16 Questions on the (Kennedy) Assassination - A Must Read For All Assassination Buffs

The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site ^ | September 6, 1964 | Bertrand Russell

[mlo]

Perhaps a message not to talk was being sent to everyone else.

That is called paranoia.

You forget that Crenshaw didn't have anything to talk about. His book is fiction.

[mlo]

Only one guy carried out the assassination, and his name is Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Fred25]

Until someone can explain the practical motive behind slowing down a vehicle in the middle of an assasination attempt ....... I will always think something was definately afoot that day in Dealy Plaza.

I can’t remember if it was the SS driver or the passenger who testified before the House Committee in 1978 that they (the two SS agents in the front seat) thought the “bang” sounds were coming from the triple overpass up ahead. Seems that the car’s windshield was reflecting the sound of the Book Depository shots back at them, so they heard them as coming from the front rather than the rear.

[Shooter 2.5]

Mlo, I have never met a person, who counts shooting as their hobby, that thought someone else did it. I'm not talking about someone who has a gun in the sock drawer. I'm talking about shooters like benchresters and highpower shooters. Not one.

There is a good reason to compare this to the OJ trial.

My next poll should be that if a person sat down and really read the Warren Commission Report, would they still say that someone else did it.

[Fred25]

You really need to listen to the Stuckey interview with Lee Oswald, recorded at WDSU Radio in August of 1963. Oswald was an independent “Marxist” who fancied himself as a “revolutionary”. That went back to his interest in Marxism and Communism when he was a teenager.

You can find the Stuckey interview here....

WDSU INTERVIEWS

[mlo]

There is a good reason to compare this to the OJ trial.

There really is. People think that raising a lot of issues and questions and pointing out supposed conflicts is the same as proving a case. It isn't. Those are the standard things defense attorneys do. In the OJ case we had them delving into such issues as the trip a vial of blood took in a detective's pocket, magically appearing blood drops on a gate, disappearing socks, etc. OJ even got Robert Groden to testify that a photo of his shoes was faked.

All those things were designed to cast doubt. They didn't have to be true. They didn't change the fact that OJ killed those people. In any complex case the defense can build a similar list of "conflicts", that's just the way the world works.

There are few people on FR, and a minority in America, that believe OJ was really innocent. Yet with the same type of arguments at work most think Oswald was, or that we don't know the truth at least. Why? The quality of the argument is no better. I think it is just because for 38 years we've had a host of authors and media people and filmmakers carry on so much about all these little details that most people think they are facts. They've only heard that one side.

[Shooter 2.5]

" No U.S. television program or mass circulation newspaper has challenged the permanent basis of all the allegations——that Oswald was the assassin, and that he acted alone."

I can tell you don't live in Dallas. Every once in a while, a publication will assign some pup reporters to investigate the JFK assassination. Reporters that believe the conspiracy nonsense. After they investigate, it always the same. A short little byline where the reporter realizes that Oswald acted alone. The last major publication I read where the editors tried to believe in a conspiracy was the Texas Monthly in it's 35th anniversary edition. The reporters were associate editor Michael Hall and assistant editor Pamela Colloff. They both realized through their investigations that Oswald acted alone.

No mass circulation publications? Another lie in your article.

[OPS4]

Wrong, He was the patsy set up by Hunt, Gaeton Fonzi look up his info on the net, he was the CIA officer in charge of the investigation. OPS4

[TiaS]

Think he was AG for short time before that -- check it out.

[Henchman]

Most of this is nonsense. E.G. There were pictures of the Rifle leaving the Book Depository, therefor there was no alteration. Secret Service did not conduct the investigation of the assassination, the FBI did; therefor the Secret Service was not in the picture. As the FBI stated "We're in charge here.", not the local police or Secret Service, thus end the conspiracy thoughts here. The Service was present through the whole operation therfor there was no need to go back and correct the matter.

There is anamosity between most competant Law Enforcement agencies and the FBI. There is no collusion between them although management cannot be trusted. However street cops and agents would talk if things were "wrong".

