On 11/17/2020 at 1:34 PM, Gannan said:

So as not to pollute the election thread with our various conspiracy theories, we can talk about JFK here. As I've said before, I'm not a big conspiracy theory guy. I only believe in 2. The NBA draft lottery is rigged every year, and the CIA murdered JFK. 

The CIA had the motive and they had the ability to do so. Oswald's own mother said he was recruited by the CIA while he was in the Marines. The main evidence is Oswald's time in the Soviet Union. No regular citizen during the height of the red scare could move to the Soviet Union attempt to defect, then waltz back into the United States with his Soviet wife and daughter like nothing ever happened. Oswald was CIA all the way. 

 

Unless he was allowed in so they could spy on him…

Many have gone down the JFK assassination rabbit hole.  Amazingly, there are government files that still haven't been released to date.  Why is that?

I could see people studying this and digging in their heels on the conspiracy or lone gunman theory.  Good arguments can be made for both sides.  Either way AJ (and many others) can poke his holes and ridicule any argument.

And jsd - ask yourself this, suppose it was Oswald acting as a lone gunman.  And suppose there were no shots from the front - and everything came from the rear from the 6th floor window of the book depository building.  And the gun recovered was the murder weapon.  That still doesn't answer the critical question - what was the motive behind the murder?  Was Oswald sole motive that of deranged insanity?  Could he have been hired by somebody else?

Point is that Oswald is in large part a red herring (a meaningless, irrelevant diversion).  None of these reenactments go into Oswald's head and behind his motives.  At the end of the day, people don't argue conspiracy solely because of the grassy knoll theory - although that is a hotly debated topic in and of itself.  They also argue conspiracy for the reason that there were many actors with the means, opportunity and motive to have killed JFK.  He had a lot of bad ass enemies, and the murder took place in Texas of all places.  There is nothing to discount the possibility of a conspiratorial crime conducted with Oswald as the trigger man.  Where is the strong evidence to rebut that?  Why default to the position that Oswald killed him for the sole reason that he was a deranged lunatic and that he wasn't working with anybody else when he did it?

 

I found this explanation rather plausible, logical, and interesting.  Criminals are generally really stupid people -- is it possible Oswald was actually trying to assassinate the other guy in the car??  Oswald had nothing against Kennedy, but Marina Oswald testified to the HSCA that her husband hated Governor Connally intensely:

 

3 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I found this explanation rather plausible, logical, and interesting.  Criminals are generally really stupid people -- is it possible Oswald was actually trying to assassinate the other guy in the car??  Oswald had nothing against Kennedy, but Marina Oswald testified to the HSCA that her husband hated Governor Connally intensely:

 

I tape Baywatch.

On Betamax.

Little known fact: The Cuban Missile Crisis exposed the Globe Earth, but Kennedy demanded it be covered up. First the Flat Earth Command And Logistics (FECAL) attempted to blackmail Kennedy with the news about his affair with Marylin Monroe, but were foiled when Kennedy seemed pleased the news was 'leaked'.

50 years later and still no evidence of 2nd Shooter, no matter what Oliver Stone thinks.