[SoCal Pubbie]

This subject has been rehashed over and over here on Free Republic. Some people simply cannot accept that a single insignificant deranged man had the means and opportunity to fire a few shots from a short distance, with a cheap but powerful rifle, and kill the President of the United States. It happened folks. Truth is stranger than fiction, in this case.

I was once a conspiracy believer, but after digesting everything I could find on the subject, and after witnessing how OJ's "dream team" made every police screw up look like the conspiracy of the century, I realized that there is absolutely no evidence of anything other than Oswald firing from the sixth floor book depository window.

I have seen the vultures circling delay Plaza in Dallas selling their conspiracy rags. There's no market in selling the truth, so there needs to be a "new killer" all the time. Please don't give these ghouls your money!

[Monty22]

The idea that someone from a building shooting JFK with a cheap scoped rifle has *never* been that hard for me to believe. Seems that security was crap then, and they got nailed for it.

I strongly believe that if stupid jerk Ruby hadn't killed Oswald, he would've eventually confessed. Ruby's garbage about how he couldn't talk about bigger things is just that, insanity. He had every opportunity to do so for *years* afterwards.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Not only was the rifle total crap but the scope was improperly attached so that it could not shoot accurately. Nor could it have been adjusted to do so.

Read the testimony of the gun shop operators and craftsmen to the Warren Commission where they discuss the complete unlikelihood of this being done with this rifle.

The Mannlicher was just a throw away intended to tie Oswald to this act.

Oswald liked JFK and had no motive to shoot him. As he said during an interview killing him would produce no change since he would be replaced and the same policies would continue. He had no illusions that LBJ would dramatically reverse the US policy towards Cuba or the USSR.