do you believe Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy?

Question

That includes believing in the "Single Bullet Theory". Without the single bullet theory, there had to be more than one shooter involved. Kennedy and Connally were hit at the same time.

And you must believe Jack Ruby was a nut. And Oswald was obsessed with communism.

Answer 1

I actually lived in Dallas and visited Dealy Plaza and there is no way Lee Harvey Oswald could have killed Kennedy. It would almost have to be a government conspiracy. Do you think that the secret service would not check all the buildings to make sure it was all clear? Do you think they would have missed a sniper nest? No. the angle from which Kennedy was shot would have to come from the railroad tracks. I've been over those tracks many times (mass transit trains use those same tracks). Oswald would have to have been a real good shot to get Kennedy the way he did. Besides sniper guns don't leave smoke. Oswald was just a front to a more complex, inside job assassination.

Answer 2

Vincent Bugilosi's book "Reclaiming History", more or less proves Oswald acted alone, and disproves all the conspiracy theories. By now, 44 years after the assassination, something concrete and credible would have been proven had someone else been involved.

For 25 years I read over twenty books on the assassination, not knowing what to believe. I have concluded now that Oswald acted alone, and both he and Ruby were not smart enough to be trusted by conspirators. In many ways the whole thing was a fluke. The changed route, the echoes in Dealy Plaza, J.D. Tippen, the shoddy police work, and then Ruby. Had you written it as fiction, no one would have believed it could happen, but it did.

Answer 3

Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy. He was egged on and set up to shoot Kennedy, got all the blame placed on him, then he was shot before he could talk. Watch JFK. It may not all be true, but there are too many unanwered questions.

Oswald was obsessed with communism. He was easily lead. Made him the perfect patsy.

Jack Ruby was just doing his job. He must have owed someone big time.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Personally I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did shoot President Kennedy and he was part of a conspiracy. I believe there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll and Jack Ruby was paid by organized crime to kill Oswald. Kennedy was elected in part by the influence of organized crime then Bobby Kennedy went after organized crime when he was appointed Attorney General. Motive - revenge.

Answer 6

Jack Ruby wasn't the only nut in connection with the JFK case - it has spawned thousands of conspiracy nuts over the years.

In the absence of any real information to the contrary (not supposition, a string of "what ifs", and plain erroneous information) why is there any reason to believe that anyone other than oswald killed JFK ?

Answer 7

i really don't even know anymore. nothing that happens in this country surprises me. i think that if you can believe that bush stole the election, you can believe almost anything. that's the ultimate loss of faith. i believe that 9/11 was not done by al qaida, that paul wellstone's plane went down on purpose, and that every day we are lied to and misled.

Answer 8

~The forensics as well as the video make it clear that there are no entry wounds in the front. The basic physics proves the bullets came from above and behind. Any number of experiments have established that a single semi-adept marksman could have fired all the shots.

Motorcades of an unpopular politician in a hostile city, like JFK in Dallas, always go slowly so the candidate can gladhand the hoi poloi and try to make them feel graced by his presence. Only when the passenger gets shot, does the driver hit the gas. (He doesn't want to take a slug.) The speed of the motorcade made the vic an almost stationary target. The rifle and rounds used would easily pass through the thin skin of two politicians.

Any fool that can handle a rifle and find cover can take a shot. Heck, the Romans got Ceasar and the Wehrmacht almost got Hitler. Sirhan is rumored to have gotten Jackie's little brother. To believe that every possible blind could be checked in advance and then secured is beyond ignorant. Hey, McKinley
took one from Leon Czolgosz while gladhanding prospective voters in a reception line, and Regan got his while trying to walk 30 feet from a hotel to his car. What's the big deal? Rommel got to Hitler and John Paul took one, too.

Actually, though, the whole Dallas thing is a myth. JFK died of Cushing syndrome, a condition he developed from over 10 years of steroid abuse, with contributing factors being a severe flare-up of his colitis which caused his duodenal ulcer to rupture. He died on November 12, 1963.

Papa Joe knew his favorite son was not going to be well treated by history and Joe also wanted Bobby and Teddy to have their own shots at Pennsylvania Ave. There was a family meeting at Hyannisport on November 15. Momo Giancanna and Sam Trafficanti were also invited. They had worked with and for the Kennedy clan since they rigged the West Virginia primary and Illinois vote. In return for that, Bobby went after Jimmy Hoffa so they could keep their puppet Frank Fitsimmons in the Teamsters presidency.

Joe and Jack had previously hired Jud Watkins, a JFK look-alike that they found through the Scott and Kimberley talent agency to stand in for Jack when he was hospitalized (secretly) or otherwise disabled and not available to make his own appearances. At the meeting, Joe and Bobby commissioned Trafficanti and Momo to take out Watkins in Dallas, thus creating the Kennedy martyrdom and myth. They hired Oswald (of whom they had become aware when Bobby gave them classified FBI and CIA files on potential subversives/assassins). Oswald had been a minor player for the Traficanti Family for about 8 years (thus explaining his interest in and trips to Cuba. It was Oswald who was supposed to have done the hit on Castro for Kennedy - but he had crossed Gambino by promising to set up a heroin pipeline in Turkey but he booked to Russia instead. They did not know he was on the FBI/CIA watchlists as a possible assassin, but when they discovered that, he was the perfect button to whom the contract should be given.

They also hired Jack Ruby, who was beholden to them and on whom Carlo Gambino had already approved a contract, to take out Oswald. Ruby had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with or without Gambino's help, he was dead in not more than 18 months. (Ruby had ripped off several of Gambino's hookers from NY and installed them in his Chicago and Dallas clubs, and he refused to pay the vig to Gambino. One doesn't dis the goodfellas like that.)

The secret service was not privy to the plot, although they were aware of Watkins and Kennedy's health issues. Jackie was at the family meeting. Jack was dead. She wanted her vicarious place in history and went along. Perhaps that's why she felt safe in jumping onto the trunk after the shots rather than to dive for cover on the car floor. Watch the Zapruder film again. Don't you find it curious that she is constantly looking pensive and leaning away from "Jack"?

Momo probably would have been only too happy to go after the real Jack after he caught Jack banging his woman in Sinatra's suite at the Flamingo in January '61, but Carlos Marcello had held Giancanna in check to protect his booze operations (which he shared with Joe Kennedy) up and down the Mississippi and along the Gulf Coast. (The end of prohibition had not taken the profits out of tax free Scotch.)

Perhaps when the full Warren report is declassified, these facts will come out. My uncle Sidney was an investigator for the commission for about 6 weeks, until he stumbled across parts of the real story, realized a cover-up was being created and threatened to take the whole thing to the Dallas Morning News (he knew the liberal eastern press would kow-tow to the Kennedy clan as always). He was fired and, 3 days later, died in a single car accident while allegedly intoxicated (yeah, right, Sid had a glass of wine with Thanksgiving dinner and otherwise didn't drink. He told his brother, my dad, what he had uncovered but he kept all of his notes with him at all times. They must have been in his car that night, but we never found his briefcase. It may or may not have burned in the wreck. Whether it was or not, I'm sure the notes have long since been destroyed.)

Answer 9

No, it was the other way around.

Answer 10

No. I believe it was a government conspiracy.