Question for conspiracy theorists: why make it so complicated?

[Nye Bevan]

Putting a Communist with a rifle in a building above a motorcade route where there are thousands of witnesses?

Why not just use some hard-to-detect poison or plant a small bomb in the White House or under the bed in a hotel, to explode during an "assignation"?

[Capt. Obvious]

1. Rape porn

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. WTF?

[DanTex]

2. Or even worse, for second gunman theories...

If you're trying to kill the president and then pin it on a lone nut, why on earth would you use two gunmen, which would pretty much destroy the whole cover story immediately.

[Nye Bevan]

3. In front of thousands of witnesses.....

[Politicalboi]

6. They needed JFK dead

Otherwise LBJ was going to be impeached come Monday.

[Nye Bevan]

4. I guess it's a tough question (nt)

[Politicalboi]

5. They could have used a woman to kill JFK

But I ask you, why did they take away his secret service guys on his car??????

The way LBJ's car was packed with secret service, I'm surprised if he even saw Dallas that day.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. As I understand it, it was JFK's wish ...

... that his limo not be cluttered with agents. He wanted to be visible.

[NightWatcher]

7. It had to be in public so everyone would see it

Then you blame one guy...
Then that one guy gets killed on live tv by another guy.

No one believes anything that happens in secret. You've got to put on a show for them to consume.

[Nye Bevan]

12. Well, if their goal by staging it in public was to avoid conspiracy theories,

they didn't exactly succeed.

[Lurks Often]

8. It would be much harder to use the methods you suggested,

the closer you get to a President, the tighter the security gets. The Secret Service goes over every inch of a place a President is going to occupy and anybody who works in the White House or in close contact to a President is vetted very carefully.

[Nye Bevan]

11. So were all of his many mistresses "vetted carefully"

prior to the "assignations"?

[Lurks Often]

13. We'll never know one way or the other,

because the Secret Service isn't going to say anything, they certainly didn't mention the mistresses to his wife.

[Rex]

14. How is that complicated? Please explain.

How is that any harder to believe than when LHO told people he was a patsy?

[Archae]

15. Is it at all possible Oswald was a damn liar?

I knew a guy like Oswald when I was in school, thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but he was lazy, combative, and a confirmed liar.

[philosslayer]

16. What are you saying Oswald lied about?

He never confessed to anything.

[Rex]

17. Then why believe anything about him or what he said?

CT deniers want to have their cake and eat it too. Can't be both, either he is a pasty or he is the assassin. Why is it so hard to believe a Marxist, with a few lucky shots, killed JFK?