'JFK' Movie Lacks Important Facts (Jimmy Breslin Finally Sobers Up)

Newsday ^ | November 23, 2003 | Jimmy Breslin

[PJ-Comix]

I am standing on Broadway on this night some years ago with crowds passing as they came from the movie theater that was showing "JFK."

Here's a man with his wife and two other couples announcing to his group, "I knew Lyndon Johnson killed him."

[PJ-Comix]

Jimmy Breslin has been in pretty much of a drunken stupor the past few years (earlier this year he predicted that Bob Graham would be our next president FOR SURE) but once in a while he sobers up enough to write a coherent and correct column such as this one.

[leadpenny]

Whatever side you come down on in regards to 'who done it,' that is one infantile column.

[PJ-Comix]

You might not like Breslin's style (he likes to believe he is in on a lot of streetwise Mob stuff) but he is correct about what a phony and a liar Oliver Stone is. I've read way more than I should have about the "conspiracy" to assasinate Kennedy and I have come see that the unpopular one gunman theory is correct. That a loser named Lee Harvey Oswald did it by himself.

[knarf]

"Whatever side you come down on in regards to 'who done it,' that is one infantile column."

Agreed.
Sounds like a re-make of a Scottish fairy tale.

Everything in the article screams of robotic movements on the part of Oswald ... kind of like a Pac Man game ... corner coming up .. turn left ... another corner turn left .. NO, right ... hell, here comes one of those munchie things ... get on bus, no, get off ... go get a gun ... no, turn right, I mean left ... Aw $h!t ... go to a movie ... What? Me Worry?

I don't need no steenkin' admission price.

[PJ-Comix]

Have you accepted Oliver Stone into your heart?

[leadpenny]

That a loser named Lee Harvey Oswald did it by himself.

I won't criticize those who subscribe to that theory. But I also won't buy into a fellow who says, "This is what happened, end of discussion." There are too many plausible theories and unanswered questions for me to be able to say, "That's it."

[PJ-Comix]

The problem is that NONE of the people supposedly involved in this conspiracy ever blabbed.

[leadpenny]

I believe that LBJ and Hoover were the prime movers in this and that they set things into motion months before the trip to Dallas. I doubt that LBJ or Hoover, for that matter, had any idea exactly how and when it was going down. They were smart enough to know that they needed four or five degrees of separation and deniability. Oswald was a patsy. Those controlling things in Dallas had not planned on him getting caught, but they improvised with the mob connected Ruby.

I was a young soldier in Munich in 63 and remember the stories about how Ruby did it because he "felt bad" for Jackie and wanted to spare her the pain of an eventual trial. Lately, there have been many who have tried to paint Ruby as this guy who just wanted to be famous.

Like I said, "I believe . . ."

[Poohbah]

If Oswald hjadn't delayed his own departure from the jail, Ruby would've missed him by 5 minutes. Ruby was also a bigtime dog lover--if he'd planned to shoot Oswald beforehand, he wouldn't have left his dog in his car.

[leadpenny]

I had not heard the thing about the dog. So you believe Oswald and Ruby each acted independent of anyone else?

[Poohbah]

I had not heard the thing about the dog. So you believe Oswald and Ruby each acted independent of anyone else?

Oswald and Ruby were, IMNHO, both too damn squirrelly to be usable for any sort of sensitive operation like this, even as patsies.

The evidence points towards Ruby's actions being impulsive and not premeditated. Once you remove Ruby as some sort of conspirator, Oswald looks like a lone gunman.

[knarf]

Tin foil ... on!

.... I try to think correctly, unfortunately, I'm often wrong.

Be that as it may ...

I still question the bloody glove in O.J.'s back yard.

If I had pulled off a successful bloody double murder, and discovered a key evidential element in my posession, I sure as hell wouldn't throw it in my own back yard.

Some things, as Johnny Cochran has poetically put it ... don't fit.

Some of us have been petty criminals in our past.. (don't ask), and have a little comprehension of some of the shadier sides of the human psyche and it is not all happenstance and circumstance, nor sheer stupidity as some would have you to believe.

Oswald is supposed to have fired three times in a very short time with a rifle that Army experts couldn't duplicate and certainly not with ANY accuracy.

If the rifle is wrong, the entire scenerio is wrong.

</tin foil>

[Poohbah]

Oswald is supposed to have fired three times in a very short time with a rifle that Army experts couldn't duplicate and certainly not with ANY accuracy.

Yeah, AFTER they'd removed the scope, removed the shims from the scope mount, and then put the scope back on.

[ambrose]

Was the dog in on this too?!

[knarf]

Not Toto!

Please say it ain't so.

[NYCVirago]

They were smart enough to know that they needed four or five degrees of separation and deniability.

Which also means four or five degrees worth of people who can blab. Yet nobody ever has, in 40 years. Why is that?