Something on TV about the JFK assassination & LBJ. Was there a plot, did the CIA have a hand in it? Why did this happen? Who cares? JFK’s claim to fame is that he was assassinated in Dallas. Otherwise he would have gone in the history books as a 2-term President who had sex with movie stars & got us into the Vietnam War. The Kennedys were the drunken, arrogant, overgrown fratboy whoremonger sons of a bootlegger who bought an election with the help of his Mob buddies. PR & lots of time & money spent on media relations account for much of their legacy. The whole thing is of little or no relevance to modern society. The subsequent lunatic theories have a much greater effect on our culture than the actual death of the President.


   I’ve read about 3 dozen books on the JFK assassination, I’ve read the Warren Commission report, I still have a dozen plus books on the subject. What I’ve come to believe is that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot Kennedy from the 6th floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Forget a motive kids. Why did Hinckley shoot Reagan, why did Chapman shoot Lennon, or why did Booth shoot Lincoln? Anyone know David Berkowitz’s motive? The motive only needs to make sense to one guy. If you look at the Zapruder film frame 313 shows the front of JFK’s head blown out. Shot from behind. Small hole in, big hole out, bullets do that, its physics. Is it a tough shot? Maybe. Lucky shot? Maybe, but anybody who does enough shooting has at some point made that tough or lucky shot that they might never repeat.

   The notion of Oswald as the lone nut is no more ridiculous than any of the other theories and less so than some. If I was to make a case for a conspiracy I would look at how the Soviet government could exploit the death of Kennedy and benefit from increased unrest and distrust of the government in the US and whether they funneled money or fueled any of the theories of conspiracy. I could almost accept the conspiracy of the myriad of theories blaming the government in some capacity and helping to destroy the belief that our government was “good”.