Who was really behind JFK's assassination?

[Lesa]

Please discuss...

[eirene]

CIA

[Joxcenia]

I say Lee Harvey Oswald did it all by himself...

[marysgurl1]

I also believe the Govt. had ties to the assassination.

[eirene]

L.H. Oswald could it never be alone. At first it is impossible to load the gun - the he "used" - so quickly in that short of time. The shoots came from the right front ( diagonal to J.F.K's head ). How in heck he came that quickly out of the house (3.floor) to the point where he was captured? Had he rockets on his heels? So you can go on and go on...

[Freebird]

I think (oh no headache) he found something out that was "Top Secret" and someone was hired to kill him.


Next mystery to solve is if thats so.........
What was it and who was it?

[Lizzbitt]

I don't think it was LH Oswald at all.

I think it was someone else. But Harvey was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone else killed the president but they had to apprehend someone quick. So, Lee was the escape goat.

Plus, who ever killed or had him killed most be pretty high up in the ranks because after all the paper work. Documents of the case was finished, they announced that the case was closed.

Accomplishments of the Review Board

Through October, 1996, the Review Board had acted to transfer nearly 10,000 to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the JFK Collection. At the end of 1996, that collection totaled approximately 3.1 million pages.

Government Records Related to the Assassination -- By the end of 1997, the Review board will have reviewed and processed nearly all of the assassination records that have been identified by federal agencies, with the important exceptions of the FBI and CIA. The overwhelming majority of previously redacted information will have been made public.

Courtesy of mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

So, what is that telling you? That they buried the real truth in paper work.

It's someone big. Maybe Vice President Lyndon B Johnson? Or J Edgar Hoover? From everything I read, it was mostly about Kennedy ending the war and bringing the troops back home. Some were against that.

[Lesa]

That's my belief too, Lizzbitt. Kennedy wanted to pull our troops out of Vietnam. After Kennedy was killed and Johnson took over, he sent more troops in instead.

It's kinda reminiscent of our current administration, except the President in this case wanted this war. At least, so it seems to me.

[Freebird]

I didn't know about the troops comming home part of J.F.K.
I think he found or heard something and told Marylin Monroe and they both were killed to keep them from talking to the press or anyone else.
Everyone knows she died of a "overdose" of drugs but where they found the drugs in her body could not be self done.
(If I have my facts correct as to where they found the drugs.)
She was found face down in a bed nude.
Maybe it's the U.F.O. thing again. Ha Ha The Gov. has been trying to keep that secret for a while now.

[Rejean]

There are really two mysteries here: Who ordered the assassinatyion and did Lee Harvey Oswald do it all by himself?
Possibly the CIA and/or various criminal groups which controlled big-time crime in pre-Castro Cuba arranged the deed. These organizations bankrolled an invasion of Cuba by an army of exiled Cubans, and Kennedy supposedly refused to support this venture militarily. JFK wasn't all that liked by a lot of highly placed people during his brief term, and his brother, RFK, was fighting organised crime..
As for who acctually did the job, we'll never know. Maybe LHO was there or not, but there was, and still is controversy the number of possible shooters, the directions and the angles of their shots.
IMHYO, the incident will remain a mystery for a long time, meanwhile providing material for the fiction and "true fact" market for writer and film/TV producers, and nystery fans.

[catiche]

Are we all forgetting that Oswald killed Officer Tippit during the masive manhunt after Kennedy was shot? Thirteen people either saw him shoot Tippit or saw him running away. Unless someone is a mass killer who kills for their own odd reasons, people kill to protect themselves. Either a real or imagined danger, right or wrong. While everyone, cop and citizen a like, were looking for Kennedy's killer, Tippit stops Oswald and Oswald shoots him to get away. Why did Oswald have to get away from a cop?

[mabd]

Hi and Welcome!!

catiche said:

Are we all forgetting that Oswald killed Officer Tippit during the massive manhunt after Kennedy was shot? Thirteen people either saw him shoot Tippit or saw him running away. Unless someone is a mass killer who kills for their own odd reasons, people kill to protect themselves. Either a real or imagined danger, right or wrong. While everyone, cop and citizen a like, were looking for Kennedy's killer, Tippit stops Oswald and Oswald shoots him to get away. Why did Oswald have to get away from a cop?

I think you make a very valid point that in saying that Oswald was involved. Like many people, I think he was not the only person involved. There are too many inconsistencies for it to have just been Oswald. As one of those who watched Jack Ruby kill Oswald on live TV, it becomes pretty impossible to make Oswald the sole killer. The presence of the magic bullet found at Parkland Hospital (a bullet which, in theory, struck Gov. Connelly, in 3 places, and, according so some, also hit JFK) without deforming or even losing any weight; the Zapruder film, the draft of JFK's autopsy at Walter Reed that referred to a surgical cut made at Parkland; acoustical studies, triangulation of the various bullets' path; and the dubious conclusions about entrance and exit wounds, all suggest Oswald was the not only shooter.

Eyewitness testimony is the weakest type of evidence. That doesn't mean I disagree with you about the cop. It does mean that if you look at the films and still pictures, the people in the crowd in the plaza were all focused on the infamous Grassy Knoll.

I have no answer about why JFK was shot. I don't think it was about Viet Nam -- Johnson was much less enamored of the Domino Theory than JFK and Johnson's "Great Society" was far more liberal that JFK's. Given that the Nixon/Kennedy race was tighter than the Bush/Gore race, I'm not sure that I can say the "conservatives" were behind it. I don't accept that 'organized crime' was behind it, either -- that was more Bobby Kennedy's turf.

The lock down on the case doesn't bother me. It happens daily. And if you are really, really bored, you can read the 25 volume Warren Commission report that named Oswald as the sole shooter and the 2nd report which asserted Oswald did not act alone. There's a lot to chew on in those volumes.

Did the USA government participate in a cover-up? Probably -- but I think its rationale was to stabilize the the USA.

What I find so amazing is that *after* his death, several polls had JFK winning the election in a landslide, when, in fact, he barely squeaked in.

Maeve with no answers.

[Mini Mia]

:wtw1:
:wtw2: catiche!!! :wtw3:

[EllieNeo]

there's this discovery special coming on on i think, sunday, called "did the mob kill jfk?" kinda makes you go... hmmmmm.....

[jonjon3168]

i killed JFK! muwaha! oh, wait... nvm, i'm not old enough.
that special sounds very interesting, Ellie. hope i can catch it.

[jonjon3168]

Nov 19, 2009 12:49:16 GMT -6 EllieNeo said:

there's this discovery special coming on on i think, sunday, called "did the mob kill jfk?" kinda makes you go... hmmmmm.....

have been meaning to post this; i watched the special, and it was incredibly interesting. anyone else catch it?

[EllieNeo]

yeah, i caught it, jon. it was interesting. makes you go hmmmm still though.