Posted on 01/13/2013 4:05:24 AM PST by fella
Edited on 01/13/2013 8:36:37 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told an audience at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas that he doesn't believe a lone gunman was responsible for his uncle's 1963 assassination.
DALLAS (AP)
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The family couldn't get the body in the ground fast enough. As AG, RFK could have publicly investigated the assassination. He knew who did it day 1, but he never wanted the public to know. The mafia won the '60 election for JFK and they thought he had crossed them.
“Why can’t we just leave these people alone.
Just let the Kennedy’s go away.
Let the Clinton’s go away.
Let the Bush’s go away”
I know many on here would argue about many of the policies put in place by the Bush’s however, unlike the Clintons and the Kennedy’s they don’t seem to run felons for public office, unlike the other two families. Therefore, they seem a lot more classy in that sense than the other two.
All Kennedy clan members have been scum of one variety or another.
However, it was a lone gunman that shot JFK. Anyone who’s ever been to Dallas and looked at the “spot” you realize just hwo confined it is and how it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Anyone reasonably competent with a rifle could have gotten this done.
I frankly just don’t care. I’m a big fan of history but this simply doesn’t merit the attention it gets. The transformative progressive advances made as a result merit far more attention than the actual assassination.
Bingo !
the mafia is my suspicion. One gunman withencouragement and help from Mafia.
While Vincent Bugliosi (tried Charles Manson and is the author of “Helter Skelter”) is a leftist, he also has a pretty good mind when he turns it to his specialty, which is law.
He wrote an excellent book about the JFK assassination called “Reclaiming History” that not only exhaustively dispelled nearly ever single assertion by the conspiracy theory people, but also buttressed most of the main points of the Warren Commission.
For example, one of the main contentions is that Oswald could have never fired as many shots as he did, as accurately as he did from the Mannlicher-Carcano. It was characterized as a cheap, inferior product, not accurate, and could not have done what it did. The Warren Commission not only showed contrary opinions from the US Army that the gun was not considered a cheap piece of crap (they considered it a capable weapon long before the assassination) but that a Marine Corps weapons expert could not only shoot the weapon as fast in an environment that simulated the range, speed, relative positions and size of target, but was able to improve on the shooting. (if I recall, the weapons expert said that Oswald likely used the iron sights instead of the scope, as he did during his evaluation of the weapon. Using the scope would have been more difficult in some respects)
But one of the best passages from the book describes how Oswald was giving a lecture to a large audience (in the hundreds) of high powered attorneys, and he posed a question to them: “How many of you believe that there was a conspiracy to murder JFK, and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone?” The response was nearly every single hand in the room was raised.
He then said (I have to paraphrase, don’t have the book) “What if I could convince all of you, in sixty seconds or less, that you are not thinking correctly on the subject?” There was some commotion and loud murmuring from the crowd, and one of them said aloud: “We don’t think you can do it.”
So Bugliosi turned to someone on the stage with him and said “Okay, start timing”. He turned to the crowd and said “How many of you have ever read the Warren Commission Report?”
Only one or two hands went up. Bugliosi said: “As lawyers, isn’t it vitally important, perhaps most important, to weigh all the facts available and to hear both sides of the story before you come to a conclusion? I once had a country lawyer say to me, no matter how thin I make my flapjacks, there are still two sides to them.” He turned to the timer and said asked how much time was left. The timer said twenty seconds.
There wasn’t a single peep of dissent from the audience of assembled lawyers. He later said he wasn’t even questioning whether anyone had read the entire Warren Commission Report (all volumes) but only the summary.
Bugliosi’s point is that the JFK assassination was the most investigated crime in history, for a crime in which with the circumstances, witnesses and physical evidence at hand, he could have decisively convicted the perpetrator in few days under any other circumstances. He acknowledged that there are some inconsistencies, but as he mentioned in each of his other books I have read (”Helter Skelter” and “The Sea Will Tell”) there is no analysis of any event that does not have inconsistencies. The question is always whether those inconsistencies have enough relevance to counterbalance the solid evidence.
After a man has his term as President fulfilled, he should just do as Harry Truman did.
Retire to his hime and STFU about how to run the world.
In spite of my white hot contempt for just about every Kennedy male I have a fair amount of respect for JFK.Unlike you,I'm old enough to remember him.Just go to youtube and search for his Inaugural Address,his speech at the Berlin Wall and his push for tax cuts.Beliefs like the ones he expressed in those speeches,and at other times,would have gotten him expelled from the party from the late 1960's on.I firmly believe that if he had lived long enough and had seen what happened to the Rat Party starting in the mid to late 60's he would have become a Republican.Just as my parents,and many members of their generation,did when they reached their 50's or 60's.
After a man has his term as President fulfilled, he should just do as Harry Truman did.
Retire to his home and STFU about how to run the world.
I don’t know who killed Kennedy, only that he made enemies of the Communists, the Federal Reserve, and the Mob hated him as well.
I think Kennedy got into office and found out who he was really working for and decided to be a President for the people, by the people......then was killed for it.
We’ll probably never know who commissioned his murder.
Connally didn’t believe the Magic Bullet Theory. Neither do I .
Arlen Specter was always a traitor.
I have always thought it was interesting how the S.S. guy throws up his arms like
“WTH????” shown in this video.
We saw Kennedy on the evening news at the Rice Hotel (I think) and my husband told me of his feelings. Very creepy memories.
ALL Freepers need to read “Me and Lee” (maybe “Lee and Me” ?) and “Doctor Mary’s Monkey.” If you thought the world was not as it appeared, wait till you read these!!!
And if you are of a scientific bent, read “The Virus and the Vaccine.” These books will change your world view. I promise.
Mrs. Esopman
I grew up in that era and recall all the events very well. I never saw even one bit of credible evidence pointing to LBJ or anyone else besides from Oswald.
I totally agree. I have stood there on the 6th floor and looked out those windows. It was an easy shot from there.
I was doubter, until I read Bugliosi’s book
Johnson was a power hungry man who would do anything to be president. He realized that he was never going to be closer than VP as long as Kennedy was alive.
Robert A. Caro doesn't say this but while reading LBJ's bio’s this thought struck me like a bolt of lightning.
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