re: I'm Curious. How Many Here Think Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone in the JFK Assassination?

Still the most brilliant piece of geopolitical satire I’ve ever seen

The Jack Ruby thing really tries to throw the trail off. Something the CIA would want.
The fact that LHO would claim he was a patsy says a whole lot. If he wanted JFK dead for his own reason or if the commies got him to do it or if the hired him to do it....why would he claim to be the patsy?
Something went wrong and he saw he was setup to get caught.

In steps Ruby. Now it puts the mob in the mix to muddy the water. Did the CIA have Ruby do this so it silences LHO (since it seems he was ready to talk about being a patsy) and it puts the mob into the convo and keeps the CIA out of it.

What year was it that the CIA became a suspect in this conspiracy?

Watching documentaries and seeing interviews on youtub, it was not LHO himself. There are crucial witnesses that didn't get interviewed officially, strange deaths of people that may have had knowledge, etc.

If this was such an open and shut, LHO did this, why aren't all the records released from the start.

Been awhile since I read much about this, so my memory is vague and can't get specific.

I'll just say I was slightly more open to a "conspiracy" until I read Bugliosi's Reclaiming History. Felt like it took a chainsaw to most of the alternate theories.

I still AM slightly open to the idea that others influenced and communicated with him. But I do think he "acted" alone, meaning he was the lone gunman.

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Yeah, not many, if any shots from behind make the head snap back.

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Head initially actually snapped slightly forward. It's just an illusion, frames per second on old film.

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It was the driver of the car, Secret Service Agent, William Greer who shot the kill shot.

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I've seen assholes make such claims. Never quite sure if they're harmless assholes or annoying trolls, and not sure which is worse.

The same mob that refused to kill Thomas Dewey?

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But again, the story he relates affords far more details and opportunities to disapprove than something someone would normally concoct, out of hand.

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Not necessarily.

When was that interview, like a half-century after the fact?

Speaking of which, those of you posting these different videos...do the videos even dovetail with each other?

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But again, the story he relates affords far more details and opportunities to disapprove than something someone would normally concoct, out of hand.
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Not necessarily.

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Yes necessarily.

He didn't need to throw in any of the details about his supposed associations with Oswald. Not one. He could just say, "I don't know about all that 'other stuff.' I heard rumors about Oswald, but ... As for me, Mr. Roselli told me what to do, and that's what I did."
Much simpler. Far less disprovable claims.

The risk, if he's lying, is that as soon as any single claim he makes gets factually disproven, his credibility implodes. He made a ton of claims of personal associations with Oswald.

Some of those claims led me to go back to the record and check his assertions. My recollection for example was that the Tippett murder was definitively tied to LHO via ballistics. Obviously, if that's the case, Files is lying. It turns out, ballistics in the Tippett incident did not match at all, and the casings, likely switched for ones fired from Oswald's gun, may not have even matched the slugs retrieved. So as I listened to Files, expecting to catch him in a lie, the claims he made continually align more closely to known facts than does the official account.

But I'm open to facts as they are presented. E.g., How do you explain negative paraffin tests (except for traces in both palms) on someone who supposedly fired a 38-special 4 times? How do you explain the unmatched ballistics? How could Oswald miss a ~200ft shot so badly that it hit a curb, 350ft off target representing a ~20-30° aiming error? Are any of the File's claims disproven?

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When was that interview, like a half-century after the fact?

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30yrs

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...do the videos even dovetail with each other?

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If you watched even a portion of them you'd know the answer