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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts About Lee Oswald That 70% of Americans Must Not Understand [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)92. It was William Manchester.
Those who desperately want to believe that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy have my sympathy. I share their yearning. To employ what may seem an odd metaphor, there is an aesthetic principle here. If you put six million dead Jews on one side of a scale and on the other side put the Nazi regime the greatest gang of criminals ever to seize control of a modern state you have a rough balance: greatest crime, greatest criminals.
But if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It would invest the President's death with meaning, endowing him with martyrdom. He would have died for something.
A conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatever that there was one.
But if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It would invest the President's death with meaning, endowing him with martyrdom. He would have died for something.
A conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatever that there was one.
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10 Facts About Lee Oswald That 70% of Americans Must Not Understand [View all]
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
OP
What I love is that no one can even settle on what conspiracy is real...
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#4
You've given documentary evidence that you have an unhealthy stalking fetish.
DisgustipatedinCA
Nov 2013
#86
I think you are right. Much of the conspiracy theory around the JKF assassination that comes from
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2013
#9
I would suggest you take a quick look at my journal and my previous posts - over the past several
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2013
#11
I pretty much agree. He was pretty close to the middle of the cold war bipartisan pre-Vietnam,
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2013
#20
I don't remember if it was Pierre Sallnger or Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2013
#27
zappaman: 'I don't find JFK's assassination or anything about it a ''source of amusement'''
Octafish
Nov 2013
#40
It seems like the BFEE is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the world.
zappaman
Nov 2013
#62
They're not facts..."precludes any conspiracy theories"...at best it's interpretation...nt
joeybee12
Nov 2013
#44
Feel free to substitute one of the several facts under each item to make up the count.
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#67
I was in the 7th grade in November 1963-here are some facts to which I haven't found answers to this
bobthedrummer
Nov 2013
#46
Here's the thing, bobthedrummer: none of those change the facts about the assassination.
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#55
Isn't it interesting that he never said anything like that during his lifetime?
nyquil_man
Nov 2013
#63
You mean the 5 years before he was assassinated by the improbable Sirhan?
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2013
#66
Jim Moore's book was one of the worst pieces of disinformation I've ever spent 5 minutes over.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2013
#82