Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy
Monday, June 14th, 2010 at
3:51 am
Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy
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There are no conspiracies, everything is fine. Don’t be a ‘conspiracy nut’. If you don’t believe what your government tells you, you must be unpatriotic.
Peter Jennings used to have some credibility with me, but not after this. Does he really believe this or did he just do it for a quick buck? This video basically attempts to back up the entire official version of the Kennedy assassination, that Oswald was a ‘lone nut’. What a joke. Weird that his brother RFK was killed by another ‘lone nut’…what a coincidence huh? But back to the video – anybody with an ounce of intelligence knows that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy to assassinate and a subsequent coverup. This video attacks Oliver Stone’s film primarily, but the film is irrelevant. The facts point out the obvious to anyone interested way before Stone’s film came out. To the ignorant, let me spell it out for you : the President of the USA is NOT the ‘Powers that Be’. Even this video can’t explain the pristine bullet from oswald’s gun being planted on jfk’s gurney, just 1 example that comes to mind…this film is drivel.
Rating: 1 / 5
Peter Jennings will be remembered , along with Dan Rather , as the two most important State Propagandists in the cover up of the State sponsored Execution of John F Kennedy.
Rating: 1 / 5
Ladies and gentleman, I own a copy of Oliver Stone’s JFK. NOw while it is clear that conspiarcies have gone on within our goverment. Watergate, IranCOntra the Plame affiar and the just so you do not think I am doing this out of a hate of Republicans they were the ones who found out about a blue dress with a stain on it. That being said if we the people of the United States of AMerica can be inside the white to find that blue dressed stain in the oval office don’t you by now someone would have found something creadibille that is more then some people at the time were just happy with Kennedy’s death. THis proves OSwald did it alone.
Rating: 5 / 5
ABC and Peter Jennings host a program that clearly and decisively shows that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John Kennedy as Oswald, perched in the partially open window in the SE corner of the 6th floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, fired three shots (two of them hitting) at Kennedy as his motorcade passed below.
For nearly 40 years the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in mystery and confusion. Was it really Lee Oswald in the Texas Schoolbook Depository, or was it a grand conspiracy by the Russians, the Mob, Fidel Castro, or even the US Government?
ABC’s Peter Jennings hosts this special on the Kennedy Assassination. Using modern computer simulations of the actual positions of the President and Gov. John Connelly (based on a detailed investigation of the Abe Zapruder film), the “solution” to the assassination is plainly evident – the fatal shots could ONLY have come from the 6th floor SE corner of the Depository. The inwardly beveled bone in Kennedy’s skull (from his autopsy) had already demanded that the shots come from behind, and now the computer simulation confirms this finding. We also have the slugs recovered in the limousine with rifling that ONLY matches Oswald’s rifle, found on the 6th floor with Oswald’s prints on the gun.
The hard physical evidence has always pointed to Oswald as the lone gunman, but the “Magic Bullet Theory” (a bullet that had to cause Kennedy’s neck wound and all of Connelly’s wounds, and was found on Connelly’s stretcher at Parkland Hospital) had never been definitively proven. Jenning’s progam nails the only logical conclusion that Oswald did the shooting and that he was on the 6th floor at the time of the assassination. Nothing could be more clear. Thus, the Warren Commission, despite the intense chronic criticism from skeptics, got it right – Owsald was the assassin just as they found. The Magic Bullet theory, once considered an impossibility, was indeed the truth, and the only conclusion that can be gleaned from the evidence. Jennings program leaves little doubt about this conclusion. The evidence is overwhelming in its persuasiveness.
There are those that will never believe that Oswald was capable of pulling off the assassination by himself, despite the preponderance of the evidence clearly pointing to that logical conclusion. However, if one deals with the evidence alone, and not imaginary scenarios of conspiracy theories, the evidence clearly shows the only conclusion that can be drawn – that Oswald was the one and only killer.
For those with an open mind, not clouded with conspiracy theories, such as those proclaimed in the Oliver Stone film, JFK, Jenning’s program settles the issue of the assassination once and for all. The only question that remains, indeed, the only question that has ever remained is this: Did Oswald have any co-conpirators? If he did, he took this information to the grave with him when he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. A grand review of the evidence suggests that Oswald acted alone; however, there are unsettled issues that suggest that Oswald could have been influenced to act by outside sources. Unfortunately, we will never know with certainty who the outside forces were, or if they existed at all.
This is a great logical scientific summary of the Kennedy assassination, and I highly recommend it to those interested in the truth.
Jim “Konedog” Koenig, JFK Assassination Buff
Rating: 5 / 5
Peter Jennings hosts and narrates “The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy”, an outstanding 2003-produced documentary which does a nice job of laying out the tragic details of JFK’s murder.
A 24-year-old oddball by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November the 22nd, 1963. Quite obviously, not every single aspect of the murders of both JFK and Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit (who was also cut down by Oswald that same day) can be covered in depth within one 88-minute program like this one. But Mr. Jennings and ABC-TV News do a good job (IMO) of bringing the major issues and evidence to the forefront here — evidence that unquestionably tells us that Lee Harvey Oswald killed two men in 1963.
