Interview With the Assassin

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[Musket]

Interview With the Assassin

I know the Lefts infatuation with the JFK assassination is nauseating but here's something new: a documentary movie is coming out on Nov. 8. It is apparently about a guy who says he killed JFK. The promo clip is of an old guy being interviewed from someone off camera. If you have QuickTime you can watch the promo clip here, but here is the full transcript of the clip:

Q: Tell me about the crime?
A: I was in Dallas November 22, 1963. That mean anything to you?
Q: What is it? The day Kennedy was shot?
A: There you go.
Q: You know something about it?
A: I do.
Q: Okay. Did you see something?
A: Never told anyone this before. No one knows. Nobody.
Q: Know what?
A: I was the second gunman.
Q: You shot President Kennedy?
A: In the head. I killed him.
Q: Can you prove it?
A: Yes.

Comments anyone?

[Musket]

What do you think?

[Arkinsaw]

So many stories have been put out that the American people don't know what the heck to believe. Of course thats not purposeful.

[thegreatbeast]

I think he's likely the 667th crank to assume credit for doing Kennedy. We'll never know who killed JFK but I think it is established that at least two people were involved. Woody Harrelson's (hemp addict & actor) dad is a good candidate for the role of assassin in some quarters. He's every bit as crazy as his son.

[giznort]

I was 10 when JFK was killed. After I turned about 20, I read everything I could get my hands on about the assassination after having heard that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the lone killer. I've read many books and watched many a TV special (A&E especially) and have come to the conclusion that the Warren Commission was commissioned to come up with a predetermined conclusion; that there was NOT a lone gunman; that the fatal shot came from the front; and that our own governmental agencies had a hand in it. Woody Harrelson's father (Woody Harrelson - the bartender on the TV show "Cheers") was a convicted murderer of a Federal judge - he was found on a railroad bridge right after the assassination and interviewed and described as a hobo or tramp. There's a lot of stuff.

Maybe this new release is a new revelation; or the ramblings of some old fart who read a lot on the subject and has delusions of grandeur. Who knows? Keep an open and objective mind.

[Shooter 2.5]

Impossible.
The Zapruder film shows the bullet hitting from back to front and the spray matches the Autopsy Report. Little hole in, big hole out.
The two fragments from the bullet were found on the front seat and on the floor. One of the fragments cracked the inside of the windshield.
Only two people on the Grassy knoll thought that an assassin was there and it wasn't Zapruder and his secretary. Close to ten times that number reported the three shots coming form the DBD.

Two people watched Oswald fire the three shots out of the window and two people on the fifth floor heard the three shots and heard the three pieces of brass hit the floor.

What we could do is hook the guy up to "Old Sparky" and see how fast he changes his story. There isn't a statute of limitations on murder.

[Musket]

....the 667th crank

So there have been others? This is the first one I've heard about.

[Shooter 2.5]

There were two police officer on that bridge. One facing Dealy Plaza. He was joined by a half a dozen railroad workers because that was their property. The officer did chase one photographer away. The other problem with your story is that no bullets were found behind the limo. All of the three bullets were forward. There's also the problem of a car coming toward the bridge with a windshield in the middle.

[thegreatbeast]

Yes, there are others. Harrelson was picked up on the side of a highway in a drug-induced agitation claiming responsibility for offing Kennedy. He's in jail for killing a federal judge on a murder-for-hire basis.

[Shooter 2.5]

Yeah, there were others.
My favorite is the guy who was supposed to have been behind the fence with a Remington bolt action pistol firing a .221 Fireball. Think about it for a second. How do you think it got it's name of Fireball?

[Prince Caspian]

Our experiences and ages and conclusions sound almost identical. Remember the moment when the subject of the assassination (years after the fact) first captured your attention. I read voraciously, couldn't get enough. All the precise details will never be known, this side of the judgement. But I've always challenged anyone who would objectively look at the facts to come up with any other honest appraisal than a conspiracy with involvement of elements of the government. What is just as telling is to also look at the behavior of certain indiviuals and government agencies in the aftermath. What was NOT done or NOT followed through on or prematurely or suddenly shut down is just as interesting as what was discovered.

