Some think Oswald wasn’t the assassin of John F. Kennedy. I used to think that, too. But then I started looking at facts, and now I know that Oswald did it. I still have some friends that think otherwise. But when I’m with them, I’m okay with being the smartest one in the room.
Read Case Closed by Gerald Posner years ago. All you really need.
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Closed-Harvey-Oswald-Assassination/dp/1400034620/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=78340257726583&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=gerald+posner+case+closed&qid=1569524938&s=gateway&sr=8-1
I’ve not read it, but I’ve heard of it and really do need to read it.
My f-i-l is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the JFK assassination, so I bought him that book for Christmas the year it came out.
He never opened it. I found it in pristine condition tucked away in a back closet years later.
Perhaps the CIA, under orders from Fidel Castro, hired a Mob button man to hide it there.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! — Fox Mulder
Hadn’t thought of that. You might be right. Come to think of it, I did notice a 200 mpg carburetor on the shelf next to it.
That’s from, well I’m not saying it was Aliens but… It was Aliens.
Junior high school: around Seventh Grade.
A friend, John, was a total conspiracy nut on the Kennedy assassination. He could rattle off anomalies by the hour.
But the first book he gave me was the complete Warren Commission report, and said, “Here, read this, then we’ll talk.”
Looking back, I totally respect that. If only discussions today built from a common foundation.
Oswald, like GWB’s boy Mueller, was/is a bad exjarhead!
— Full Metal Jacket
I too fell for the JFK conspiracy theorists when I was a teen. I must
have read a dozen books on the subject. What changed my mind
was when I began collecting and shooting firearms. All of the nuts
who wrote these books made absurd claims that a bolt action military
grade rifle with a 4x widefield scope could not hit a moving target
at ranges from <50 yards to 212 feet in the time alloted.
First round was already chambered before the first shot was fired.
The target was traveling at 11 MPH.
The target was moving directly away from Oswald’s perspective so
no lead was required.
Jim Moore (the author of A Conpiracy of One) corrected the
sequency of the shots. First shot missed because the scope was
not dialed in. Second shot hit Kennedy in the upper back and went
on to wound Governor Connaly. Third shot hit Kennedy in the
upper right side of his head. When the bullet exited the other
side, his head blew back towards the shooter. Simple physics
debunks the grassy knoll shooter theory.
The 6.5mm round is as heavy as a .308 and has much better
penetration capabilities. Say goodbye to the “magic bullet” theory.
I could have spent the day teaching a kid to shoot a scoped
.22 LR and he would have scored 3 out of head shots given
the same conditions with a properly sighted scope.
A previous poster cites Case Closed, but there is yet another
book written by David W Belin, who was the first to write a book debunking the conspiracy theorists called November 22 1963: You Are The Jury.
I will look for that book too. Thanks for the heads up.
I’ll admit to wondering about why JFK’s head rocked back when it was hit from behind. Then Penn and Teller did an episode of Bullshit! on it. They showed how a jet of material follows the bullet out the front of the head, acting like a rocket to push the head back. They did this using a melon wrapped in fiberglass and resin (to represent the skull). They put the head on a post, and shot it, and the melon fell off TOWARDS the shooter. That answered the only question I had about it all, and did so convincingly.
Oswald never fired a shot.
He fired three.
I’m with Crash on this one, I think Oswald acted alone.
I used to be a hardcore conspiracy believer. The thing that changed it for me was Dr. John Lattimer’s book., “Kennedy and Lincoln”. The first time I’d seen it looked at by an actual shooter. The good doctor was still recreating those shots in his late 80’s.