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khaosworksFor about seven years or so, I've harbored this little theory.
Follow - there's oodles of evidence that there was this pre-determined conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Doubles of Oswald seen aplenty. A second gunman sighted on the grassy knoll. The three tramps in the background of the photos. And a cover-up after the assassination, with evidence and witnesses silenced.
There's also evidence that Oswald did it on his own. There's ballistics reconstructions to show that the single shooter theory could work (if not the magic bullet theory). Oswald himself had motives to assassinate Kennedy - being a supporter of Castro and all that. Oswald was also aware of a conspiracy and he was threatening to blow it before Jack Ruby shot him.
Incompatible versions of reality? Maybe not. What if both were true?
Of course this is pure speculation, and I haven't mustered up enough enthusiasm to go digging and see if it's consistent with all the known facts or allegations, but consider this scenario. The military industrial complex, together with the CIA and the Cubans and the Mafia and whomever, decide to kill Kennedy. A complex plan is formulated, up to and including using Oswald as a patsy, having a second gunman on the knoll, and so on.
However, no-one realizes Oswald has his own agenda, nor that he would find out about the conspiracy to frame him. On the day in question, everything is set up nicely. The assassin is set up on the grassy knoll. He sees Kennedy slowly draw into his sights. He takes aim, holds it steady, prepares to pull the trigger...
... and hears the shots ring out over Dealy Plaza and sees Kennedy's head burst into a bloom of blood.
What the fuck?!
Oswald packs up the rifle and leaves the Book Repository. The would-be assassin on the grassy knoll calls in and reports that someone else has shot Kennedy. The plants in the crowd spot Oswald, and quickly the conspirators piece together what has happened - Oswald, acting on his own, has carried out the assassination plan without authorization.
And so the cover-up begins - not to hide a conspiracy that succeeded, but one that failed to be carried out. And of course, since this was never anticipated, the clumsy manner in which it had to be executed, to accommodate finding and silencing Oswald, leaves holes, and leads people to believe a conspiracy killed Kennedy.
Like I said, I haven't matched it up with the known facts. For all I know, this is equally as improbable as any other theory or there's one or more facts out there that'll blow mine out of the water. But I like the elegance of it.
And of course, the irony. Oooh, the irony.
Follow - there's oodles of evidence that there was this pre-determined conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Doubles of Oswald seen aplenty. A second gunman sighted on the grassy knoll. The three tramps in the background of the photos. And a cover-up after the assassination, with evidence and witnesses silenced.
There's also evidence that Oswald did it on his own. There's ballistics reconstructions to show that the single shooter theory could work (if not the magic bullet theory). Oswald himself had motives to assassinate Kennedy - being a supporter of Castro and all that. Oswald was also aware of a conspiracy and he was threatening to blow it before Jack Ruby shot him.
Incompatible versions of reality? Maybe not. What if both were true?
Of course this is pure speculation, and I haven't mustered up enough enthusiasm to go digging and see if it's consistent with all the known facts or allegations, but consider this scenario. The military industrial complex, together with the CIA and the Cubans and the Mafia and whomever, decide to kill Kennedy. A complex plan is formulated, up to and including using Oswald as a patsy, having a second gunman on the knoll, and so on.
However, no-one realizes Oswald has his own agenda, nor that he would find out about the conspiracy to frame him. On the day in question, everything is set up nicely. The assassin is set up on the grassy knoll. He sees Kennedy slowly draw into his sights. He takes aim, holds it steady, prepares to pull the trigger...
... and hears the shots ring out over Dealy Plaza and sees Kennedy's head burst into a bloom of blood.
What the fuck?!
Oswald packs up the rifle and leaves the Book Repository. The would-be assassin on the grassy knoll calls in and reports that someone else has shot Kennedy. The plants in the crowd spot Oswald, and quickly the conspirators piece together what has happened - Oswald, acting on his own, has carried out the assassination plan without authorization.
And so the cover-up begins - not to hide a conspiracy that succeeded, but one that failed to be carried out. And of course, since this was never anticipated, the clumsy manner in which it had to be executed, to accommodate finding and silencing Oswald, leaves holes, and leads people to believe a conspiracy killed Kennedy.
Like I said, I haven't matched it up with the known facts. For all I know, this is equally as improbable as any other theory or there's one or more facts out there that'll blow mine out of the water. But I like the elegance of it.
And of course, the irony. Oooh, the irony.
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Date: 2003-11-21 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 01:41 am (UTC)Hmmm ...
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Date: 2003-11-22 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 08:18 am (UTC)(Him being Tom Stone, of the Southern Methodist University, whose rhetoric class, "On the trail of the Assassin(s)" uses the JFK assassination as a means of teaching that the more you find out, the less you know...)
Pet Theories
Date: 2003-11-22 08:45 am (UTC)