LBJ was behind JFK's assassination, upcoming book contends

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Aug. 20, 2003 | HYE JEONG

[jokar]

Paging Michael Rivero !!!
Michael Rivero pick up the red courtesy phone please.

[God luvs America]

So Oliver Stone was on to something eh...

[ASA.Ranger]

Those of us associated with intelligence in later years have already entertained this plausible scenario. Let's not leave the New Orleans mafia and Castro out of contention. That the DemoRrats were involved is a certainty. Oswald was a 'patsy.' That WWII Italian piece of crap is not able to cycle fast enough to attain the accuracy displayed during the assassination. However, Teddy Kennedy/loser has snuffed more people with an automobile than I have with my weapons (guns) after receiving my VA concealed weapons permit.

[proxy_user]

Yes, it would have been pretty embarrassing to a number of people for Oswald to tell his story. The mere fact of having considered his offer would not look good, especially if you had rejected it on empirical rather than moral grounds--i.e., you thought Oswald would screw up and miss.

[laconic]

I have always thought that Oswald alone pulled the trigger but wondered who may have sponsored or helped him. The "Rosetta Stone" to the JFK assassination always seems to be Jack Ruby, who the press dutifully reported at the time had acted "to spare Mrs. Kennedy the trauma of Oswald's trial". Ruby had never shown such bizarre compassion before - he was a Mob-connected nightclub owner with a penchant for beating up the girls that worked for him. And he just happened to get the right access to shoot Oswald inside the Dallas City jail in full view of the police. Always seemed fishy.

[God luvs America]

My mom was talking of this the other day...I was two months old when it happened. She and my aunt were going to take me for a walk in the stroller. My mom said she walked out in the hallway of the apartment building and some old geezer she didn't know said, "well, they finally killed the son of a bitch" Huh? my mother said. she went back inside, the TV was on and they announced Kennedy had been shot. Ironic.

[mikeb704]

Old news:

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[John W]

The Texas Connection

[Reaganwuzthebest]

You damn right he was capable of doing it.

Because he was capable of it, we're going to be hearing the conspiracy theories forever with very little real evidence to back it up. And the people writing the books get rich.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... I didn't (know) Oswald qualified as Marksman.

In fact I read before he was a terrible shot and basicly got booted out of the Marines.... And his fellow soldiers laughed at what an incredibly bad shot he was. He was said to be by far the worst shot in his Company."

The USMC marksmanship standards have been the same since before WWI. Recruits initially qualify in Boot Camp, and Fleet Marines qualify yearly after that. The ranking structure is 'Expert', 'Sharpshooter', and 'Marksman' in that order from top to bottom. Out of a training company, as many as a dozen or more green recruits will go 'Unk' and have to requalify at the range as basic marksmen.

Oswald's service jacket shows that he qualified two points above the minimum for sharpshooter (in Recruit Training Regisment at MCRD Parris Island) on one occasion and only one point above the minimum requirement for marksman about a year later. Oswald never went 'Unk', or 'Unqualified' in his career.

Only one fellow Marine named Delgado appeared in front of the Warren Commission to testify that he was near Oswald on the range when he scored poorly. Delgado did testify that he believed that the FBI pressured him to change his story, but another Marine who served with both Delgado and Oswald insisted that Delgado was full of crap.

Having been a Marine, I can tell you that Oswald sounds like a typical rifleman, and I've also had bad qualification days. I currently shoot higher scores on the same exercise in NRA High Power competitions than what the high-end cutoff score is for USMC 'Expert'. There's 'Master' and 'Grand Master' above that level, but the US Marine Corps doesn't rate shooters any higher than 'Expert'.

Oswald was a capable shooter, and intimately familiar with the rifle he owned -- that's my opinion.

The shot was not difficult for Oswald's skills, and conspiracy theorists have been claiming otherwise for decades. Almost every conspiracy theory hinges on dismissing Oswald as the primary shooter.

[mr.pink]

Every time I see a movie with Woody Harrelson in it, and realize just how much he sucks and over acts, I have to figure his pop wasn't just some hobo passing through Dallas.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Did you see Oliver Stones' movie?"

Yes, Oliver Stone glossed over the dynamics of the shooting and dismissed Oswald very quickly.

Entertaining movie, though. I own it on DVD.

[Taft in '52]

Despite all of the books alleging a conspiracy, no one has come up with any hard evidence of one.

[Tribune7]

To me, the weirdest thing about the Kennedy assination was that Diem was killed the same month.

[sakic]

'Twas beauty killed the beast.

[gonzo]

Well, Fled, when it was all decided that Oswaldo acted alone, I decided to try that shot myself with a coupla roadkill-an armadilla and a possum, strapped in a '52 Studebaker drop-top.

I ordered-up one of them Checko-Slovackian rifles and ammo from Sportys' Guns-and-Screen Doors, and commenced to riddle them critters 'till they was useless even for soup.

I watched that Zapgrudy film and I never could get the possums head to fly backwards and splash brains all over the trunk.

Then I heard about this lawyer, a Harland Spectre, who said that Oswaldo had used a 'Magic Bullet' to do all that damage. Sporty didn't have any of them, so I gave up on my research.

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Only a democRAT can believe that Johnson didn't 86 Kennedy.

Good to see yer posting, y'older.............FRegards

[anncoulteriscool]

This cant possibly be true, everyone knows (from the Oliver Stone movie) that JFK was killed by a bunch of gay guys. LOL!

[ancientart]

I don't know if we'll ever know the truth in our lifetime, but future generations will know the truth.

One of the students in my U.S. history class handed me a video which he told me would show exactly who was responsible for the Kennedy assassination. He kept after me for months before I finally watched the video. Despite my skepticism, I had to agree with him. He'd found by far the best explanation of the Kennedy assassination around.

Here's a transcript:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/Xtended/Scripts/Series7/1.htm

[jammer]

That's correct--seeing Zapruder will convince any but the most closed minded that JFK was hit from the front at least once. I thought the conspiracy theories were stupid until I saw the actual film. Then I learned that Time magazine had reversed the sequence of photographs in order to, i.e., deliberately, show the opposite of what the film shows.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Despite all of the books alleging a conspiracy, no one has come up with any hard evidence of one.

Here's the Zappruder film, the shot to the head is obviously coming from the front, which would prove a conspiracy. It's just a matter of who did it.

Zappruder Film