Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27705829" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27705829</a> I'm election and prop 8'd out. So here's an interesting article on the JFK assassination. For an upcoming documentary, the Discovery Channel recreated the scene and analyzed blood spatter with newer techniques. They found that there's really no way the shots could've come from anywhere other than the 6th floor of the Book Depository. I hope HBO still plans the miniseries and documentary based on Vincent Bugliosi's book. When 75% plus of Americans believe in the conspiracy, that's a problem.
Originally Posted By Mr X Wow, so funny. I was just at the library an hour ago and I glanced at the video JFK but didn't end up checking it out. Good find, thanks.
Originally Posted By magnet The Warren commission got it right. If you spend any time researching the matter on your own, all the conspiracy theories fall apart in the face of the known evidence.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< all the conspiracy theories fall apart in the face of the known evidence. >>> Generally speaking, that's true of most conspiracy theories, but that doesn't stop people from believing in them.
Originally Posted By mawnck <<< all the conspiracy theories fall apart in the face of the known evidence. >>> Well, duh. That's part of the conspiracy!
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Originally Posted By Mr X Did anyone catch the guy on YouTube who set about systematically debunking each and every conspiracy theory regarding the World Trade Center? It was pretty fascinating. I think it was fairly easy to buy into some of the stuff they claimed (controlled demolition and all that crap) since we laymen really have no clue how this stuff works so it's easy to claim whatever you want and make it sound plausible. That guy really went to town debunking every little detail though, nicely done.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 It’s the 50th anniversary of the assassination. I’ve been watching the programs about it and I have a question that I have not seen addressed anywhere: After shooting the president, why did Lee Harvey Oswald take a walk around town? Who does that? Who commits the crime of the century and then strolls around town passing citizens on the street, going into stores, etc? Isn’t that odd? Did Oswald comment on why he did that in that one police interrogation after the shooting?
Originally Posted By ecdc Well Oswald wasn't strolling, he was escaping. That's just it, he committed this crime and didn't even own a car. So he hopped on a bus, then the bus gets caught in traffic, so he takes a cab to his apartment and gets a revolver. He guns down Officer J.D. Tippit and then runs away from the scene. He ducks into a store but the owner is suspicious of his strange behavior and watches Oswald sneak into the Texas Theater without buying a ticket. So he calls the police. Oswald's strange behavior is partly what indicts him. He really was a loner with a grandiose sense of self. He probably hadn't even really thought through how he was going to get away, which makes it difficult to find any rhyme or reason to his behavior. Compare his actions if he'd been working for the mob or CIA or whatever: they almost certainly would've had a car waiting and would've either put him on a plane to another country or driven him to his death.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 Well, the reason I used the word strolling is because he seemed to have no destination. At all. I also find it interesting what put Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository in the first place. As I understand it, he was looking for a job and his landlady told him he might find a job there. I think I always assumed that he sought out a job in the building because of his assassination plans. But the job came first? I'd be curious to know the date the parade route was made public...
Originally Posted By ecdc Oswald was hired in mid-October, the parade route was published just a few days before the assassination. This is one of those perfect storms. It's almost certain that if the parade route hadn't passed by the Texas School Book Depository JFK never would've been shot. It's likely that if Oswald's wife Marina had reconciled with him the night before, JFK wouldn't have been shot. It's one of history's sad convergences.
Originally Posted By SuperDry It makes you wonder how many other bad things *almost* happened over the years, but for some random, intervening happening that prevented the planets from aligning in a bad way.
