I'll never forget the moment I heard the news in an announcement over the PA system at McDonnell St.Louis - working on the new space program JFK had set in motion. Although I had voted for Nixon, I was not all wrapped up in politics at that time - thinking all politicians were actually good people inside = Except for LBJ. = I had grown up hearing my grandfather talk about politics in general but with a burning hatred for LBJ - he called LBJ a cold-hearted murder, among a myriad of other moral failings. That stuck with me all my life because he was the 'smartest man I ever knew.'
SO - my end of day conclusion was that Oswald WAS the shooter, but that LBJ was somehow the initiating factor in the assassination.
I still think that - and nothing I have ever heard detracts from that firm belief. I am now willing to accept the possibility that there were other shooters involved, although the LHO as shooter is still my considered opinion.
More FBI/CIA/deep-swamp traitorous facets keep surfacing too often to maintain my belief in the message that my mother taught me as I was growing up =
"'If they print it in the newspaper, or say it on radio' it HAS to be truthful"!!
My mother was completely wrong in that wrt to political/journalism degradation over the past 30 years.

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Posted by SouthEasternKaiju

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Posted on 11/22/23 at 6:54 am to ChineseBandit58

I never bought the 'impossible shot' claims which we were told proved that Oswald couldn't have acted alone. Clearly, it was a makable series of shots.

Then much was made of the so-called magic bullet, but again, that's easily explained by seat positioning and body alignment.

But all this was before my time. I only heard about it via history, yrs after. 2 things struck me as a young Kaiju.

1. There were Americans who actually celebrated the assassination of a President. That to me was mindboggling. Sure, I get if you voted for Nixon and all, but to publicly celebrate this stuff? That to me was utterly foreign.

2. Much like with MLK, the fears that everywhere riots would break out and the suburbs would be overrun with violence from the inner cities. 60 yrs ago, that seems a bit hyperbolic. Today?

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Posted by leeman101