Deathbed Confession of Howard Hunt Fingers LBJ in JFK Murder

Associated Content ^ | 05-04-07 | Ranger

[mission9]

Ever since that late morning is Dealey Plaza Dallas Texas, November 22nd 1963, the soul of America has been tortured by lingering doubts about the official version of the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed by Lyndon Baines Johnson to head the official investigation, the Warren Commission. After reviewing all the evidence, the Commission's final report named Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman responsible.

In 1966, the book, Six Seconds in Dallas, raised important questions pointing to evidence which indicated that there was more than one shooter. More than one shooter would indicate a conspiracy, so the next question would be "Who else was involved"...

[DemEater]

“I was astonished by how close the kill spot was from that window perch.”

That’s interesting. I always assumed it was a great distance as it looks that on documentaries, etc.

[1L]

His first political opponent was someone he ran against at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos (now, Texas State Univ.). I highly doubt this is true.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

After the ceremony LBJ looks back and a member of the administration gives him a wink and a smirk.

W winks and smirks all the time, sometimes at moments I would think inappropriate. Gee, he must be having rival politicos bumped off all the time.

[Liberty Valance]

[4yearlurker]

If you saw the photos you might be singing a different tune.

[napscoordinator]

If you read some upper posts, people seem like they were glad that he died. I don’t know. I was not there and was not born for another six years after his death.

[eiyeeclaudius]

I was 17 when Kennedy was killed. My first reaction to a crime is the same then as it is now, after 28 years in criminal justice: who benefited from the crime and who had the wherewithall to pull it off.

Sorry I don't fit your tortured profile, but I don't believe incomplete investigations, suspicious autopsies, disappearance of evidence and on and on.

It is easier to believe that there was something going on beyond this one guy pulling the trigger than to believe the official version.

I believe when JFK said he thought the Cubans did it and he wanted the Warren Report to get there work done to allay the fears of Amercians, that they was just as easy a misdirection as it was anything else. I don't know how we can know what we know about LBJ and dismiss his "need" to become president.

Also, it's easy to believe a death bed conviction of a man who was not home on the day even thought he told others he had been. His own family denied that.

Maybe other family members will come forward and debunk their son/brother, but his story is more believable to me than the "official" story.

BTW which one IS official, Warren or the 2 congresional investigations?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I’ve seen the photos, and I’m not. If a congratulatory wink at an inappropriate time is what passes for evidence of a murder plot, that’s really pathetic.

[jmcenanly]

Karl Rove was Lyndon Johnson’ puppet master? That magnificent bastard!

Considering that he was only about 13 years old at the time of the Kennedy assassination, He was quite a kid.

[Little Ray]

Jackie did it. She got tired of the cheating dog and had him whacked...

[4yearlurker]

I simply mentioned the photos. You added “murder plot.”

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

I thought what those posters were saying was that people weren’t losing sleep over whodunnit conspiracy theories. I didn’t read them as cheering the murder of our former president.

I know my own soul is not “tortured” over the fake JFK conspiracy theories as the author of the posted piece suggests.

[Let's Roll]

LOL!

This exchange is dating us!

[RobbyS]

He could have had his scope of the president for a full fiftten second before he pulled the trigger. The biggest problem was the trees by the road and 44 years ago they were a lot smaller than they are now. Standing there he was looking down on the procession and it does seem awfully close, maybe about the distance between home plate and First base.

[napscoordinator]

You know I wonder why they would think that the Nation would still be wounded over JFK when we have had the Challenger Disaster, 9/11, and perhaps VA TECH. That is what is on the minds of Americans not JFK.

[Oberon]

...Democrats just can’r wrap their minds around the fact that some loser took out their hero.

You think they'd prefer that JFK had been done in by a six-foot Johnson?

[skimask]

From what I have read the shots fired from the bookstore depository were at a distance of 78 to 82 yards. From Oswald’s Marine Corps records he hit 246 out of 250 bulls eyes at a distance of 250 yards with open sights.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

The endless fascination with JFK by the liberals is little more than celebrity worship.

If JFK had the looks & charisma of Adlai Stevenson or Hubert Humphrey, there would be a lot less of the JFK worship.

[wbill]

People, Kennedy was killed by a lone nut, Lee Harvey Oswald...end of story

I sbscribe to Occam's razor, as well.

People always prefer a good conspiracy to a simple explantation, though. lol!

[jordan8]

It is worth remembering that the motivation of those who first pushed these ridiculous theories, like Mark Lane and Sylvia Meagher, was essentially crypto-communism, America’s really an illegitimate closet fascist dictatorship, etc. And it is remarkable how successful they’ve been in turning an assassination by a communist into an assassination by anti-communists. The conspiracy theory that at first blush would seem to make most sense (and the one that the Warren commission really wanted to avoid), that Cuba, Russia, or domestic communists were involved, is the one that never gets pushed by the buffs.