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Airing out the JFK Assassination


Here's my take :

JFK was shot by LHO from the corner window in the TSBD bldg. There were only three shots. J Rubinstein shot LHO on his own volition the following Sunday. I saw it live on tv, as a little kid. The rifle was his, the prints were his, his wife told of his endless dry-firing, his attempt on Gen. Walker. He's good for it.

I've arrived at these views, in summary, after reviewing a lot of the literature, discussion of the evidence, including the conspiracy narratives.

It is possible LHO had agents of influence, but he seems so fundamentally unstable that he is an unlikely foundation of a conspiracy involving either some aspect of government, disgruntled Cubanos, or the mafia.

Regarding motive, LHO was a Communist and quite enamored of Castro's Cuba. He likely viewed Kennedy as a reactionary and threat to that Country, rather than the benevolent moderate/liberal as he's viewed these days conventionally.

LHO was an expert shot, it wasn't that hard of a shot for an expert (i've walked it, seen it myself), fits the profile of an anti-social lonely ideologically-driven adventurer, attention-seeker & nut.

What animates the conspiracy are - the absurd neatness of dispatching the assassin two days later, the Kennedy's intimate & complex & contradictory relation to the mafia, a very robust CIA given to covert ops including assassinations (Diem quite recently prior to JFK), a puritanical closet queer FBI director who had it in for the Kennedys (JFK was evid. planning on firing Hoover upon re-election), RFK's prosecution of Labor & Mafiosos as provocation (after Joe had enlisted their aid in electing his son). They had, indeed, acquired enemies.

However - any of those more professional factions wouldn't have hired LHO.

There's my take, in a nutshell.

What's yours ?

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CIA.

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My theory is that LHO was the only gunman but was manipulated by the CIA into doing it.

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Possible. JFK had fired Allan Dulles & top deputies after the BOP fiasco, they certainly had their dirty trickster reactionaries.

Or the Mafia. Or Anti-Castro Cubanos pretending to be Castro agents. Or Cuban agents.

The problem I have with all of that is that LHO was a flake, also seemingly capable of ginning up his own grievances with an extraordinary capacity for 'acting out' prior. The guy didn't get out of grade school. Not that he was an idiot, but he was delusional & suicidal.

All that said, possible - but apparently un-knowable. By now, some beans would have been spilled imo - deathbed confessions from credible sources, etc.

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You'd think Oswald would have been bragging about what he did, if he did anything.

There's an interesting footnote in a book about Oswald from the 1970s or early 80s in which he comes back to his apartment and his landlady hears a cop car pull up and honk and then leave.

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One would have to get inside LHO's head to know how he would strategize his stance post-assassination. He claimed to be 'a patsy', upon arrest. The evidence indicates otherwise. And then there is the killing of the cop, after, with eye-witnesses. That can be spun a number of ways, but what cannot be spun is that he was a ready killer, not at all willing to be picked up by the law, a thoroughly desperate man. Why ?

One major problem I DO have is that his interrogation at the DPS station was either un-recorded or the recording was destroyed/sequestered.

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The reason I believe the CIA was involved is because they refuse to release the documents related to JFK's assassination. Why would they do that, especially after so many years? It makes me wonder what they're hiding that's so bad they can't let the public see it. The only reason I can think of is it would implicate the agency and might lead to people questioning what they're up to today. It could spark another Church-like committee, and they definitely don't want that.

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That's a reasonable take. I would though offer that it could be embarrassing for many reasons, going to means & methods, having nothing to do with the assassination itself.

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Yes, that was the other thing I was thinking. The CIA’s usual excuse for withholding information is to protect 'sources and methods,' but it seems strange to me that they'd still need to keep these things secret after 60 years. Surely, their methods must have changed by now as adversaries would have figured them out over time. It doesn’t seem reasonable that techniques from that era would still be worth hiding today.

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Also a good point. The funny thing is, incoming Presidents, like Trump particularly and Biden more recently, come into office pledging to open those records, but always failing to get them all released, or released without so many redactions the content is meaningless.

