50th Anniversary of Kennedy Assassination

mike65 wrote: »

Thank **** I'll long be dead by the time the 100th anniversary comes round.

Balaclava1991 wrote: »

Conspiracy theories are utter nonsense.

Two co-workers of Oswald were on the fifth floor directly beneath Oswald's sixth floor corner window and heard three shots and three spent hulls rattle on the floorboards over their heads.
A man named Howard Brennan saw a man matching Oswald taking aim and shooting the rifle from across the street and his description was the basis of the Dallas Police bulletin that led to his arrest.
Three spent hulls were found on the floor next to the sixth floor window next to boxes with Oswald's prints on them stacked around the window. The shells came from Oswald's rifle because they had the mark of the firing pin on the base of the bullets.
A paper bag very similar to the bag Oswald had brought his supposed "curtain rods" to work that morning was found next to the sniper nest. Oswald's prints were on the bag along with fibers from a blanket that had wrapped his rifle when it was stored in the garage of Ruth Paine's house where his wife and kids were living.
The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle (he had bought it by mail order filled out in his handwriting and using the name Alek Hidell, his habitual pseudonym that was also the name on the fake ID he was carrying when he was arrested) was found stuffed behind boxes on the 6th floor along with his work clipboard.
Ballistics show that President Kennedy was hit twice - in the back of the neck and the back of the head by shots fired from above and behind him as he rode along Elm Street past the front of the Book Depository.
The first bullet struck him in the back of the neck to the right of the spine and exited the base of his throat nicking the knot of his spine. The bullet had begun to tumble when it struck Governor Connally in the back at the rear of the right armpit and it exited through a fist size hole below the right nipple after smashing four inches of his fifth rib. The bullet smashed the radius bone of his right wrist and embedded itself base first in the flesh of his left thigh.
The relative positions of Kennedy and Connally demonstrate the trajectory of the shots were a straight line through both men.
The fatal shot that struck Kennedy entered the back of his head and exited the top front right creating a massive fatal wound.
An almost whole bullet was found on Connally's stretcher by a hospital orderly who passed it to a Secret Service agent at Parkland hospital who passed it to the FBI.
The grooves on bullet matched the lands on the rifling on the inside of the gun barrel of Oswald's rifle.
Two bullet fragments were recovered from the front seat of the limousine and were also matched to Oswald's rifle.
Both bullet fragments were probably responsible for the dent on the chrome frame of the windshield and the crack on the inside of the laminated glass.
James Tague who was cut on the cheek by a bullet fragment was probably struck by a piece of the first bullet fired or a fragment of the fatal head shot.
His position on Commerce Street and the location of mark on the kerb where a bullet or bullet fragment struck indicates a shot from the 6th floor of the Book Depository.
After the shooting Oswald left the building leaving behind his blue coat.
He boarded a bus after frantically banging on the door in the middle of traffic a few blocks from the Book Depository and soon left when the bus became stuck in traffic and boarded a taxi.
He never once mentioned the shooting of the President to the taxi driver when he asked what had happened downtown.
He told the driver to drop him off a few blocks from his rooming house before he doubled back, went inside ignoring his landlady who was hysterical after watching the news of the assassination of TV, went straight to his room and came out after changing his pants and was zipping up his jacket as he went straight out the door.
Numerous witnesses identified Oswald as the man who shot Officer J.D. Tippit who pulled over in his patrol car to talk with Oswald and then climbed out before he was gunned down at point blank range. Oswald emptied the cylinder of his revolver leaving behind shell cases that were later matched to his weapon.
Oswald had purchased the revolver from the same mail order magazine as his rifle again under the name Alek Hidell.
Both weapons had been mailed to a mail box booked under his own name.
Oswald left his jacket behind in a nearby car lot.
He was identified as the man who hid in the doorway of a shoeshop before the shoe salesman followed Oswald to the Texas Theatre.
Oswald entered the movie theatre without paying and he was arrested after he tried to draw and fire his revolver at arresting police officers.
In his pockets were the same type of .38 calibre ammunition he used to shoot Tippit.
At the police station he was identified by witnesses to the assassination of Kennedy and the murder of Tippit.
When the garage of Ruth Paine was searched the negatives of photographs showing Oswald posing with the rifle and revolver were discovered.
Oswald's background was thoroughly checked out - where he lived, who he worked with and who he knew before, during and after he went to the Soviet Union.
It was found that Oswald had attempted to assassinate right wing General Irwin Walker and the mangled remains of bullet found in the wall of Walker's study was likely to have been the same type of bullet that killed Kennedy.
Oswald admitted to his wife Marina that he had tried to kill Walker and Marina kept it quite to protect her husband and to protect herself from possible deportation to the Soviet Union.
Oswald was soon discovered to be a malcontent whose rambling writings showed he was an angry young man with delusions of grandeur who was a self-styled Marxist revolutionary who believed in attacking politicians who embodied capitalism.
He was also revealed to be troubled, unable to hold down a job for very long, prone to fighting with co-workers over his political beliefs, abused alcohol and regularly verbally and physically abused his estranged wife.
In New Orleans Oswald had deliberately provoked a row with Anti-Castro Cubans when he handed out leaflets with "Hands Off Cuba" and got himself interviews on local radio and television but failed to get a following for his unauthorized local chapter of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Oswald was never an official member of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee.
His behavior was that of a lonely man who was unable to form lasting relationships or make something of himself in the world.
Usually Oswald visited his wife on Friday evenings and stayed the weekends but the evening before the assassination he arrived on the Thursday right, the day before the assassination of the President.
His ride, who was also a coworker saw him place a paper bag he claimed contained curtain rods on the back seat of his car.
Oswald did not bring a lunch and he hurried ahead instead of walk with his coworker to the Book Depository.
While his work mates went downstairs to watch the motorcade Oswald had told them to send the elevator back up.
This was presumably to prevent the police from using it to allow him to use to stairs to escape.
Oswald's explanation that he was on the second floor and he bought a coke before going straight home is not the behavior one would expect if the President has been shot outside.

