do you believe the mafia murdered President Kennedy?

Question

I never believed Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy. I always believed it was the mafia that killed him.

I believe there were 3 shooters involved. Two firing from behind, and one from the front. Oswald wasn't one of the shooters. I think 4 shots were fired.

First Shot: Hit Kennedy in the upper back and exited his throat.
(Dal-Tex Building)

Second Shot: Hit Governor John Connally (School Book Depository Building)

Third Shot: Hit Kennedy in the head (Grassy Knoll)

Fourth Shot: Missed the entire limousine (Dal-Tex Building or the School Book Depository Building)

I also believe Lee Harvey Oswald was framed for the murder of officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald's gun was a Revolver. Two guns were involved in Tippit's murder. 4 shells were found. All 4 shells came from pistols. Two of them came from a Automatic Pistol.

The type of gun Oswald was carrying was a Revolver. Revolvers don't eject shells. Anyone who knows stuff about guns should know that. Oswald was set up.

Answer 1

We'll never know the real story.

Answer 2

I think we know the real story and it was Oswald. If there was a conspiracy it would be very difficult to avoid revealing it for this long a time. Somebody would have blabbed.

Oswald was a good shot. He was also rather lucky. I don't think he was set up. He was obsessed and managed a very lucky shot under somewhat difficult but not impossible circumstances.

These conspiracy theories have been around since November 22, 1963. I've read enough of them and heard enough of the evidence that I'm not buyin' it.

Answer 3

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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

Good for you.

You can believe what you like.

The facts, however, support the theory that Oswald worked alone.

There is absolutely nothing to be gained in me labouring the point and providing all the information (yet again) as you have obviously already made your mind up - so your question is rather rhetorical really isn't it?

By the way - I don't see any evidence in what you've written for any Mafia involvement...........but then since when have facts got in the way of a good conspiracy theory?

Answer 6

I don't believe the mafia did it necessarily, but I do believe the Warren Commission was incorrect in their conclusion that Oswald acted alone.

Just the angles of entry of the shots and the skill needed to pull that off make me doubt seriously that Oswald was simply the luckiest marksman in history and hit the sniper trifecta and got the job done.

I used to work in a place where we dealt with the public, and there was a guy who came in all the time who was a Marine sniper--he did his 20 years and retired. He served four tours in Vietnam and racked up a bunch of kills, and a boat load of medals. He said there was always a lot of discussion among the snipers about the Kennedy assassination. In the early 70s, after he had rotated home, one of his COs had the idea to have a special activity for the snipers in his unit one weekend, to see if they could pull off that many targeted shots. The CO acquired the same type of gun Oswald used, and the same type of ammo. There was some land on the base where they were stationed that was used for marches and for training activities, and it had a rock cliff with a service road below it. The cliff wasn't as tall as the floor of the Book Depository Building Oswald was supposed to have shot from, so they built an elevated shooting platform, complete with a shooting rest at the level of a windowsill. They didn't have a convertible, but they did have an open jeep, and they put sandbags with red targets on them in it, and to make sure a driver wasn't accidentally hit, they had it towed down the road by another jeep at the same speed that Kennedy's car was going when he was hit. They used as many exact measurements, distances, and angles as possible. Eight elite USMC snipers tried to replicate the Kennedy shooting, and all of them failed. He said there was just no way to work the bolt fast enough to get off well-targeted shots. Most of them were fine with their first shot, hitting the target right smack where they wanted to, but subsequent shots, if they even hit the target, were far off of where they tried to place them. We all kind of wondered if the story was bunk, but one of the women we worked with dated him for a year, and he had a copy of the film they did of the experiment, and he borrowed a projector and set it up and showed it to her. She said there was a lot of clowning around, but they were all in deadly earnest when they tried to replicate the shooting, and all of them took more than one try at it, and it was just as he said it was. The guy also has both trap and skeet awards coming out his ears, as that's one of his hobbies, as well as a room full of animal hunting trophies from North America and Africa, so you know he doesn't have a problem with hitting a moving target--he just can't seem to replicate Oswald's shooting.

He also told us that in respect to Dealey Plaza, and the movement of the President's car, any trained sniper or even common sense would dictate shooting when the car was facing the building, before it turned left and presented a broadside to the building. He said the chances of hitting the target head on are much greater and easier than hitting a target moving sideways. He said that realistically, the only reason he could see to wait was to be able to get the car in a situation where there was cross-fire, guaranteeing success. Take it or leave it, that's his story.

There are two other things I have a problem with. One is what you mentioned about the police officer. I have heard varying stories it, and every time the idea that there were ejected shells found comes up, someone conveniently says that witnesses say they saw a man shaking his revolver as he ran from the scene. If that's so, I have two questions. Most revolvers hold either 5 or 6 cartridges--if he used 4 on Tippit, how did he manage to keep the other, still live load(s) from falling out of his gun as he ran? Is it possible he only had 4 loaded? Well, yes, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. People who carry guns usually load them fully. How could he know he would only need 4 shots? Where'd the other 1 or 2 go? Additionally, some eyewitnesses to the Tippit murder stated categorically that there were TWO men who approached officer Tippit, not just one. They state that the one they identified as Oswald ran off after the other, "heavy" man shooed him from the scene. Finally, that murder was attributed to him on purely eyewitness IDs. Eyewitness ID is notoriously faulty, and that is a long-established fact with plenty of scientific evidence to back it up.

The third thing I find troublesome is that Oswald was killed by Ruby before anyone could really talk to him about anything at all. That is a classic way of dealing with the fall guy in any situation. I think Oswald had plenty of interesting things to say, so he had to be silenced before he could say them. I have no idea who he would have implicated, but I am pretty sure some people were really serious about making sure he not have an opportunity to do so. I don't know if Ruby was mobbed up or not, but I do know that some restaurant owners who were definitely mobbed up were among his friends, and were close enough to him that they came and visited him when he was in jail. It could be coincidence, or it could be something more sinister.

All I know is that we aren't ever likely to know the absolute truth. The people who know for sure exactly what happened are either dead, or not telling what they know.

Answer 7

One of my favorite jokes is in the "funny because it's true" league:

Q: How do we know that government officials didn't plan the JFK assassination?

A: Because he's dead.

Answer 8

No. Occam's razor. Look it up.