[Taft in '52]

I have a bizarre and outlandish hypothesis: Oswald pulled the trigger and acted alone.

[aristeides]

Someone with your screen name may be interested to learn that Bob Taft didn't get the Republican nomination in 1940 because the isolationist chairman of the convention was assassinated by British intelligence in cooperation with the FDR administration, at least if we are to believe Gore Vidal's novel Golden Age.

[proxy_user]

You're leaving out the best part.

Oswald had contacted the Russians. They listened to what he had to say, decided he was a nut, and told him to beat it.

Oswald had contacted the Mafia. They listened to what he had to say, decided he was a nut, and told him to beat it.

After Oswald killed Kennedy, both the Mafia and the Russians panicked at the thought that they might be thought to be involved, so they did all kinds of things to obscure their connection with Oswald. This is what created all the plausible conspiracy theories.

[RipSawyer]

"I have a bizarre and outlandish hypothesis: Oswald pulled the trigger and acted alone."

That really is a bizarre theory. The house select committee on assassinations concluded that there was at least one other shooter other than Oswald. Personally, I don't even believe Oswald fired a shot at JFK.

[Protagoras]

I have a bizarre and outlandish hypothesis: Oswald pulled the trigger and acted alone.

Yep, it's both. He might have pulled one trigger, but he sure didn't blow Kennedy's head of from the front, which any blind man can see if they watch the film.

[Ann Archy]

And the Tooth Fairy will be in your bedroom any moment now.

[mtbopfuyn]

I have a bizarre and outlandish hypothesis: Oswald pulled the trigger and acted alone.

I thought so too until I went up to the sixth floor window. It was a punch in the stomach as I aimed my finger down to the street - Oswald did not kill JFK. There's no bullet that miraculous. The grassy knoll, the man hole, or a Martian space ship, but not the sixth floor.