Who, I have no idea. But *why* he was killed, I have a novel idea.
JFK had Addison’s disease, also known as chronic adrenal insufficiency, an endocrine disorder, among his other numerous physical complaints. This explains the odd appearance of his skin, one of the obvious symptoms of the disease. At the time, it could have been diagnosed by a physician familiar with the disease just by looking at him from a few feet away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison’s_disease
At the time, the only treatment for the disease was the use of cortisone, still a relatively new and misunderstood “miracle drug”. For several years in the 1940s, he had cortisone injections, when the drug was still rare and expensive, but by the time of his presidency, he would intermittently take cortisone pills, now in mass production.
It was incorrectly popularly believed at the time that cortisone would or could cause severe clinical paranoia. This was reinforced by a popular movie that came out in 1956, entitled “Bigger Than Life”, which starred a powerful performance by the top star James Mason, of a man driven murderously insane from taking cortisone pills.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0049010/
In the context of the time, when America was still traumatized by the Cuban Missile Crisis, and there was a tremendous public fear of nuclear war, the bad logic could have gone like this:
1) JFK is sick. A doctor who looked at him says it is Addison’s disease, which fatal without treatment.
2) The only way to treat Addison’s disease is with cortisone. Cortisone will drive you mad. You remember that movie?
3) When JFK goes mad, he will start a nuclear war. He already came close to starting a nuclear war over Cuba.
4) “We” (whoever “we” is) can’t allow that to happen. JFK will never voluntarily step down for health reasons. This leaves “us” no choice but to kill JFK.
Many years ago, back in the 1960’s I read an article in POPULAR MECHANICS or some similar magazine written by Congressman Gerald Ford.
He said in the article that one piece of evidence was a thread caught on the buttplate of the rifle that exactly matched Oswald’s shirt at the time of the assasination.
Some observations:
1) Not apparent from the endless documentary films about the Nov. '63 events is that the plaza is SMALL. I stood on the wall where Zapruder stood. The distance from there to the bush/fence on the grassy knoll (where "badge man" can be seen in the photos) is approximately 20-25 feet. From years of seeing documentaries on TV, I thought Zapruder was 30-40 yards from the grassy knoll. I was astonished at just how close the fence on the knoll is to where Zapruder was standing. Now, if I'm Zapruder and I'm filming, when suddenly a high-powered rifle goes off 25 feet to my immediate right, I would surely be startled and bobble the camera. I'd also look to my right, not calmly keep filming a motorcade.
2) I also stood behind the current stockade fence on the grassy knoll. Assuming that back in '63, it was the default 5' or 6' height for a fence of that type, you would have to be 6"5 or so to shoot over it. I'm 6'2" and could see over it, but would not be able to depress a rifle barrel enough to shoot downhill to the road below. I guess the second shooter had a milk crate to stand on??
3) If you stand at the fence and look to your rear, the railroad yard control tower is in plain view about 50 yards away across an open lot. Nowhere to hide.
4)Elm Street has a pretty steep downhill pitch as it runs down to where Kennedy was shot. From the book depository window, a target travelling away AND downhill from the shooter is easier to hit than one travelling away on a flat surface, as the distal movement of the target is more gradual. Try it yourself by sticking your thumb up infront of your face and moving it straight away by extending your arm. Next do the same thing while moving your thumb away from your face, this time at a downward angle. The distance from your eye to your thumb increases at a slower rate (making for an easier shot) when your thumb is moved away with a downward angle 5) I also stood in the window in the Sixth Floor Museum that is about 8 feet from Oswald's perch (Oswald's window is behind a plexiglas barrier). Looking out at the cars going by on Elm St, it's really a pretty easy shot. Having a vertical height advantage on the target and having the target moving downhill to boot, makes it not too hard to do.
In conclusion, I think Oswald did it. The bullet ballistics consipricies seem to be all based on the asumption that bullets travel in a striaght line. They do, until they hit something. Once inside a body, they can caroom about and come out at weird angles and with a trajectory entirely different than their original one. Oswald was having a really accurate day of shooting that day, just like some golfers have exceptionally good games on occasion.
“Well after all, it was you and me.”
Reading Jim Tague’s book convinced me that there was more than one gunman.
James Tague is a survivor and witness of the assassination. He received a minor wound when a bullet fragment brushed his face near the south end of the triple underpass.
Remember, the Warren Report said the first shot missed, but Tague claims with certainty that it was not the one that struck him. Factor that with all of the wounds that Connelly had.
There were atleast 2 shooters.
By the way, did you ever hear the remarkable coincidences between the Kennedy assassination and the Lincoln assassination? Mindboggling.... Fascinating... Eerie........
OK, the main ones are these:
(1) After Kennedy was shot, he ran to a theater... Lincoln ran to a Book Depository!
[OK, but here’s where it gets weird! The movie being shown when Kennedy got to the theater (mortally wounded I might add) was “The Gettysburg Address”! And when Washington delivered that speech heard round the world... there were no movie theaters in DC!!! Just amazing...]
(2) When JFK was hit (remember, he was nailed at least 17 times), Mrs. Kennedy was wearing a pink pillbox hat, which deflected several bullets... and Mrs. Lincoln shot John Wilkes Booth from a PILLBOX!
(3) Mr. Kennedy’s assistant was Mrs. Lincoln... and Mr. Lincoln’s assistant was.... Mr. Rogers!!! As we all know, he later went on to host his own children’s show—and was himself assassinated by a gun-toting dinosaur named: Barney... Harvey... Oswald!!! (Spooky!)
(4) When Jodi Foster was shot by Mark David Chapman, the pope (who has been known to run butt-naked through the woods, chasing defecating bears and felling trees when no one is around to hear or see it) instituted an order that henceforth he would ride in glass-encased pope-mobiles to events while in Texas or near the Dakota in New York!
Full circle...
There you have it. Just weird, huh?!?
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Obama’s mother did it, because JFK knew that little Barrack was really born in Kenya.
Let me see, President Kennedy was the last US president to issue US currency (notes); some 2B of them. Two months later he was dead.
The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a reserve. Yet it's creation and secret power is hidden from all but one in a million. It has never been audited although Congress has tried. This is the biggest fraud in world history and most haven't a clue...
“LBJ”=Lady Bird Johnson, she was a devious one.
I still think Jackie hired it done.
I dont know who did, but it wasnt oswald alone, and I DO believe that dim-0s know who did it.
You also have to ask yourself, if you are aware it happened, many don't, why Vice-President Johnson's car broke down and didn't make the final turn in front of the book depository, but started a few minutes after the shooting went down.
These are all questions that have very rarely been asked and never answered and actually covered up for the most part.
Oswald killed him.
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.....
Ping!
LBJ had it done. “The most to gain...” and all that.
Oswald killed JFK.
I’m convinced.
But who helped him or egged him on and why Ruby of all folks to kill Oswald.
Those are the big questions.
Is he REALLy dead????