JFK assassination: was any consensus ever reached as to who actually did it and why?

JFK looks like he's hiding from the wrath of Jackie's ass.

what is that photo? it cant be genuine as nobody was that close at that particular moment

― PSOD (Ste), Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, this. it doesn't trip any photoshopping wires for me. what's the story? according to google, this image only shows up on tumblrs.

I think it's fake, prob from a movie set or something?

I hate that I had to watch the zapruder film again, but by the time jackie is in that position, there's already a secret service dude clinging on the rear

I think I see 'spring break 2009' tattooed on her leg

jfk would have looked a lot messier than that tbbh

man, wikipedia shows too much

I watched the old James Woods film True Believer last night. The character on whom the main story hinges adamantly believes that AT & T was behind the Kennedy assassination. Yes, it's played for laughs.

I love that movie.

could it be a cindy sherman piece?

that looks like a mannequin of jfk

Onlookers wearing bell bottoms

J Kennedy OnASSis

I think it's fake, prob from a movie set or something?

― swaghand (dayo), Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:03 PM Bookmark

Yeah, this. I'm thinking of Ant Farm's The Eternal Frame but I don't know that film well enough to be able to conclusively say if this is from that or not.

but it's clearly not the real thing, I mean everybody seems so nonchalant and the people in the background are in bell-bottoms for pete's sake.

They got the Dealey Plaza part right.

But that SS agent looks nothing like Clint Eastwood, sorry try again.

the real lee harvey oswald

http://www.jfk-online.com/jones.jpg

Is or isn't it fake? Someone get hold of Oliver Stone, we need to get to the mystery of this bottom. I mean, the bottom of this mystery.

salon runs these insane jfk conspiracy pieces every month or so. it's pretty hard to fathom why anyone still takes this stuff seriously.

"Back and to the left, back and to the left, move that ass girl back and to the left"

some good stuff here i didn't know. pretty scary imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kyjK214s-4

http://doughallstudio.com/1975-the-eternal-frame/the-eternal-frame/3261754

Frame from The Eternal Frame, mentioned above. Seems very possible this could be the source of the "mystery jpg." They performed it, I think, 10 or 12 times in one day, on the hour - - so there will inevitably be details that don't match.

http://doughallstudio.com/1975-the-eternal-frame/the-eternal-frame/3261754

from recent article on robert caro:

"I get letters, constantly, saying, 'I see your book's coming. I hope you're going to prove in this book that LBJ did it,"' the award-winning and ongoing biographer of Lyndon Johnson says during a recent interview at his midtown Manhattan office. "Did it," as in killed President Kennedy.

"When I talk at colleges, you can hardly have a lecture or a speech without one of the first questions being, 'Are you going to prove that Johnson did it?' Or, 'Are you going to show that Johnson was involved in it?' And when you say Johnson had nothing to with it, you can feel the audience doesn't accept it. You lose your audience."

^^^ truly sad assessment IMO.

honestly there are probably more unanswered questions about the lincoln assassination than the JFK assassination.

blame Ollie Stone and Donald Sutherland.

it was a national obsession well before that movie, wasn't it?

ever since rush to judgment at the very least. alot of one star reviews on amazon for the new one due to caro 'covering up lbj's role in the assasination'.

"I get letters, constantly, saying, 'I see your book's coming. I hope you're going to prove in this book that LBJ did it,"' the award-winning and ongoing biographer of Lyndon Johnson says during a recent interview at his midtown Manhattan office. "Did it," as in killed President Kennedy.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, May 7, 2012 7:59 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf this would be p rad

I'm about three-quarters of the way through Bugliosi's JFK book. (The shorter of the two.) It's not an obsession or anything--I found it cheap and started reading to kill time the same day, kept on going. He's at the other end of the spectrum from the conspiracists: believes Oswald acted completely alone, proceeds from there. So you get detailed accounts of Jack Ruby, patriot, traipsing around Dallas as he works through his extreme grief over the president's assassination.

i've been reading about it since i was a teenager, and i've never stumbled on anything that convinced me it was anything but a long string of crazy coincidences -- like most other assassinations.

two major points the anti-conspiracists make:

1. the motorcade hadn't initially been scheduled to go through dealey plaza or anywhere else where anyone could have gotten a shot at kennedy, but the route was rescheduled at the last minute at the insistence of texas governor john connally. so in order for there to be a conspiracy, presumably he'd have to be in on it -- which is highly unlikely, since HE was also shot.

2. jack ruby left his dog in the car when he parked outside dallas police HQ, which indicates that he hadn't pre-meditated shooting oswald. (don't worry, someone rescued the dog.)

I guess I've been so conditioned to view Ruby as this shadowy, sinister figure that Bugliosi's portrayal of him is jarring. But my own knowledge of whatever happened is based on maybe three or four sources--one of them, yes, Stone's film, which I took as a synthesis of lots of other conspiracy theories--and various stray bits, so for all I know, it's just as valid as the more common version of Ruby.

1. he rescheduled the route specifically for that reason, got shot by accident OR to prove his loyalty to the conspiracy

2. he brought the dog because he knew someone would find it that way and rescue it, he couldn't just leave it locked up at home

DO YOU SEE

also i hope caro means "that one crazy guy in the audience" when he says "audience" and not, you know, the audience

don't get me wrong, i can totally understand the lasting skepticism about the assassination for ppl who lived through it, espec given the total mindfuck oh-god-is-this-actually-happening weirdness of ruby shooting oswald only two days later. but it's telling that so much conspiracy theory seems to rely way heavily on a sentimentalized version of JFK as the dude who was gonna save us all (rather than as the practical politico and seasoned cold war guy he was).

jack ruby left his dog in the car when he parked outside dallas police HQ, which indicates that he hadn't pre-meditated shooting oswald. (don't worry, someone rescued the dog.)

I love the bit in Slacker with the Conspiracy A-Go-Go guy who won't stop talking about Ruby's dog.

it was like Murder on the Orient Express; everybody did it.

Appreciate JFK's work on the missile crisis, but y'know, chickens coming home to roost.

an old professor of mine posted this a few months ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html

The JFK assassination doesn't bother me at all from a conspiracy standpoint, but the Oswald assassination does a little bit.

I read the Kerry Thornley biography awhile ago and aside from all the goofy fun-time beatnik Discordianism it's good into what it was like being on the receiving end of Garrison's witch hunt of an investigation.

I also think some sketchy/illegal shit might have gone down in the days afterward, when the CIA realizes that wackadoodle dude they were keeping tabs on just killed the President. xp

I remember when JFK had just come out, Mad Magazine did a piece about "less popular theories on the JFK assasination", or something like that. My favourites were "Zapruder had a gun in his camera", and "Aristoteles Onassis killed JFK so he could marry Jackie". I wonder if there are some conspiracy nuts out there who actually believe in one of those?

Okay, holy shit, apparently there actually are some theories that say Onassis had Kennedy killed, though not because he wanted to marry Jackie. And he had Robert Kennedy assassinated too.

The Rolling Stones contributed a rather specious conspiracy theory.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/LHO.html

"Zapruder had a gun in his camera"

― Tuomas, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah

that's my favorite one

It was the guy from scanners in the trunk of the limo

i figure it was the mob using oswald
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:08 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i still stand by this (to the extent that i give the JFK assassination any thought at all). JFK was whacked.