Posted on 10/11/2025 2:02:35 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
1) bought the Zapruder film, which was shown to have been tampered with, and
2) told Walter Cronkite to report that the JFK assassination was the work a lone gunman.
Simplest answers likely the correct ones. Either the opportunity to attempt assassination isn’t there in quiet security seclusion so n the perp must take what opportunity t gey have which may be noisy x and busy, and the noise and busyness of a crowd may help the killer to attempt escape in the mass confusion.
“then seems, that when a major assassination occurs in high public visibility, there is a message or a manipulation of public opinion which is intended by the responsible authorities.”
Well DUH!
As far as I know Democrat Clinton was never shot at.
Non Democrat Trump almost was killed twice.
So who is the dangerous people?
Democrats are the problem!
They’re one part terrorism.
A clear public warning to discourage future disobedience of the true powers in control.
I think the simplest and most accurate answer is that most “major assassinations” (those carried out in public) reflects the killer’s true motive... whether it be to garner public attention (due to a deranged lack of it), or to inflict terror to advance a radical cause... both having absolutely nothing to do with the target, and everything to do with the perceived or anticipated reaction by the public to the crime.
Charlie Kirk’s assassin didn’t know him at all... only that the media had painted him as the biggest public enemy of all, next to Trump.
Ultimately, the real assassin behind every public murder is Satan himself... and the reason is simply hate with a purpose.
Most likely, the high profile assassinations you recall (JFK, RFK, MLK, Charlie Kirk) as well as high profile attempts (Ford, Reagan, Trump) happen in the presence of a large number of witnesses because it is precisely those times when the target is among a large number of people that a would-be assassin has the opportunity to get close enough to his target to perform the deed.
Public gatherings where politicians, religious leaders, celebrities from the arts, historically influential figures, leaders in business meet and greet people are good venues to target them.
These people want to talk, shake hands, and kiss the baby there.
Bulletproof glass walls and barriers discount them from the audience.
They often choose to accept risk in order to be accessible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II
So if I were a bad guy, that’s a venue where I would plan to make a move.
Ockham’s Razor.
Large crowds means public outdoor settings which offer more access and opportunity.
Sneaking into the White House is not really doable by a “lone wolf”. Nobody would buy that malarkey. It would so obviously be a conspiracy of insiders.
Which means regardless if the perp is a true lone wolf or a member or dupe of a conspiracy, it still needs to happen in a large outdoor venue full of people.
Simple Answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed
Excellent case-in-point being Charlie Kirk. Other than a brief moment of conservative outrage, after about a week, the MSM and the (Anti)Social Media as well as all the lefties loudly and ebulliently celebrating the “deserved” death of a “Fascist, who spread hate” were able to paint it as a “Blows Against The Empire” level of cultural victory. (or at least that’s what the loudest and most ubiquitous parts of our culture would have us believe).
Assassinations are meant to be a public statement. A repudiation of whatever the murdered individual believed in or was encouraging. The bigger crowd, the better in the assassins thinking.
CC
By definition “major assassinations” are those with many in attendance, so there is a certain selection bias inherent in your question. In comparison the many victims in Clinton’s body count list, some of whom might have died of natural causes, but, many certainly didn’t, were mostly just regular murders.
Not sure about *most* assassinations being done in front a lot of witnesses is true, but let’s assume it is.
My guess is that in order to get close to them the person has to be in public. It’s not like you’re going to sneak into the white house or Air Force 1 and attempt something like that on a President...or anyone in the white house.
So the best guess is they do it when there are out in public....and as such they always draw a crowd.
The simplest answer is infamy. No matter what happens, thousands of people saw you take a life.
There is no glory in the back alley.
If it was a conspiracy, it may also be a message that there is no protection in public if they want you killed.
MLK was a registered Republican.
Pour encourager les autres.
That is a myth, he wasn’t.
He was a communist in his belief systems. Liberals often register as Republicans to make the argument that socialism is a bipartisan issue.
The intelligence community orchestrates the major assassinations as a way to shape the political policy and the public minds of a country to fit their contrived agenda. This mind shaping and shifting is most effective when performed in the public arena. The operators are not elected and they act totally independent of the publics’ interest. Our elected representatives are unable to reign in the rogue actors and their activities because they are the darkest of the Deep State - a cadre of rogue outlaws who operate with impunity outside Congressional or Executive Branch oversight with their own funding stream obtained from illicit activities like drug running and human trafficking. They have stolen and appropriated for their own exclusive use secret aerospace technologies contracted and developed with taxpayer dollars from within the defense industrial complex which they use to conduct their illegal trafficking activities.
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