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JFK bodyguard still 'haunted' by assassination 55 years on, wishes he had been 'faster'
The Sun ^ | 11/22/18 | Emma Parry

Posted on 11/23/2018 1:40:44 AM PST by ZeroToHero

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To: ZeroToHero
Most of my life I have been a pretty strong believer in the 'Oswald was a patsy' story.

Last summer I finished reading Bugliosi's voluminous book "Reclaiming History" in which he and his voluminous ego defend the Warren report. He makes a hell of a case that Oswald did indeed act alone.

His detail is extraordinary, as was the investigation conducted by the FBI, who interviewed all English speaking passengers on the buses with Oswald on his trip to Mexico, is but one example.

21 posted on 11/23/2018 5:56:12 AM PST by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
At least two dozen - four dozen, of the witnesses to the assassination thought at least one gunshot came from in front of the presidential motorcade, a claim rejected by the Warren Commission and most U.S. news organizations...

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

22 posted on 11/23/2018 5:58:26 AM PST by fso301
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To: mission9
Lone Crazed gunmen, don’t keep expense logs.

Neither do CIA/FBI/KGB/Mafia (take your pick) hitmen.

The FBI did examine closely Oswald's expenditures for rent, trips to New Orleans and Mexico and other living expenses,had an outside source of unexplained income. Likely what is in the Warren Report is an FBI recreation of how much Oswald spent on the trip.

23 posted on 11/23/2018 6:00:13 AM PST by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: ZeroToHero

Am I the only one who finds it strange that of all the media and Hollywood coverage of the assassination, I can recall no examples of a movie, documentary, or widely published book review pointing a finger towards Moscow?


24 posted on 11/23/2018 6:04:03 AM PST by fso301
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To: Michael.SF.

I believe Oswald was the sole and only assassin and that he acted alone.


25 posted on 11/23/2018 6:07:17 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ZeroToHero
In his book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution (New York: Encounter, 2013), James Piereson describes how JFK, a casualty of the Cold War and the West's struggle with Communism, was transformed by the Left into a martyr for civil rights and other liberal causes.


26 posted on 11/23/2018 6:16:15 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Midwesterner53

We still would have had Johnson. The mere fact that Jackie was reaching for a piece of JFK’s skull suggests he would have had brain damage had he lived, and thus LBJ would have succeeded him anyway.


27 posted on 11/23/2018 6:27:11 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: TigerClaws

Who is the person winking?


28 posted on 11/23/2018 6:50:05 AM PST by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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To: no-to-illegals

All bullets came from one direction, from Oswald’s rifle firing from his position by the six floor window of the School Book Depository Building. Like flat earthers and global warming scaremongers, however, no amount of evidence will convince conspiracy hounds to abandon that baby boomer article of faith that involves deadly umbrellas, shooters in the sewer system, or nefarious tramps working for Richard Nixon.


29 posted on 11/23/2018 6:56:35 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“The next important tabulation of earwitness testimony came from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. They found only 20 witnesses who actually believed they heard the shots from the vicinity of the Grassy Knoll, and 46 who thought the shots came from the direction of the Depository. See House Select Committee, Volume 2, p. 122.”

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shots.htm

Do you know that there were eyewitnesses at Pearl Harbor who swore they saw German aircraft among the attacking planes?


30 posted on 11/23/2018 7:02:37 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Shady

Yup the sewer. I called it before reading your post!


31 posted on 11/23/2018 7:03:47 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Why hasn’t all the info been released?


32 posted on 11/23/2018 7:19:50 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

How is it so many witnesses died under strange circumstances?


33 posted on 11/23/2018 7:21:06 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: fso301
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

Nor are untrained people reliable in pinpointing the location of rifle shots.

34 posted on 11/23/2018 7:51:45 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Shady
The young man who shot that bullet was only hired at a car dealership about a week before the assassination. The day of the assassination, he showed up late for work after the assassination ghost white, with mud on his shoes and pants and went straight into the men's room to throw up. He promptly left work and was never seen again. The car from the dealership that he had borrowed the night before was found in the railroad parking lot behind the picket fence. That storm drain is still there and at the time it had a tunnel leading down to the Trinity River.

From JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man's Trick

This documentary explains in great detail the amount of deceit and propaganda we have been exposed to our entire lives about many of the things that have occurred. It makes a very solid case that the hit team in Dallas was under the command of George Hebert Walker Bush who at the time was with the CIA. I highly suggest that anyone seriously wanting to find out about what happened in Dallas that day check this video out.

I have researched the assassination a great deal and my conclusion is that it was a government hit job and that Oswald was set up as a patsy that they knew beforehand they were going to take out as well. I find this video very credible. One of the primary pieces of evidence is actually the Zapruder film itself. This film was good enough to fool people in the 1960's and 70's but modern technology has proven it to have been tampered with. Oswald never had possession of this film. If he was a lone gunman, why would the government tamper with the film? There would be no reason to hide anything if they were telling the truth, which we know far beyond a doubt that they have.

35 posted on 11/23/2018 7:52:55 AM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: gcparent

>How is it so many witnesses died under strange circumstances?<

Speaking of strange circumstances: When Kennedy was shot I was a 31 year old male who spent a lot of time on a Seattle rifle range.

The first rifle shown on TV as the murder weapon was definitely an Argentine Mauser. This rifle was issued to the Argentine Army and was slightly different than the German Army Mauser.

The next rifle shown was a piece of junk called an Italian Carcano.

The Argentine Mauser seemed to vanish as the day went on. My shooting buddy and I decided that “the fix is on.”

After that America was never the same. Never.


36 posted on 11/23/2018 8:05:16 AM PST by sciencewriter86
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To: SoCal Pubbie

>Do you know that there were eyewitnesses at Pearl Harbor who swore they saw German aircraft among the attacking planes?<

That might be true. However, the post-Pearl Harbor age has many videos, running many, many, times seen by millions of people here and abroad. This is far more accurate than a few alleged people saying German planes bombed Pearl Harbor.

The claim of German planes soon died an embarrassed death because we had black and white film and so forth that were far more permanent and accurate than alleged eye witnesses who were very stressed out watching our Pacific Fleet being bombed on a quiet December morning twenty three years before Kennedy began his last ride on a nice sunny morning in Dallas.


37 posted on 11/23/2018 8:12:20 AM PST by sciencewriter86
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To: sciencewriter86

Thanks for that info. I was 11 just returned from 6th grade recess. The shot changed everything. Never trusted govt again. Then watched Ozwald shot on live TV. How did Ruby get in that underground parking lot? Body not turned over in autopsy????


38 posted on 11/23/2018 8:17:22 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: ZeroToHero

There was nothing that agent could have done to avert what happened. Yet after all these years the same recriminations and such. That guy will never have any peace and keeps blaming himself because he could not run faster. Poor guy will never have an peace with himself, I would hate to think how many times he has replayed that in his mind with no since of closure.


39 posted on 11/23/2018 8:20:36 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: SMGFan

Technically didn’t Garfield die of infection? They called alexander graham bell in to use his geiger counter to find the bullet in his lower back. They had made several attempts to explore and dig it out.

The geiger counter hit on the metal bed springs and before they could go to plan C garfield died.

Of course legally the shooter was responsible for his death, but if it happened today he would probably still be alive, maybe in a wheel chair.

IITC


40 posted on 11/23/2018 8:21:38 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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