What we’ve found is that government is NOT to be trusted. The case of Donald J. Trump should convince you of that if nothing before it did.
As for the JFK case, I’m not totally sold on either explanation but I am convinced that the LBJ administration covered up the investigation of JFK’s murder because they feared it could push us into direct war with Russia or Cuba. LBJ was next door neighbors with J. Edgar Hoover and the two were able to manufacture/suppress any evidence that could get in public hands.
That doesn’t prove they killed JFK, only that they corrupted any investigation of it.
I’ve looked at the Zapruder Film so many times and one fact is almost never mentioned. If the “magic bullet” supposedly caused all the other wounds beside the head shot and it had reached the target by the time JFK is seen grasping his throat after emerging from behind the Stemmons Freeway sign, why is Gov. Connally still holding onto his cowboy hat in his right hand when it had supposedly been shot in the wrist by that time? I know cowboys love their hats but...
I doubt anyone who had actually planned an assassination would entrust a loser and screw-up like Oswald to carry it out yet Oswald left his wedding ring with his wife the night before along with all his cash and the Mannlicher Carcano rifle has been thoroughly established to have been in Oswald’s possession as he took it to work that morning disguised as “curtain rods” (his boarding house room in Oak Cliff did not need new curtain rods).
So, at the very least, Oswald knew something major was going down that day and there is strong evidentiary and forensic evidence that his gun fired three shots from the TSBD sixth floor that day. The “patsy” angle holds no water with me.
A Grassy Knoll shooter seems entirely possible, especially for the head shot (if you stand behind that fence you see what an easy shot this was) but the crime scene there had been cleaned up allegedly by people dressed as police before it could be investigated.
Two shooters mean a conspiracy but I just don’t have full confidence in either narrative being true. All I can conclude is that Oswald was involved.
With Ford coming out and admitting he falsified part of the magic bullet information, it’s hard not to doubt government. That’s part of the damage created by the assassination. I guess you could look a it as an eye opener, which would be good, but it’s all bad to me.
As for Johnson interfering, I’m not sure he had to exert much pressure. Congress was unhinged in it’s looks at the information. Some of it was just unhinged.
As for Oswald, he had been in Russia. He could easily have been used to foster an international incident. It would have been something like the collusion case now. The real culprits in the U. S. slinking away, while the public was misdirected to look at a Russian connection. Luckily, that ploy wasn’t adopted.
I agree that Oswald was involved. I don’t think there’s much doubt about that. I don’t think he knew everything that was going down though.
From the way Kennedy’s head reacted to the head-shot, I have always thought he was shot directly from behind. That shot may have been accomplished by Oswald, but I was always curious if there wasn’t another shooter behind the limo (line of sight wise).
As for Connally and the magic bullet, I think they were making it up as they went there. Ford pretty much let that out of the bag with his confession. Imagine him confessing to doing that. Good grief. It was almost as if he was proud of falsifying the data.
You know, during this big events, a lot of information gets aired. I don’t deny there could have been a parking lot shooter (grassy knoll). I don’t deny there could have been others. I just don’t know...
I’ve pretty much accepted we’ll never know.
It’s a shame too, because an event this big and important needs to be aired.
As for Oswald being a patsy, I think he may have been a visible person they used to draw attention from others. I’m not sold on that either, but it was a well known plot strategy used in some of the popular media movies of the day.
You can blackmail a couple of guys who think they are acting alone, and then put some experienced people in there too to make sure things happen...
At any rate, thanks for the comments.