Castro killed JFK?

[LeesburgSkinFan]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060104111709990002&ncid=NWS00010000000001

I thought this theory had lost steam over the years after Oliver Stone's movie...

[codeorama]

Since Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, I guess we know that film is incorrect...

[Barney B]

"Interviewed for the film, Alexander Haig, then a U.S. military adviser and later secretary of state, quoted Johnson as saying "we simply must not allow the American people to believe that Fidel Castro could have killed our president."

"And the reason was that there would be a right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democratic party out of power for two generations," Haig said."

You have to wonder why Haig, a lifelong Republican who worked in the Nixon whitehouse, would wait until now to divulge this.

[Dan T.]

I never heard a convincing explanation of the motivation of a loser like Oswald to undertake the planning and assassination of the President of the United States. He was a misfit, angry with his country, and a disillusioned Marxist after spending time in the Soviet Union. But why kill the President? Money is plausible.

[Taylor 36]

Oswald did not/could not have killed JFK. Any one who views the facts of the assasination and LHO would come to that conclusion. It is simply not possible for a man with such poor shooting skills to get off a minimum of three shots from that distance with a moving, hidden (big tree in the way:doh: ) target, with such an awful sniper riffle. If Oswald did do it, he would never had been caught because he would have been the luckiest SOB on the planet!!!!

[RabidFan]

The magic bullet theory always stuck in my craw.

[Kilmer17]

The magic bullet theory always stuck in my craw.

sigh.

It seems every few months this comes up.

Simply put. The magic bullet theory would NOT be valid IF the limo was in perfect symetry. However, the Limo was NOT symetrical. Gov Connelly was appx 6 inches to the right of Kennedy and appx 4 inches below him.

THAT's why it works.

As for Oswald not being able to make the shot. He certainly could have. While he was in the bottom of his class for marksmanship, he was good enough to be IN that elite sniper unit in the first place. And the timing has been proven as well.

And the tree? Simple. You are looking at a picture of that big tree TODAY. Look at it back then. It's well short of the line of sight.

[Taylor 36]

sigh.

It seems every few months this comes up.

Simply put. The magic bullet theory would NOT be valid IF the limo was in perfect symetry. However, the Limo was NOT symetrical. Gov Connelly was appx 6 inches to the right of Kennedy and appx 4 inches below him.

THAT's why it works.

As for Oswald not being able to make the shot. He certainly could have. While he was in the bottom of his class for marksmanship, he was good enough to be IN that elite sniper unit in the first place. And the timing has been proven as well.

And the tree? Simple. You are looking at a picture of that big tree TODAY. Look at it back then. It's well short of the line of sight.

Sorry Kilmer, but you're wrong. The tree, as seen in the Zapruder film, was there and in full bloom as would be expected in November for a Texas Dogwood.

Secondly, the timing has NEVER been proven. Even by marksman well above LHO's level, it was not pulled off.

And regardless of the symetry of the limo, one bullet can not explain all of the internal damage and wounds found in both Kennedy and Connelly. Not with the entrance and exit wound positions and the internal path radius.

[Kilmer17]

Yes they could. And have been ad nauseum.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm

Read that for starters.

There have also been NUMEROUS documentaires where skilled marksmen (which Oswald certainly was) have made the shots in the allotted time.

It's a fun theory to keep bringing up, and Oliver Stones FICTIONAL account certainly bread more theories. But the reality is that Oswald did it himself.

Now, who may have sent him to do it????? I have no problem belieing that Cuba was behind it.

[Predicto]

Yes they could. And have been ad nauseum.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm

Read that for starters.

There have also been NUMEROUS documentaires where skilled marksmen (which Oswald certainly was) have made the shots in the allotted time.

It's a fun theory to keep bringing up, and Oliver Stones FICTIONAL account certainly bread more theories. But the reality is that Oswald did it himself.

Now, who may have sent him to do it????? I have no problem belieing that Cuba was behind it.

You are right, but good luck convincing anyone who believes otherwise, Kilmer. This particular conspiracy theory is amazing in its capacity to reinvent and resurrect itself. Heck, people still believe in Bigfoot.

[Joe Sick]

Have you guys seen the "stabilized" version of the Zapruder tape?

http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/zapruder.htm

Here's some isolated animated gifs.

http://www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/index.html

[Rocky21]

It's hard to believe that anyone who has done any substantive research on the subject would think Oswald killed Kennedy.

[Kilmer17]

Most people laugh at Conspiracy theorists who DONT believe Oswald did it.

[Zguy28]

They proved on discovery channel that the shot was impossible even for a skilled police sharpshooter.

Anywho, I always thought it was 2 shooters. One was from the grassy knoll, it was so obvious. That is why it is discounted. Thebest hide something is in plain sight.

[Kilmer17]

No they didnt. They proved it COULD be done. I saw that same discovery show.

There are two issues. 1- Could he do it in 6 seconds as Conspiracy nuts try to say. Well he could. In fact as addressed below, it's been proven to be possible in 4.5seconds.

2- It was really 8.5 seconds. Much much easier to do.

And it's addressed here-

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dealey.htm

It's in almost every conspiracy book: the claim that Oswald could not possibly have gotten off the shots in the necessary time. Conspiracy authors always claim that Oswald had under six seconds to get three shots off -- although the Warren Commission was vague on this and most contemporary lone gunman theorists believe he has about 8.5 seconds. Further, conspiracy authors exaggerate the difficulty in Oswald's "shooting feat." Craig Zirbel, in his book The Texas Connection, badly misrepresents the results of the Warren Commission's shooting tests.

[codeorama]

What made my mind up that Oswald didn't do it was 2 different books, one was called Mortal Error and while I did not agree with the premise that a secret service agent "accidentally" shot JFK with an AR 15, the ballistics evidence was beyond a doubt. He was shot from behind with an unjacketed round.

There was either another gunman in or on one of the buildings behind the motorcade or the SS agent shot him. There are pictures of the agent with an AR15 in the car behind JFKs.

[SonnyRules]

No they didnt. They proved it COULD be done. I saw that same discovery show.

There are two issues. 1- Could he do it in 6 seconds as Conspiracy nuts try to say. Well he could. In fact as addressed below, it's been proven to be possible in 4.5seconds.

2- It was really 8.5 seconds. Much much easier to do.

Unfortunately the acoustic tests did not back up this supposition. In fact, the tests proved that there had to be a least one other gunman.

[Kilmer17]

That is simply not true.

Disproven here-

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/acoustic.htm

[SonnyRules]

That is simply not true.

Disproven here-

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/acoustic.htm

Really don't have time to read everything there (getting ready to go to Tampa), but that seems to be a collection of additional theories that conflicts with the acoustic report which proves about as much as Harold Weisberg's 'Whitewash" did against the Warren Commission.

Debatable at best.

[Kilmer17]

Give em hell this weekend!!!!

[SonnyRules]

Thanks....we will.