Posted on 08/20/2003 6:18:44 PM PDT by new cruelty
My interest primarily concerns the shooting, and that's only because thousands of say-so'ers insist that it can't be done so they can craft a theory around some other element of the case.
I haven't got a copy of the Warren Report, and only have the book 'Best Evidence' by the lefty lawyer Mark Lane.
Hate to disillusion you, but what "honor" did the Kennedys have? JFK was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe, as was his brother Robert Kennedy. And that's only one affair among many for JFK (I don't know as much about RFK). And the father, Joe Kennedy, was having an affair with Gloria Swanson. So many sordid stories, so little time.
Who was the person who came up with the "Camelot" reference to JFK? That was sheer marketing genius, as it has followed him around for decades, even to this day. You can't read an article about the Kennedys without coming across the "Camelot" reference. It puts the Kennedys in the realm of legend. Sheer brilliance, much as I despise it.
David Lifton wrote Best Evidence.
The medical experts immediately following the assassination said the bone fragment was occipital or they believed the hit came from the front. Were they all lying or mistaken? They would have to be in order for it to have been committed by Oswald only.
... and a lefty.
I also don't believe he acted alone. At some level, at least, you have to believe in Mafia involvement. Who pulled Ruby's chain to get him to kill Oswald? More than likely, it was the Mob.
Where Johnson, the Warren Commission and the federal government get involved is in the cover-up. Johnson said near his death he believed Castro was to blame and hinted he needed to shove it under the rug to prevent World War III. It could be a lie but it might have also been the truth. There's no doubt, however, that the government did cover this up as only they can.
What we will probably never know is where the seed of the assassination germanated. Did somebody in the government approach the mob? Did Castro approach the mob? Did Russia urge Castro? Did the CIA urge Johnson? Did the CIA urge the Mob and then lie to Johnson so he would cover it up? Nobody can really say and practically anyone who could is now dead.
Personally, I believe Oswald was a pawn who knew what he was being told to do but his handlers knew better than to trust this one man to do the killing. I think there were other shooters who got off the fatal head shot. Oswald panicked and ran. Perhaps he had no choice.
Some argue that, by altering the motorcade route was proof the government had already put in the fix. Maybe so. But some of it, I think, was the innocence of the time. Like 9-11, people only realized after the fact that such a deed was even possible. The planners were able to get away with a lot of things simply because nobody realized how exposed to danger the President truly was. So a lot of sloppiness happens because nobody would take seriously that a president would be shot from a distance in an American city. All the previous assassins worked from up close.
I'm not ready to believe Johnson was guilty of anything more than the cover-up. However, I could be persuaded if somebody wants to put together an iron-clad case. Whoever does has got to be able to tie Johnson back to the only two people we are certain were involved - Oswald and Ruby. Anything less is just speculation.
The theory is better than others.
I live in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where Arlen Specter is a US Senator.He of the "single bullet theory".
He also apparently likes Scottish Law.
I see the Kennedy kill as a tragic accident.
Nothing more.
A decade of Hellary is one scary thought
The day it happened I had taken my husband to the base,he was on a cross country,got home and was watching "As The World Turns"when it was announced the President's motorcade had been fired on. There were intermittant announcements that they were taking him to Parkland,that he had been hit and that there were three men running from the grassy knoll.Lots of confusion but the three men seen running away from the grassy knoll was repeated pretty often.
I heard it so often that I was tottally shocked when I learned the next day that the shots had been fired from the Book Repository.Do you know whether the grassy knoll was on the left or right of the motorcade,your comment rings true but I never thought about the where the grassy knoll was relative to the motorcade.
The Warren Report seemed such a fabrication and I have never had much trust in government since then.
I also heard way back then that Kennedy had ordered the government to print greenbacks and that there were many money men who were dead set against that. Johnson cancelled that almost immediately. Many years later I read that Lincoln had also asked the government to print and issue greenbacks and was assassinated shortly thereafter.
Well,I do get carried away but would appreciate you or anyone who might read this telling me WHERE WAS THE GRASSY KNOLL RELATIVE TO THE MOTORCADE?
You refer to the limit on the office of the president in the 22d Amendment:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other preson was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Hillary the Smoocher of Suha the Blood Libeler and Wife of Arafat the Terrorist is capable of any act no matter how vile.
Dereliction of Duty, Lt. Col. James Patterson, USAF, (Ret.) was the military assistant to the president charged with the nuclear "football" for two years.
He reports Hillary kept a file box with her at all times which was deemed of such importance that every one of the five military aides was responsible for seeing to it that it remained secure at all times.
It is of note that Vince Foster, Ron Brown and Jim McDougal to name three are in no position to further threaten Hillary's ambitions.
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