Posted on 02/04/2009 11:49:12 AM PST by patriotgal1787
Do you believe that the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of shots fired by a lone assassin from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository?
Or are you one of many who believe it was a conspiracy that involved the highest levels of our government?
The case is not closed regarding what actually happened on that fateful day.
The late President Gerald R. Ford, the last surviving member of the commission admitted that the CIA destroyed pertinent documents, covering up the investigation of the assassination, in a recently published book.
Tim Miller, the book publisher who helped author the text, believes there was a conspiracy and that Ford knew even more than he told his publisher and the world. Ford shares many other breath-taking admissions with the reader in this, his final book, written three years prior to his own death.
What did Ford say about the "single bullet theory," the Zapruder film, and Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK?
"Who killed John F. Kennedy?"
Tim Miller joins us to discuss tonight at 9 p.m. ET -- link to the show here.
I am not saying that LBJ took part in a conspiracy, but at the best, he didn't really give a flip who killed Kennedy. There are other possibilities, including the fact that if a conspiracy traced back to Castro, that would lead directly to Russia, and war.
That said, the big flag to me is Ruby making the equivalent of a suicide hit on Oswald. Why would a Jewish mob guy that runs a strip club do this? I mean he HAD to believe he would die that day. Would you expect to shoot someone in front of a room full of armed Dallas cops (with the attitude they had in 1963) and not get shot down?
All this aside, I think other people were involved. No clue as to who, where, how, why, but Dan Rather believes Oswald acted alone, and that's enough to convince me there was a conspiracy.
In actuality, we'll never know what actually happened. Too much was covered up then, too many false leads planted, too many bozos doing the investigation, too many amateur sleuths tracking through the information.
You're referring to E. Howard Hunt's son?
If so then it may be but I wonder how the son faked his Dad's writing and his Dad's voice on the tape recording? .. or did his Dad agree to make it all up to help his son buy the meth?
A valid question is, did E. Howard Hunt make it all up? Period.
By Max Holland. Good book. I know the author. He's coming out with another on the Warren Commission itself.
"Having read this book I am sure of one thing - which is that LBJ wanted the Warren Commission to be a blue ribbon rubber stamp of the lone nut theory."
You have to keep in mind that the case was pretty conclusively solved within days of it happening. By the time LBJ formed the Warren Commission it was already clear that Oswald did the shooting. He wasn't as focused on solving the case because it was already solved. What he wanted to do was avoid the circus of having multiple investigations and congressional hearing all going on over the same case. That was his state of mind.
The Commission was tasked with finding the truth, including any conspiracy that might have happened.
There are a number of books from witnesses, Jean Hill (The Last Dissenting Witness) who ran to the knoll looking for a shooter (She was interviewed live on NBC that day reporting a shot from there.
The Parkland doctor wrote a book I think called ‘Conspiracy of Silence’.
And many more...
***Reading Jim Tague’s book convinced me that there was more than one gunman.***
Answered it for me. Oswald. Alone. From the 6th floor of the TSBD.
Oswald killed him.
Except for the fact that it has been demonstrated that it could be done using the same Carcano bolt action rifle.
The head shot that killed Kennedy as shown in the Zapruder film, came from in front to his right.
You might want to explain why the entry hole is in the back of JFK's skull and the exit is in the right side of the skull.
Who says Oswald can't be placed in the crime scene? Oswald worked there. He was seen there. He admitted being there.
BS
Irrelevant. Most of the FBI couldn't find their a$$ with both hands if you spotted them nine fingers.
I believe Jean Hill damaged her credibility over the years by changing her story a few times. I think she was a bit on the strange side.
What I respect about Jim Tague is that he avoided media attention over the years. He didn’t release his book until 2005, I believe.
Oswald fired for score on several occasions so you'll have to be specific.
and I think they gave him the designation of marksman or maybe sharpshooter,
There's a difference betwen qualifying as Sharpshooter as opposed to Marksman in the Marine Corps but one can qualify as a Sharpshooter by one point and one can miss qualifying as a Sharpshooter by one point. Again you'll have to be specific. Most people could not qualify as either let alone as Expert.
