Posted on 11/22/2014 5:32:47 PM PST by DJ Taylor
On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson directed the Warren Commission to “evaluate all the facts” in the brutal November 22 murder of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, on a downtown Dallas street in broad daylight. Reduced to its bare essentials, the investigation sought answers to three fundamental questions: Who, why and how?
“Why” was entirely contingent on “who,” and that depended on “how.” Thus, the linchpin of the Warren Report—and every subsequent investigation—has always been precisely how Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza. That is the finding from which all the important answers flow; mishandle that question and the credibility of the entire report is undermined. The Warren Commission’s bungling of “how” is a primary reason why there have been so many residual doubts and conspiracy theories over the past 50 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
see shots
here’s what happened.......
“I told the FBI what I had heard [two shots from behind the grassy knoll fence], but they said it couldn’t have happened that way and that I must have been imagining things. So I testified the way they wanted me to. I just didn’t want to stir up any more pain and trouble for the family.”
- Kennedy aide Kenneth O’Donnell, quoted by House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. in “Man of the House,” p. 178. O’Donnell was riding in the Secret Service follow-up car with Dave Powers, who was present and told O’Neill he had the same recollection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv5vemBcjok
The shoe store clerk and the arresting officer interviewed.
Watch the film from that day. All of the witnesses on the ground are looking up at the Depository building after the first shots are fired.
Look at Connolly's wounds. They had to have come from a bullet fired from the Depository building.
I would consider people in a car making a turn right into the grassy knoll line of sight to be witnesses on the ground.
The last sentence in your response doesn’t negate other shooters regardless of where Connelly’s shooter was.
I use to be leaning towards some of the conspiracies but now in retrospect they are just too far fetched to believe. A mentally disturbed individual did it.
OK I watched zapruder for the hundredth time.
The people on the curb across the street from the grassy knoll are not looking at the school book depository. You statement “all witnesses” is an exaggeration.
We know LBJ did not look at the building because he hunkered down in the back seat before anyone else reacted to a shot.
Also, there is footage somewhere of many people and cops running up to the grassy knoll. So, according to your logic using spectator reaction many people thought something happened behind the fence.
Add my statement from Powers and O’Donnell and I would say “all” witnesses do not favor your theory.
You are correct in what various witnesses attested to. Dealy Plaza clearly has some interesting acoustics, I’d add that to the equation as well.
I am aware and I have been there. Thanx.
Hiya Nj. You are correct. That ‘lone wolf’ attempt was not related to the 3 related November 1963 plots/attempts tho. Dallas was going to be the 3rd. attempt if the PTB’s Chicago and Tampa plans were upset. Read ‘The Ultimate Sacrifice’, (Published in 2005 and written by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartman, 904 pages), for a VERY extensive and well documented/footnoted look at the, interwoven/related to with Dallas, Chicago and Tampa plots.
Well stated morph.
Back then, many of us refused to believe an obviously dysfunctional young man such as Lee Harvey Oswald using an equally dysfunctional Carcano carbine could, without assistance, actually kill the leader of the most powerful country in the world.
Over the years, I’ve come to understand how such dysfunctional young men such as Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and countless other dysfunctional young American men could pull off such things all by themselves, and I think I have now figured out what’s to blame: it’s freedom.
Americans are born into a country blessed with more freedom than has been had by any other in human history, and unsurprisingly there are some who can’t handle it. When a people are given the freedom to go to Hell any time they choose, and any way they choose, there will always be a few who will take advantage of this freedom and do evil with it.
I believe lbj was behind the assassination. Oswald characterized himself correctly, patsy.
I remain open but until major questions can be answered I beleve Hoover, Johnson and others cannot be trusted.
If you trust them then good luck.
If Lee said it, it must be true!
"I was never in Mexico City." -- LHO; 11/22/63
"I went to the Mexican Consulate in Mexico City. I went to the Russian Embassy to go to Russia by way of Cuba. They told me to come back in thirty days." -- LHO; 11/24/63
"I never owned a rifle."
"Because of all the confusion, I figured there would be no work performed that afternoon so I decided to go home."
List of Lies by Lee Harvey Oswald
Guy was court-martialed, even Stone's movie indicates he beat his wife and the O'Reilly book and special definitely show that as well, it happened. But this is the guy we are going to hold out as being a Patsy?
Shall I list the lies and cover ups of the FBI Hoover and lbj.
I said he’s more believable not that he never lied
Well stated.
I said he’s more believable not that he never lied
Hoover/Johnson didn't beat their wives, didn't get court martial-ed, didn't defect from the US, didn't declare themselves to be Communists, probably didn't get into lawful trouble as adolescents. Weren't accused of shooting retired Lt. General Edwin Walker.
So if LHO is some hero to some, fine.
And LBJ and Hoover probably knew some CIA agents, Oswald didn't or about anyone else.
Johnson directed the investigation to avoid going to war because Americans couldn’t handle the truth.
Hoover was in a rush and agreed with lbj
I cited information in which very credible witnesses were pressured by the FBI
I don’t have to believe everything Oswald said to not believe the governments “rush to judgement.”
Hero? If you need to use hyperbole to make your case, you would best talk to someone who is easily fooled by such techniques.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.