Who Killed JFK?

NY Daily News ^ | 11.13.2003 | Stephen Battaglio

[veronica]

Dear God. Here come the conspiracy freaks. If Oswald was "just a patsy," OJ was too.

[Explorer89]

When MSNBC's Chris Matthews sat down with more than two dozen public figures, including Sen. Hillary Clinton,.... he found that every one of them could offer personal recollections of that day.

Errr, so what? I bet my parents have personal recollections of that day as well. Just like I have personal recollections of 9/11. I am so sick of that woman.

[billorites]

I was rehearsing for our 3rd grade Thanksgiving pageant when the story broke.I was dressed up as William Bradford and had just said, "Greetings to you, Squanto. Greetings to you, Samoset."

Then the teacher hustled us back to homeroom where the principal spoke for about half an hour over the intercom.

I remember listening to him while staring at the Pilgrim buckles my mother had made for my shoes.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What did we do ? What sin did we commit to deserve the Clintons ?

[freekitty]

They just won't quit. Of course, it will be their viewpoint.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I know a guy who was a radio reporter for a St. Louis radio station when Kennedy was killed. He was hanging around the back of the jail looking for stories from the jailers when suddenly, up come the guards with Oswald. He claims he didn't have the first clue that Oswald would be coming out that door, and was forever mystified as to how Ruby happened to be so lucky as to be there.

[hchutch]

Gerald Posner did a great book on the shooting, Case Closed.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"It's hard to recognize that a guy like Oswald, whose life is filled with failure, shot him," said ABC's Yellin. "It's too insubstantial a reason for this to happen."

Did Yellin expect someone of the stature of Charles Guiteau? Or Squeaky Fromme? Or Gavrilo Princip? Or Leon Czolgosz?

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[veronica]

Ruby was a notorious "cop/crime junkie." He hung around the police station and was well-known to all the cops. He had access. There are people like that.

[veronica]

Gerald Posner did a great book on the shooting, Case Closed.

Yup. A superb book.

[Richard Kimball]

"It's not just a computer animation based on a guess," said ABC News executive producer Tom Yellin. "It's a very precisely drawn piece of work that has the power of evidence that you can use in court."

Considering what happened in Galveston recently, I wouldn't call this a ringing endorsement.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Thats true - some people just love hanging around courthouses.

[veronica]

WhoWas Jack Ruby? (Texas Monthly)

"Cops and newspapermen, that's who Ruby wanted in his place. Dallas cops drank there regularly, and none of them ever paid for a drink."

[Redwood71]

It never fails to amaze me that someone wants to get some TV air time so they bring something like this back into the public eye. If it isn't this, it's the Titanic, or the Haulocost, or Vietnam, or the depression, or any other difficult time in our history so they can re-hash it and find out they don't know what they have and won't tell all the evidense they can. It is almost impossible for Oswald to have done what he supposedly did, and it is impossible for him to have accomplished the head shot that actually killed Kennedy. And the funny thing is, the evidense is so overwhelming, and out in the public, that the people can't see the forest for the trees. Conspiricy, naw. Just an assasination. It was done to mob kingpins, and it was done to JFK. What's the surprise?

[Jhensy]

Peter Jennings was in a Toronto airport when he heard the news. He hopped on a plane to Dallas, against the wishes of his bosses at a Canadian TV station. Two years later, he joined ABC...

BIG SH*T.

[veronica]

WHY is it impossible?

Oswald bought the gun. There are pictures of him with the gun. He brought it to work that day, (the guy he rode to work with saw it, wrapped in a blanket.) He worked in the building. He was seen coming out of the building after the murder.

Oswald took off his wedding ring and left it at home that day too btw.

It would have been an airtight case if it had gone to trial.

[MHT]

I'm reading Posner's new one "Why America Slept" and it's putting me to sleep.

[N. Theknow]

What did we do ? What sin did we commit to deserve the Clintons ?

The same one that gave us the Kennedys.

I personally would like to go back in time to eliminate Oswald and Sirhan so they could not kill either of the Kennedys, elevate them to saint-hood and condemn us to a never-ending onslaught of how wonderful are all things Kennedy.