Kennedy Assassination

Originally posted by kirksey957
That's too bad. In Kentucky (Bullet County of all places) they have an annual "shoot-up." They shoot cars, refrigerators, stuff them with dynamite. They bring machine guns, pistols, rifles, assault rifles, you name it. There is even a psychiatrist from Nashville who comes every year and says it's the best therapy there is.

Ivanhoe, I invite you.

Great idea! Maybe I'll attend the next one and bring my chess sets. Get even for all the times my little army has betrayed me

Originally posted by Delmer
I remember it well also. Most of the people I was with at the time were convinced Russian nukes would be falling on the USA with 24 hours. I was a librarian on a bookmobile at a rural school in northwest Ohio. The next class scheduled to come to the bookmobile didn't show up so I went into the school to remind them. The whole school was watching TV. I joined ...[text shortened]... the principal dismissed everyone and sent them home and I returned to our headquarters library.

I was in the military attending school & we had just gotten back from lunch. Our CO came in with tears in his eyes and told us what happened and gave us liberty the rest of the day but nobody went anywhere. We were all watching Walter Cronkite. Funny, all these years later the same questions, debates and theories are coming up.

Originally posted by no1marauder
Jackie Kennedy climbed on the back of the car; why no one knows. Being shot at makes you do funny things. A piece of the President's head being behind the President after the head shot is perfectly consistent with a shot from the back as the link explains.

Huh ?

Could it also be consistent with a shot from the front ?

Originally posted by Delmer
Why did he shoot J.D. Tippit?

Because he was going to be arrested.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Because he was going to be arrested.

And why was he going to be arrested? He certainly didn't shoot Tippit because he thought he was being arrested for a parking ticket, or even for carrying a concealed weapon.

Originally posted by masscat
I was in the military attending school & we had just gotten back from lunch. Our CO came in with tears in his eyes and told us what happened and gave us liberty the rest of the day but nobody went anywhere. We were all watching Walter Cronkite. Funny, all these years later the same questions, debates and theories are coming up.

Yes, no matter what it is from the past it's ironical how the simplest, most likely explanations never seem to be accepted by a certain percentage of any population. Of course, it has something to do with the fact that conspiracy theories become profitable cottage industries for various writers, speakers, movie makers etc.

Originally posted by Delmer
And why was he going to be arrested? He certainly didn't shoot Tippit because he thought he was being arrested for a parking ticket, or even for carrying a concealed weapon.

I'm not claiming Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with killing the President.

I believe he did fire shots from the Texas book store.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
I'm not claiming Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with killing the President.

I believe he did fire shots from the Texas book store.

Let's explore our point of agreement for a moment. Where do you think those bullets went after he fired them?

Originally posted by Delmer
Let's explore our point of agreement for a moment. Where do you think those bullets went after he fired them?

I suppose in the direction he fired them.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
I suppose in the direction he fired them.

Do you believe they hit Kennedy and Connely?

Originally posted by Delmer
Do you believe they hit Kennedy and Connely?

One of them certainly hit Kennedy and Connelly.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
One of them certainly hit Kennedy and Connelly.

But you also believe there were other shooters who also hit Kennedy?

Originally posted by Delmer
But you also believe there were other shooters who also hit Kennedy?

Yes, there was one other shooter. He fired the shot that killed Kennedy. It is the shot which blows up the President's head.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Yes, there was one other shooter. He fired the shot that killed Kennedy. It is the shot which blows up the President's head.

I've never been convinced of that. I just don't think this mysterious shooter could manage that and also manage to escape given the number of people around. And even if he did manage to escape at the time I can't believe that those who knew about him would have remained quiet all these years. On the other hand, if it was a mob hit then maybe everyone with knowledge of the inner workings was also killed. But that all seems far too complicated to me to be workable.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Yes, there was one other shooter. He fired the shot that killed Kennedy. It is the shot which blows up the President's head.

The first shot by itself was most likely fatal as well.