[Musket]

Interesting replies everyone. The thing that gets me is why would the Government want to kill him? I mean he was a Liberal Democrat but an old time Democrat--far less dangerous than say the Clintons. And all that damage to the back of his head says to me that the bullet came in the front.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, yeah, I am Spartacus.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Much of what you say is true, but there are things that I just can't buy. An Italian Carcano used as a precision shooting tool for one. The depressed trajectory of the shots through trees, a moving target going away from the shooter, and the rapid firing sequence for some more. I don't think we'll ever know either. Personally, I blame it on Clinton.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Whoa! You actually believe the Lone Gunman theory? Oswald was a terrible shot, even for a marine. I live in Dallas, the trees along Elm Street are in full foliage in November. There is no way Oswald had the angle for the head shot, which came from THE FRONT.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The thing that gets me is why would the Government want to kill him?

Because he was a appeaser like his father, he was soft on communism, and he was a threat to the military-intelligence machine in Washington, DC.

[piasa]

Not everyone who works in government works for our government.

Look at the Cuban spy Montes, for example. She's been working in our government since the eighties, but her allegiance was to Havana. It took until after 9/11 to arrest her as she 'called home.' She is an ideologue and while rare, they do exist. And there's always those whose allegiance is to money; they will work as agents for the highest bidder, whether for organized crime or another government. They're quite common.

[Musket]

Because he was a appeaser like his father, he was soft on communism, and he was a threat to the military-intelligence machine in Washington, DC.

These kinds of Democrats are a dime a dozen today, but they're not falling from gunfire.

[WFTR]

I've seen The Men Who Killed Kennedy a couple of times with my folks, and it's an interesting series. Part of the problem with all of these theories is that the average person really can't know which "facts" are really facts.

For instance, I've heard that when they checked the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used, they found that the scope was not adjusted properly. For him to make the three shots using a rifle with an improperly adjusted scope is impossible for me to believe. Was the scope really off? I don't know. If true, it would argue against the idea that anyone shot Kennedy using that rifle.

Personally, I believe the accounts that put four bullets in the air. One hit President Kennedy in the torso. Another hit him in the head. A third hit John Connally. A fourth hit the curb near the bridge. The lone gunman from behind theory puts three bullets in the air from behind. Some two gunman theories have three bullets coming from behind and one from in front. The Men Who Killed Kennedy seems to put five bullets in the air. They claim that three came from behind; one came from the grassy knoll; and a third came from a sewer grate.

It's all very interesting as a mystery, but I think it's much less significant than many people claim.

WFTR
Bill

[Musket]

Part of the problem with all of these theories is that the average person really can't know which "facts" are really facts

Ain't that the truth. I was in the third grade when it happened, that would put a 20 something killer in his late 60s now. Would he or they want the info to come out before they die? Would they want some kind of 'glory' for their dastardly deed? I don't think he(they) would want to spend their golden years in the pen but then who knows? It would be free babying.

And with todays technology any idiot with a DV camcorder, Final Cut Pro, a Mac and a crazy old friend can go for some (relatively easy) $$$ with an "expose' " such as this.

Thanks everyone for the thoughtful responses. Quite informative--as I knew they would be!

[Shooter 2.5]

He missed one out of two times. That's not a precise tool. The Carcano and any bolt action rifle can hit a three inch group inside of a hundred yards.
If you live in Dallas, then look through the next window and you can see what Oswald saw. The trees don't obstruct but he may have hit a branch on the first shot because he hit the curb.
What damage to the back of the head? The Zapruder film shows a large flap of skin that was pushed over the front of Kennecy's face. There are side by side pictures of the Zapruder film and the movie "JFK" at Dealy Plaza. The frame from the Zapruder film shows a bloody mess on JFK's face and the "JFK' movie shows a mess at the back of his head. Stone couldn't even get that right.