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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)so it was enjoyable at least, though failed.
It would be a diversion from your o.p.'s subject to go into RFK's murder, but another 'lone nut', who knew beforehand about a last minute change of the victim's route, another set of contradictory official ballistic tales, another botched job by right wing law enforcement officials in charge. Just some more 'miles-apart dots' that aren't worth connecting, apparently.
Bill Barry didn't change the route for Bobby. The Kennedys wouldn't have continued to trust him if he had. I remember Vonnegut wrote in one of his compilations (maybe 'Wampeters, Foma...', or 'Palm Sunday') about sitting around a table after Nixon won on election night '68 with Jimmy Breslin, Bill Barry, and George Plimpton, and the universal gloom and sadness among them all.
On the JFK motorcade route change, the early crowd members who took up positions along the 'new' route along Houston and Elm would be people who were involved with the bad guys, since it wasn't the publicized route, but they knew it was the actual route. Then later crowd members, looking for a spot, would see people in that area and say 'that must be the route, here's a good spot.' That's why you have Ferenc Nagy with his umbrella there (for windage, maybe, or a distance and timing marker), the two women with their bright red clothing opposite each other at the kill spot (for range), the 'sign language guy' who was later seen weeping at Parkland leaning on a 'Keep Right' sign, Brading or Braden at the Dal Tex building, Zapruder with his camera at the colonnade, etc. They're there for two reasons. Some tell the 'official story' as eyewitnesses, some flood the narrative with problematic red herrings. Say what happened initially, then change their story. Add obviously fallacious statements and get discredited. There were plenty of good and normal citizens in Dealey, but there were bad ones who helped with the mechanics of the murder and subsequent cover up. 'Friendly' 'credible' witnesses for the Dallas officials and W.C. There were good people who rushed the grassy knoll, but undoubtedly bad ones mixed in with the movement.
Thanks for the link shooting down the 'bubble top' meme. No doubt that Nixon's little move with his own limo was an attempt to 'dare' Kennedy and show him up, but obviously bad guys in the security apparatus were at work in this 'lapse', just like the large number of other protocol 'failures' by key security people.