As the 50th anniversary of President Kennedys assassination draws near, Ill be doing a series of posts on the assassination. In my first post, Id like to argue my theory of the assassination: Oswald did it, and he was probably acting alone. At any rate, I doubt there was a huge conspiracy of people acting the highest levels of any organization, especially any agencies of our government or any other. Why do I say this? Let me offer a scenario to illustrate why I think a large scale conspiracy is unlikely: Imagine that, for some political reason, the leadership of the police force or fire department of a large city like Chicago or Los Angeles decided to assassinate the mayor of their city, with the help of members of a large and powerful street gang. (Notice how absurd that sounds, even on this smaller scale. Does having the FBI, CIA or Mafia working alone - or even together - to kill the president sound more plausible, or less?) Leaving aside that issue for the time being, consider for a minute how they would do it. I think they would seek out the least conspicuous and safest approach. Ideally, they would want to end the mayors life in a way that would not be seen clearly or immediately as a murder - they would seek to poison his or her food, drink or medicine, for example, or infect him or her with a virulent disease. A quick pin-prick while he or she was shaking hands in a large crowd with a small gage needle could accomplish this, as would simply dusting an infectious agent on to the bed sheets in a hotel. Or perhaps they would kill him or her in a way that would look like an accident, like crashing an airplane or helicopter he or she was in. Authorities might investigate the event, but the wrongdoers would be long gone, the trail cold. It has been documented that spy agencies have killed people in all these ways. If conspirators had to shoot him or her, it would be at a sparsely attended event, with a clear, stable target and an easy escape route for a highly trained sniper from a considerable distance, not from a building a few hundred yards away in an urban area. What they would NOT do, I am sure, would be to attempt to shoot him or her during parade through a large city, while he or she was in a moving vehicle, using multiple shooters, in broad daylight, surrounded by hundreds of civilians with cameras capturing the event and multiple members of multiple law enforcement agencies in the vicinity. And they certainly would not attempt a pre-meditated murder in Dallas, TEXAS of all places, a place with extremely harsh penalties for committing murder. (Regardless of the conservative politics of the area, the murder or attempted murder of the President would have been treated seriously.) This plan could go wrong in so many different ways it is simply unfeasible on the face of it. Shooters could easily have missed. The assassins could have been seen, or even photographed. They could have been shot or apprehended by law enforcement. And multiple shooters means multiple chances of someone getting caught. And anyone getting caught (or killed and then identified) would have the severest repercussions for all involved. And yet, according to conspiracy theorists, this is precisely the choice the conspirators made - to kill the President of the United States! After all, Kennedy was shot at 12:30 pm, in a moving vehicle, on a public road, surrounded by many people with cameras, with uniformed and plainclothes police and Secret Service agents just yards away! Indeed, the assassination WAS caught on film - by Abraham Zapruder. No group with any forethought would chosen that context, especially one with extensive intelligence, (para)military or even ordinary criminal experience. It would have been just too risky. They would have been under no deadline to kill the president - they could have bided their time and waited for the best opportunity. This could not have been it. Although it was not something anyone would have extensively planned, but it was a perfect opportunity for someone willing to take a great risk for fame. That was Oswald. Next up: The Real Oswald
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:20:19 +0000
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