I agree that its time to open the books. 4,684 documents remain withheld in whole or in part.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-assassination-papers.html

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Exactly. And so we can ask the same question: What makes them change their minds? My guess is that officials from the National Security State explain to them that releasing the information would implicate the agency, reveal sources and methods, and jeopardize critical ongoing operations. And of course, we can’t have that.

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None of LHO’s bullet hit JFK.

LHO was the patsy, he even admitted it.

There were several other snipers positioned from different locations.

JFK was assassinated for different reasons but the main one was EO 11110. Something he had in common with the other assassinated presidents, Reagan and Trump. If you follow that trail, it will lead you to exactly who was ultimately behind all the attempts and assassinations.

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You forgot to mention the Reptilians and Mossad!

The OP is very good. If anyone influenced LHO it was Communists.

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The Communists didn’t give a shit about JFK.

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Interesting doc that focuses on the final 48 of LHO - from the JFK assassination till his own murder.

Lee Harvey Oswald : 48 Hours To Live
available on Amazon Prime

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3353658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Confessions from the Grassy Knoll: The Shocking Truth

Also available on Amazon Prime

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31149460/

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Grassy-Knoll-Shocking-Truth/dp/B0CWDQV39D

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The first shot missed,
The second shot went in his upper back & exited through the base of his throat,
The third shot went in the back of his head, turned slightly to the left in distress from the second shot through his throat, and exploded out of his right temple.

Single shooter. From the rear. Not the side, not the front. Both shots backward trajectory forms a cone centered on the window on the TSBD - Oswald's shooting perch, his rifle found on site - Oswald, the single employee who disappeared after the shooting and indisputably killed Officer Tippett shortly after - he also tried to shoot the arresting office in the Texas theater. So, he's definitely a bad guy, a killer. No patsy.

No credible forensic evidence indicates otherwise.

Ruby, on a whim, enters the Police station seconds before Oswald is transferred, hours after he was scheduled to, minutes after he'd just sent a telegram to a stripper, with his dog left in the car.

I understand the appeal of a conspiracy, esp. given Oswald's wild/weird/suspect history wrt Russia & Cuba. Maybe he had someone putting batteries in his back. But he was the shooter, and no one sent Ruby to off him. That's my take, based upon all the reliable evidence not in serious dispute, other than wackos.

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If it was that simple, they would have released the JFK files by now.

The fact that they haven't, implicates our own government, a complex cover up, and more than one shooter.

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No, nothing implicates or establishes more than one shooter. Zero forensic evidence - what has been put forward otherwise, through all the years, is hogwash. The throat shot obviously came from the rear, as do the fracture patterns in the skull indicate a rear point of entry.

You are assuming the assassination is the only aspect of these documents that the gov't would want to sequester.

I agree that w/h these docs fosters suspicion, but the facts clearly in evidence point to the ridiculous banality of this assassination - imo. Granted, LHO's bio is anything but ordinary, however again remember, he's basically functioning on the level of a laborer, factory worker, malcontent - do you entrust such a mission to such a person ? Sure, possible, but highly improbable.

Besides which, at this point in JFK's administration, he was pushing for accommodation - hot line, test ban treaty, American University speech, using space as a platform for peaceful competition. The Soviets would have little incentive to wind this guy up, or allow the Cubans to.

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Breakdown from a historian I respect on the assassination, giving the evidence implicating LHO, debunking basically all of the conspiratorial counter-narratives. Any conspiracy-adjacent person who cares to get at the truth of the matter owes it to themselves to be exposed to the counter-conspiracy evidence-backed case - with annotations :

Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY
Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptt1ti63IiE&t=0s

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Your guy is a historian shill preaching the same narrative as the establishment and the CIA.

Historians like him are funded to tell the public whatever they approve.

Once again, if LHO acted alone, there would be no redacted files.

Your historian didn't deboonk anything.

A presidential assasination is impossible without inside help.

The patsies are almost always killed to silence them.

The CIA literally weaponized the term "conspiracy theory" after the assassination to deflect and dissuade the public from their involvement.

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