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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestion for conspiracy theorists: why make it so complicated?
Putting a Communist with a rifle in a building above a motorcade route where there are thousands of witnesses?
Why not just use some hard-to-detect poison or plant a small bomb in the White House or under the bed in a hotel, to explode during an "assignation"?
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)If you're trying to kill the president and then pin it on a lone nut, why on earth would you use two gunmen, which would pretty much destroy the whole cover story immediately.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Otherwise LBJ was going to be impeached come Monday.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)But I ask you, why did they take away his secret service guys on his car??????
The way LBJ's car was packed with secret service, I'm surprised if he even saw Dallas that day.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)... that his limo not be cluttered with agents. He wanted to be visible.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Then you blame one guy...
Then that one guy gets killed on live tv by another guy.
No one believes anything that happens in secret. You've got to put on a show for them to consume.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)they didn't exactly succeed.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)the closer you get to a President, the tighter the security gets. The Secret Service goes over every inch of a place a President is going to occupy and anybody who works in the White House or in close contact to a President is vetted very carefully.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)prior to the "assignations"?
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)because the Secret Service isn't going to say anything, they certainly didn't mention the mistresses to his wife.
Rex
(65,616 posts)How is that any harder to believe than when LHO told people he was a patsy?
Archae
(46,343 posts)I knew a guy like Oswald when I was in school, thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but he was lazy, combative, and a confirmed liar.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)He never confessed to anything.
Rex
(65,616 posts)CT deniers want to have their cake and eat it too. Can't be both, either he is a pasty or he is the assassin. Why is it so hard to believe a Marxist, with a few lucky shots, killed JFK?