Attribute most of the problems to the incompetance of the FBI - ala ANTHRAX. The Bureau LOST!, Yes LOST Kennedy's brain. It was to be housed at the Smithsonian, but alas, the Bureau LOST EVIDENCE. Ah, why go on. Who actually killed Kennedy? For my money, it was the MOB. As Sam Giancana said, I should have taken out Bobby". What happened tpo the Organized Crime efforts of the Federal Gov't? The Bureau says they destroyed it - in essence, who is going to refute them?

[mlo]

Fonzi worked for the HSCA. Oswald was no patsy. He did it. The evidence says he did it. There is no evidence that says anyone else did it. There are stories and myths you can quote from all kinds of people, including people that worked for the HSCA, but that doesn't make them true. You have to distinguish between stories and evidence, between facts and speculations.

[OPS4]

Gaeton Fonzi: In 1977, Fonzi was invited to join the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations as a staff investigator. Later, as a special team director, he wrote and edited a major appendix, Volume X, of the Committee's Final Report. He is the author of "Annenberg: A Biography of Power," published in 1970 by Weybright & Talley in New York and by Anthony Blond in London, and of "The Last Investigation," published by Thunder's Mouth Press in 1993 and, in trade paperback, in 1994. Ops4

[OPS4]

HCSA, Headed up by E Howard Hunt in New Orleans. Nuff Said> Oswald Patsy Boy. Read Fonzi. Ops4

[mlo]

HCSA, Headed up by E Howard Hunt in New Orleans. Nuff Said> Oswald Patsy Boy. Read Fonzi. Ops4

I'm sorry, this makes no sense. Hunt headed the HSCA? From New Orleans?

The HSCA is the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The Congressional panel that investigated the case in the 70's. Hunt had nothing to do with it, and it wasn't headed from New Orleans.

Why just read Fonzi? There are a myriad books, all with different theories. Don't base your conclusions on what some author tells you.

[OPS4]

Oswald Patsy Boy, Wake up pal, read the books by Fonzi and then argue against it. Ops4

[Swordmaker]

the lead was not measured... it was never removed from Connelly's wrist and thigh.

[Lancey Howard]

The author published this piece on

SEPTEMBER 6, 1964 !!!

I had no idea that people were catching on to the whole 'Oswald shot Kennedy all by himself' fraud so quickly.
With all the evidence of fraud and corruption that has come up since then, it is amazing to find anybody who still believes that Oswald was the lone assassin.

A couple of days ago I watched a prominent LBJ biographer on TV. He has been studying the released phone conversations of LBJ and is extremely knowledgeable. He said that even Johnson was aware right from the git-go that things could not have happened the way the propagandists were spinning them. He knew that others were involved. He made a clutch decision to go along with the spin because he did not wish to undermine the public's confidence in their government and, more importantly, he did not want to upset foreign relations with the Soviets.

[Swordmaker]

Bull. I was the manager of Simms Guns and the Olde Sacramento Armoury for many years... and I know of NO gun enthusiast who thinks that Oswald did it alone. We had an exact match to the gun allegedly used by Oswald and allowed people to use our range to try and shoot it as fast as required to get off the shots... no one beat the clock.

[Shooter 2.5]

"For my money, it was the MOB."

How did the mob find Oswald, a person who already tried to kill a General? How did the mob get Oswald's rifle? How did the mob get a person who looked like Oswald and dressed like Oswald, to shoot out the window where Oswald worked? How did they know that Oswald would disappear during the minutes of the assassination? How did they set up a screen of boxes for the assassination with workers and Oswald on the floor? How did they put Oswald's clipboard at the window without Oswald's knowledge? How did they make sure that Oswald did no work that morning in order to set him up? How did the mob know that Oswald would leave after the assassination and kill the officer? What happened to the "curtain rods" that Oswald transported to the Depository?

Well?

[mlo]

I have read Fonzi's book. And lots of others. You aren't going to find the answer in a conspiracy book. Why should I argue that one? Why not one of the hundreds of others? Look, if you want to post a point from the book we'll discuss it, but you need to give up the idea that this one book contains the truth.