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

I've always thought that this was the most likely explanation.

That's kinda what I believe too. With the CIA & FBI knowing all about it, but looking the other way.

wasn't like 30 minutes of Stone's JFK spent on this?

This documentary (that I mentioned earlier) looked into that as well, and the gist of it was that there had been so many supergrasses over the past 40 years that it was unthinkable that if the mob had been involved the truth wouldn't have come out by now.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. The conspiracy crowd likes to talk about the body count of mysterious deaths associated with the assassination, but what about the body count of just being a mid-level Mafia soldier in the 1960s? Most of those guys were probably dead or in jail by the mid-70s.

so did Oswald

So then, why did Jack Ruby whack Oswald?

There's a fair amount of errors in Case Closed though, which make it about as useful as the pro-conspiracy books. Posner is a dick forever though for his famous post-9/11 "focus and clarity" editorial in the Wall Street Journal where he reversed his opinion on Bush II and came out in support of him.

Still, I would have liked to have seen of his debates with Vincent Bugliosi.

-- xave (sl...), September 14th, 2006.

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK?

i agree, it's an interesting read.

for me, the most plausible scenario is the one discussed in this book:

Live By the Sword by Gus Russo

it more or less argues for Oswald acting alone, but creates context for his motivations.

here's the forward from the book for good measure.

Kennedy — An Unfinished Life, by Robert Dallek

You could also say much the same about 9/11.

The dude defected to the Soviet Union! Do people forget this? Also, some dude he was in the service with thought he was a fake commie working for the CIA to find real ones.

Kerry Thornley!

Later, the KGB figured that Oswald acted with potential mob help, and that the CIA and FBI didn't care since Kennedy was out of their hair.

Also the dude who wrote a BOOK about Oswald pre assasination!

Well, there's no convincing evidence for string theory, yet, and we're not giving up on that.

Berating conspiracy theorists for lacking evidence has always struck me as rather unscientific. You invent hypotheses and then gather evidence, right?, not the other way around. If you totally disregard hypotheses that lack evidence, no one would ever gather evidence and there'd be a moratorium on new ideas.

It's only been sixty years, and that's nuthin. Sometimes it takes centuries to solve a murder.

however, Squirrel Police OTFM about the scientific method

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45 years ago today

white album 40 yrs old vs JFK assassination 45 yrs old POLL

In re: thread title question. The Warren Commission Report was meant to lay the basis for a national consensus.

Obv it failed in its stated purpose. But it came close enough that it achieved its major unstated purpose, which was to quell the national grief and anger and prevent it from spilling into irrational mob action.

JFK was an inside job - wake up, sheeple!

Or maybe it wasn't and I'm mixing it up with that ninety-one one thing, I'm not sure.

the gunman is shooting from inside his head!

thats deep

The Wrong Guy, a dark comedy starring Dave Foley, includes a scene of a conspiracy theorist claiming no bullet struck Kennedy, insisting "his head just did that", and calls it "The No Bullet Theory".

OMG! Years later, people constructed urban legends based on that very JFK fact!

I forgot that the Weekly World News is no more.

this should be a poll

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well, that's certainly something.

its sad he was presidetn

fighting morbid temptation to post on 'ws of shame' thread

the exit hole is obscured

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

if it weren't for the fact that it occurred during JFK's assassination, that photo would be remembered as the best ass photo for a First Lady.

"Lee Harvey Oswald would have been a very silly internet bro, also what if the pope actually smoked dope!!!"

The type of guy who starts a one man “Fair Play for Cuba” group and hands out pro-Castro flyers in Texas is certainly the kind of personality who today would do stunts like handcuffing himself to the Twitter office door or whatever.

Yes cos we've never had people on the street saying stuff until the last three years or prior to the Kennedy assassination

I'm reading Stephen King's 11/23/63 at the moment and very much enjoying it.

Best King novel after he got sober, absolute travesty what they did to it with the James Franco series.

he thought highly of his own opinions and was keen to share them with strangers - but he didn't have the commitment or the focus to make it in that arena. The internet is full of people like him. He was a big-headed egoist who spent his life convinced he was the smartest person in the room, but every time he tried to apply himself he failed, because he wasn't as smart as he thought

There but for the grace of god.

Come on, this guy moved to the Soviet Union on a whim and then came back because it was kind of lame. He would definitely do attention grabbing stunts but didn’t have the follow through to put together an Infowars.

He’s like those alt-right guys who move to Hungary for the fascism but get disappointed because there are a bunch of rules.