LOL. The mob is a victim.
That deserves funniest post o’ the day.
Having read a few books on the topic (my father died earlier in 1963 when I was 5, so I took a bit of interest as I grew older).
Nothing I have read gets me to the place that LHO was smart enough or committed (witness his “defection”) enough to have pulled this off by himself. That being said, none of the conspiracy theories hold water, either.
Sirhan Sirhan is dumb as a stump.
John Hinkley? Nuts.
James Earl Ray? Practically illiterate.
John Wilkes Booth. Actor. I rest my case.
“Nothing I have read gets me to the place that LHO was smart enough or committed (witness his ‘defection’) enough to have pulled this off by himself”
He was stupid to even want to go, but you can’t say he wasn’t committed enough in the case of his defection. How many libs talked about it? He actually went. As for the shooting, how much committment did it take? He only need have planned it sometime before he went home and picked up his rifle and after he learned JFKs head would be passing by his window.
Pretty simple thought process. I have a gun; I have bullets; I can carry the gun in and say it’s something else; I can get to an upper floor and wait. What he didn’t plan is how he’d get away with it, but he didn’t need to. That’s the sort of detail lone nuts don’t bother with.
Your smarts issue is misguided. How smart do you have to be to shoot someone? It’s not like he got away with it. Heck, billions of people on the planet are smart enough to shoot someone and get caught.