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jlowe
As shocking as the death of JFK was, the fact Oswald was 'escorted out in the open' and then killed was even more bizarre.
Maybe living in the UK, I have a different perspective on such things. Just seemed the height of stupidity. Even in third world countries you wouldn't expect that.
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As shocking as the death of JFK was, the fact Oswald was 'escorted out in the open' and then killed was even more bizarre.
Maybe living in the UK, I have a different perspective on such things. Just seemed the height of stupidity. Even in third world countries you wouldn't expect that.
Was he escorted " in the open", or in the basement of the, supposedly secured, Dallas Police Headquarters?
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dcba
If LHO was the lone gunman why did dozens of witnesses die in the years following the assassination... One example is Lee Bowers but there are so many...
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wonderboy
My favorite theory is that Oswald fired and a Secret Service agent was startled by the gunshot and accidentally pulled his own trigger and shot the president.
I don't think that's true, but the whole thing seems more random and accidental than the result of some conspiracy.
Oswald's shot itself was one in a million. It's hard for the human mind to accept such bad luck. Most presidents are assassination targets and a couple of them -- Ford, Reagan -- survived through good luck. Kennedy was a victim of bad luck.
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24FPS
Oswald did. He sat on his perch on the 6th floor and shot JFK. The only question is A) was he trying to reach a pre-arranged safehouse after fleeing the scene? did someone else know what he was doing? That's it. End of story.
Yupe. I agree.
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24FPS
Oswald did. He sat on his perch on the 6th floor and shot JFK. The only question is A) was he trying to reach a pre-arranged safehouse after fleeing the scene? did someone else know what he was doing? That's it. End of story.
Yupe. I agree.
IMHO: if he was the only shooter, being a Marine trained marksman. How come he did not take the shot as the motorcade was coming up Houston straight at him with an unobstructed view??? Because he knew somebody was in the grassy knoll and they could shoot at the same time. I have been to the sixth floor it was such an easy shot, any trained shooter would have taken it.
Although JFK the movie was entertaining and a lot of the the stuff was tough to swallow, The Houston street scenario was brought up.
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stanlove
It was a no brainer that Oswald did it alone. The fact that there are so many theories just shows how easy it is to create a hoax.
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24FPS
Ruby is the one who screwed everything up. As a small, very small time mob associate, his impulsive murder of Oswald
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24FPS
Ruby is the one who screwed everything up. As a small, very small time mob associate, his impulsive murder of Oswald
Ruby was the one who fixed everything. LHO wasn't supposed to be caught alive. He was supposed to :
- be killed by Tippit when the Dallas cop picked him [LHO] up not far from his (LHO's] rented home.
- be killed by any Dallas cop after the news that agent Tippit had been killed by a guy named LHO spread on the Dallas police inner radio network.
The fact that the patsy was arrested alive was a disaster and a mistake to be corrected asap.
And there was nothing impulsive. Ruby was ordered to kill LHO. As he knew a lots of (crooked) Dallas cops he could sneak in any police station without being noticed or searched.
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24FPS
Oswald did. He sat on his perch on the 6th floor and shot JFK. The only question is A) was he trying to reach a pre-arranged safehouse after fleeing the scene? did someone else know what he was doing? That's it. End of story.
Yupe. I agree.
IMHO: if he was the only shooter, being a Marine trained marksman. How come he did not take the shot as the motorcade was coming up Houston straight at him with an unobstructed view??? Because he knew somebody was in the grassy knoll and they could shoot at the same time. I have been to the sixth floor it was such an easy shot, any trained shooter would have taken it.
Although JFK the movie was entertaining and a lot of the the stuff was tough to swallow, The Houston street scenario was brought up.
Why would you think that was an easier shot? You would have had to adjust your sites more between shots. You would have also had the problem of the Secret Service and police looking right at you. Shooting when he did was the best shot.
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24FPS
Oswald did it. He sat on his perch on the 6th floor and shot JFK. The only question is A) was he trying to reach a pre-arranged safehouse after fleeing the scene? did someone else know what he was doing? That's it. End of story.
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If LHO was the lone gunman why did dozens of witnesses die in the years following the assassination... One example is Lee Bowers but there are so many...
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24FPS
Oswald did it. He sat on his perch on the 6th floor and shot JFK. The only question is A) was he trying to reach a pre-arranged safehouse after fleeing the scene? did someone else know what he was doing? That's it. End of story.
Of course he did it. And it's pretty obvious no one else knew he was doing it. He had no real friends, no real work buddies, and hid it from his wife -- there's never been even a hint of evidence that anyone else knew about it.Quote
dcba
If LHO was the lone gunman why did dozens of witnesses die in the years following the assassination... One example is Lee Bowers but there are so many...
Dozens? That is stuff made up by the conspiracy theorists, started mainly by Mark Lane and then repeated by others, using many of his crazy theories as 'facts' that then got repeated down the line by others -- basically if he was believed, pretty much everyone in the entire world was behind it in some way.
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Redhotcarpet
Evidently it was possible for Oswald to shoot a man in a slowly moving roofless car.
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keefriff99
That is one magie loogie.
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That is one magic loogie.
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Redhotcarpet
Well he wasn't hit from the front. That's just a magic idea in Oliver Stone's head.
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dcba
"The Pentagon received a letter from a Betty Joe Dodge of Lubbock, Texas, in September 1978. The letter, addressed to General Westmoreland, noted that an ex-Green Baret named Robert H. Doty had stayed in Dodge's home that summer while he worked as a roofer. On the evening the assassination news was reported, he seemed uneasy, Dodge said. When Dodge asked what difference it made, Doty told her, "I'm the man."
"I was afraid to ask any questions," Dodge wrote. "I could never tell whether he was testing my reaction to a wild statement or actually telling me the truth."
[www.cbsnews.com]
Google the Doty guy's name... there's nothing on him (apart from a book he wrote about his time in 'Nam). That void would make me think there's sth to dig in here.