Vidor1,

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly, all that pesky evidence! Like how a clip-fed, bolt action Mauser rifle was the FIRST gun found, right there, leaning against the the other window, but that disappeared from the police report and evidence locker and history. Like the half-dozen people - some caught by Zapruder's camera, others by all the OTHER cameras of OTHER average folks hoping for a glimpse of the President - diving to the ground at the foot of the grassy knoll. Like those same people, interviewed by local TV stations, ALL saying the shots came from behind them, at the top of the grassy knoll from the bushes and white picket fence. Like how one of them was a combat veteran of WWII and knew damn well what sound a bullet made when it snapped over his head. Like how all those interviews still exist. Like the dictabelt from the motorcycle policeman's radio that recorded at least four shots. Like the photographs of the limousine showing two bullet holes in the windshield and one in the dashboard, indicating three more bullets unaccounted for...before the vehicle was cleaned up and repaired. Like the eyewitnesses - again interviewed by Dallas TV stations, footage still existing - who stated that they saw puffs of smoke rising from the top of the grassy knoll. Like the fact that everyone - cops included - charged up the grassy knoll to try and catch those who had done the shooting immediately after the assassination.

Like the innumerable open windows in and around Dealey Plaza that advanced crews of the Secret Service would have always normally seen to it were closed. Like the order given to all but one of Kennedy's security detail to "stand down" literally moments before the limo entered Dealey Plaza. Like the seizure of Kennedy's body from Parkland Hospital, despite the fact that it was an issue of local jurisdiction. Like the fact that when the President's body arrived at Bethesda it was in a body bag instead of wrapped in a sheet and inside the gold-plated coffin the Dallas County Coroner placed it in at Parkland. Like the doctors at Parkland who stated Kennedy's headwound was from the front and made illustrations indicating this, whereas the "official" autopsy at Bethesda showed a clearly tampered-with head wound with attendant claims that the bullet came from the back.

Like the fact that the House Assassination Committee destroyed the "pristine bullet" as evidence, demonstrating that only such a round fired into cotton wadding for ballistics tests would come out unmarked and that identical rounds shot at cadavers and then retrieved were utterly destroyed. Like the fact that Oswald's "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" shared an office with Guy Bannister in New Orleans, and that Bannister was one of the most rabidly right-wing, anti-Castro operatives in America at the time (he had formerly been Bureau Chief of the FBI in Chicago). Like the fact that Oswald defected to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and was able to return to the U.S. with no difficulty whatsoever, not even a debriefing. Like the fact that Oswald was taught Russian and stationed at highly sensitive radar listening stations prior to his defection. Like the fact that, on the morning of the assassination, the picture (posed, in a suit and tie) of Oswald and his name appeared in the main newspaper in New Zealand. Like the fact that the up-thead mentioned The Spotlight magazine published an interview implicating E. Howard Hunt and placing at least one shooting crew in Dallas on November 22nd, was sued by Hunt for defamation and libel, a suit he actually LOST.

Oh yeah, that damned inconvenient evidence. But hey, how about some educated conjecture?

Gerald Posner, a nobody before he wrote and got published his ass-kissing screed Case Closed arguing what almost no one argues anymore - that The Warren Commission Report was the unvarnished truth. Then this nobody suddenely has his own show on The History Channel, among many other plumb assignments. Sounds to me like the system rewarding a loyal sycophant.

My personal belief is that Oswald was a member of one of the three shooting teams deployed to Dallas that day. In that aforementioned interview, the female operative stated that Hunt had told them that there was a "patsy" in one of the othe shooter teams already set up to take the fall. So I'm entirely comfortable with the idea was a part of the conspiracy and a shooter. But he and he alone? You have to have your head buried waaaaaaay up your ass to still believe that - kinda like Gerald Posner.

Heard of Oscar Wilde?

Libel suits unwisely brought can come back and bite you in the ass.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE LIEING.

Now THAT was funny.

Now that was just SO wrong...

Someone can make fun of you and your opinions, but if you post a strongly-worded reply it gets zotzed. Welcome to the Free Republic, everyone.

I'm not wasting anymore time on this thread if I can't forcefully call someone out for lying and dodging the facts. To hell with it.

Sorry, but I've had it up to here with capricious forum policies. If you want to know what I think, click on my name, go to my blog profile and send me an e-mail. I'll be happy to clue you in.

I'll never forget Virginia Madsen, intoning the stilted narration as, for reasons known only to Lynch, her image faded in and out. Then, this howler:

"Oh yes, I nearly forgot to tell you..."

Then this "narrator" is never heard from again, and is not seen as a character until near the very end.

Yeah, a real classic.