What We Know and Still Don’t Know About JFK’s Assassination

https://time.com ^ | NOVEMBER 21, 2023 | OLIVIA B. WAXMAN

[Beowulf9]

his Wednesday marks 60 years since America’s youngest President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46 by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot while riding in a car with his wife First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Governor John Connally during a tour of the state. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963.

[laconic]

But a “fragment” of which bullet? It couldn’t be the “pristine” bullet found by some Secret service agent (there are two claimants) on the JFK litter or in the limo. Where do these fragments come from?

[mfish13]

The head shot.

[laconic]

Maybe; you make good points but i believe the totality of evidence points to involvement by the Deep State and LBJ.

[mfish13]

What evidence? The totality of the evidence points to Oswald acting alone. I have seen nothing to refute that.

[laconic]

Cui bono? LBJ and I can list multiple factoids tying him into it.

[21twelve]

Right before the 18.5 minute gap in the Nixon tapes, Nixon said something like “and it might bring up the whole Cuban thing...”

Nixon had used the Cubans for various “plumber” jobs, and most note-worthy was going after Elsberg who had stolen(?) and released “The Pentagon Papers”. (Note - the Pentagon Papers was a disparaging account made by the government in assessing then current President Johnson's handling of Vietnam. Nixon did NOT want Johnson's mistakes made public, as it would undermine confidence of the USA and our military.)

I also think that Nixon may have also been alluding to the Cubans being involved in the assassination of JFK. JFK backed out at the last minute and left them hanging and on their own. It was a CIA operation, so the CIA would have been pissed too. But Nixon knew that would be even worse for the USA to have it revealed that the CIA killed him. Perhaps with influence by LBJ?? (My conjecture).

Whether Nixon was a patriotic American (my opinion), or part of the Deep State (possible), I don't think that he would have blown the lid on the Warren Commission.

IIRC, Haldeman in his book had a similar conclusion regarding Nixon mentioning the Cubans. (His book came out years after I had come to that same conclusion).

I'm not sure what all my thoughts and writing about it amount to though. I mean, after all these years, what difference does it make?

[End Times Sentinel]

At least Governor and Mrs. Connally are okay.

[mfish13]

Who?

[rockabyebaby]

SMH, then stay uninformed. SMH

[laconic]

1 - Billie Sol Estes, LBJ’s business partner, testified in 1985 before a Texas Grand Jury that LBJ was responsible for at least eight murders, including one JFK;
2 - Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress and mother of his son, publicly claimed that he had told her that he had ordered the assassination;
3 - Barr McClellan was an associate attorney at the law firm that represented LBJ; he was told by several there that LBJ’s main lawyer had orchestrated the assassination;
4 - Among much other evidence, why did LBJ lie about SS agent Rufus Youngblood jumping into the backseat on top of him (an impossibility that never happened according to his seatmate Ralph Yarborough).
I can go on . . .

[Nifster]

You have no idea of how informed I am

My guess is you haven’t read all twenty six volumes

[Overtaxed]

(Oswald couldn’t shoot 180 degree reverse bullets)

...unless he was using magic bullets.

[rockabyebaby]

SMH then why did you ask for more info???? SMH buzz off, enjoy your Thanksgiving, I’m done with you. SMH

[Nifster]

Relax

I asked for your information about what YOU posted

I lived through it. It was the only time I saw my father cry

I’m pretty sure you didnt

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The totality of the evidence points to Oswald acting alone. I have seen nothing to refute that.

The US House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1979 disagrees with you. In their final report, they concluded:

"Scientific Acoustical Evidence Establishes a High Probability That Two Gunmen Fired at President John F. Kennedy"

"President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The Committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy."

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report

I won't get in all the details here, but eyewitness testimony, forensics, photographic and acoustic evidence overwhelmingly point to a second shooter in the front of Kennedy's limousine, and therefore, a conspiracy.

And yes, both assassins were good shots.

[Veto!]

And Billie Sol Estes was undoubtedly correct. “Responsible for” means he ordered the hit. So who were the paid assassins?

[Songcraft]

.

[Veto!]

We believe that Giancana had my father killed. My dad had restaurants in Chicago and wouldn’t pay him off. He did pay off some city employees, and got the services he needed so that worked. I was a Daddy’s girl and think of him every day.

Giancana is a logical choice as Kennedy’s killer, at least ordering the hit.

[laconic]

Look up Malcolm “Mac” Wallace as LBJ’s primary hitman. Wallace murdered his wife’s boyfriend, was convicted of murder which should have sent him to the chair in 1948 but he somehow got “probation”. Wallace’s fingerprints were found on the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald supposedly fired magic shots that show no deformity after going through flesh and bones of two men. Wallace died strangely in 1971 when his car “went off the road on a rural Texas highway”.