Last night PBS had 2 excellent specials on the JFK assassination. The first was by Nova on the forensics of the assassination and the 2nd one was by Secrets of the Dead on Walter Cronkite's coverage that day. You can watch both of them on PBS's website.
Lee Harvey Oswald did it. http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/tellerspeaks/telleressayconspiracytheory.html
It's weird how so many years after this event, after so much evidence has come out proving it was a conspiracy, we still have these huge books and shows coming out repeating the Oswald acted alone nonsense.
The thing that makes conspiracy theories work is that the guys who stand to make money writing books, etc., spew so many "facts" that take a decent amount of time to refute. And if not refuted they claim the conspiracy is true. When refuted, they make up more "facts." And so it goes. You'd think the reverse would be true - when enough of the theory is shot full of holes, people would figure the rest is bullshit, too.
Well, who is making stuff up and distorting facts? What do the witnesses say? What the the doctors at parkland hospital see? What about the "magic bullet"? The probability of the shooting itself....there's too many things to get into here. Have you guys heard the tape E Howard Hunt recorded on his death bed for his son? He came clean about the whole thing. Marina Oswald say she is still being threatened against talking about the case, but she doesn't believe her ex husband was guilty. [video=youtube;nxbYg0Sjn18]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxbYg0Sjn18[/video]
I have no idea, never studied it, but it's one of the only conspiracy theories that so many bright and well reasoned people believe.
Watch the PBS thing. I happened to see it yesterday. Nothing but scientific proof Oswald acted alone. They shot a bullet from an identical gun through 3 feet thick of pine boards stacked together. It came out pristine. They shot bullets through skulls and other things that mimic bone and muscle and the bullets tumbled and made holes in wood and fabric exactly like they were on JFK's and Connoly's clothing. Eye witness testimony is unreliable, so you can't rely on it when the recordings and science and reenactments tell the real story.
I've read a couple of the books and so forth and they all have some interesting theories, but zero proof. But of all the things surrounding conspiracy theories with respect to JFK, the one thing that I have always wanted to know was why Ruby shot Osald and then never talked about it. I can let all the other theory stuff go as sensationalists making money off the assassination, but all the controversy surrounding that makes me wonder. At the end of the day, I think he was a nut who acted alone.
