I had no idea that the author of "Case Closed" was asking for the case to be "reopened"
The link is not working...thought that you might want to know.
Bush’s Fault.
Lee Harvey Oswald. By himself.
Truth hurts!
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Second, try as they might, NO ONE has been able to produce the sound of a fourth shot (let alone other shots) on the dictaphone recording. I have listened to it. There are clear differences in the motorcycle backfire and the shots (again, see #1).
Third, I think there is a huge difference between admitting (which Posner does NOT do) that there are unanswered questions raised by David Lifton and perhaps by Howard Donahue and concluding that there was another/were other gunman or gunmen. I don't see the two as mutually exclusive. For example, Lifton claims that the body appeared to have undergone a "pre-autopsy," and he establishes without question (I think) that the body arrived at the back of Bethesda, in a black ambulance, unloading a grey shipping casket with JFK inside. If true, that in no way means LBJ "did it." Rather, it means that LBJ, terrified that the Russkies may have killed JFK, wanted to know the "skinny" before the "official" word leaked out so he would be prepared to deal with a potential nuke war if necessary.
Another thing to consider: Bobby Kennedy, not J. Edgar Hoover, was the most powerful law enforcement person on earth. Whatever happened, his actions must be accounted for. Why didn't he order a full-scale investigation? There are several potential explanations. One is that he KNEW what JFK was up to, and didn't want all those "skeletons" revealed, particularly the Cuban stuff and the bimbos. Another, more intriguing alternative, is that Donahue is right: that Lee Harvey Oswald fired two shots, hitting JFK once and severing his spine, but that the third shot, the head shot, came from an AR-15 directly behind JFK . . . in the Secret Service trail car (photos validate such a weapon directly behind JFK at the time of the shooting, in the hands of agent George Hickey). Donahue argues that Hickey picked up the rifle, began to turn as he flipped the safety off, and slipped, discharging the weapon in JFKs direction and hitting him.
Seems far-fetched, but again, think of Bobby: aside from my first explanation, this is the ONLY other explanation as to why he would not have exhausted all resources looking for the "killer." He knew who the killers were---Oswald and the accidental shooter, an SS agent. What would have been the value in allowing THAT to come out into the public? So pin it all on Oswald, who was guilty anyway, and seal it up.
The point is, there are a lot of explanations that tie up the loose ends without getting into looney tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SHOUT?
YOU THINK WE ARE DEAF?
Best theory I heard to date was a caller on some late night talk show who said it was a suicide. Claimed Kennedy shot himself and had the whole theory worked out with answers for everything.
Had to give him credit for original thinking if nothing else....
LOL.
Yeah, all-caps reporting enhances the credibility of any report. It’s not like it makes the author look like a barking loon or anything.
Why wouldn't he? If he believes the evidence will support his hypothesis, why not bring all the evidence to light? Silence just breeds rumors.
Cigarette smoking man?
OK, so I *should* actually read the article...
Who really did kill Kennedy?
Talbot’s got his own ideas, seen through RFK’s eyes
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/13/RVG5FPLIMF1.DTL&type=books
Well I was thirteen when John Kennedy died. After I heard Oswald had spent time in Russia, I thought that Kruschev had ordered it because Kennedy had embarrassed him during the Cuban missle crisis.
Well why not? Do conspiricies end at the border of the US?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828428/posts?page=374#374
Shooter 2.5 has done a good job in various postings focusing on the actual facts which demonstrate there were not multiple shooters who struck Kennedy.
I have yet to see anyone offer a sensible, persuasive counter-response to this evidence. All of the “multiple shooter” theories appear to be based on misrepresentations, like the claim that the force of the bullet in the head shot forced Kennedy’s head backwards, when the film evidence shows that his head went forwards at the moment of impact, and that the backward jerk of the head happened after, not at the moment of impact.
Or the misrepresentation than JFK and Connolly were seated at the same height in the limo, and therefore only an impossible “magic” bullet could have shifted upwards in midair to strike both men.
Or, that just because the Warren Report was slipshod, that in and of itself proves that Oswald was not the one who killed JFK, rather than simply proving the fact that the staff was sloppy.
There is certainly ground for speculation that others may have encouraged Oswald in the killing and that Jack Ruby protected other unknown people by killing Oswald, but the physical evidence clearly demonstrates that Oswald fired the shots that struck the limo and its occupants from the school book depository. His guilt in this matter is further supported by the fact that Oswald shortly afterwards killed Officer Tippett.
The mafia. I like Sam Giancana’s book Double Cross.
Mr. Robinson,
When did Free Republic turn into the National Inquirer?
Respectfully Your’s,
Shooter 2.5
If you don`t accept that LHO was a lone assassin than so be it.
You will likely never get the satisfaction of learning anything more.
I just can`t help but wonder after close to half a century later,with all that has happened and changed in the world,what difference it makes.
“Who really did kill Kennedy?”
Hmmm...Oswald?
...is an idiot and gives new meaning to the term "etard".