Was the Kennedy Assassination in 1963 a conspiracy?

Question

or was it Lee harvey Oswald, like the Warren report stated.
Or more to the point will we ever know the truth?

Answer 1

There is no doubt among historians at all. There is not one speck of evidence that has come forth yet to support the bizarre and irrational beliefs in a conspiracy. There doesn't to be any conspiracy to explain all of the evidence that has been uncovered. Here is a skeletal outline of the evidence (ALL of which points to Oswald and no one else)
1. All bullets recovered were similar to those used for Oswald's rifle and one bullet was recovered that matched Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons currently on the planet.
2. Only one person was identified as holding a rifle in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination--Oswald. No one else. Some claims were made of alleged gunmen but none were ever identified nor was any supporting evidence ever produced to prove they were even there.
3. ALL bullet holes in Kennedy and Connally's body came from above and behind. There is not one speck of medical evidence to support the belief that gunmen fired from the front (the movie JFK notwithstanding.) If any gunmen DID fire from the front they certainly didn't hit Kennedy, they didn't hit Governor Connally, they didn't hit the car or any of the other occupants riding in the car, and they also managed to miss all of the spectators standing on the other side of the street. Some gunman.
4. Oswald fled work right after the shooting and did not return after lunch.
5. When Oswald was stopped after fleeing work rather than answer questions, as any innocent person would do, he instead pulled out a revolver and fired four rounds into Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit killing him instantly.
6. Oswald was seen the morning of the assassination taking a mysterious long brown paper bag into work but NOT taking his lunch like he normally did. He told a coworker his package contained "curtain rods." No curtain rods were every found in the building, however Oswald's rifle WAS found on the same floor the shots were fired from.
7. Oswald tried to also shoot and kill another police officer when he was finally apprehended inside the Texas Theater in Dallas.
8. After Oswald's arrest he never, EVER claimed to be part of a larger conspiracy. He never as to who hired him for this assassination and as of today's date (February 8, 2007) no evidence has bee produced to show Oswald had ANY sinister connections with ANYONE at all. Not one speck of evidence. You will notice that none of the other posters provided ANY evidence to support their ridiculous claims. Why? Because they don't have any evidence. There is none.
9. Concerning the mysterious deaths. There were NO mysterious deaths at all. When investigated these so-called mysterious deaths turned out to be no more mysterious than the deaths of people associated in some way with Super Bowl I. I challenge ANYONE to prove me a single name of even ONE person that allegedly died under mysterious circumstances and let me find out the truth. I make this challenge all the time and no one EVER responds with a name. Why? They don't know of any, they just heard it somewhere and passed it along.


Will we ever know the truth?


People who read and do honest research have alread learned the truth. The only people who will never know the truth are the intellectually lazy who only believe what they hear in TV or what they see in movies and don't read anything legitimate on their own.

To serious scholars there is absolutely no doubt in any way about who killed John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald did it and did it alone with no help, no assistance, and no co-conspirators. They truth was discovered forty years and nothing has been uncovered to challenge that truth in any way.


And there you have it.

After reading the usual tripe conspiracy believers claim, I think it is interesting that of 17 answers so far, mine is the only one that actually talks about the evidence in this case. The truth can always rely on the real evidence. That is what separates real historians like me from conspiracy chasers who NEVER refer to actual evidence, just theory after theory after theory.

Answer 2

No. If it was, then the most likely candidates would be the Mafia, and it was the most useless conspiracy ever as it produced no results. If you have stood in the bowl where the shooting took place or you look at the photos, people were pointing all over the place as to where the shots came from - so each person wanting to make money from selling conspiracy theories can find an image of someone to support a view of where the shots came from. And the nonsense done to explain how witnesses saw Oswald kill a cop ("it was a person who just looked like him") and be captured in the theater almost proves that imagination is at work. And as we have seen since that shooting, in the case of MLK, Nixon, Watergate, Irangate, etc., the chances of a conspiracy holding together these days, when money will flow to any one involved, are almost nil.

Answer 3

We probably will never know the truth. Much of the evidence and findings have been classified and have not been released. I think the time frame for the release of much information was 100 years to be sure no one who lived then would be alive. That should fall somewhere around 2067 or so. The question is, if the assassination was as the Warren Commission said it was, why is information being with held from the public. Seedy dealings, I say.

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Answer 4

We will never know the truth. But Lee Harvey Oswald could never get three shots off in such a short time with that old Italian Rifle. Marksmen have tried with the same rifle and couldn't do it.

Answer 5

Jimmy "the Weisel" Frattiano claimed that Giancana (the then Boss of Bosses out of Chicago) gave the go ahead for Marcello (of New Orleans) to carry out the assassination. It involved Castro (who had a grudge after finding out the CIA was behind the Bay of Pigs Invastion) so he got a patsy (Oswald) from the Russians to carry-out the deed. Marcello's beef was a result of RFK's investigations into organized crime. To cover the link to the Mafia, Marcello had Jack Ruby (a two bit night club owner in the Marcello organization) take out Oswald to seal his lips.

Giancana's beef with JFK was his impression that JFK renigged on promises to leave the Mafia alone since he felt he pulled strings in Chicago to get him elected.

Several weeks before the assassination, Oswald met with Cuban agents in Mexico. For inexplicable reasons, the FBI agents who were following up the Cuban connection as a part of the Warren Commission investigation, were recalled back by FBI Central office

Answer 6

I think it was the Mafia. JFK's father went to them to help Jack win the election. It is a well known fact that many of the votes in Chicago ended up at the bottom of the lake. After Jack was elected his Attorney General, his brother, Bobby, stated a high profile investigation of the Mob. I'm sure they took that as an affront since the Mafia doesn't do favors without expecting something in return. They probably wanted to prove just how powerful they were and what happens to people who cross them, even Presidents. Will this ever come out? Who knows. Maybe after those who investigated the assassination are dead.

Answer 7

the assassination of J. F. Kennedy, in my opinion, was a conspiracy followed by the death of his brother Robert and his son John Kennedy Jr.

the details are myriad and probably near impossible to sort out. i do know that the Kennedy family was a force to reckon with. if these strategic blows were designed to devastate that force, i'd say that they were successful.

p.s. Lee Harvey Oswald was incidental and became just another loose end. if he were important he'd have lived.

Answer 8

There are many cospiracy theories about the assassination. Some thought it was the CIA or the Mafia.

I saw a program about this topic on the Dicovery Channel and they think that there was more than one killer. Looking at the way JFK's body reacted when he got shot, there were two or three trajectory lines pointing at different directions.

But we'll never know, so it still remains a mystery.

Answer 9

1.Its the USA, we will never know what really happened.
2.The Warren report has more holes in it than a dead Nazi.
3.Lee harvey oswald, sorry. In my opinion. A patzi.
4.Prob the best president America had & will ever have!

Great question.

Answer 10

There were many unanswered questions over the years in my mind about the Kennedy assassination until I saw a terrific BBC documentary that systematically demolished all the conspiracy theories one by one.

Except one. How did so many witnesses to the assassination die so quickly in so many strange ways in the years after JFK's death? An actuary in London worked out that the chances of that many witnesses being dead by 1968 was 3 trillion to one. Spooky.