Case Closed: a letter to Gerald Posner (re: Kennedy assassination)

AMNation.com ^ | 11/23/03 | Lawrence Auster

[wideminded]

Posner says Oswald and Ferrie didn't know each other in the CAP and weren't in at the same time. FRONTLINE had a photo the other night that showed them together. CASE OPENED AGAIN.

This is what Posner says in an update interview with Frontline:

What did your investigation show about a possible link between David Ferrie and Oswald?

I used to believe it was unlikely that Oswald and Ferrie ever had any contact at all. But when FRONTLINE discovered a photo of the two in the same group at a Civil Air Patrol gathering in 1955, the evidence shows the two were briefly acquainted with each other. The key question then becomes whether they revived any relationship when, in the summer of 1963, Oswald returned to New Orleans. This is the critical period, because it is only months before JFK's assassination.

But there is no credible evidence that the two encountered each other again during that 1963 summer.

[Steve_Seattle]

Even assuming that the photo is authentic (a big if) and that those men are in fact Oswald and Ferrie (another big if), the fact that they served in the same civil air patrol unit years before the assassination does not prove (1) that they were anything more than casual acquaintances, as easily forgotten as most of your fellow students in a college math class; (2) that they maintained a friendship up until the time of the assassination; or (3) that they conspired to kill President Kennedy. What about the other guys in the picture? Were they part of the plot too? After all, their picture was taken with Oswald.

[MEG33]

Never get between a man and his conspiracy theory!

[theDentist]

Don't expect to come here with blinders on and expect to be taken seriously.

[LibTeeth]

If true, this notion also pretty well kills the liberal, anti-Second Amendment argument that small arms in the hands of individuals aren't useful or effective against the government, its principles, or its agents. Of course, it also reveals why most politicians, even ostensible conservatives, only half-heartedly defend the right. When people fear the government there is tyranny, when government fears the people, the elite's worst impulses are held in check.

By today's standards JFK would have been a standard bearer of republican virtue (maybe not on all issues), and certainly the left resort to violent action more commonly than the right, reports of "right wing militias" not withstanding. I've always wondered where the radicals at Wounded Knee got their AK-47s.

[Free ThinkerNY]

In the Lincoln conspiracy case, we found out about it. We know who was involved. Why would the Kennedy conspirators have been able to completely get away with it? It's childish to believe that you could conspire to kill a President of the U.S., and for 40 years, no one would spill your secret. How much money would someone who knew the truth about your conspiracy make if they told all? Was there a conspiracy to kill Gerald Ford, Reagan, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King? Are all these cases coverups, too? All those cases involved lone assassins and would-be assassins who were losers seeking social attention. To some ego-damaged individuals, even negative attention is better than none at all. The Marxists have succeeded in conning a lot of people. They don't want people to realize that Kennedy was killed by a fellow Communist. They want you to think that he was killed by a "vast Right-Wing conspiracy." It's the same kind of deception that Hillary Clinton tried to perpetrate when her husband was in trouble. "Don't look at the truth, look over there." Leftist are masters of deceit.

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

"He was an established and famous actor from a famous family of actors. In some ways a crackpot, perhaps, but not at all a total zero of a loser like Oswald."

Like I said, he was a Hollywood type (before there was a Hollywood). Yup, he sounds like a crackpot. ;-)

[ibtheman]

Has anybody ever been to boot camp in the marine corp? I have, and guess what, it would be very easy to take out kennedy. By just one former marine. Also if you see where Oswald was shooting from, and the angle of attack of the bullet. Any marine could have easily have done the same exact thing! Hey people what do you think a marine can do with a M-16 at 500 yards open sight! Think about it!

[Ramtek57]

Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.

[angkor]

There is NO credible evidence of any conspiracy. None.

Sorry, this isn't Alice In Wonderland, and the Zapruder images make it eminently clear that the fatal head shot cme from in front of the motorcade, not from Oswald behind.

You really have to twist your brain in several different directions to believe otherwise.