Many conspiracists don’t believe that Oswald shot anyone that day in Dallas, Texas. And these same “CTers” don’t think Oswald had any motive at all for murdering the President. The bulk of the evidence says they are wrong, however, and also says that the now-deceased Oswald is/was guilty as Hitler.
Re. “Motive”……..
As most people know, verifying a defendant’s specific motive is not required in order to prove someone’s guilt of committing a crime “beyond a reasonable doubt” (which I believe that the evidence DOES do with regard to Oswald’s guilt in both the JFK and J.D. Tippit murders).
But, as for motive, yes, I have a thought on Oswald’s reasons for wanting to kill John Kennedy. And, yes, it aligns with anti-conspiracy author Gerald Posner’s thoughts on the matter. Call me a Posner-Bugliosi-Warren Commission “Parrot” if you so desire (I don’t mind — that’s good company, IMO) — but the “He Was Devoting Himself To Political Assassination” motive makes the most sense to me, considering the overall weirdness and “social outcast” character of a certain Mr. Lee H. Oswald.
The “Oswald Alone” Scenario…………..
>> Lee Harvey Oswald purchases a high-powered rifle by mail-order in March of 1963. He uses an alias (A.J. Hidell) to order the rifle (plus he buys a handgun by mail-order at approximately the same time in early ’63).
>> Days after receiving his Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5mm rifle, what does he do? …. He goes to the home of General Edwin A. Walker and tries to kill him in the darkness of night on April 10, 1963. He even has detailed “plans” drawn up on where he’ll “hide” (bury) the rifle, and written instructions for his wife, Marina, on what to do if he’s captured before he can return to her. Marina even testifies (and has never wavered from this claim) that Oswald told her — “I just shot at Walker”.
>> There’s also reason to believe, again through Marina’s testimony, that LHO had possibly planned to shoot another political figure in late April of 1963, only a matter of days after the Walker attempt. There’s some confusion surrounding this incident, however, as it’s unclear whether Oswald’s potential target was former Vice-President Richard Nixon or the then-current Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Either way, though, it would indicate a potential violent act being committed by Oswald toward a person with political power.
>> Lee Oswald next sees a golden opportunity that he simply cannot pass up. He finds out a few days prior to November 22, 1963, that President Kennedy is coming right through his city (Dallas) in a motorcade that will take the President’s car directly in front of his workplace. Therein lies the perfect chance to redeem himself for his failing in April in the Walker attempt.
>> Result? — An unexpected weeknight trip to Irving by Oswald to get the rifle (his only rifle, which was being stored inside Ruth Paine’s garage in the Dallas suburb of Irving). He wraps up the weapon in brown paper, and carries it into work on Friday morning, November 22. He tells a lie about the contents of the package he carries with him to work that day. He has easy access to all floors of the building where he works (the Texas School Book Depository), including Floor #6. The odd stacking of book cartons on the sixth floor makes it an even easier task for Oswald to construct his “nest” at the southeast corner window. Just another hodge-podge of books stacked up to any casual passer-by.
>> 12:30 PM, November 22 — Oswald does the deed he had set out to do no more than six days prior. He can no doubt tell with his third shot that the deed was successfully accomplished. He admires it for just an extra moment or two at the window.
>> Hastily, he dashes to the western end of the building’s sixth floor and stashes the rifle behind some boxes. (And this makeshift hiding place WAS a fairly good one, considering the assassin’s obvious and understandable hurried state. Because the rifle wasn’t discovered by the police until 1:22 PM — some 52 minutes after the shooting, even though the building was crawling with a police presence almost immediately after the last shot rang out. By 1:22, Oswald had already taken a bus and a cab to the general area of his Oak Cliff roominghouse, had dashed into his room, put on a light jacket, picked up his revolver, hoofed it to 10th & Patton, killed Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit, and was slinking in the alley behind Jefferson Blvd. by the time his rifle was first discovered in the Depository.)
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Lee Harvey Oswald was a true-blue kook. There’s not much doubt about this fact. And trying to figure out why kooks do some of the things they do is a difficult task at best. Oswald’s motive(s) for killing John Kennedy will forever remain a mystery. We can only guess about such things now. But, IMO, I think it was probably the following combination of things that led Oswald to do what he did on 11/22/63:
1.) Oswald’s political kookiness;
2.) His hatred toward most things representing the “USA”;
3.) And the golden opportunity on 11/22 to kill the top leader of a country he had grown to hate.
I also think Oswald enjoyed the “game” he was playing with the police and FBI after he was arrested. That is something Oswald relished too, IMO. One of Oswald’s quotes while in custody leads somewhat to that conclusion — i.e., “Well, you guys are the cops…YOU figure it out!”
But in the final analysis, that weasel named Lee Harvey Oswald was too much of a coward to confess to his famous crime. In the end, he valued his own hide more than anything else.
A large number of conspiracy theorists vehemently disagree with the scenario I’ve outlined above. I guess many people always will have a desire to interject the word “conspiracy” into the JFK case. And those same CTers will fight to exonerate a murdering lowlife named Oswald until they’ve breathed their own last breaths of air. Well, so be it.
But, in my personal opinion, Lee Harvey Oswald was just exactly the type of Loner/Outcast/Weirdo/Nutcase (take your pick) who would aim a rifle at the head of a passing U.S. President.
Rating: 5 / 5