Posted on 11/24/2008 10:55:04 AM PST by AJKauf
On April 7, 1964, a 26-year-old detective in the New Orleans Police Department skipped up the steps into the Old Civil Courts building in New Orleans and presented himself to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy.
I’d always known my father had been acquainted with Oswald. They had not only grown up half a block away from each other, but had shared homerooms at school. Sitting alphabetically, my old man Fred sat in front of Oswald for years. O’Sullivan next to Oswald.
Sifting through my Dad’s papers I came upon a letter from Jacqueline Kennedy thanking my father for appearing before the commission. It wasn’t something he spoke of often — just a tidbit of information in a life that went on to greater adventures. ...
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Read Bugliosi’s book about the assassination (”Reclaiming History). Oswald was one strange individual.
But just before he passed away, I summoned up the courage to ask him: “Who killed JFK?” As if he personally held the secret to the Holy Grail of America’s most puzzling enigma.
“Just Lee,” he said. “By himself.”
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Yup, there is just as much evidence against Oswald as there is O.J. Simpson, many people just choose to ignore it.
The crime of the century has been solved 100 times over, there is no mystery.
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Hmmmmm!
Well said.
“Read Bugliosi’s book...”
Meant to say, “I read Bugliosi’s book...”
>> “Just Lee,” he said. “By himself.”
Of course. No “conspirator” with half a brain would add a guy like Oswald to the operation, even as a patsy. Plots need to be carried out by regular, predictable people.
A senior CIA official while slightly inebriated one night made the following statement while looking off in the distance: “I wonder how the American people would take it if they knew one president had another president killed”. One knew to just listen and not ask any questions..but there was only one president killed in modern times..and only two possible presidents who could have had a reason..either Nixon or LBJ. I would bet on LBJ, it was the only way he would ever have made it to the oval office. The first name of the man who made the statement was Noel…I hope he tells the rest of the story while he is still alive. The American people deserve to know.
Great point, Oswald was a deluded fame seeker as evidenced by his debate appearance defending Marxist-Leninism, he was a loose cannon and one of the LAST people anyone could trust to be part of a conspiracy.
Maybe Oswald shot Kennedy by himself but how did he know the route of the president’s motorcade the day before? He took his rifle to work that morning. I think he shot JFK but I think he had inside information from people who had much to gain from JFK’s death.
in agreement.
After watching Stone's movie JFK, I was hung up on the magic bullet theory. It wasn't until I heard Bugliosi describe Kennedy and Connally's seating arrangment (Connally on a jump seat a few inches left and lower than Kennedy's seat) that I saw that the shot which hit both was nearly a straight line.
LBJ did seem happy when taking the oath of office on Air Force One.
If I remember correctly the route was previously posted in the local newspaper.
The motorcade route was printed in the paper, you know it was a public event, like a parade with people lining the route to wave and take pictures, not some last second secret. Millions had the “inside” information to know where the President would be that day.
I’ve always felt that the reason for all the suppression that opened up so many conspiracy theories had more to do with the “how,” rather than the who. As Oswald had access to the CIA for a time, I wonder if he used a prototype semi-automatic and the bolt action was planted to cover up the Agency’s mistake.
Does that book discuss his Russian language studies funded by the U.S. military?
Didn’t the final shot that killed Kennedy enter from the front?
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