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Kirk S
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Kirk S asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Lee Harvey Oswald?

In this day and age, why would anyone think that Lee Harvey Oswasld WAS NOT the lone assassin of President Kennedy? The evidence that he did it is overwhelming.

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  • Rich
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    1 decade ago
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    THANK YOU!!!

    I have been answering questions on this board for weeks about this.

    It has been proven beyond any reaosnable doubt that there was no conspiracy to kill JFK, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and that the Warren Commission report, although not perfect, was pretty much correct.

    If you read the book CASE CLOSED by Posner and watch the A&E documentary THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION - BEYOND CONSPIRACY, you will find that a conspiracy theory, based on the evidence of the time and evidence made possible by modern technology (such as 3-D computer models) shows that there were no shots other than Oswalds.

    I could list 1000 different reasons Oswald acted alone, but to keep it brief here are just a couple:

    --- Oswald told people for months that he would become famous by killing an important person, and had even attempted to do that once before but failed.

    --- Oswald started working at that building 5 months before it was even considered for JFK to go to Dallas.

    --- The he-can't-fire-three-shots-that-quickly theory is silly. An 85-year-old man did it in the A&E special.

    --- The Mob, the Cubans, the Russians - all rejected Oswald because he was unbalanced and violent. As the KGB agent said, "If we were going to find someone to kill Kennedy, would we have picked such an obvious person, someone who had publicly been to Russia and sent back?"

    --- Although witnesses were confused (as you can imagine) the overwhelming majority of them pointed to the book depository.

    The list foes on and on.

    I used to be a big conspiracy buff - I read all the books and believed that one of them had to be true. Turns out that facts can be twisted a hundred different ways, but the cold, hard facts are that Oswald was an unbalanced man who happened to be in the right place at the right time to do a terrible thing.

  • ?
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    4 years ago

    there has been no information to point every physique else became in contact. some human beings component to the Zapruder action picture and say it proves that there became a 2nd shooter, in spite of the shown fact that, those human beings ought to the two have not considered or exceeded over the demonstrations that instruct how a bullet might reason an merchandise to fly removed from the component of go out. (for this reason making the top flow back and to the left). additionally, the magic bullet concept isn't one that ballistic human beings will back up at present. in spite of the shown fact that, the conspiracy crowd nevertheless promotes it simply by fact the fashionable expert explanation. To get a greater suitable understanding of the path of the bullet, you need to appear on the limo from above. The president did no longer take a seat at as quickly as in the back of the governor. The seats weren't coated up like that. additionally, there have been top ameliorations. Take those into attention and the path of the bullet makes greater experience. the only element that individuals can locate for this reason is inconsistencies. Inconsistencies are actually not information. did you already know that there have been eye witnesses who reported the great did no longer harm in the previous she sank? There are even witnesses who reported the great rolled over in the previous she sank. in spite of the shown fact that, all of us understand the two a sort of thoughts are actually not actual. yet, there have been witnesses back then who testified to them. those have been inconsistencies, and this shows how inconsistencies are actually not information.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Zapruder film was digitized and rereleased and it clearly shows the bullets coming from two different directions, one of which is the grassy knoll area.

    There is a book written based on information from an ex-KGB bureaucrat who had documented proof that it was a joint Soviet/Cuban hit with Lee Oswald being the Soviet operative (he had defected to Russia and then came back to USA to shoot Kennedy) and some Cuban operatives. It was CIA blowback from all of the American attempts on Castro and Khruschev. Everyone in the world knows this except for idiotic Americans.

  • John
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    7 years ago

    @ Rich. Good Post, like you I agree the evidence is beyond reasonable doubt that Oswald acted alone, and that all of the so called 'evidence' proffered by conspiracy theorists is at best shoddy, and at worst malicious and spiteful. But there is one single piece of evidence that does stand out as curious. The 'Back Yard Photographs' of Lee and his rifle. Lee had seen the photographs before the day of the assassination, he asked Ruth Pains husband what he thought of them. Marina said she took the photographs. If you listen to the case presented by critics of the photographs you can agree with them that they are indeed composites, but composites made by whom? The only explanation that makes any sense is that Marina 'did' take a number of photographs of Lee, but that Lee himself 'chopped and cropped' the photographs later on. He had a lifetime interest in photography and such composites would have been easy for him. Whatever the explanation, the photographs add nothing to Lee's guilt or innocence, but they have mystified some students of the assassination.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think the contrary. It seems to me all the evidence points to an additional shooter.

  • 1 decade ago

    This is definitely contriversal.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the Soviets did it. But I actually heard this funny rumour that the Mafia picked him off... that'd be odd.

  • 1 decade ago

    we will never know if there was one or 2 shooters

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