JFK - the 60th anniversary on Wednesday.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,042]

6 minutes ago, BillW said:

I doubt this mystery will ever be solved.

So you have doubts the Warren Commission report was accurate? I think the last thing the government wanted was a conspiracy. The “lone nut” theory was the perfect solution for them so they manipulated events to match it.

Oswald might have been a good shot but tests proved 3 shots in the time frame were very tight and the first would always be the most accurate. If he was the lone gunman why didn’t he take the first shot as the motorcade approached the TSB. Far easier than a vehicle driving away at an unknown speed.

[TASCHMANN 200]

Oswald was arrested for murdering a Dallas police officer and the President of the United States. 

He is in custody for about 24 hours during which time he is questioned intermittently by many different law enforcement personnel.

No one records a single word he says during that time.

I have always wondered why.

[BillW 212]

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

So you have doubts the Warren Commission report was accurate? I think the last thing the government wanted was a conspiracy. The “lone nut” theory was the perfect solution for them so they manipulated events to match it.

Oswald might have been a good shot but tests proved 3 shots in the time frame were very tight and the first would always be the most accurate. If he was the lone gunman why didn’t he take the first shot as the motorcade approached the TSB. Far easier than a vehicle driving away at an unknown speed.

He may not have been the sharpest tack in the box.😂  I have always been suspicious of the Warren Report. I wouldn't put anything past LBJ, but that's another story.

Bill W

[Fielder 3,744]

There used to be TV series in America at that time "What's My Line"? One of the panelists Dorothy Kilgallen was also a news columnist and radio actress. She ran a series of stories right after the assassination attacking the Warren Report. She flew to Dallas and was I think the only person to interview Jack Ruby, which she did in the courtroom of his trial during recess.

Back in her home in New York she died of overdose of drugs. Not a user and there are books and articles saying something is fishy about her death and what she believed was true.

(Bennett Cerf a regular panelist on the show was chief editor and the founder of Random House books).

 

[Patco Lch 1,482]

The CIA and the Mafia have made strange bed fellows more than once or I should say the US Government. Like a deal with Lucky Luciano to keep the docks safe from saboteurs during WWII. Help in Sicily defeating Mussolini. Then there was the CIA putting heads together with Santo Trafficante to figure out how to dispose Fidel Castro. I'm not saying there was a conspiracy but IMHO there is enough for a shadowy suspicion. I have read the Mob was instrumental in helping JFK win the Democrat primary in Illinois, then after he's elected brother Robert as Attorney General starts calling the Wise Guys for hearings before the Senate. Not many double cross those boys and get away with it.     

[n4gix 4,961]

7 hours ago, charliearon said:

Friday November 22, 1963.  10:30 am sitting in 8th grade Algebra class when the announcement came in.  Went that evening to see Lawrence of Arabia.

What a coincidence, as I was fourteen and sitting in my 10th grade Trigonometry class when the announcement came in. Being at that time a Cadet at Kentucky Military Institute, all classes for the remainder of the day were canceled, we hurriedly got into our formal dress uniforms, drew our rifles from the armory, and...

...held a memorial parade. It was a very solemn parade and ended with our bugler playing taps while all campus flags were lowered to half-staff. Afterwards we went into the Chapel for a memorial service. Such was typical for such a tragedy. To this very day, I believe that this was intended to be the Commandant's way of keeping us busy during the aftermath of this horrible event and allow us time to de-compress.

[Fielder 3,744]

The best friend of Lee Oswald and his wife Maria was Paul Gregory. He visited their home dozens of times. In fact he was probably the loner Oswald's only friend.

Paul now works for the Hoover Institute. He has written a book a year ago on the assassination. Widely praised as the editorial reviews on Amazon sales site shows.

https://www.amazon.com/Oswalds-Untold-Account-Marina-Lee/dp/1635768217/

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He is convinced Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin and not in a conspiracy. But here's a summary article by him released yesterday, giving his reasons in brief instead of his long book:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jfk-assassination-60-years-later-we-know-truth-about-real-killer

 

[Fielder 3,744]

There is nothing complex in his story. Simple solutions to enigmas are usually the best ones, I have come to learn long ago.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,042]

It's curious that Oswald took a job at the TSBD 6 weeks before the assassination when it wasn't public knowledge the route the motorcade would take.

And he then finds himself in the perfect situation to acquire a rifle and shoot JFK. Was he slipped that info by persons unknown and told to get a job there?

[Ray Proudfoot 9,042]

Interesting video on the BBC site.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-67493398

[DD_Arthur 1,092]

Everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame.

These days sad little men go on shooting sprees in shopping malls or blow themselves up in public spaces. 

In a crowded but anonymous modern world it all amounts to the same ambition;

"Look at me!"☹️

[Fielder 3,744]

That's just it. The mafia and CIA and so forth might be this or that, but they are not crazy.

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

I said it today, even if the US Government, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), released the true story, wouldn't matter because no one would believe it, everyone would question it, because Conspiracy Culture holds more value then the truth, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion...

Therefore we will never know because moving forward Society in general is Dysfunctional 🤣