Thursday 28th of March 2024

JFK...

JFK

IT was all over in a few seconds, but the assassination of John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 has generated five decades of "painstaking, and for some unsatisfying, analysis," the Daily Mail says.

Two years ago, a team of historians and retired Secret Service officers used the latest digital technology to analyse all the available film and still images taken in Dallas that day. Their conclusion: a "categorical confirmation" that JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone. But as the 50th anniversary of the president's killing approaches, the conspiracy theories that have sprung up around the event seem all but indestructible. Here are the topics that have triggered the most debate:

The 'magic bullet' theory


The grassy knoll

 

The long list of culprits

 

The CIA

 

The Mafia

 

The KGB

 

Lyndon B Johnson

 

The Little Green Men

 

The Illuminati

http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/55933/who-killed-jfk-50-years-conspiracy-theories-explained

 

None of these theories actually add up... The boffins at The Week should watch this NEW documentary on an old theory:

 

The smoking gun...

 

In it, an Australian investigator revises a theory based on ballistics in the 1970/80s that points out to :

A) Lee Harvey Oswald only fired 2 shots, including "the magic bullet", explained by the then seating arrangement in the limousine. The empty casing of his third bullet (had not been fired) was only there to plug the gun barrel when not in use and was found separate from the other two casings. His first shot missed and "hit the road" of which some stones ricochet and hit the president who said "I've been hit"...

B) By the time the first bullet was fired, a security agent in the following limousine got his automatic weapon out, unlock the safety, but as the second shot was fired (the magic bullet) was unsettled by the car accelerating. His finger on the trigger, he "accidentally" fired a shot — the second (third) shot that blew the president's brain away.

C) There was a secret service cover up at all level of the "incident", including at the autopsy where evidences were tampered with and Oswald (if he had been the shooter) was thereafter killed as not to discover he only fired two shots  — including one that missed.

D) All the witnesses ON THE GROUND smelt the typical odour of "gunfire" which they could not have done from the gun of Oswald since he was six stories high and the wind was in the opposite direction.

E) The type of bullet that blew the president's brain away was a different kind than that used for the WWII gun used by Oswald. The type of bullet was the one used in automatic guns used by the secret service.

F) Other evidence and circumstantial events point that the security guard was "accidentally" responsible. He sued the author of the book who pointed out all the ballistic analysis that strongly supports this theory. 

Watch the documentary...

what were you doing when JFK was shot?...

I remember. I was doing my business rounds in a small town of Europe... People were incredulous or crying... 

Lee Harvey Oswald has been said to have "acted alone" but under what ideology and under whose "orders"? And was he the real shooter from the book store storage on the six floor?

 

Who knows...

 

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four government investigations,[citation needed][n 1] the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in DallasTexas, on November 22, 1963.

Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Soviet Union until June 1962, at which time he returned to the United States. Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, who was killed on a Dallas street approximately 45 minutes after President Kennedy was shot. Oswald would later be charged with the assassination of President Kennedy as well, but denied involvement in either of the killings. Two days later, while being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live.

In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, firing three shots. One shot apparently missed the limousine entirely, another struck Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, and another struck Kennedy in the head.[1] This conclusion was supported by prior investigations carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dallas Police Department.[2]

Despite forensic, ballistic, and eyewitness evidence supporting the lone gunman theory, public opinion polls taken over the years have shown that a majority of Americans believe that Oswald did not act alone, but conspired with others to kill the president[3] and the assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories

read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

 

surely he must know something...

McLaren's theory depends on Oswald firing only two shots, not three; since he accepts that only three shots were fired; all from behind the motorcade. Unfortunately for him, there is witness testimony that three shots were fired from Oswald's sniper's perch.
Was this pure or impure testimony? He doesn't even refer to it. This kind of confusion or omission is, unhappily, par for the course in the voluminous conspiracy literature on the JFK case. JFK: The Smoking Gun is riddled with it. But its central claim so beguiles all too many people that he was able to get a book published and a film made.
If you want to read a good (but still errant) ''conspiracy theory'' about the JFK assassination, your best bet is either of two novels: Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn (1974) or Don De Lillo's Libra (1988). Each is far tighter, better researched and far better written than this new book.
But if you want to do yourself a favour on the party circuit, don't, for heaven's sake, go around chattering about how ''compelling'' McLaren's book is.Smoking gun? It's a pile of smoking something, but its author is no gun.
Paul Monk is a founder and director of Austhink Consulting, which has run a three-day workshop on the JFK assassination for intelligence professionals, lawyers, bankers and others for the past 12 years.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stuffing-up-the-mother-of-all-jfk-conspiracy-theories-20131106-2x1kk.html#ixzz2k7d0JnU4

 

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So why would the CIA and the secret service interfere with the autopsy (which they did)? Why would the public way below Oswald smell gun powder (against the wind and considering the vast distance)? How come an old WWII gun with an ordinary bullet make damage to the head of JFK like that of an exploding bullet (which could not be used in such a gun?). How come the brain of the president was vanished or misplaced?

 

I believe someone like Paul Monk hates someone else having a theory that could stick... For example many witnesses whose testimony did not fit the three shots from Oswald were discarded (There were more of these than the others). Why were most of the footage and photographs of the event confiscated?


I don't know how Paul Monk explains all the discrepancies in his workshops but surely he must know something he has not told the world......

motive...

Motive, always motive.

Once again, as with Lindy Chamberlain, we’re asked not to think of motive, but forensics. Not why Lindy would have wanted to kill her newborn, healthy baby, but how she might have done it.

Lee was the father of little girls, and would never, for that reason, have done it. He is, I think, the only American assassin with children. He is also the only one with no handgun to help out afterwards. The only one whose interrogation has disappeared. The only one, apart from Booth killed before he was brought to trial. Booth, who was part of a conspiracy.

Give me a break.

Lee being killed by a Mafioso friend of Lyndon just about sorts it, as does the vanishing of the Lee notes, the President’s brain, and his blood and brains from the wash car.

Give me a break.

If Lee had another to do with it, I’d be surprised. He looked shocked when asked if he did it. If he planned to use his trial as a platform for Soviet Communism, he would have said "yes, let me tell you why".

But no, he didn’t. He was that well-known combination a Soviet-defecting-lone-madman-FBI-informant-non-conspirator-brilliant-sniper. They twist themselves in knots with that mouthful; that absurdity.

And he had two daughters, no motive, no pistol, no exit strategy. He didn’t try to skip town. He went to the pictures.

Give me a break.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/four-corners-jfk-and-the-lost-johnson,5887