I just read through the entire 285 posts in this thread! I just want to thank you for the incredible service you have done with your posts for all of us who have no vested interest in this case other than the pursiut of the truth!You must be really exhausted battling with some of these people who couldn't be persuaded no matter what evidence you give them. If I were you, I wouldn't waste too much more time on what seems to be a fruitless effort.
For years I was a "conspiracy nut" who read every book on the assassination. I even went to symposiums and visited Dallas. Then I read "Case Close" back in 1993. I realized then what a gullible fool I had been. I've read it two more times since. All I can say to those posters in this thread who still think there was a conspiracy, is to please read this book. You owe it to yourself.
I'm "freed" from all these crazy assassination theories. Boy, does it ever feel good. Thank God for Gerald Posner! For me, this case is closed. Thanks again for your monumental effort in this thread.
Thank you so much. It is extremely exhausting trying to convince people who are basing their opinions on emotion rather than logic. And in the end it probably is futile. But if I can get just one person to breathe the fresh air of the truth and logic, I will feel vindicated.
For decades Democrats have been winning in the public arena by appealing to emotion. Republicans have always tried to appeal to logic and reason and not always successfully. I too, felt that the Posner book was the straw that broke the camel's back of the conspiracy theories. No one should have their mind clouded by the awful ideas that the conspiracy theorists put forward -- when they do think that way they are setting themselves up for recruitment by the Democrats. Look at the arguments used against our actions in Iraq. They are similar -- based on a conspiracy by Halliburton, or a plan to impose martial law, or other nonsense.
Know the truth and the truth shall set you free someone once said. If you don't know the truth you are setting yourself up to be a possible slave to demagogues. "The government wasn't telling the truth in 1963, therefore they are not telling the truth now -- Vote Dean!"
Thank you again.