I know, I know, it's a subject that's been done to death on the web but I would still like to hear your opinions. I ask about these conspiracy theories in particular, because it's the only conspiracy subject I know of where I can't confidently say that it's BS and been debunked. I haven't delved into the subject too much, but so far it seems to me as if the not-totally-nutty ideas might have some ground in reality. Do they, or have they been debunked like so many others?
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Lee Harvey Oswald was a person who hated America so much that he defected to the most miserable country on the planet. He was a radical communist in a time when Americans thought of radical communists in the same way we think of Muslim terrorists. That's not to say that all communists were creepy killers, but there's certainly something to be said for the climate of animosity and division toward communists at the time. Not long after he returned to the US, he bought a rifle and attempted to assassinate General Walker. He used the same Carcano rifle to assassinate JFK. The gun was traced to him via the receipt sent to his pseudonym and PO Box. The bullets that were found were traced to his gun to the exclusion of all other guns. No other guns or bullets were found on that day. Oswald was seen taking a long package into work that morning. He was the only worker at the Book Depository who was seen in the room where the rifle was found at a time that fits with the assassination. He was the only worker to flee the Book Depository after the assassination. He was so desperate to escape that he shot an officer in front of witnesses. He was caught hiding in a movie cinema, where he resisted arrest. There's been no credible evidence that the CIA, FBI, mafia, or Cubans were involved. There was a lot of confusion on that day. Some witnesses have modified their statements since time has passed, giving testimony that seems to build upon conspiracies that they've heard since the incident. Others have come out of the closet (Oswald's supposed mistress) with details that they picked up from the movie JFK. Vincent Bugliosi's book "History Reclaimed" is an in-depth look at Oswald's background, and it debunks pretty much every JFK conspiracy that has ever been imagined. There are individual things that make you go hmmm, but I'm betting Bugliosi has covered most of those things. If you want to be able to refute a JFK conspiracy theorist, you'd do well to read Bugliosi's book because the theories are nearly endless. |
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Personally I think Bill Hicks said it best, when he said, he went to the Kennedy Assassination museum and tried to glimpse of Oswald's view of the motorcade after which he said, "I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE ROAD!!! OSWALD WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE BEEN HANGING MY HIS TOES TO EVEN GET A SHOT OUT." (He also said that there were reports of anti-Castro pigeons seen hanging around in bars saying, "Coo(p), coo(p),” but that's another joke. If you want to examine a theory, then perhaps notwithstanding the fact Oswald was shot on live TV by Jack Ruby (which even to this day my mum is afraid to change channel away from the news in case someone gets shot again) you have to ask about the "Magic Bullet Theory," which defies the laws of physics and does not stand up to any scrutiny. Oswald certainly was paid, possibly as a decoy, because if you're going to kill a president then you got to, at the very least, have a back up plan. Oswald missed 0 someone else hit. Any other notion is just bad planning. I certainly think that Oliver Stone in his movie JFK may have gone overboard on the Lyndon Johnson theory (using modern economics to describe a 1960s era), although it is very well worked. Additionally there are numerous similarities between the Lincoln assassination and the JFK, most of which are purely dinner party entertainment value, but the stark joining factor is the inclination to civil rights for blacks, which ought not to be ignored. This would not have been enough to incite the CIA or the Mafia or any other organisation to assassinate a president, which leaves only one main cause, which was that the threat of nuclear war had grown so much that either the Russian leader or the American leader would have to go to provide a diversion from the crisis. Russia was too far away and too closed so the American president had to go - mass focus on the death of a president would alleviate the political problem of a "Cold War" as negotiations would fraught at the time. JFK was an easy target then - president's motorcade in an open top car - who thought of that? The crisis kind of passed its most dangerous point and USA went into Vietnam wholesale after that, which allowed a bit of rabble rousing in Cuba unhindered. Failing that I believe it may have been Arthur Miller who killed JFK because he was jealous over the affair with his wife, Marilyn Monroe, I will now go and look for signs in "Death of a Salesman" - maybe it's all about JFK assassination - that's my theory and I'm going to write a book that will blow this wide open. The magic curtain theory. |
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or Ingham's dictum:
Conspiracy theorist give Cuba, Russia, the FBI, or the CIA way too much credit for what was basically a security gaff. |
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