Posted on 11/08/2015 5:41:03 AM PST by Libloather
Anyone who’s been to the School Book Depository building and looked out that window knows this was not some amazing impossible shot. It’s not a mile away as conspiracy theorists would have you believe. It’s pretty damn close. Not a tough shot for a reasonably good marksman with a scope — let alone a Marine-trained one.
That CANNOT be an accurate picture .... must be photo shopped or something. Everyone knows Brian Williams was IN THE CAR with Kennedy ...... the bullet barely missed him!!!!!
I think Oswald was the lone shooter.
After one accepts that, there are still a lot of really odd things going on. Oswald being killed by a Mob guy is one of the big ones.
My guess is that Oswald did it by himself but there are still other possibilities. The Mob or Castro are the most likely.
JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald- and 50 years of conspiracy nonsense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3352754/posts
The Left can’t face the fact that a Commie did it, they were convinced it just had to be come Right-Wing conspiracy.
And before anyone says it ...a secret service guy didn’t accidentally shoot Kennedy either...Every year The Reelz channel replays that totally disproven documentary ...and every time they do ...someone still laps it up ...
LOL!!!
Did he say what caliber? The XP-100 went on sale in 1963 and was only available in 221 Fireball at the time.
What happens when you create the “magic bullet”. Arlen Spector created a problem when he opened his mouth. Also what I find funny is how a bunch of people can see all the different views on this event!
Hey, pal, I didn’t create the documentary, I just watched it.
The key words in my post: “Their conclusion.”
After 52 years, I don’t really care anymore.
People will be debating this crime for centuries to come.
“Oswald writes a fairly coherent report of his time in the Soviet Union with lots of critical detail of the Soviet system, yet he’s a “committed Marxist”.”
And also Oswald the committed communist Cuba supporter decides to shoot Kennedy, who was under deep criticism for not going to war with Cuba, and for the thaw going on with Kruschev.
So Oswald the Communist decides to shoot someone under deep criticism for being soft on Communism.
On the other hand the murder sure did benefit the CIA and Joint Chiefs agenda, and also the mob agenda who lost Cuba and was under attack by Bobby.
To solve this, just look at who benefited.
Don’t know what BS doc you were watching, but the Grassy Knoll was on JFK’s side of the frigging car.
The entry is very narrow and actually imparts relatively little direct force. As bullet traverses the skull it dumps energy/pressure into the contents. The exit blows a larger hole where the now pressurized brain matter exits like a rocket, forcing the head toward the shooter.
"It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security. If such a non-entity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disporoportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that it absurd.â€
Within 30 days of the Murder, here is what Harry Truman decided was the most important topic to discuss. Harry knew exactly who did it. And he didn’t have a reputation as a liar, coward, or as an idiot.
Kennedy is murdered, and Truman immediately grabs paper and writes -this-
“INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21.
I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.
I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President’s performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility.
Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work.
But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what’s worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.
Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department “treatment” or interpretations.
I wanted and needed the information in its “natural raw” state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.
Since the responsibility for decision making was his—then he had to be sure that no information is kept from him for whatever reason at the discretion of any one department or agency, or that unpleasant facts be kept from him. There are always those who would want to shield a President from bad news or misjudgments to spare him from being “upset.”
For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about “Yankee imperialism,” “exploitive capitalism,” “war-mongering,” “monopolists,” in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.
I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”
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