Posted on 11/03/2013 8:58:27 AM PST by rickmichaels
And so it begins – the plentiful coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. The date itself is weeks away and there will be countless commemorative programs, specials and copious punditry on TV.
JFK: The Smoking Gun (Sunday, Discovery, 8 p.m.) is one of the most controversial of the bunch. Made for the tiny U.S. cable channel Reelz, it’s a two-hour docudrama based on the book of the same name by former Australian police detective Colin McLaren. He claims to have spent years on “the forensic cold-case investigation of JFK’s assassination” and says he believes he has found “the smoking gun” that killed the president. His conclusion is not the accepted story.
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Interesting comments at # 121 , # 154.
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You did not answer me. Did You See The Autopsy Photos ????
Thanks for that info.
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As much as I believe LBJ was driven and no doubt would enjoy the opportunity to off JFK, I think Oswald was just as driven to impress his Soviet heroes and did what LBJ no doubt enjoyed having done. I don’t think LBJ had anything to do with Oswald but we just didn’t see much from LBJ about JFK. It was almost as if LBJ was saying, “Well, that’s done. Let’s get on with my being President.”
That is exactly what I would say if I offed my next door neighbor so I could take his place as the president of our neighborhood committee.
LBJ wanted as little said about it as possible, doncha’ think?
It’s simply not a conspiracy theory, it’s an examination of evidence.
Right, the Connalies were in the “jump seats” set lower and a bit inside, not like normal car seats, I watched the special.
Donahue who wrote Mortal Error reasoned the single bullet could have worked but that the Warren Commission may well have gotten the sequence of the bullets wrong.
Makes sense and is not a “conspiracy theory” per se, real saucy with Mafiosos, CIA and Cubans or whomever.
This McLaren does a good job, may be right, I saw the special.
ladyjane, you are 100% correct. I was there before the plexiglass was installed as well. In fact, that didn’t happen for a good while.
You are owed an apology.
Thanks for that, I have heard about her. One more facet of the story to consider.
I am very inclined to agree with you since this is more or less my assessment of the event.
Oswald was somewhat of a kook and I’m sure he was as surprised as anyone that he succeeded.
Not sure about the incompetence of the cops that day. He was probably able to blend in the crowd quite easily. He wasn’t covered in blood or anything.
I also think Ruby was crazy and mean as an outhouse rat...and idolized JFK. NOW...the cops escorting LHO that day kind of stood back when Ruby approached and didn’t seem to try to impede his death. Was that shock...or was that “take him out” acquiescence? It was a different time.
With the idea that the bums on the railroad bridge were CIA (Hunt?) and the Cuban angle to the assassination, I always wondered if the 18(?) minutes of silence on the Watergate Tapes was with regard to the assassination. Right before the “gap”, Nixon said something about how the Watergate break in might “bring up the whole Cuban thing”.
Interesting. But I think Cubans were involved in the Watergate break in.
Oswald did not act alone. It was an ambush.
“Hung over secret service agent” should be the new excuse for everything. I like it. Obama should use it for Benghazi.
This has merit. As if the solution to the riddle is hiding in plain sight. When 5001 theories aren't enough, and none move any closer to the answer, maybe it's because they are working from the wrong premise.
That was a good special and if I didn’t say it here in my post, it sort of takes the conspiracy away of having the Mafia or whomever doing it.
The only thing that bothers me with the supposed accidental shooting by Agent Hickey would be it seems kind of a random accident to actually hit JFK in the back of the head. Maybe I’m wrong on that.
Good points of the documentary:
Former Senator Ralph Yarborough and a number of other witnesses smelled gunpowder from where they were, quite a bit away from the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, let alone the 6th floor.
Also, it was common sense the authors suppose there were two different kinds of bullets in play, the narrower hole one from the Carcano that neatly passed through JFK and Connoly and the more explosive bullet that left fragments in JFK’s brain and as said basically exploded. Thought that made sense too.
Yes - the “plumbers” included several Cubans. Cubans that Hunt had known/developed from the Bay of Pigs training that began under VP Nixon (Eisenhower). The Bay of Pigs was blown when Kennedy didn’t provide them support at the last minute (literaly) and left the Cubans stranded during the attack.
The Bay of Pigs fiasco was already known/done and gone by the time of Watergate, so I wonder if Nixon didn’t want the investigation to bring up OTHER things.
And of course the notion that Hunt was one of the bums in the rail yard.
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