I have read the Report and much of its “supporting” documentation. No wonder there have been numerous books and articles written about the killings. The gaps, omissions of contrary information/witnesses are numerous and obvious. It also uses the classic technique of Bury It in BS hence an essentially vaguely related collection of “facts” is used to hide truth in plain sight.
In waiting for the “KGB did it” book our friend has referenced, I happened to get “Me and Lee” a book by his lover in NO the summer before the assassination. It demonstrates and extensively documents that LHO was not only very smart but they both were intimately involved in a top-secret bioweapon research program run by one of the world’s top oncologist, and he was an agent both of the FBI and as a “loan” to the CIA. Oswald was tied by many threads to both the Mafia and to the ultra-right operations run by Guy Bannister in NO.
With the view that he was an agent in mind most of his bizarre actions in his life makes much more sense. His role was to play a doofus who hated the US so he led a peripatetic life barely above poverty, yet somehow managed to get hired by two companies closely tied to the intelligence agencies. Knowledge of his “defection” was obtainable easily and both companies ran background checks of potential employees.
He staged the ludicrous “demonstrations” in favor of Castro in NO, to bring attention to his “pro-Castro” sympathies as a means to get into Cuba and deliver the aforementioned bioweapon. This was an especially virulent cancer-causing virus to be injected into Fidel. (Ruby’s rapid death from cancer came after he complained of receiving an injection prior to becoming ill.)
It also explains the far too traceable purchase of the guns, his legend was to be a violent revolutionary. They were picked up by SOMEONE claiming to be Hidell when Oswald was at work. How did he even get readmitted into the country with no interest from CIA? That fact alone shows it is likely that he was an intelligence asset.
I read the FBI guys testimony as saying the AFTER the sights and other elements were repaired it could do some of the things claimed for it. All “duplicate” test firings were of a stationary target with as much time to sight as needed.
Reports were that the army ordnance Lab was afraid to fire it for fear it would explode. Experts who examined the gun found that it was “... found to be operable. It had not been properly cleaned, maintained or lubricated.” It was “in generally poor condition.”
There has been too much revealed about the rifle and its shortcomings for me to believe it was likely that he shot the President with it. His testimony does not say that this would have been a rifle to use for such a task, particularly as it was “found”.
His actions wrt the movie theater make me and others believe he was there to meet someone. Rather than sit in one seat he makes himself even more conspicuous by moving to several.
And the attempt to murder a cop has never passed the smell test, either. Let us pretend that he actually shot Tippett, what on earth would have made him dump the shells there, when did he reload? That shooting was more than likely done with a revolver which ejects the shells. In addition, the bullets taken from Tippett could not be identified as coming from Oswald’s gun. Then there is the incongruous shells found which did not match the make of the bullets from Tippett.
Now I must admit that I have laboured under the belief for the last fifty years that almost everything that the government says is a LIE. And with so many parts of the hidden power structure involved here one should assume that all ballistics reports, all autopsies and basically all witness statements have been massaged to create the fictional “Lone Assassin”.
Once the idea of the “Lone Assassin” is overcome everything about this killing starts to become clear.
Examine this case using the Scotland Yard investigative technique. A much different picture emerges of the killing.
Even simpler, just ask “Who Benefited?”
Well, you’re having a lot of fun imagining unsupported conspiracy theories. It’s just not rational.
You’re insisting we dispense with the entirety of the Warren Commission’s report while crafting unfounded suspicion where the facts and testimony don’t support your unexplained case. It’s spooky ghost story suspension of disbelief for amusement.
You: “The FBI testimony to the WC said that the Carcano rifle was incapable of murdering the President.”
Me: “Quite the contrary. The Warren Commission testimony by the FBI and the US Army ballistic lab was that the rifle was properly lubricated and in good working order and repeated tests by multiple sources with it duplicated Oswald’s results. Plus, resources from the Department of Energy lab proved the fired projectiles came from that rifle to the exception of any other and the ammunition was this specific lot purchased by Oswald.”
You: “Not from the unnamed sources I’ve read. Once you’ve read enough conspiracy books to eliminate Oswald as the ‘Lone Gunman’, you get to have all kinds of fun referencing this crackpot and that, and invent your own narrative like picking and choosing from a smorgasbord diner. Now, let me tell you about Oswald’s homosexual Cuban KGB lover/handler he slipped into the Texas Theater to meet...”
Okay, well. We’re done here I guess. Good afternoon.
Judyth's book demonstrates nothing because Judyth's story is made up. She took advantage of the fact the she once worked at the same place Oswald did to make up a wild story to get attention.
She's been known for years among people who study this stuff seriously, and almost nobody believes her. There have been all kinds of problems with her stories, and what she does when they are pointed out is change the story in a new version.
She is a serious JFK crackpot.