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Book links JFK murder to killing of RFK and MLK
Philly .com ^ | January 8, 2008

Posted on 01/10/2009 12:11:06 PM PST by gusopol3

new, heavily researched book on John F. Kennedy's murder and its investigation sees links with a bagful of sensational stories, including the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The links connect with the main contention in "Legacy of Secrecy/The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" (Counterpoint, 848 pages, $33), by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann, that the assassination was engineered by Carlos Marcello, longtime Mafia boss in New Orleans.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


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To: indthkr
"...unless it had help from the target of the crime, or his extended family"

I tell ya it was Jackie all along. She's getting back at Jack for embarrassing her blueblood pride with fooling around with such a commoner as Marilyn Monroe. The "Happy Birthday" fiasco pushed Jackie O over the edge.

Face it

She's got motive, the means and the ability.


She's an" insider"

She's got "connections" with other powerful people.

With Bobby as Attorney General and her secret lover, he would cover it up for her.

His Motive?

As long as Jack is in the White House and married to Jackie, Bobby would never become President.

Gee!!! Isn't conspiracy games fun!!!/sar.
61 posted on 01/10/2009 2:20:57 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

No I didn’t.


62 posted on 01/10/2009 2:31:05 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: stockpirate

Yes I know; but it assassination shouldn’t be the answer.


63 posted on 01/10/2009 2:31:56 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: mlo

Sorry, I misread your post. We were not lucky to have Kennedy as President at that time. It was a mistake.


64 posted on 01/10/2009 2:32:53 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: gusopol3
Frank Sheeran says JFK was killed at the behest of Jimmy Hoffa. Sheeran later went on to get Joe Biden elected senator.
65 posted on 01/10/2009 2:34:39 PM PST by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: Tribune7

you endorsing or lampooning? What a dust jacket.


66 posted on 01/10/2009 2:40:19 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: freekitty

Somethimies assassination is the answer and a very good one at that.

Let me ask you this, if it were 1937 and you were armed in a room with Hitler and knew exactly what he was going to do and no one else was in the room. What would you have done?

What if there were some problem with Kennedy that warrented just such acrion?


67 posted on 01/10/2009 2:43:09 PM PST by stockpirate (To each according to their needs, (bailout) from each according to their ability(bailout funds))
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To: gusopol3

Endorsing.


68 posted on 01/10/2009 3:01:01 PM PST by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: devere

"The bitch set me up !"

69 posted on 01/10/2009 3:26:23 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: dead

No, that’s not my contention. What I’m saying is that people can be manipulated, or panicked to do something, which may serve the purposes of a conspiracy. So the effect is to make the conspiracy seem larger than it is. Again, if Johnson thought Castro had JFK killed, he could have enacted a cover-up, to prevent a war. To some, that would seem as though the Cubans and the govt conspired to kill JFK and cover it up.


70 posted on 01/10/2009 5:25:53 PM PST by JoeA (JoeA / welcome to third world politics.)
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To: mlo
Well you have me at a disadvantage, as I'm at work and away from my source material. But the initial Marina Oswald reaction (and this is documented) is that she couldn't say for sure if it was O's gun.

Marina has consistently said that Oswald did it, at least after she spent lots of time being interrogated by the FBI. But again, her initial reaction was not that.

Show me some evidence that Oswald was not the shooter.Well, that isn't the way it works. The accused doesn't have to prove innocence, the state has to prove guilt. But how about this: two women who worked at the depository ran down the stairs from one of the upper floors after the shooting. Oswald was found in the second floor lunch room by a policeman and one of the managers of the depository. Oswald would have to come down that staircase to get to the lunchroom, but neither woman saw him. Did he simply materialize?

71 posted on 01/10/2009 5:54:01 PM PST by JoeA (JoeA / welcome to third world politics.)
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To: mlo

“Even the rational and well-informed conspiracists know it is garbage.”

Yeah? And the basis of your remarks is?


72 posted on 01/10/2009 6:41:18 PM PST by TalBlack
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To: freekitty

Whatever.....(rolls eyes)


73 posted on 01/10/2009 7:30:52 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

Rollin eyes right at ya.


74 posted on 01/10/2009 7:33:05 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: JoeA
"Show me some evidence that Oswald was not the shooter."

"Well, that isn't the way it works."

No, that's precisely how it works. When you say:

"There's more evidence that Oswald was not the shooter, than evidence that he was."

Then I get to say, show me some evidence that Oswald was not the shooter.

75 posted on 01/10/2009 9:11:40 PM PST by mlo
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To: JoeA
"Marina has consistently said that Oswald did it, at least after she spent lots of time being interrogated by the FBI. But again, her initial reaction was not that."

Marina has said from the very begining that she believed he did it, before being questioned by the FBI.

As for her recall of the rifle, if your standard is that she should identify the rifle to the exclusion of all other rifles in the world, then no of course she couldn't do that. But nobody depends on Marina to identify the rifle.

See, that's part of the problem with the way conspiracists argue the case. They pick out little irrelevant things that mean nothing and try to make something out of it. And that's assuming the things they pick are even true. You can't trust what someone writes in a conspiracy book.

76 posted on 01/10/2009 9:17:34 PM PST by mlo
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To: JoeA
"But how about this: two women who worked at the depository ran down the stairs from one of the upper floors after the shooting. Oswald was found in the second floor lunch room by a policeman and one of the managers of the depository. Oswald would have to come down that staircase to get to the lunchroom, but neither woman saw him. Did he simply materialize?"

OK. The story isn't true. It was in Oliver Stone's movie.

Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles (the two women) descended the stairs several minutes later.

77 posted on 01/10/2009 9:20:39 PM PST by mlo
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To: TalBlack
"Yeah? And the basis of your remarks is?"

Personal knowledge of the case, the contents of The Men Who Killed Kennedy, and those rational conspiracists I mentioned. I know some of the people who wrote the best conspiracy books, some that even appeared in that show.

78 posted on 01/10/2009 9:22:37 PM PST by mlo
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To: mlo
Ok. How about the Zapruder film, and the two issues it raises?
1. The reaction of Connally when JFK is hit by the second bullet. If they're both hit by the second bullet, why is Connally so slow to react? 2. The head shot, and JFK's move backward.
79 posted on 01/10/2009 11:36:02 PM PST by JoeA (JoeA / welcome to third world politics.)
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To: mlo
Just out of curiosity, how was the enhanced photo of the 2nd shooter faked and by whom? That segment was the one that grabbed me as it's evidence was right there in front of you and didn't involve supposition or conjecture. It also involved other people ie; the soldier in his uniform.

I have never believed that a big conspiracy could have been kept quiet. I believe Oswald fired his gun and hit the president. But I wouldn't be surprised if the mother of all coincidences occurred and there were TWO discrete shooters there that day. It's a very simple conjecture that would satisfy a lot of the "what about this" mumbo jumbo.

80 posted on 01/11/2009 5:08:47 AM PST by TalBlack
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