[per loin]

The Dallas police allowing Oswald to be murdered has no relevancy? The failure to keep any record of those hours of questioning has no relevancy? You gotta be kidding.

[Irene Adler]

"The conspiracy frenzy was a direct result of the federal government's obstruction of the local Dallas coroner by whisking the body off to Washington. There was no reason the Dallas coroner could not have been allowed to do his job in the normal manner of any murder under his jurisdiction, other than arrogance on the parts of the federal agents involved."

I agree with you. In particular, the autopsy should have been done immediately in Texas as the Texas law enforcement community expected. There were medical examiners who were experienced in gunshot deaths in Dallas. It was Jackie, in part, who screwed that up, by both dramatically refusing to leave her husband's body and also insisting on going immediately back to Washington D.C. on Airforce One with the new President. She also accompanied the body to Bethesda for the autopsy that was performed there and then demanded that those doing the autopsy finish fast because she was tired and wanted to go back to the WH. Word was sent in to the people during the autopsy of Jackie's wishes that they finish up, and they did not do a really thorough job.

I remember the actual events, and some of the eventual doubts were caused initially by enormous over sensitivity to the Kennedy family shown by investigators. The autopsist destroying his original notes because they had blood on them, and he never wanted the bloody notes to see the light of day and add to the family's suffering is another example.

You really had to be alive then and remember some things that are not common knowledge now to appreciate how investigators bent over backward, and covered up gruesome details, to spare the Kennedy family (particularly Jackie).

[Leatherneck_MT]

I guess that makes you God then?

Otherwise you don't know squat.

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

"In the Lincoln conspiracy case, we found out about it. We know who was involved. Why would the Kennedy conspirators have been able to completely get away with it? It's childish to believe that you could conspire to kill a President of the U.S., and for 40 years, no one would spill your secret. How much money would someone who knew the truth about your conspiracy make if they told all? Was there a conspiracy to kill Gerald Ford, Reagan, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King? Are all these cases coverups, too? All those cases involved lone assassins and would-be assassins who were losers seeking social attention. To some ego-damaged individuals, even negative attention is better than none at all. The Marxists have succeeded in conning a lot of people. They don't want people to realize that Kennedy was killed by a fellow Communist. They want you to think that he was killed by a "vast Right-Wing conspiracy." It's the same kind of deception that Hillary Clinton tried to perpetrate when her husband was in trouble. "Don't look at the truth, look over there." Leftist are masters of deceit."

I agree that Oswald the maxist did it and that Leftists would like for us to believe otherwise.

[Az Joe]

Not true. In the two frames of the Zapruder film just before and when Kennedy was shot in the head it is clearly seen that Kenndy's head moves forward several inches as the bullet enters the back of his head.

Also he was not lined up with the grassy knoll to take a shot from the front. He would have gotten hit in the right side of his head and that would have blown the left side of his head off and the left side of his head is fully intact.

[FreedomCalls]

OK, so Kennedy's assassination was not a conspiracy, but now President McKinley's assassination -- there's a conspiracy for you! Just who was Leon Czolgosz working for? Did he have mob/CIA/KGB connections? Were there two shooters or one? How could someone just walk up to the President of the United States and shoot him? Where was the security? No one could fire two shots in the amount of time Czolgosz had. Why did McKinley linger? Did the doctors snuff him out even though he was healthy? < /sarcasm >

[Az Joe]

I know you have no proof of any conspiracy. Any regular old human could see that.

[Steve_Seattle]

Eyewitnesses saw Oswald in the window of the TSBD as he was doing the shooting; several co-workers were directly below him as he fired - they heard the shots right over their head and heard the shell casings drop on the floor. No credible witness saw any other shooter in Dealey Plaza, nor has any concrete evidence ever been found of a fourth shot or a second shooter. (Posner demolishes the contradictory and evolving testimony of many of the "witnesses" who formed the basis for the film "JFK"; he also analyzes and explains the head movements etc. shown in the Zapruder film.)

[Violette]

Wow. What a very well thought-out, heartfelt letter. Thank you for posting it.