What motivates much of the conspiracy theorizing is not so much evidence, but the notion that a pathetic nonentity could not have taken out America’s greatest president and changed the course of American history. He just had to have been a victim of conspiracy involving powerful people.
If someone presents hard and credible evidence that JFK was a victim of a conspiracy and that Oswald was innocent, then I will believe it. But so far, after half a century, none of the conspiracy mongers have even come up with the name of the Real Killer.
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Then there is the fact that everyone involved in the coverup got big-time promotions.
LBJ went from a vice-president under congressional criminal investigation to a president who would win the biggest re-election landslide since FDR in 1936.
Dan Rather and Bob Scheiffer went from being minor players on a Dallas network affiliate to national newsroom anchors.
Arlen Specter went from being a minor player in a Philadelphia law firm who represented such wonderful defendants as Ira Einhorn to a U.S. Senate seat.
J. Edgar Hoover went from being head of an FBI about to be ousted for his homosexuality to holding the position for the remainder of his life.
Gerald R. Ford went from being a minor congressman from Michigan's 5th district to becoming the first appointed President in U.S. history.
I could go on, but you get the idea. Those who cooperate with the Deep State are richly rewarded.
Beyond the issue that the assassination of a standing President by somebody with ties (however one-sided) to Communism, the Soviet Union, and Castro’s Cuba would, if known, likely have had the American populace clamoring for war (which the ruling class obviously did not want, at least not outside their own terms)....
What could frighten the ruling class (indeed any rulers) more than the notion, among the broad populace, that one person acting on their own could have such an enormous impact on their masters? It simply *had* to have been a grand conspiracy, far beyond the grasp or reach of any commoner....