Posted on 10/19/2015 7:00:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
The case against Oswald is overwhelming.
Lots of people gained, just like lots of people lost. Lots of people didn't get hurt. That's not evidence. Who does the evidence say did it? Oswald.
Yes, that is what the government says,,,isn’t it?
And I guess that’s why Truman wrote his OpEd 4 weeks after the assassination, saying the CIA had gotten completely out of control.
JFKs body was barely cold, and a respected ex president comes out saying the CIA is out of control. And that means nothing to you,,
Go back to sleep.
“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.”
Harry Truman,
27 days after JFKs funeral.
I’m kidding around, I don’t care for conspiracy theories and the Kennedy mystique makes me wanna hurl.
He came to stop the infighting between Johnson and Ralph Yarborough, the liberal senator from Texas. The two mean loathed one another. So Kennedy forced them to ride in the same car. Kennedy’s death effectively ended Judge Yarborough’s career.
“Oswald didn’t do it. I think he was set up.”
Then why did Oswald murder Dallas police officer JD Tippet in front of a dozen witnesses in the hour after the assassination?
Is that normal behavior when a police officer wants to question you?
“I have no doubt LHO was taking shots at him that day. My only question is if he was alone.”
John Barron’s “Operation Solo” had an interesting sidelight on that.
“Solo” was the code name for our greatest spy during the Cold War, Morris Childs. Morris Childs was a very high level member of the CPUSA who volunteered to become a spy for us in 1952. He routinely travelled to Moscow and knew all of the Soviet ruling class on a first name basis.
On the day that Kennedy was assassinated Childs was in Moscow with all of the Soviet bigwigs. They were riveted by the news just like we were here in the US. They all began speculating about who could have done it, just like here. Childs was in Moscow for a long time and there never was the slightest hint of complicity by Russia. And they all spoke freely around Childs, he was privy to virtually every Soviet secret.
So we quickly knew with something like certainty that the Russians weren’t involved. Maybe Castro might have been, but if he was he wasn’t sharing that with his Soviet benefactors.
“so the Left created these idiotic theories that now half of FR suckles from.”
Isn’t that the sad truth.
They all parrot Mark Lane, author of “Rush to Judgment”. The same Mark Lane who was a volunteer with the National Lawyer’s Guild, the Communist front group. Mark Lane who was once the VP candidate on a Peace and Freedom Party ticket.
The difference is that Mark Lane and his ilk knew that their theories were garbage, garbage intended to fool people whom they called useful idiots. Apparently that plan worked like a charm.
“As to what motivated Oswald? “
Oswald was a wannabe Communist. When he was a Marine at El Toro he harangued the other Marines with his Communist claptrap. When he left the Marines he emigrated to Russia, where the Soviets regarded him as a loser and were glad to see him go back to the US. Oswald then tried to cultivate the Cubans but they were suspicious of him. He may well have thought that killing Kennedy would win him Castro’s approval. Whatever his thinking was the assassination fit in with his hard Left politics.
One thing’s for sure: the modern urge for confiscatory gun control began when they held up Oswald’s surplus rifle & LBJ called it “mail order murder”.
Took five years for LBJ to put teeth in that belief. Thank goodness Ronald Reagan began letting the air out of the gungrabber’s rhetoric while he was President.
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Nice commentary, but dead wrong...he should tune in to Levin more often.
“Before you go off, I have read dozens of books, seen all the films, gone to lectures, even visited the assassination site. Oswald did it.”
Do you think you are alone in reading books on the assassination? I have read a few, myself.
Jim Garrison (book: Heritage of Stone) was the first, I think, to publish his findings. Garrison said he got suspicious after the assassination when there was a deluge of information that spilled out about Oswald a bit too quickly, as in people who were following a script. During his investigation, he had eye witnesses who saw all the conspirators together at the Lake Front Airport in New Orleans. When it came time for the trial, they all chickened out and left him high and dry.
I don’t know much about Mark Lane except that Garrison gave him access to his files on the investigation of the assassination, and I always thought that was a mistake.
There are mind boggling vignettes, connections with people, concerning the murder, that have cropped up, here and there, and have been substantiated by credible authorities.
The Zapruder film was edited before it was released. Why? There was another film of the murder that was never released.
However, I will not delve into all that and resolve it to your satisfaction when there have been thousands of books written exploring the topic. Most of the books would not agree with you, or Rush. It is like most things; people pick and choose the sources they want to believe.
It is extremely politic, politically correct, to decide to choose Oswald acted alone. You can then walk tall and assert that you are too brilliant to be captivated by conspiracy theories; that you have immense faith in government to always tell you the truth.
When I read Best Evidence I was convinced there was a conspiracy. So don’t think I’m politically correct.
