Posted on 09/22/2003 2:32:23 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
Sorry to be so short on facts, but a new book ("Blood Money") charges LBJ with ordering the JFK hit.
The author is the former business partner of the man he accuses of setting it up (??? Clark), and claims there is no doubt in his mind as to the truth of the allegation.
Apparently LBJ was about to be indicted on another murder charge, and saw his ascendency to POTUS as his way out.
How 'bout we all just pour a bottle of Pearl beer on his grave (after it's been run through our kidneys, of course)?
Its funny - I always thought it was just her too. But, "Landslide Lyndon" has been trashed by too many people I respect to feel any different.
Where?
--Boris
The Men Who Killed Kennedy pretty much clinched it for me. Motive, opportunity, means: all point to LBJ.
--Boris
P.S. And yes, there was another shooter on the grassy knoll; several lines of evidence show this conclusively. The Mystery Changing Coffin and the vanishing autopsy reports...too much, man.
--Boris
Yes, it was fuzzy, but it appeared there were two men in white shirts moving around up there as the motorcade turned in front of the building.
The anchor man was giddy with this legacy and was going to rush the film to Washington D.C. the next morning--and soon as he got the results we would get an immediate update on that incredible finding. He's still around, but have heard nothing more about that film.
Also, I was ten at the time and I remember looking at LOOK or Life magazine, and remember a photo taken from the Schoolbook Depository on the third or fourth floor just after the assassination, and two young black men were yelling to the photographer pointing to the grassy knoll. Also, the grassy knoll is where most of the reporters and police headed after the shots were fired.
At the the range Oswald was shooting at the bullet would have hit just 3-4" to the right and above the aim point.
Easily compensated for if Oswald knew about it.
In fact because of the direction the Kennedy car was moving, the easiest way of compensating would be to allow *no* compensation, just aim where you wanted the bullet to hit without leading the target.
And if Oswald didn't know about it and attempted to lead while aiming at the base of Kennedy's skull, an accurate bullet would strike in exactly the position of the final head shot.
I just know what I think of LBJ and what I know he is capable of. I repeat. There are not enough pejorative words in the dictionary to describe that pure evil SOB. I've long believed his body should be dug up and burned. We was Rasputin's evil twin.
I'll just add: Americans would be wise to carefully watch any descendants of LBJ no matter how distant.
I ain't referring only to how he betrayed the troops.
On a hunch in the late 1990s the mystery print was compared to Wallace and I believe the book reveals that it was an unquestionable match. Wallace died in a car wreck 30 years ago. He is known to have been convicted of one murder in the early 1950s and it's pretty well established that he murdered at least fifteen or so more. Mostly on orders from LBJ and other associates it's alleged.
"Case Closed", by the extremely thorough investigative reporter Gerald Posner. Besides gathering astounding amounts of information from available sources, Posner did a lot of original investigation into the issue, talked to officials familiar with the contents of the (then) unreleased files, and even located and interviewed the KGB official who had been responsible for Oswald during his defection to the USSR. "Case Closed" is also the single most comprehensive compilation of evidence about the assissation available in book form. Whenever someone has an obscure question about the assassination or Oswald, I can find the answer in "Case Closed" 99 times out of 100.
For the most part Posner simply presents the mountain of evidence and lets the reader draw the obvious conclusions, but at the end he states his own view based on the evidence, and after reading the book it seems hard to disagree: Oswald shot JFK, from the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository, without a Vast Government Conspiracy(tm) behind him.
Hardly.
The first shot occurs at near frame 160 of the Zapruder film, the second shot at frame 223 or 224, and the final shot at frame 313.
That means that after the first shot, there was a 3.5 second pause before the second shot. And the gap between the the second and third shots was 4.9 seconds, making a total time of 8.4 seconds. This is hardly a rate of fire of an "automatic weapon", and is easily achievable with a bolt-action rifle like Oswald's.
In fact, despite the claims of countless conspiracy theorists that "no one" has been able to duplicate the shooting that would have been required, in fact numerous recreations have had no problem whatsoever doing so. For example, CBS reconstructed the shooting for a 1975 documentary. Eleven volunteers took three shots each at a moving target using a Carcano rifle, without even doing any prior practice on that model of rifle. Their times ranges from 4.1 seconds (total) to slightly more than 6 seconds, with the average being 5.6 seconds and 2 hits out of 3. Furthermore, the House Select Committee in 1977 did a reconstruction and found that their test shooter could hit all targets with 1.66 seconds between shots.
Is "eleven years ago" soon enough for you? The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-526) ordered the review and release of pretty much all such records.
For example, if you want to see the 113 records released by the NSA under this act, see NSA JFK documents.
Summaries of the material can be found at the National Archives JFK Assassination Records webpage. The released material consists of more than 4.5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts.
The movie "JFK" by Oliver Stone was a giant load of conspiracy-theory propaganda, but it did serve on useful purpose: The public interest in the JFK assassination it raised, and the stink it made about the remaining unreleased records, lit a fire under Congress and they moved to release the records in 1992.
If you're wondering why you haven't heard of this, it's because the conspiracy theorists seldom talk about it, since the truckload of newly released material *still* fails to support their conspiracy fantasies.
As one satirical "newspaper" wrote in their classic "headline" for November 22, 1963, ridiculing the proliferation of wildly varying conspiracy theories, "KENNEDY SLAIN BY CIA, MAFIA, CASTRO, LBJ, TEAMSTERS, FREEMASONS: President Shot 129 Times From 43 Different Angles".
So what Amazing Revelations were revealed in these documents that the Grand Government Conspiracy had been "hiding" all these years? Nothing, really, which was a great disappointment for those who believed that the Real Story was somehow being concealed in them.
I also remember back then a man in a photo standing on the train trestle with a rifle by his side, as the president sped below him to Parkland. Looked odd to a ten-year-old.
No reasonable person, after reviewing the evidence presented by those who attempt to explain what happened, can come to the conclusions they did. Forensics don't lie.
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