[Az Joe]

How could a little, uneducated, nut case bring down the leader of the free world? Just the way the Warren Commission and Posner said it happened.

Advances in forensic technology have proven that Oswald was the lone shooter in Dealy Plaza that day.

The case IS closed.

[Uncle Hal]

I would tend to agree that Oswald was the lone killer. However I am not so sure other people were not aware of what was going happen. There might have been a conspiracy.

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

Yes, yes, but why did Jackie Kenedy sit JFK back up in the seat, after he was hit in the neck, thus exposing him for the final shot?

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust kidding....... ;-)

[Ff--150]

Fudge, 4CJ, now we know runs this nation--duh, guess they're the ones who had JFK removed.

I wanna go back to being ignorant.....

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nonsense Case Closed is filled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods and never addresses at all many major problems with the Official Lie.

Peter Jennings says the Warren Commission Report is true so that means it is definitely false.

[Prince Caspian]

People will believe whatever they want to believe. It is largely a waste of time to try to change what another person believes. However, the truth does not depend on people's beliefs. The truth is the truth regardless of who believes it or who does not.

[churchillbuff]

Posner says Oswald and Ferrie didn't know each other in the CAP and weren't in at the same time. FRONTLINE had a photo the other night that showed them together. CASE OPENED AGAIN.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . it was truly a fateful turning point in our country’s history—but, I believe, in a sense exactly opposite to what Oliver Stone imagines. Rather than marking the rise of Stone’s fictional militaristic right-wing to national power, it marked the rise to influence of a left-wing culture of alienation typified by people like Oliver Stone himself. These members of the adversary culture, unable to absorb Kennedy’s murder as the terrible event it was, chose to see it as a confirmation that America itself was evil, that America would always block the exaggerated hopes for unlimited individual fulfillment and social progress that Kennedy seemed to personify for many people. It was shortly after Kennedy’s death that the deadly notion became current that the “system” was blame for everything, thus turning Americans against their own country."

That's a good point. I'm also a fan of Posner's book, and was for that reason scathingly dubbed a "Posnerite" by a Freeper conspiracy-theorist. I have nothing but contempt for Oliver Stone and Jim Garrison, whose false and defamatory versions of the assassination have unfortunately become historical fact for millions of Americans.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The conspiracy frenzy was a direct result of the federal government's obstruction of the local Dallas coroner by whisking the body off to Washington.

There was no reason the Dallas coroner could not have been allowed to do his job in the normal manner of any murder under his jurisdiction, other than arrogance on the parts of the federal agents involved.

[angkor]

it marked the rise to influence of a left-wing culture of alienation typified by people like Oliver Stone himself.

Umm .. Oliver Stone served in Vietnam after the Kennedy assasination. He "served in four different combat units, was injured two times in battle, and received the Bronze Star for Valor and the Purple Heart with First Oak Cluster."

[cricket]

Stone's agenda driven and rediculous movie, rather than offer the 'thought provoking' against the 'lone gunman/w/rifle theory; simply gave credibility to the Possner's et al and the Warren Comission's findings.

[Violette]

Wow. What a very well thought-out, heartfelt letter. Thank you for posting it.

[JoeGar]

I'll believe "case closed" when two photographs are explained: A couple of days after the assassination, two photographs of Oswald holding the rifle were found in Oswald's garage. This, along with a fingerprint, linked Oswald to the rifle. The two photographs were taken from different angles from the sun. However, if one looks very closely at Oswald's head in the photos, the shadows around Oswald's nose are identical, to the film grain, in both photos. What are the odds of that happening? It appears that a single photo of Oswald's head was superimposed on photos of a body holding the rifle.

[GaryL]

I was a full-blown conspiracy buff until about 10 years ago when I read Case Closed and experienced the same epiphany. Like you, I paid no attention to the media hoopla over the weekend. I've been "freed," thanks to Gerald Posner.

[Tares]

Kennedy assassination links for all to consider (in no particular order):

Kennedy Assassination Home Page
Lee Harvey Oswald's Paper Bag
Guinn’s neutron-activation Analysis
Warren Report: Table of Contents
One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK
The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site
HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) Final Assassinations Report
A Critique of The Warren Report
Attempted assassination of General Walker
Oswald interviews, Acoustic studies and other information relating to the assassination of JFK
Queen of Diamonds
Zapruder 313
Head Wound
Photos and Illustrations of the JFK Assassination
Zapruder Head Shot
A Conspiracy Too Big? Intellectual Dishonesty in the JFK Assassination
The Single Bullet Strikes John Connally
Changed Motorcade Route in Dallas?
Zapruder frames 312-314 animated
Frame by Frame breakdown of the Zapruder Film
The Zapruder Film is Authentic

Free Republic threads on the Kennedy Assassination:

Case Closed: a letter to Gerald Posner (re: Kennedy assassination)
Warren (Commission) Was Right - The JFK case should be closed
Kennedy assassination solved!
Peter Jennings "JFK" Report: Oswald acted alone, go back to sleep...
Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination
Who Killed JFK?
New Evidence in Kennedy Killing (Dallas not Mass)
Nellie Connally Disputes Warren Commission
JFK's fatal head wound: The truth for those who want to know (very graphic)
The Mystery of Marina Oswald
LBJ was behind JFK's assassination, upcoming book contends (I like this one best)
Thirty-nine years after JFK's assassination...
***New study of JFK assassination backs theory of "grassy knoll" Thread 2***
New study of JFK assassination backs....... Thread 3
New study of JFK assassination backs....... Thread 4
New study of JFK assassination ---- Thread 5
New study of JFK assassination ---- Thread 6
Echo correlation analysis and acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination

Let me know of any others not on the list.

[JWinNC]

To no one in particular:

I just wish someone could clear this up. The "magic" bullet does not work. The bullet that traveled out of JFK's throat had to be traveling downward and inward. How did it get to Connalley's right side? All the explainations I've read and seen put either JFK's body or Connally's body into contorted positions that don't fit with the photos or Zapruder film.

Forget about the trajectory in the vertical plane, it's the horizontal plane that doesn't match up.

JWinNC

[steelwheels]

But for me, what is most remarkable about Case Closed is that this old festering sore of uncertainty and discouragement surrounding the assassination, which I never expected to be cured, has been cured.

WARNING! Lone gunman believers, stay away from Barr McClennon's book Blood, Money & Power. You won't stay cured for long.

[Ditter]

The writer of this letter says he did not watch any of the programs on the History Channel this week, but I did. In fact, I Tivo'd all of them & I just watched one of them again.

You can listen to the doctors at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, describe in detail the gunshot wound to JFK's head. The back of his head was blown away. There was no doubt. These are experienced doctors & they know what they saw with their own eyes. The pictures that came from the Warren Report show something entirely different. If this doesn't convince you that the government is lying & manipulating evidence, I guess nothing will.

[The Wizard]

I don't know who's the bigger jerk...Posner or this fool

[Allan]

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