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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)Did they lie about the autopsy results?
Did they get people to lie on 25,000-plus interviews, all to "provide cover for the intelligence agencies?"
Did they get JFK's SS detail to lie about what happened that day and in the days leading up to Dallas?
How many people from how many places in how many positions lied so the WC could present a lie?
"Essentially lying?" That's another one of those speculative phrases you're so adept at throwing about in this case.
BTW - "Since 2000, five tenured academic historians have published books on JFK's assassination. Four of the five concluded that a conspiracy was behind the 35th president's murder."
True...and all four of those books were overshadowed and have had their editorial lunch handed to them by the not-an-academic-historian-author Vincent Buglisi's 2007 tome, Reclaiming History, THE most-comprehensive, detailed and even-handed analysis of the JFK killing, the WCR and the various CTs that have rattled around for decades.
Perhaps that's because a prosecutor like Bugliosi - aka, an officer of the court - is better able to evaluate forensic evidence in a case than is a historian.
The conclusions that Oswald was involved in a conspiracy to kill JFK MIGHT hold more water if an examination of the evidence led the majority of CTists to come to the same conclusions as to who was involved and when. But they don't. They're all over the place. It was the Cubans. No, it was the CIA. No, it was the mob. All they seem to agree on is that Oswald couldn't have done it alone or that he wasn't even involved.
Doesn't that fly in the face of logic? If the evidence was so compelling, then why no consensus who who besides Oswald was actually involved? The simple and obvious answer: because one sells more books if one can put forward a conspirator that others haven't yet exploited.
BTW - The WCR was quite harsh with law enforcement and intelligence agencies in their inability to protect the president in Dallas. it's all outlined the WCR, Chapter 8, here: http://jfkassassination.net/russ/jfkinfo/wcr8.htm#p2