"I shot JFK" : your opinion please
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Look at the assassinations of McKinley and Garfield. Both were shot by crazy people acting alone. Lincoln could have been shot by someone acting alone, he just happened to have a conspiracy behind it. I don't see why JFK is magically protected so no crazy loner could have done it.
By all accounts, Oswald was both crazy and a loner. He had grand dreams of being noticed by the Soviets and supporting their cause but even they thought he was too crazy to be trusted. He had tried to assassinate people before. There's no real stretch of the imagination that he acted alone.
There is an excellent book on the assassination called, fittingly, Case Closed, by journalist Gerald Posner. It absolutely obliterates most of the various conspiracy theories out there and lays out a devastating case supporting the likelihood that Oswald acted alone.
I saw Posner speak on a panel once and he said that he got death threats from the conspiracy community after the book was published.
I saw Posner speak on a panel once and he said that he got death threats from the conspiracy community after the book was published.
I'm like 99% sure Oswald killed Kennedy. The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because the evidence proves, without a doubt, that all the shots came from the Texas School Book Depository. It's possible that there was someone else up in the sniper's nest who was with Oswald or actually doing the shooting. Possible.
Because Oswald didn't shoot RFK.
The murder of Lee Harvey Oswald two days after JFK is what drives so much of the conspiracy stuff.
After all, Sirhan Sirhan still sits in jail. No one claims a conspiracy killed RFK.
James Earl Ray pled guilty. Though he recanted shortly thereafter, few people talk up a Martin Luther King Jr. conspiracy either.
I once pointed out that one could make a more plausible case for Vice President Bush being behind the assassination attempt on Reagan than you could Oswald being part of a conspiracy to kill JFK.
After all, Sirhan Sirhan still sits in jail. No one claims a conspiracy killed RFK.
James Earl Ray pled guilty. Though he recanted shortly thereafter, few people talk up a Martin Luther King Jr. conspiracy either.
I once pointed out that one could make a more plausible case for Vice President Bush being behind the assassination attempt on Reagan than you could Oswald being part of a conspiracy to kill JFK.
Because Oswald didn't shoot RFK.
I know, but I think that's not what JRS meant.
Even if Oswald was a lone shooter, that doesn't rule out a conspiracy to set Kennedy up and cover up the evidence later.
Perhaps.
But every JFK conspiracy theory I've heard was built around the idea that "Oswald did not act alone".
Oswald as the "lone gunmen" knocks the legs out of virtually every conspiracy theory.
One problem being simply this:
No plausible presidential assassination conspiracy would have ever relied on someone as volatile and tightly wound as Lee Harvey Oswald.
