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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]JazzQuipster
(31 posts)Your implication being that I must be too young, or wasn't around at the time of the assassination and therefor too easily dismiss the mountains of "evidence" of conspiracy.
I was 12 years old when President Kennedy was killed and remember it very well, thank you. I also remember that in the years that followed a cottage industry of Kennedy conspiracy theory books sprang up and many were best-sellers. I read some of them and, at that impressionable age, believed some of them.
But, the problem with all of them was that the books themselves were all over the map. One author thought it was a CIA operation, one thought it was Castro Cubans, another thought it was anti-Castro Cubans. Then there were those who thought it was the American Mafia in Chicago, or in New Orleans. Or it was the Russians. Or wealthy right-wing business men. And on and on. And then for any of these conspiracy theories to work you have to believe that dozens of unrelated co-conspirators had to be involved. After all these years and the 1,000-plus books written on the subject there is not one solid lead that everyone can agree on to pursue. Nothing except speculation.
If you want to read the definitive investigation into the assassination of JFK, read either of Vincent Bugliosi's books on the subject. His big book meticulously follows every single lead in the case that has ever been put forth by all of the other conspiracy theory books. His conclusion based on all of the evidence that he dissected over 20 years is is that Oswald acted alone.