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The evidence itself is the evidence against a lone assassin.
No it isn't. The evidence all points to a single lone assassin. There is conjecture and leaps of faith people make to justify that others were involved.
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The head of the CIA himself believed there were at least 2 assassins.
Who are you referring to? John McCone is who succeeded Dulles after the Bay of Pigs cluster and he was director of the CIA from two years before until two years after Kennedy was assassinated.
Because here is McCone's testimony under oath to the Warren Commission:
Mr. RANKIN. Have you determined whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy, had any connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, informer or indirectly as an employee, or any other capacity?
Mr. MCCONE. Yes: I have determined to my satisfaction that he had no such connection, and I would like to read for the record
Mr. RANKIN. Will you tell us briefly the extent of your inquiry?
Mr. MCCONE. In a form of affidavit, I have gone into the matter in considerable detail personally, in my inquiry with the appropriate people within the Agency, examined all records in our files relating to Lee Harvey Oswald. We had knowledge of him, of course, because of his having gone to the Soviet Union, as he did, putting him in a situation where his name would appear in our name file. However, my examination has resulted in the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was not an agent, employee, or informant of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Agency never contacted him, interviewed him, talked with him, or received or solicited any reports or information from him, or communicated with him directly or in any other manner. The Agency never furnished him with any funds or money or compensated him directly or indirectly in any fashion, and Lee Harvey Oswald was never associated or connected directly or indirectly in any way whatsoever with the &ZenCy. When I Use the term "Agency," I mean the Central Intelligence Agency, of course.
Mr. RANKIN.Mr. McCone, if I may return to you, I will now ask you if you have any credible information that you know of or evidence causing you to believe that there is any or was any conspiracy either domestic or foreign in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy?
MR. MCCONE. No; I have no information, Mr.Rankin, that would lead me to believe or conclude that a conspiracy existed.
Representative FORD. Did the CIA make an investigation of this aspect of the assassination?
Mr. MCCONE.
We made an investigation of all developments after the assassination which came to our attention which might possibly have indicated a conspiracy, and we determined after these investigations, which were made promptly and immediately, that we had no evidence to support such an assumption.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you also include in your statement that you found no evidence of conspiracy in all of that investigation?
Mr. MCCONE. That is correct.
There you have it. Under oath, the Director of the CIA when JFK was assassinated (including the two years before and the two years after) says that he has zero evidence of a conspiracy. I look forward to a retort with some hearsay that he really believed differently than what he said under oath.
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This was likely after seeing the Zapruder film, which to any reasonable person proves that the fatal shot came from the front. Can you imagine what we'd think if this happened in the USSR, and they showed the world a film like the Zapruder film. with Pravda then claiming that there was a lone assassin and he fired from the back?
If you study the Zapruder film in depth, it really shows nothing conclusive of what you want it to show.
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And the Zapruder film is just one of many massive holes in the lone assassin theory.
It really isn't.
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Ever heard of CE399? The same type of round supposedly goes through a skull and shatters, but this bullet goes through 2 people causing 7 wounds and looks as if it were shot into cotton. The chain of custody on that bullet is also so f'ed up that it would have never even been admissible in court. How curious.
I'm fairly certain that everyone that has read even the smallest amount about the assassination has heard about the 'magic bullet.' When a bullet hits no hard objects head on like bone or concrete, it is quite easy for it to stay in tact. The bullet flattened on the side when making the chest injuries of the Governor because it started tumbling after it passed through JFK without impacting bone. There is not another logical way that Governor Connally's wounds could have been made, nor could JFK's neck wound have come from the front due to the angle of his body and the objects between him and where the bullet would have had to come from (namely Connally and the car.
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Plus tons of evidence uncovered in the last 20 years shows that someone likely impersonated Oswald in Mexico City in Sep-Oct 1963 to make it look like he was associating with a KGB assassin.
