[Eastbound]

Okay, thanks. That's a fair explanation. I never did debate how many shooters there were, though it was a real maze to go through all the variations and scenarios presented through the years. Strange, but any one of them could be true, but the only thing we can know for sure is only one of them is. I guess it's 'ya pays your money and takes your pick.' Works for me. Gives us all something to argue about for another 40 years. Some are more believable than others, depending on the level of one's trust or mis-trust of government and inside knowledge of the players.

The reason I asked you the question is because I suspected you might be an insider and was ready to start talking after all these years. That wouldn't be unusual, as there are others who have done exactly that, both in books they authored and signed web articles.

I fully believe the truth has been told in bits and pieces, and it only remains for someone that knows the big picture to confirm the truth of the matter and to put the pieces together. I think it was FDR who said, "Nothing happens by accident in politics," which to me was a hint that another saying is true, 'Guilty knowledge is the glue that holds the truth in bondage.'

In the case of JFK, I don't think we'll ever know which version of the 'truth' is true.

[elbucko]

In the case of JFK, I don't think we'll ever know which version of the 'truth' is true.

I agree.

Maybe you already know of Barr McClellan's new book suggesting that LBJ and associates did do it -- and it wasn't for the trivial reason of making LBJ president.

Yes, but I haven't had a chance to read it, only reviews. I don't have a lot of emotional investment in the JFK assassination, but I do hate Lyndon Johnson. I believe he was afraid South Vietnam would fall to the communists before LBJ's re-election in 1968. I think the fall of Saigon in 1975, on the 6 o'clock news, was what defeated Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter or Fords pardon of Nixon. Ford lost the election because he was president when Vietnam was lost. LBJ knew that the fall of Vietnam would put him out of the White House, so LBJ drafted people like me to fight to keep him in office, nothing more. Vietnam had no strategic value, one way or other. But Kennedy, Johnson, the assassination and the Vietnam War are historically linked together forever.

However, I think Vietnam too, is an example of governments intrinsic incompetence and its tendency to be part of "Passive Conspiracies". Just as the failure of the CIA and FBI to keep an eye on Oswald appears either conspiratorial or incompetent. The failure of the FBI,CIA, and INS to detect and deport the 9/11 hijackers is a good example of government acting like government by being too late, with too little, to do any good. Government did the same in Vietnam.

Maybe, or great grandchildren will know something true about the assassination. I don't think that those alive at the time ever will. But I know this; the bullet that killed Kennedy also indirectly killed 58,000 more Americans in South East Asia.

Lest we forget.