Jim Garrison was the worst of the worst. His entire conspiracy case was built on a single witness who told seven different versions of his story. He failed to win a conviction of course.
There’s much more money to be made selling false conspiracy stories than the plain truth. So almost everything everyone “knows” about the assassination is wrong:
No one saw anyone in the sixth floor “sniper’s nest.” Not true. Witnesses below Oswald heard the shots, the working of a bolt action rifle, and shell casing hitting the floor. Also, a young boy saw a rifle barrel protruding from the window and then withdraw after the killing.
JFK’s head moves backward. It doesn’t, until after it moves forward. A world renowned physicist explained “the jet effect” that caused the misinterpreted movement. Most of the blood and brain matter landed toward the front of the car, not the rear. Furthermore, those who’ve witnessed shootings know that bodies don’t always move in the direction the bullet travels.
Emergency room doctors claimed the wounds were consistent with shots from the front. One doctor, who did not actually attend to JFK in 1963, made that claim years after the fact. Those actually working on the dying president stated that autopsy records showing entry wounds in back and exit wounds in front were consistant with what they observed at the time.
The “Magic Bullet” was pristine. It wasn’t, it was deformed. Connelley’s wound showed the shot came from the rear, and the oblong shape showed it was tumbling when it struck him, consistantwith both men being hit.
No one has ever been able to duplicate Oswald’s marksmanship. Wrong, multiple tests have recreated the events.
The rifle was no good. Actually, the rifle’s muzzle velocity exceeded the M1 Garand, with the scope leading up and slightly to the right, the direction the motorcade was moving. Because of the geometry of the situation, the target remained almost stationary relative to Oswald, only moving away and ever so slightly to the right.
Shall I go on?
“mail order murder”
Years later, I found that Thomas J Dodd and Emanuel Cellar wanted a ban on army surplus military rifles as the import of such weapons were undercutting Winchester, Remington and Savage as these companies were in the states represented by Dodd and Cellar.
Whereas a Winchester bolt action cost close to $45 dollars back then, a person could pick an army surplus rifle up at a local hardware store for $5-10 dollars.
The murder of JFK simply gave impetus to their demand to ban 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles, which was done with the passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
They also wanted to ban the import of foreign low cost small handguns. The hysteria following the murder of Bobby Kennedy brought in such a ban.
The anti-gunners were so thrilled they forgot to notice the handgun used by a PALESTINIAN Immigrant to kill Bobby was NOT among the handguns to be banned.
RFK would have been President if not murdered.
“Shall I go on?’
No.
I have heard all of that. As I said, we can pick our authorities.
You are wrong about Garrison having only one witness. That is laughable. Did you happen to read his book? However, he was required by law not to mention Clay Shaw or anything connected with him in the book. I suppose that was what made it fascinating. After Clay Shaw died (?), the coroner said, “Gosh, I didn’t mean to let him be buried without an autopsy!! It won’t happen again.”
E. Howard Hunt made a death bed confession about his involvement, but of course it has been maligned.
And, of course, there is LBJ’s mistress, and there is that woman who was stopped/arrested in Lafayette, Louisiana on Nov. 22, ‘63 who told the police that JFK was to be murdered that day. This happened prior to the fact.That was duly noted, and people say, “Isn’t that a coincidence!!”
Years ago back in the 1960s, POPULAR MECHANICS examined the shooting of JFK. The article was written by (then) Congressman Gerald Ford.
One of the binding ties that placed Oswald as the shooter in the building, and the rifle was a small thread caught in the butt plate of the rifle that matched Oswald’s shirt he had on at the time.
Several years ago, a TV show recreated the shooting by using dummies in a car arranged as the Kennedy car was arranged. From a tower, the exact height and distant from the car, a professional shooter, using the same model Italian rifle, ammo from the same lot number fired several rounds and the bullets hit and bounced around, creating the exact same wounds in the dummies as were found on Kennedy and John Connally.
Of course, silly me! Every seasoned investigator takes the word of an obscure woman years after the fact, and ignores the mountain of evidence from the crime scene.
Oh, wait!
“According to Perry, he and his wife met Brown at a social function a few years after she made her original allegations but did not find her story to be believable.[3] He said he initially decided to investigate Brown’s conspiracy claim of Johnson and other notable individuals attending a party at Murchison’s house.[3] Perry pointed to evidence placing key figures outside of Dallas on the evening of November 21, 1963, including Johnson (with Kennedy in Houston and in Fort Worth), Murchison (in East Texas), and Hoover (in Washington, D.C.).[3] He said that while Nixon was in Dallas at that time, a writer for The Dallas Morning News had placed him at a bottlers convention in the downtown area.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Duncan_Brown
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