I think George H. W. Bush knows who did it
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Originally posted by oktx View PostI saw a new theory the other day. Oswald was shooting from the book depository and hit Kennedy. When the Secret Service heard the shots an agent pulled out his M16 and had an accidental discharge which hit Kennedy in the back of the head.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/ac...un-f2D11634276
I just saw the date. It's not new, but I just saw it a month ago.
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Originally posted by Phillip Fields View PostThe article says AR-15, not M-16. Colt bought the AR-15 rights from Armalite in 1959.
In the doc i saw they called it a M16 so thats what I put.
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Originally posted by Hank Hill View PostWhat makes you say that? I've got my own theories but they both have Lee as the sole shooter.
Ruby killed him with a hundred law men with in arms reach, you only do that if your willing to sacrifice yourself to make sure secrets are kept.
I dont think Lee had the mental capability to pull it off on his own.
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I went down the conspiracy-theory wormhole over 30 years ago. A shelf in my house groans with the weight of books I read about it. Every time a new one came out I gobbled it right up. It took a long time but I eventually came full circle and now believe that Oswald acted alone. I also gave up arguing about it years ago. I finally realized that very few - if any - of the people in the "KACT community" have followed the evidence wherever it leads. All start with the unshakeable belief that there was a conspiracy of one kind or another then only consider evidence that supports their theory. Arguing with them is like trying to talk a fervent believer out of their religious faith - believing does something for them that goes beyond reason. My favorite of the KACT debunking books is Gerald Posner's "Case Closed". It is a very detailed, well researched and footnoted book (it is also very long) Of course the cottage industry that is KACT felt threatened by it so here came a slew of books to debunk the debunkers book. It will never end, and few minds will be changed. What may look like organized cover-ups was mostly law enforcement bungling, buck-passing and incompetence (in Dallas and at the Federal level) I understand it is hard to accept that one angry loon could take out the most powerful man in the world but throughout history, sometimes weird and unlikely things happen. And sometimes coincidences are just that - coincidences.
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Originally posted by jerp View PostI went down the conspiracy-theory wormhole over 30 years ago. A shelf in my house groans with the weight of books I read about it. Every time a new one came out I gobbled it right up. It took a long time but I eventually came full circle and now believe that Oswald acted alone. I also gave up arguing about it years ago. I finally realized that very few - if any - of the people in the "KACT community" have followed the evidence wherever it leads. All start with the unshakeable belief that there was a conspiracy of one kind or another then only consider evidence that supports their theory. Arguing with them is like trying to talk a fervent believer out of their religious faith - believing does something for them that goes beyond reason. My favorite of the KACT debunking books is Gerald Posner's "Case Closed". It is a very detailed, well researched and footnoted book (it is also very long) Of course the cottage industry that is KACT felt threatened by it so here came a slew of books to debunk the debunkers book. It will never end, and few minds will be changed. What may look like organized cover-ups was mostly law enforcement bungling, buck-passing and incompetence (in Dallas and at the Federal level) I understand it is hard to accept that one angry loon could take out the most powerful man in the world but throughout history, sometimes weird and unlikely things happen. And sometimes coincidences are just that - coincidences.
That being said I'm not completely sold on the as-the-offical-story-goes theory, but certainly can't discount it outright. What are your thoughts on Oswald being a rogue KGB agent, or at least a radicalized soviet asset that they lost control of?
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Originally posted by Hank Hill View PostThat being said I'm not completely sold on the as-the-offical-story-goes theory, but certainly can't discount it outright. What are your thoughts on Oswald being a rogue KGB agent, or at least a radicalized soviet asset that they lost control of?
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Originally posted by jerp View PostAll the evidence I've seen (some of it from files published after the Soviet Union collapsed) show that after LHO had been in Russia a while they had him pegged as as being too unstable to be a reliable asset. Who knows? Some of the conspiracy theories are quite compelling but in my opinion (which counts for exactly nothing) the most likely scenario is the most simple one - a lone gunman stumbled and fumbled his way to being in the right place at the right time and pulled it off.
What book/source material did the Soviet intelligence on LHO come from, if you dont mind me asking?
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