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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)That passage is beautiful. It has that smoky, City Confidential quality to it.
From a single incident where this guy was released without charge for 'acting suspiciously' - here's another fine mess you've gotten us into, Dallas PD - we manage to involve H. L. Hunt, Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, and Joe Pesci! "IT'S A MYSTERY, MAN!!!"
It's a more perfect version of Garrison's old concept of 'time and propinquity': If two or more are gathered near the same place at nearly the same time, there shall conspiracy be.
Jack Ruby shows up twice with weasel words that would make a Wikipedia proofreader's toes curl. "It is believed that Jack Ruby was in the offices." "It was later established that Jack Ruby visited the motel" Believed by who? Established by who? Based on what?
And then we have a reference to Anthony Summers, one of the founding fathers of this technique.
Paul Winfield reading it would have sold me. Seriously.