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"... You have asked where the fourth bullet is. Ask one of these days where is the hard evidence of a second shooter. They can’t do it."

The problem with talking with the conspiracists is their many implausible theories and trying to determine to which type of conspiracist you're talking to:

1. Some claim their second gunman's bullet is one of any of Oswald two successful hits, only the forensic evidence doesn't support that in any way. The supposed throat hit from the front was an emergency tracheotomy performed by doctors at Parkland Hospital -- presumably ones laying in wait as part of the conspiracy which is another fabricated idiocy altogether, one that leaves no explanation for the 'Magic Bullet' and Governor Connally's several wounds.

2. Or, the second gunman's hit is Oswald's final shot, but there's no fragmentation debris in the left side of Kennedy's cranium that proves this, unless you believe a very awful conspiracy theory that the radiometry charts of Kennedy as presented by the Warren Commission were deliberately displayed upside down and backwards to make Oswald look guilty. This theory also ignores the autopsy data which shows the dishing of the bullet hole in the rear of Kennedy's skull, the resulting internal bone material, and the bruising of the upper dermis tissue around the same hole.

3. Most of these theories rely on Oswalds bullets vanishing into thin air, like the one which struck his back, caused a 7mm deep hole, then stopped. When you point out that the upper dermis slides over the musculature of the back and that the hole is indeed all the way through, they start mentioning the discrepancy of the hole in the suit jacket, the dress shirt, and Kennedy's upper back. This is where they really get upset when you point to the rumpled suit caused by the back brace Kennedy famously wore as shown in several amateur and White House films of Kennedy in the Dallas motorcade looking like a hunchback because of this problem. There's also photgraphic evidence of the bullet nick in the knot of Kennedy's necktie. If that's from the front, how come it doesn't match with the supposed tracheotomy wound they claim? Did Uncle Joe Kennedy teach little John Fitgerald to tie his necktie so that the knot covered his Adam's Apple? Lastly, you also are required to go over the relative height of the Kennedy and Connally seated in the limousine and how Kennedy's position was a whole lap-height tiered higher than the Governor.

4. For conspiracy theories about Secret Service men having negligent discharges with an AR-15, you just have to throw up your hands and say 'Er, no. Didn't happen'.

It's maddening to try to reason with people who get caught saying 'The dog ate my homework'.

The conspiracists who anger me are the ones that know better but simply cling to outdated and disproven theories. They're the ones with a kooky or mean agenda. The folks who simply believe that there was a conspiracy because smart fellers with fancy book learnin' have been claiming there was a conspiracy all of these decades are the ones I feel sad for. The last type are the ones that need educating and are the sole reason you and I continue to return to every single JFK thread that pops up on FreeRepublic.

I will finally admit that I believe that there is certain proof of conspiracy in the JFK Assassination, and the evidence is almost never discussed even though it's laying in plain view: The real conspiracy is that the radical left wing has been casting doubt on the truth going on decades now because they're covering up for one of their own: The screwball social reject and leftist radical Lee Harvey Oswald, the Castro and Khruschev-loving rat fink -- an ACLU member card holder who murdered our President Kennedy. These same people who insist that every right wing element under the sun was responsible for 9/11 except the radical Islamists they love to protect.

The 'UFO video' threads here on FR, I just ignore altogether.