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

ok just imagine Alan Alda playing X, sitting on that bench with Kevin Costner.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha i thought that was mike love for a second b/c i'm listening to the beach boys thread in another tab and i was like, yeah, i could get behind the idea that mike love masterminded the kennedy assassination

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

"A devastating national trauma will cause people to drown their sorrows in refreshing songs about surf, sun and fun... We'll make millions, if everyone can just keep quiet."

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

"I loved like the warmth of the sun / Within me at night / It won't ever die."

― pplains, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

i heard crosby stills and nash did it

before they could end the vietnam war ... they had to start it

― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

"everywoodyallenmovie.com" an important resource of which i was previously unaware

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

i heard crosby stills and nash did it

Grassy knoll and Oswald's schemin'
THREE SHOT IN MO-TOR-CADE

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

this summer I hear the gunning
Jack dead in DEALEY-O

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I like this new (?) pop-music-centric conspiracy theory. Too bad Paul McCartney hadn't died yet - one of his doubles would fit the pattern perfectly.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

funny how Ollie Stone had a character raise that same counterargumenet only to get shouted again.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

stone in the director's cut later discredited this character when he tried to set up garrison in a gay bathroom sting!

― omar little, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

The other thing about the assassination, beyond it exerting a continuing fascination-magnetism in the American psyche, etc., is that it's never one HUNDRED percent easy to dismiss conspiracy theories, because of everything else that it turned out the government really was doing, e.g. COINTELPRO, which is partially on record but still mostly redacted and/or classified. Like, it's a ripe atmosphere for conspiracy theories when you have actual conspiracies going on, and everybody (since the, what, early 70s?) now knows at least the outlines of it.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Totally. CIA, mafia, they were all off the freaking chain as far as over-extending their reach, and it's not like batshit stuff didn't really happen.

But I agree that the parties involved are no known for their secret-keeping abilities, so single gunman is still the most rational theory that holds any water.

Part of me does love the conspiracy though. Oswald was such a fuckin mook

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― piscesx, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:44 AM

hmmmmm - http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/nagell1.htm

― am0n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

parallax view is dope tho

― am0n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

pakula is dope

― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

you're referring, i believe, to chairing the special operations group. as vice president. as you know, that was... unique. not so much an operation as... an organic phenomenon. it grew. changed shape. it developed... appetites. it's not unusual in such cases that things are not committed to paper. that could be very embarrassing!

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's a shame you didn't take similar precautions, dick!

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp re pakula: if you like wide angle shots of soul deadening 70s corporate architecture, he's your go to man

― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp re pakula: if you like wide angle shots of soul deadening 70s corporate architecture, he's your go to man

He was your go-to guy for that sort of thing. Rollover is practically a filmed catalog of office interiors and exteriors.

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 06:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

The other thing about the assassination, beyond it exerting a continuing fascination-magnetism in the American psyche, etc., is that it's never one HUNDRED percent easy to dismiss conspiracy theories, because of everything else that it turned out the government really was doing, e.g. COINTELPRO, which is partially on record but still mostly redacted and/or classified. Like, it's a ripe atmosphere for conspiracy theories when you have actual conspiracies going on, and everybody (since the, what, early 70s?) now knows at least the outlines of it.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Totally. CIA, mafia, they were all off the freaking chain as far as over-extending their reach, and it's not like batshit stuff didn't really happen.

But I agree that the parties involved are no known for their secret-keeping abilities, so single gunman is still the most rational theory that holds any water.

Part of me does love the conspiracy though. Oswald was such a fuckin mook

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM, not to mention the Castro assassination plots the CIA kept from the Warren Commission. Oswald may have acted alone, but he wasn't living in a vacuum.

― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink