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SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
1. Thank You For Posting This
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 11:18 PM
Nov 2014

I saw some, but not all of these, years ago on History Channel. If I ever get 7 hours to spare, they are definitely worth watching again. So many theories, so little time.

 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
3. Oswald a nobody did the dirty deed. A no brainer. The only Patsies are the conspiracy obsessives
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 12:11 AM
Nov 2014

Dont complexify something so simple

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
5. Awwww… that's so adorable!
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 01:10 AM
Nov 2014

Ding! -

That poster earned a Connie Rice smoking gun into a mushroom cloud metal of adorableness!

I'd include a yellow cake, but it's time to turn in tonight!

Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)
16. That's BS because first the bullet went UP from the middle of JFK's back to his throat.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 04:29 PM
Nov 2014

Didn't happen. Tell me how a shot from above could hit JFK in the mid-back (according to doctors and xrays) and go directly up and through the front of his throat. Never happened. Ford later admitted to moving the back shot up six inches in "drawings" to make the single bullet theory even plausible for the Kennedy-only body wounds. You've been had. The Discovery Channel is not your friend on this one.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. Why does this crap always surface on the JFK assassination anniversary?
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 06:24 AM
Nov 2014

It has all been long ago debunked.

All we hear is that there apparent anomalies in the event, as there would be in any such important historic event.

But if Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK -- BTW, all the forensic evidence said he did, and I do mean ALL OF IT -- who did?

If one listens to the conspiracy wackaloons, it was LBJ/CIA/Cuba/CCCP/Mafia/Jimmy Fucking Hoffa/etc. Blah, blah blah.

The conspiracy cuckoos have no coherent narrative, only apparent anomalies which are evident in any important historic event. They grasp at straws -- and straw men -- meanwhile all the forensic evidence points to Oswald.

Case closed.

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
10. I hope they pay you well enough to spread that propaganda.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 10:13 AM
Nov 2014

It will never fly, because it just isn't true. But you idiots just keep on trying to convince the world. I guess you really believe you are covering your asses.

You're idiots.

truth2power

(8,219 posts)
11. Thank you, loudsue. It's too bad we have to continue to put up with
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 10:44 AM
Nov 2014

such crap after all these years. It gets tiresome, doesn't it.

freebrew

(1,917 posts)
13. Exactly...
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 12:36 PM
Nov 2014

the official scenario given by the gov't is not possible and has been proven as many times as they've denied it.

I was 7th grader at the time and I remember the smokescreen by the media, the conservatives trying to derail his policies and attempting to smear him with the southerners. He had all but declared war on the CIA and had no friend in Hoover. To see who did it, just look at who gained the most from the act.
It wasn't Oswald.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
14. You're exactly right
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 01:22 PM
Nov 2014

It seems that many people don't understand what constitutes evidence or what scenarios are possible in the real world.

There is massive evidence the Oswald assassinated JFK.

Case closed.

snot

(10,520 posts)
8. Wow.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 06:35 AM
Nov 2014

I thought I'd seen a lot re- this event. But this adds important info.

Where the heck has it been?

That said, I'd appreciate any response re the info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Killed_Kennedy .

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
9. I met the xray tech that was in the room and involved in x-raying the president.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 09:18 AM
Nov 2014

I was on the Rosebud Indian Reservation about15 years ago with a moble unit.
I was chatting with a technologist that worked there.
Somehow we got on the subject of where we had worked. I mentioned I was from Texas long ago. He said he had worked in Dallas. I asked where and he responded Parkland.
I asked if he saw Kennedys injury. Yes he replied. I was one of the techs that did the x-Rays. I asked where was the exit wound. He responded the back of his head was blown off the shot had to come from the front.I ask where the x-rays. What happened to them. He answered they disappeared.

truth2power

(8,219 posts)
12. Thanks for posting this, TeeYiYi....
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:54 AM
Nov 2014

I intend to watch it, later, when I have more time. And pay no attention to the naysayers. They're probably being well-compensated, already, for their efforts.

On a side note: I highly recommend the book, "Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob, and America's Secret History", by Daniel Hopsicker.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Barry-Boys-Americas-Secret-History/dp/0970659172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416754042&sr=1-1&keywords=barry+and+the+boys

It's in its second edition, now. I read it years ago, but I had to get it through interlibrary loan. I'd like to know why it's impossible to get even a used paperback copy of this for less than $74.00. That's been the case for years.

If books like this were more freely available, Americans would have a more accurate picture of the events surrounding the JFK assassination. But, of course, it does serve certain purposes to limit availability, doesn't it.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
15. Man those Texans know their gunfire.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 01:28 PM
Nov 2014

Some of the witnesses describe it so well and are insulted when someone says that the sound from the knoll could have been echo from the first shots. In face of a lot pressure to say otherwise they steadfastly stuck with their experience. Cops driving their motorcycles up the knoll in pursuit of a shooter also seems pretty conclusive.

And the elephant in the room is Oswald who joined the Marines after being in a Civil Air Patrol unit run by David Ferrie. Then got Confidential security clearance right before being assigned to Atsugi airbase in Japan at exactly the time that the CIA's U2 flights over the USSR began. Oswald exits the USMC early with an honorable discharge as the U2 flights are entering their last missions. 9 days after receiving an Honorable Discharge, Oswald leaves for the USSR. He is there until Allen Dulles is fired by JFK in November of 1962. Oswald comes home with no apparent repercussions for "defecting" after having been a high security clearance Marine who worked on the U2 flights (!?).

Oswald is all over the place in 1963 -- having dinner with George De Mohrenschildt, going to ACLU meetings, then right wing rallies, then anti-Castro meetings, the Guy Bannister's office, using assumed names. He does a radio debate. Oswald distributes leaflets for Fair Play for Cuba but use 544 Camp Street as the address which is Guy Bannister's office who is ex-FBI and active in anti Castro projects. This is all in the WCR but on its face appears to show that Oswald was deeply involved in the Cold War and not all alone.



Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)
18. Oswald's only friends and associates were anti-Castro Cubans and members of the right-wing.
Sun Nov 23, 2014, 04:36 PM
Nov 2014

He set up a leftist profile, including the trip to Russia, to establish bona fides as a "Commie" when he was actually a regular American. The intelligence services, several of them, used his cover to frame him. He was an easy patsy for Kennedy's killers in military intelligence. Curtis LeMay and Allen Dulles were at the top.
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