Oswald's chaotic life, his lack of friends and associations, his anger and violence, his Marine training, his hatred for the United States and the physical evidence and his behavior on the day of the assassination prove his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt and lead to the obvious conclusion that he acted alone.

Malibu Stacy wrote: »

Kennedy is important for Baby Boomers (the age cohort that controls the US media right now) not only because he was the first president that young Americans came of age watching on television regularly, he inspired so many of them to take an interest in civic life. Also, he was the last US president to take office before the deep cynicism brought on by the Vietnam War, the oil crisis, Watergate, and Bobby Kennedy's assassination truly permeated American politics. I don't particularly care for the deification of the Kennedy family (Ted in particular), but I don't think that you can deny that both culturally and politically, the Kennedy presidency represents a major shift in American political life.

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

The Kennedy family had their sister/daughter lobotomised.

Balaclava1991 wrote: »

Oswald's chaotic life, his lack of friends and associations, his anger and violence, his Marine training, his hatred for the United States and the physical evidence and his behavior on the day of the assassination prove his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt and lead to the obvious conclusion that he acted alone.

buried wrote: »

What about the actual words that came out of his actual mouth after the assassination, (before he was shot dead himself) where he exclaimed " I am a Patsy". Why do you think he chose those pitiful words and not proclaim words that would describe (as you say) his hatred for capitalism, JFK and the United States?

buried wrote: »

As far as I am aware Oswald was never sent to trial, never convicted, never found guilty in an actual court of law, so how is he a 'criminal'?

I would have assumed if he did act alone he wouldn't waste no time in proclaiming his part in the act - much like John Wilkes Booth did when he shot Lincoln "I have avenged the South, I have avenged the South"