“There was really no conspiracy involved in Kennedy’s death. The Grand Lodge of Librarians simply maintained the ruse, in hopes that more people would visit libraries to research the matter. For proof, notice to what extent the Librarian issue was downplayed in the mass-market film JFK”
–quoted from my soon-to-be bestseller The Librarian Conspiracy
It has finally been proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that only three shots were fired within a span of 8.5 seconds. An expert marksman, such as Oswald, easily would have been able to fire those three shots in the given time frame.
Oliver Stoner’s insipid movie, starring Kevin Costner, has been shown to be an even bigger fraud than most of us who were around when JFK was murdered thought.
In all of our lifetimes, we’ll likely never know the whole truth, although to this day I still believe that LBJ had his slimy hands in it.
There’s a show on Discovery channel called “myth busters” where they test various urban myths. I saw an episode last night where they tested various “magic bullet” theories, including a bullet made out of beef
None of them worked well from anything beyond point-blank range though.
All of my adult life I’ve had this little voice in the back of my head telling me the same thing. I’ve never studied the event in any depth and never seen the Kevin Costner version. The one thing that I have seen was the video of LBJ getting sworn in…it gave me the creeps. From that day on I’ve always had this little voice in the back of my head telling me that it wasn’t a total suprise for LBJ to be standing there with his hand on the bible. I have no compelling evidence, no theories, no nothin’, just that little voice.
Ya know, sometimes that little voice tells me other things too…
My favorite conspiracy theory is the Moon landing one, because it is the most implausible, and would require an amazing number of people around the world to be “in on” the conspiracy.
You’d have to include observatories in other countries who were tracking the spacecraft, geologists at universities who analyzed moon rock samples, physicists around the globe who have since bounced laser beams off the reflector left on the moon, and can do it again whenever they want. Depending on the particular conspiracy theory, you may have to include anyone who ever went into space (some conspiracy theorists believe that space travel is simply impossible, and even satellites.)
A presidential assassination conspiracy, in contrast, could at least theoretically happen with all loose ends tied up, if few enough people were involved. We can’t go back and re-observe the assassination to collect more data than we already have.
I also love the “plane didn’t really hit the pentagon” conspiracy theories that popped up after 9/11. The people behind those theories probably use the silliest logic of all the conspiracy theories.
I’m ready to throw in the towel on the full blown conspiracy theory, though Mr. Oswald sure had a large number of bizarre brushes with the ‘spooky’ world that, ir retrospect, should have set off some bells somewhere. For a long time (something like 40 years, come to think of it) it was hard for me to accept that such a momentous event in our history–I remember where I was that day, as do tens of millions of others–could have been the work of one person–a person who was apparently inept or lacking in so many other major areas of his life.
If he did act alone, it is humbling to realize the disproportionate impact that one person can have, especially for ill.
Albert Einstein had difficulties in many areas of his life, yet he too achieved a great impact in our history, but Einstein definitely DID have the backing of the government.
Well, the man had problems, but he wasn’t inept with a rifle. That’s the only ineptness that really matters when asking if he could assassinate the president all by himself.
It’s very reasonable and rational to consider another group in this light. “Inept(ness)” in this case more logically belongs to those agencies and agents who were sworn to protect the president. The killers (LHO and Ruby), seem to have been able to do just about anything they imagined. That’s true, official, ineptness. That’s a level of disregard for duty that may never be duplicated. No agency or individual was ever officially held accountable for the security failings of that day.
The killers (LHO and Ruby), seem to have been able to do just about anything they imagined. That’s true, official, ineptness. That’s a level of disregard for duty that may never be duplicated. No agency or individual was ever officially held accountable for the security failings of that day.
Points well taken. To be sure, everyone’s consciousness about security for and protection of government officals got ratchetted up a notch that day. In addition, it is widely acknowledged that there were groups all over the political and criminal landscape that did not wish President Kennedy well. Whether this rose to the level of ‘benign neglect’ by a few persons in positions to stop that train is a big unknown for me.
Of course, JFK himself deserves blame for a good bit of that “ineptness.” If he hadn’t insisted on using that convertible instead of a sensible “hard” sedan, he probably would’ve lived to ninety.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ believe he’s the last president to ride an open car in a public parade… I guess in that respect at least his life had some lasting meaning, if only as a cautionary tale the secret service can point to any time some president gets the idiot idea of making the security team’s job absolutely impossible.
Ask anybody in the security business, from the secret service to the bodyguards protecting hollywood’s “elite” – they’ll all tell you the same things.
You cannot provide absolute security for anyone in a public place. If someone is determined enough, skilled enough, and has resources enough, they will kill your target.
It is absolutely impossible to provide even “reasonable” security for a principal who will not cooperate with you. (I.e. who insists on riding an open car through a city in a parade.)
At least when talking about public appearances, the lone nut is a far greater risk than an organized “conspiracy” involving several people. You will almost always have good intelligence on the conspirators but a lone nut, provided he is able to maintain a calm ordinary appearance, has a very good chance of getting the job done (though his chances of getting away afterwards are much poorer than for the well-organized team).
Consider John Hinkley, had he been a better shot Reagan would have been assasinated. Then I guess the documentary sharks would all be looking for the conspirators that backed him…
