I’ve said it before: I love conspiracy theories, but I’m not a believer. I believe there are many sentient life forms in the universe, but not only do I not believe the government is hiding any evidence but I don’t believe we’re even being visited by aliens. I believe we did land on the moon in 1969 and since, and while the “evidence” that the government faked the landing is interesting, it’s also completely unfounded and ridiculous.
However, there are some conspiracies that are real and documented, or even admitted to by the government: The CIA involved in drug trafficking in the U.S., the military doing radiation testing on unsuspecting citizens, enlisting the Mafia to aid in attempts to kill Castro, etc.
I’ve always been on the fence about the Kennedy assassination: A conspiracy theory is interesting but, something THAT big being kept secret? It’s just people’s imagination getting carried away. After all, at least two different non-government related CSI and 3-D computer modeling investigations have confirmed that it’s possible for 3 shots in 7 seconds to come from that window in the Book Depository.
But…this weekend I’ve learned some things that’s hard to ignore. And makes you consider, if it’s true, then it’s NOT secret! The conspiracy IS revealed, people ARE talking…or have been killed. Here’s some of those things (oh don’t worry, I’ll play Devil’s Advocate in a minute and try to refute them myself):
1. Over 50 people in the area claim they heard a shot from the grassy knoll. That’s where most people in the area thought the shots came from, yet, the police immediate (within 90 seconds) under the direction of the Secret Service converged on the Book Depository.
2. One of the shots, the one that hit the Senator’s wrist that also lodged in his thigh would have had to alter direction in mid-air.
3. Oswald, a Marine, was not a good marksman’s, and even excellent marksmen say it’s highly difficult to fire 3 shots in 7 seconds in at that distance a pretty small grouping. Oh, the scope was also misalignment.
4. The rifle found in the depository had no initial fingerprints. However, shortly after Oswald was killed, another examination of the rifle was done and a blurry palm print was found. Federal agents visited the body at the funeral home to fingerprint Oswald between the two examinations of the rifle.
5. Standard Secret Service protection procedure was completely ignored, allowing for open windows in a building that had excellent line of sight as well as remaining away from the President when the car came below 45 MPH as well as was in excellent position for ambush as was the car in that location.
(Now it starts getting good…)
6. When the photos of the president’s casket leaving the Dallas hospital and getting on the plane is different from the one shown entering Bethesda hospital, as well as the body bag and the body wrapping.
7. The Secret Service literally forced the body and casket out of the possession of the Dallas medical investigators to be rushed to D.C. (which even though it’s the President, it’s still considered a Dallas homicide investigation so removing the body without Dallas permission was even illegal.)
8. The two men that headed up the official autopsy at Bethesda were hospital administrators with no pathology experience. They were a year from retirement, and career military men.
9. The autopsy was attended by military generals, admirals, and FBI and would constantly direct the autopsy…viz a vis the examiners were taking orders from their superiors.
10. The photos of the official autopsy bear little resemblance to the damage that was filmed at the event.
11. JFK’s brain and other medical evidence were sent to the Federal archives…and since and still lost. (Imagine if something like that were to happen in a normal crime investigation.)
12. The Dallas police, only a couple of days after the assassination, were told by J. Edgar Hoover himself, to stop their investigation and send all their evidence to the FBI.
13. The Dallas police found a fresh hole in the curb which matches the trajectory of a shot from the grassy knoll. They photographed it, and told the FBI. The FBI ordered the piece of curb removed and ran their own analysis of it. Their description of it does not match the Dallas photo and all FBI evidence and reports of it have been destroyed “to save space.” (A potential piece of evidence in the assassination of a president destroyed to “save space”?)
14. Now President Johnson was refusing to hold an inquiry, but eventually bowed to pressure and ordered the Warren Commission. The Commission refused to speak to any of the over 50 people originally interviewd as having heard shots from the knoll, and only interviewed people who substantiated shots from the Book Depository. They refused to examine the autopsy photos. If they had done so, the photos would have had to have been published in their report and thus be viewable by the Dallas medical examiners. The Commission also refused to talk to Jack Ruby (you know, the guy who killed Oswald,) who had been pleading to be allowed to testify in D.C. because he “wasn’t safe in Dallas.” (You’d think they’d have been very interested in the man who killed the supposed Presidential assassin.) Jack Ruby died suddenly of cancer.
15. A later Senate Commission in the 70’s refused to allow the Dallas medical examiners to view the autopsy photos.
16. Oswald, while not a great marksman, DID have high security clearance and was even a RADAR operator tracking secret U-2 planes over Russia. He had an honorable discharge, and then immediately defected to Russia? Who happened to be so fluent in Russia his future wife, a Russian citizen, initially mistook him for a local. All indicating he was likely quite trained and having gone underground as a mole in Russia for the CIA.
17. Oswald was autopsied including skull cap removal, and then placed in a hermetically sealed vault that’s designed to preserve bodies for decades. When it was exhumed in the 80’s, the bottom of the vault had been broken, as well as the casket, and the body does not show evidence of the autopsy that is on record.
More in a minute. But now, in the air of fairness, some criticisms of this evidence numbered in the same order as above:
1. Eyewitness reports are always suspect. Sound can do weird things, especially among buildings, and sounds can appear to come from any direction given the right circumstances.
However…the police would have also heard the same thing over 50 people heard and would have likely investigated the knoll…but instead, they followed the Secret Services lead by immediately examining the Book Depository.
2. Any ballistics expert or medical examiner will tell you that bullets can do weird things! You have an object spinning a thousand RPM, it can change trajectories in weird ways when it hits bone or even soft tissue.
