Letters to the Editor
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Oswald was working as a temp?
That's funny, the route of the motorcade was changed so that it would pass in front of the book depository. Why would Oswald bring his gun to work if the motorcade was not scheduled to pass in front of it?
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Gordon Wagner, this isn't spin. It's psychodrama.
I've seen you pull this "drop everything and impeach Bush and all will be okay" stuff on other Salon LTTE's. That's your particular mania, okay? Other people have the mania for finding out who "really" killed JFK, and you should be just as considerate, because their quest is as quixotic as yours.
I don't know why you, personally, do your thing, but I've known some JFK conspirators. To them, the moment JFK was killed was the moment everything went bad. The country got worse and worse Presidents, Vietnam and Waco and Columbine and Iraq happened, and it was all because that wonderful, heavenly, saintly Kennedy was killed.
Which just shows the power of assassination to purify its target. I remember that Kennedy was going to have a hard time heading into the 1964 elections. He'd screwed up relations with the alumiumn, copper and steel industries, damn near losing the labor vote because he wanted to break the strikes and keep those industries running for defense purposes. To many people he seemed more style than substance. He practiced the "brinkmanship" that he so decried in Nixon, and almost went to war over the Bay of Pigs. But when he was killed, all that was forgotten.
And as we all know, the person who finds the true killer of JFK will gain immortality and will, through dint of his superb investigative skills, become the head of the Illuminati, which will then rule the earth for a thousand years of peace and prosperity.
Conspiracy nuts - and nothing I saw in the article eliminates Mr. Talbot from that classification - really believe this. But at least they don't interrupt every other column on Salon, whether TV, sports or movie reviews, screaming that we must all impeach Bush now. Hint, hint.
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Oswald did it, and there was no conspiracy?
That would make a super-boring movie. Maybe Howard Hughes did it.
And the motorcade route, incl. the turn past the Book Depository, was published in the papers. Why do you think Abraham Zapruder and all those other people were there?
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I Can't Until Tomorrow Morning
This ought to be the shit storm article of the week. Already, we've had the bone-headed "sorry folks it was Oswald" crowd doff its collective hat. Soon there will doubtless be the "midgets in the sewer drain" bunch, spittle flying.
And those of us in possession of irrefutible - if not definitive - facts? We'll just have to shake our heads and then giggle our motherfucking asses off.
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Please don't badmouth the illuminati
Not until you can explain the anthrax mystery.
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No route change and Oswald was a temp
Woody_Chipper wrote:
"That's funny, the route of the motorcade was changed so that it would pass in front of the book depository. Why would Oswald bring his gun to work if the motorcade was not scheduled to pass in front of it?"
It is an urban legend that the motorcade route was changed. Once they chose the Trade Mart as the place for their luncheon, the only possible route took them down Elm Street right in front of the School Book Depository.
A few days before the event one of the newspapers printed a mistaken route, where the motorcade went down Main Street and then onto the freeway to go to lunch. But anyone in Dallas would have known it was a misprint, because it is almost impossible to get to the freeway entrance from Main Street.
All of the planning for the event is well documented. Oswald knew prior to that Friday that he would have an opportunity to shoot JFK.
And yes, Oswald was a temp. He had been hired for a few weeks by Roy Truly to help with the fall rush.
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I practically majored in this in college
Watergate and the Kennedy assassination. That was the big obsession of the seventies. I remember some people only gave it up when they discovered cocaine.
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The Lee Oswald story
Is about as convincing as Nixon's missing White House tapes, Ollie North's Garbage bags of shredded Iran/Contra files, and Gonzo's missing email. Republicans are good at comming up with the hole, but never tha bagel.
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The Sins Of The Father
It doesn't even matter if Oswald was the lone shooter. It was still a right wing conspiracy no matter what. The proof is, if Oswald was really a defector to Russia and not a double agent working for American intelligence, he would not have been allowed to return to the U.S.. Why wasn't he arrested?
The satanic force behind the Kennedy assassination is still with us. It was revealed to me in a dream I had, that George Bush Sr. was in on all of the evil I've experienced in my lifetime. Only God Almighty can exorcise the right wing demon from America. I know I'm crazy, but praise be to God, and deliver us from evil.
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we've had the bone-headed "sorry folks it was Oswald" crowd doff its collective hat
All that pesky, irritating evidence. Like how it was his gun, the bullets traced to his gun, his palm print on the gun. Like how he murdered a policeman immediately afterward. Like how he left the building two minutes after the shooting. Like how he left his wife his wedding ring that morning, along with instructions on what to do if he was arrested. Like the people in the window directly below him who heard the gunshots and the shells hitting the floor. Like the witness who saw a man in the window shooting and whose description matched Oswald. Like how Oswald had tried and failed to kill Gen. Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963. Like how there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate any shot was fired from any place other than the upper right-hand corner of the front of the book depository.
Evidence sucks. Evidence never messes up the plot of really good novels. Maybe the Priory of Sion did it.
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We've all seen the CIA make rock solid cases
Like the case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It's easy to tell when the CIA is lying, becasue it is always a "slam dunk". Oswald acted alone --- "slam dunk"
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Pinch Me
Wow.
For years and years and years I've had to listen to corporate media either trash anyone who dared to challenge the government's fairly tale about the JFK assassination, or present half-baked theories that dutifully steered attention away from those responsible for that coup d'etah.
Thank you, David Talbot for writing such an intelligent- and I think correct-account of the JFK assassination and Bobby's take on it. I am impressed by all the new -to me- information, and I am looking forward to reading it again, making a list of those facts, checking them as best I can, and then truly digesting them. Bravo, David, you have given me hope.