Some Nuts are Healthy

What if the JFK conspiracy nuts are right?

50 years ago, the witnesses in Dealey Plaza, the initial news reports, the initial government reports… nothing and nobody agreed on how President Kennedy died. 50 years later, they still don’t. Three shots, four shots, five? Shots from in front or from behind? (Many thought both.) Was the shooter a patsy, a part of a communist conspiracy, or just a disconnected psycho? Without exaggeration, every single piece of forensic evidence and testimony is disputed—and it’s a thousand piece puzzle.

Having studied both sides, I have to say it’s the Oswald-dun-it-alone side that seems the nuttiest… or at least, the most dogmatic and close-minded. Shrill and dismissive. The “lone-nutters” tend to shrug at the real conundrums with a condescending “We-say-so” (forgetting that the other side has as many forensic experts, lawyers, and PhD’s with equal credibility). That’s a point well-made in the book by Dr. Lance Moore (an ordained minister with tall credentials himself): Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies—From the Warren Commission to Bill O’Reilly, A History of Deceit in the Kennedy Assassination.

Moore starts with a point no one has refuted: within hours of the assassination, FBI Director Hoover informed the new President, LBJ, that someone had been impersonating the accused sniper six weeks before the events in Dallas would change Lee Oswald from a nobody into a somebody. The fake, who loudly tried to convince Soviets at their Mexican embassy he was Oswald, is still on the lam. And, Hoover revealed, “we know for a fact” that Oswald was in New Orleans at that exact time. This “Mexico angle,” as Hoover called it, is one thing not in dispute—proved by White House tapes, FBI memos, and CIA photos. So if someone was trying to forge the appearance that Oswald was in Mexico chatting with communists a few weeks before the assassination, that constitutes a conspiracy. And the fact that LBJ kept that shocker a secret… well, it seems to me the “conspiracy nuts” are not so nutty after all. If even a fourth of what the conspiracists claim turns out to be true, the still-denying media has some healthy explaining to do. ~~~

Further reading: http://www.JFK50Lies.com