3. But, it IS possible. Very unlikely but not impossible. The misalignment could have occurred during the disposal or handling of it.
4. It was the early 60’s, mistakes in today’s crime scene examination happens, certainly it happened back then! Especially in an investigation full of stress and anxiety. The Feds fingerprinting him is likely standard procedure.
5. You never know. It may have been an accident or too much made of it.
6. I don’t know why this would be. It was an odd time, who knows what reason they might have to do that.
7. Could be arrogance and a power play. Like THAT never happens! The Feds always try to take control when jurisdictions overlap.
8. Well, the Feds in charge simply feel it’s a good idea to have loyal, high ranking medical people in charge at the hospital to be in charge of a Presidential autopsy. Makes sense. Perhaps they didn’t know nor care they didn’t;t have any pathology experience.
9. Again, power plays and the desire for people in power to be involved. It happens.
10. Despite the very gruesome film showing Kennedy’s head exploding at the entire length of the right side of his head, (very disturbing, by the way,) pathologists will tell you that biological material will do weird things when interacting with high velocity projectiles. Just because the film looks like one thing happened, once it’s cleaned up and moved back in place (shiver), it could show a very different thing happened.
11. Mistakes can be made.
12. More power plays and arrogant desires to control jurisdiction.
13. Perhaps the police were wrong, and misidentified something unrelated as a fresh gunshot damage to concrete. Maybe the photo is simply not the same thing the FBI investigated, and mistakes were made. And things get destroyed in a beauacracy all the time. It’s the government.
14. Maybe Johnston wanted to just put the whole thing behind the country and didn’t want some long Commission investigation. Maybe the Commission, run by men who also wanted to just get the whole thing over with and not fan the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories, kept maybe a misguided by innocent focus on one direction.
15. There could have been legal reasons, perhaps.
16. People change. Maybe after his training in Russian language and culture, he sincerely embraced Marxism. It happens.
17. Mistakes happen. Maybe they originally SAID they were using X casket and crypt, but bait and switched and used poor materials instead. Greed, you know. And perhaps the examiner didn’t perform the autopsy as he said and is covering his own lapse by claiming a conspiracy.
So, what do you think so far?
To me those are the most compelling pieces of evidence, but there’s more, suspect pieces of evidence. Most of it hearsay and individual reports which can easily be mistaken, lies, altered memories, any of a number of reasons not to be believed.
1. A VERY blurry photograph of the very second the fatal bullet hit JFK shows on the other side of JFK’s car, on the grassy knoll, the faint impression of a man in a police uniform and a puff of gunshot smoke, standing next to a man in a workman outfit looking in the direction of the Depository. Standard sniper procedure is two people, the shooter and a lookout.
2. Two different people who had wanted to watch the motorcade from the grassy knoll were shoed away by a man identifying himself as CIA.
3. A man working a train switching booth on the backside of the knoll watched two men, one in uniform, hanging around that area the blurry photograph shows, for a couple of hours. This man testified to the Warren Commission this, and dies in a car accident around the same time Jack Ruby died.
4. Another man also saw the two men, and said one of then handled a long case or “toolbox”, and after the shooting happened, they walked calmly away.
5. A successful contract killer in France says he was approached by a very powerful Sicilian Mafia family to be one of three assassins to kill a high-level American politician. When he found out it was to be IN the U.S. he refused.
6. It’s proven the CIA has enlisted the help of the Mafia to do dirty work, and still uses criminals to do “jobs” for them. There’s a connection between the Sicilian Mafia family and the U.S. Mafia organization in Chicago that supposedly brought the assassins into the U.S. and Jack Ruby also had ties to.
Here’s some comments on these also in the same order:
1. This photo is ridiculously blurry in the background. Oh it shows JFK and the explosion of his head OK (shiver) but back where the shaded, partially hidden area where the figures are supposed to be is so spotty that the outlining of two figures back there almost looks like a Roashak test. If this were the only evidence, I’d laugh at the whole thing like a Loch Ness or Bigfoot or ghostly apparition photo. The mere fact over 50 people thought shots came from there and a few people saw suspicious people there makes me partially believe the photo evidence. But even then, it’s likely the 50+ people are simply influencing the photo experts to see what might not be there.
2. Yeah, it could be these two people just want a piece of the conspiracy action. Or, maybe it’s real. It would have been a Secret Service person simply keeping people from the area to protect the President, and they simply remember it as CIA.
3. Again, one man’s word. And people do die, you know. Not EVERYONE who has mentioned something odd has died…but then, that’d be a LOT of people to kill of….
4. See above. (I just don’t trust individual people, people being notorious attention hounds and like to get in on the act. Often times it’s innocent and their memory is simply conditioned by outside factors and wishful thinking.)
5. See above. He’s a captured criminal in a French prison. Why not make up stories, maybe try to work out a deal for release.
6. True, but come on, it’s Chicago. The mob there has LOTS of ties to mobsters everywhere. Just because the Mafia’s been used before and since doesn’t mean they were used here. Even if they were enemies of the Kennedy’s.
I guess I’m still on the fence: Nearly everything can be explained, and even taken altogether, can easily be the result of a lot of procedural blundering, power plays, and fantastic imaginations.
but, it’s hard to ignore. And foreign assassins would make sense. In fact, it’s CIA rulebook stuff when doing dirty deeds. Get someone who can’t be connected to the government, who can be paid off, who are professional and won’t talk. The very highly loyal and renown for vendetta killing for snitches would be a perfect source for foreign hired killers. Jack Ruby was an easy patsy to get rid of Oswald who was a low-level intelligence operative designed to take the fall.
Oh well. Interesting to talk about.
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