the communists. That was the default position until the Warren Report surfaced, when the public became split between the conspiracy people and that era’s version of “RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!”).
The hubbub surrounding the document release, and the public reaction to it, simply reinforces the sad, sad conclusion that most of the things we see and read, that passes for news, is pure fabrication.
Whatever of it that is 100% factual is true only by coincidence, not by virtue of its accurate representation of fact.
Yours was the absolute last and final article I will ever voluntarily read on this subject. It’s clear we will never know what happened. And you know what? After 62 years of books and articles and podcasts I can finally say: I DON’T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT WHO KILLED KENNEDY (either one), MLK, Allende, Khaddafy, etc.
As long as they didn’t kill me or someone I know, I’m finally at peace.
That there was a conspiracy and that Oswald was a communist are not mutually exclusive.
I was in the Fifth Grade when this horrible thing happened and was watching the news at home when Ruby shot Oswald. I’m old now and there’s still no proof – definitive proof of who really shot JFK. I’ve seen the guy’s story how he was a hitman and he fired the shots – makes sense the way he told it – but was it true????
Compare the coverup with the July 13th attempt on PRESIDENT TRUMP! Why would the shooter be allowed to get that close? Why was THIS ONE carried LIVE when none of the others were? WHO “advised” cnn to cover live? Why was the shooter’s body cremated so quickly?? Who was in charge of the security and “clean up?
Why do PRESIDENTIAL assassinations not get solved???
They solved the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy. A
As far as cui bono, it would seem that the CIA had the biggest motive to off JFK. He distrusted the CIA, especially after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and was planning on eliminating or reducing them. Then as now, the CIA believes that they are in charge of national security and foreign policy, regardless of who the President is. We know what they’ve been up to in the Trump V1.0 and V2.o eras, and Chuck Schumer’s warning. The Mafia also had a dog in this fight, as pointed out, with Bobby rooting them out despite their help in getting JFK elected. Who pulled the trigger is irrelevant, really. Why he was put up to it is the question, and by whom. I find it hard to believe that this lone communist nut pulled it off alone, and was that motivated to do it.
The simplest theory is Oswald acted alone. One man is a simple as it gets, you must admit. And why does a lone gunman need help “pulling it off”? It was a crime of opportunity. Oswald read about Kennedy’s visit it in the paper, along with the route the President would be taking. Simple. Stupid to boot too, looking back. But that is in hindsight. Those times are said to have been simperler, and more innocent. John F. Kennedy’s assassination is what changed all that. But it was too late.
This may not be true, but is simple. With almost no moving parts. The bigger the conspiracy, the more moving parts it needs, requiring even more cover up. Or more risk, actually. A cover up is only needed if the conspiracy is discovered, right? So it would pretty dumb or incompetent on the part of whoever would be behind such a conspiracy, to allow anyone to discover it in the first place. Yet this vast conspiracy, with vast powers and reach, somehow managed to be discovered. And still got away with it. That’s not only unbelievable, it’s impressive. Give the devil his due, I guess.
Dans main point stands: oz was a leftists. Leftist plot. Deliberate obfuscation. Another shooter as well? Maybe. I doan know
Check out the 2023 documentary “JFK – What the Doctors Saw.” It discusses what no one on this thread has yet mentioned, that JFK’s skull was operated on before the autopsy was done at Bethesda. As I recall, part of his brain was missing. Also, in those days, the murder of a president was not yet a federal crime, meaning that the assassination was considered a local murder, raising questions as to why the body was autopsied at Bethesda instead of Parkland.