FOX News Channel's JFK: Case Not Closed

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[Destro]

JFK: Case Not Closed

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

On Sunday, Nov. 16, FOX News Channel will present a one-hour special commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination.

Join Greta Van Susteren for FOX News Channel's anniversary special — JFK: Case Not Closed .

One week after President John F. Kennedy (search) was assassinated, a nation-wide poll revealed that 62% of Americans believed a conspiracy was involved. And now, 40 years later? What do we believe?

A recent FOX News poll found that many Americans today do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald (search) was a lone gunman. And there may be some evidence to prove it...

President Kennedy's assassination may have turned Dealey Plaza (search) into the world's most famous crime scene, but in 1963 — crime scene investigation was not a sophisticated forensic science.

Cops made some surprising mistakes — mistakes that led to confusion for the investigators and fodder for conspiracy theorists.

Our special will examine the forensic evidence, the autopsy and the single bullet theory, including accounts from the people who were there.

You'll watch footage never before seen on TV and hear eyewitness testimony from people who've never spoken about it until now...

It's a one-hour special on American history that you don't want to miss... only on FOX News Channel.

[veronica]

There was no conspiracy. A little worm of a man named Lee Harvey Oswald killed our President and this country has never been the same.

That simple sad fact makes the whole thing much more depressing than any big conspiracy could. That one little worm of a man could do so much damage.

[mtbopfuyn]

Blah, didn't make it clear above that it wasn't Oswald though I can see how people could think so.

[mtbopfuyn]

I'd rather read Nellie's book.

[Bernard Marx]

Just for the record, I do NOT believe Johnson had anything to do with JFK's assassination. He was a tough old s.o.b. but I've never seen one iota of evidence that implicates him. But like O'Reilly always says, I could be wrong.

[Destro]

That computer angle bothers me since the bullet exited sort of mid-right up of the head rather than say through the front. Of course-factors like the head's position and the tendency for weak bullets to zip around also may explain it.

I think if there was a concpiracy - it was to use Oswald alone. Maybe

Posner did say there was a concpiracy-but it existed to cover up agency foul ups Posner says. What if it was to cover up teh fact that Oswald was linked to all those spooks? What if Oswald, being a small man-heard all this talk of killing off Kennedy by his spook handlers who used him for dirty work and decided Hey! I will make make myself a big man in their eyes by doing what they wish they could do? Oswald probably thought - they would rescue me in the end! After the killing I am sure the spooks paniced and covered up all links to Oswald-maybe even sending in Ruby to shut him up.

What I am saying is it is possible the Oswald was the lone gun nut-but this lone nut was a spook asset that probably was the first recorded case of (or covered up as the case may be) "blow-back". Osama Bin Laden was such a case of a spook asset going rogue, so it has happened before.

What do you all think? Remember Posner says there was a concpiracy-to cover up the agency foul ups but that is as far as he is willing to take it.

[Destro]

See my #165. There was a concpiracy according to Posner.

[Shooter 2.5]

I never researched why he did it. It's hard enough convincing people that a killer wasn't in one of the trees.

And yes, there are people who claim there were two Oswalds, a killer in a tree, in the bushes, in the sewer system and standing in a car in the motorcade.

[familyofman]

"Join Greta Van Susteren for FOX News Channel's anniversary special — JFK: Case Not Closed ."

Just one more step in the journey of FOX into the realm of tabloid news. Ratings appear to matter more than reporting.
Greta will probably have coverage of both Peterson & Bryant cases as well - let's all speculate!!! I am so sick of the pandering to the lowest common denominator by FOX - next they'll start having a page 3 babe every day - just like Rupert's rag in London.

[norton]

About the flattened/pristine bullet:

It would take a lot less force to do what those photos show than would support the official story line about multiple entry & exits, multiple bones being hit, and then falling out on the gurney at Dallas General.

That's always been a foundation for 'conspiracy' theories.

Also: another poster commentd on people running toward the 'grassy knoll". Years after '63 I had a chance to listen to taped radio & TV reporting from the day of the shooting & confirmed everything I'd remembered. The grassy knoll was then about universally considered to be the source of fire...I wonder how many others posting today actually sat through the immediate assasination aftermath, and what their opinions on consporacy/lone loonie might be?

[wtc911]

If JFK were a 42 yr old Senator running for the WH and adhering to his political positions from 1960, he would have to run as a Republican. That's how far to the left this country has shifted in 40 years.

[wtc911]

The only explanation I ever heard was that she was trying to help SS Agent Lovelace(?) climb up. That's what they said then, I believe at least this part.

[texasbluebell]

The old PBS, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" and last night's History Channel shows are much better.

I'm going to have to watch that set of programs tonight on History at 8 ET, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy". Haven't seen this yet.

[norton]

I THINK that supporters of the official version went into some detail as to how Kennedy had to be leaning forward when hit.
I also THINK that the commission simply didn't address the odd trajectories necessary to pull it off as they deemed to have happened.
Of course, in the film he is upright until the first hit and I THINK that he does not bend forward because of the brace.

All of which, like the rest of the debate, is based on thin air because the Kennedy family and a collection of "inept" doctors, police, SS agents, firepersons and the neighbor's cat managed to destroy/hide/contaminate/misplace the evidence.

And, to Laredo in post 138; LBJ was widely and often pointed to as most likely source behind any conspiracy.
Ol' Lyndon wasn't too popular with the democrat party after the end of "Camelot".

[norton]

If I am right, and mastoid is just about even with one's ear lobe (?) how does your comment fit with his grabbing his neck less than half that far below that point, and with his also being hit either in back or front of the head?

Also, if 5.5 inches below mastoid, where did it exit or stop?

[Shooter 2.5]

In the film, Kennedy reacts with what the experts[!} say is the sound of the first shot.

The comment and scope alignment is for the second shot.

Frame 313 shows the third shot.

To answer your question, I'll let you figure it out. Look at the scope alignment with Kennedy and Connelly. Understand that the 161 grain jacketed bullet was traveling at 2000 feet a second.

[Shooter 2.5]

[GaryL]

Always good to hear from former "conspiracy buffs." Good to know I'm not alone!

Did you see the "unfair" and "unbalanced" report on Fox last night? You would have thought Gerald Posner would have been invited on to at least give a defense for the single bullet thoery and give a rebuttal to Cyril Wecht. Especailly since they hyped the show as "Case Not Closed," a direct reference to Posner. I took notes on this show and I'm going to post an article myself rebutting this outrageously one-sided view of the assassination.

[Destro]

No-that is how far left the Republican party has went where we are more like JFK. The Democrats went left but since they were already on the left side they went way left. The Republicans HATED JFK because he was too liberal.

[Destro]

that angle is soooo narrow!! How far away was the shooter to shoot so low? That is almost parallel.

[Destro]

Posner admited their was a JFK concpiracy.