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All the conspiracy buffs out there might find this quote from the great historian William Manchester of interest:

"Those who desperately want to believe that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy have my sympathy. I share their yearning. To employ what may seem an odd metaphor, there is an esthetic primnciple here. If you put the Holocost on one side of a scale and on the other put the Nazi regime - the greatest gang of criminals ever to seize control of a modern state - you have a rough balance: greatest crime, greatest criminals.

"But if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and the wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesnn't balance. You want to add something weighter to Oswald. It would invest the President's death with meaning, endowing him with martydom.. He would have died for something. A conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatever that there was one."