Here is a view of the grassy knoll from across the street from Zapruder's location. Note how compact the area is, yet somehow multiple riflemen were stationed in an area that is no more than 8-10 yards from where multiple people (including Zapruder) are standing. Also visible at the lower left of the picture is the infamous storm drain outlet along the curb. Anyone who could shoot upward from there and hit Kennedy and then pop out of the manhole and escape is a true Houdini.... :
Here's the view from atop the wall where Zapruder was standing, looking parallel to Elm St., towards the fence on the grassy knoll. The President was traveling left to right on Elm St. where highway sign is located. You can see the overpass where the President's car sped towards, after the shooting. Distance from Zapruder to the corner of the stockade fence is about 30 feet. Note that the fence forms a right angle along the edge of the parking lot it encloses, and that Zapruder could actually see the BACKSIDE of the fence that runs parallel to Elm Street, and had someone been there with a rifle, he could have seen them. Had they been on his side of the fence, he would have been greatly startled by the report of a high-powered rifle:
Here is the view from behind the stockade fence, looking down towards Elm St.. Note the high-deflection shot that a shooter would have to make to hit Kennedy:
Still standing behind the fence on the grassy knoll, this is what is directly behind you, the rail yard control tower. Note distance to the tower is about six rows of parked cars, or about 60 yards:
So, if you want to think there was more than one shooter inside the fishbowl that is Dealey Plaza, go ahead. Just make sure you visit the plaza for yourself and see how small it really is. In my mind, the issue is not how Oswald made the shot. I've qualified as a Master in NRA highpower rifle competition and having visited the plaza, I think the difficulties of the shot are not insumountable.
To me, the big question is: how did the parade route just happen to run right in front of Oswald's place of work, at a point where the motorcade slowed down to turn and where Oswald had unfettered access to a high building and an open window? The probability of LHO being able to make the shots is far greater than the probability that the parade route would be so conveniently placed. People seem to get hung up on the shot because most people can't shoot that well. I am more intrigued on who set the parade route right in front of Oswald. Coincidence? Maybe so, but the probability of the route being put there randomly is much less than the probability of LHO making the shot. A conspiracy hunt should start with who picked the parade route.....
Actually I have read that the majority of Marines qualify expert.
You’re wrong. She bedded Onassis and a host of others proving she was guilty of, at the very least, poor judgment.
“Lyndon Johnson did it.”
The last TWO SHOTS were fired a split second apart, BANG-BANG.
Z313 shot hit JFK in the head
Z325 (split second later) a shot from behind missed JFK’s head and hit Connally in the back, with that you KNOW that there were at least two shooters. Taking into account James Tague, you know there was more than 4 shots to account for all the wounds.
QUESTIONS? There is more evidence than shown in the YOUTUBE summary to PROVE BANG-BANG BUT trying to keep it simple for the sheeple. Lyndon Johnson? IT took some real horsepower to hide BANG-BANG from the front page of newspapers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_kIDP4EQ0
It was a crime of opportunity. It so happened that the President travelled by a building where Oswald worked, and he took advantage of that. Who knows how many assassinations did not happen because the opportunities weren't there.
As for who picked it, it was determined by the choice of location for the speech he was travelling to give. And that choice was mostly determined by the Governor. The problem that leaves is obvious. The Governor was hit and nearly killed in the same shooting.
There was no shot fired after 313.
In fact, the motorcylce policeman was urged to change his testimony for the WC (probably intimidated with a threat), I believe his first account, not the 2nd.
***Who says Oswald can't be placed in the crime scene? Oswald worked there. He was seen there. He admitted being there.***
“Taque’s book was interesting, not to mention that Oswald can not ‘physically’ be placed in the crime scene, some of the earliest basic evidence provided by people in the depository and the motorcycle policeman show that.”
No. All the biological material from the autopsy (slides, brain, etc.) was turned over to Bobby Kennedy's control. It is not known what he did with it, but he probably disposed of them or had them interred when the body was moved into the current grave.
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