Are you going for a conspiracy where Oswald was in on it? Why would anyone use him as an assassin? A known radical that isn't very smart and is emotionally unstable that has tried to defect to the Soviets? That makes no sense. There is zero evidence that Oswald ever worked for the USSR or KGB. None. Here we are over 50 years later and not a single person has come forward with evidence that Oswald worked for the Soviet Union or KGB. We've had countless KGB and USSR defectors over the past 5 decades and not one brought any evidence of LHO working for them. But we have had many bring evidence of KGB Operation Dragon. Have you read that? The KGB put together a plan of misinformation surrounding the assassination so that Americans would be divided on who did it and many would believe that their own government killed Kennedy in an effort to create upheaval in America. The KGB wanted people like you to believe that someone other than Oswald did it.
If you think Oswald worked for the CIA, why would the CIA use someone that isn't very smart, is emotionally unstable, couldn't handle being a Marine. He was described as anti-social as early as elementary school, spent time in juvenile reformatories and was described by a shrink as having "schizoid features" as a middle schooler. Oswald dropped out of school in 10th grade, never finished and joined the Marines, where he was discharged after 2.5 years and multiple disciplinary infractions including accidentally shooting himself, fighting with a superior officer and firing his rifle into the jungle for no reason. Does Oswald really seem like CIA material? He was a **** up.
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The HSCA itself concluded that there was a conspiracy, but blamed in on the mafia. Robert Blakey's staff almost uniformly thought they CIA did it, and had already prepared indictments for perjury for 2 CIA agents that the HSCA interviewed before it all got shut down.
The HSCA was pretty much just created to prove a hypothesis that there was a conspiracy.
Their conclusion:
1. The HSCA did find that they believe that LHO fired three shots, the second one hitting JFK in the neck and the third one being the kill shot to the head. Oswald fired no more or less than three shots.
I couldn't agree more with this finding. This is what the evidence shows.
2. The HSCA believes there was 4 shots based on the acoustic dictabelt evidence.
The HSCA had composed a final draft of their findings stating that LHO acted alone when the dictabelt evidence was brought to them for analysis. In an interview with Dallas reporter Edward Golz, HSCA Chief Council G. Robert Blakey said in 1980 "If the acoustics come out that we made a mistake somewhere, I think that would end it."
The sole reason the HSCA found that it was more probable than not that there was a conspiracy was based solely on the dictabelt acoustics. Four of the 12 members of the committee believed that there was on conspiracy and a 5th believed that the dictabelt needed to be furthered studied.
In 1982, the National Academy of Science chaired by Harvard's Norman Ramsey studied the dictabelt and concluded that the dictabelt did not provide any basis for finding a 4th shot from the Grassy Knoll. You can read the NAS study for yourself here.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10264/report-of-the-committee-on-ballistic-acoustics
So the HSCA's only evidence of conspiracy and the entire reason they said it was more probable than not that there was a conspiracy was the dictabelt evidence, and that evidence has since been discredited by many sources and is not considered credible
The committee also found:
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Soviet Government was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Cuban Government was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that anti-Castro Cuban groups, as groups, were not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.The Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Central Intelligence Agency were not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
So again, they found no conspiracy whatsoever by any group, however, some members thought there was a conspiracy based on evidence that has since been debunked. Their own members told you that they believed if that dictabelt evidence was debunked, that it would show there was absolutely no conspiracy.
The HSCA also agreed with the single bullet theory - that a single bullet fired went through Kennedy's neck, tumbled and caused all the wounds to the Governor.
So there you go. Believe in a conspiracy all you want, but there is zero evidence that one existed and the only evidence that there was a 4th shot has since been completely discredited by the greatest scientists in the world.
There is simply no evidence to show that anything other happened other than Oswald acting alone from the 6th Floor of the Book Depository. And every credible investigation into the assassination has concluded that Oswald shot at the President three times with two direct hits.
The biggest problem with a conspiracy is how many people would have to be involved. Millions if not billions of dollars has been made talking about the assassination over the 52 years since. The evidence that Oswald was working for someone (Mafia, Soviets, Cubans, CIA, etc) would be worth tens of millions of dollars. But none of the people involved have come forward to cash in on that after all these years? Mark Felt came in to cash out on being Deep Throat at the end of his life. And if you were 38 at the time of the assassination, you would be 90 today. But not a single person has come forward with evidence of any sort of conspiracy to write a book and sell their story to Hollywood and cash in on their knowledge so that their family could be provided for for generations.
