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In reply to the discussion: Salon: "the Warren Commission... was stacked with RFK’s political enemies" [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)25. The fact that they're capable doesn't mean that they did it.
Again, if there were persuasive evidence that the right-wing (or left-wing) did any of this, then I would be inclined to believe it. But there isn't any.
The difference between you and I here is that my beliefs are governed by the evidence, while your are derived exclusively from suspicions.
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Salon: "the Warren Commission... was stacked with RFK’s political enemies" [View all]
villager
Nov 2013
OP
Exactly. The Lone Nut Theorists are desperate not to talk about the political atmosphere
villager
Nov 2013
#2
"Dr. James Humes, the Navy pathologist....burned his original autopsy report in the fireplace
villager
Nov 2013
#6
The forensic evidence is a distraction. Whether Oswald fired shots or did not is NOT the question
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#20
Yes, discredit the whistle blowers. Maybe equate them with holocaust deniers on a public fourm.
The Midway Rebel
Nov 2013
#131
Nor the Fact that there are no real conspiracy theories about the attempted Reagan shooting.
RC
Nov 2013
#5
So you don't think our domestic right-wing is actually capable of such things?
villager
Nov 2013
#23
The mob hated JFK because of RFK's work against them, why would they want the
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#76
No, we have to look way behind the distraction of the 'ballistics, the forensic evidence etc which
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#22
No, it is far from 'zero' unless you don't want to see it. Fortunately a majority of people DO see
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#56
This made me LOL: "I think one day, maybe in the not-too-distant future, this crime will be solved"
DanTex
Nov 2013
#58
I don't find them credible. A common MO is to just make LNT statements with an
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#49
First he would have lived to have a trial. If he had not been so conveniently silenced, if it was
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#65
So concentrating on what actually happened in Dealey Plaza is a distraction?
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#64
There was a murder committed in a town not far from where I lived several years ago. They got the
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#66
I don't have a problem accepting that. I don't know for sure but it doesn't alter much about the
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#110
There are untold numbers of delusional people who want to be somebody important. Who want power and
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#111
I was just told that his motive was to get attention, for the 'power and glory' of being the one to
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#115
He apparently wasn't happy with WHY he got attention, since he addamently denied it and claimed
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#141
I hope the investigators weren't distracted by the forensic evidence.
The Midway Rebel
Nov 2013
#121
The paraffin test is a reliable test used in criminal courts in this country.
former9thward
Nov 2013
#46
OK, so you're going to ignore the WC reproduction of the paraffin test. That figures.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#48
LOL. They know he didn't meander around the 6th floor looking for a place to stash the
DanTex
Nov 2013
#59
"The rifle was found stashed under some boxes in the opposite corner of the 6th floor..."
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#62
Yes, I have been on the sixth floor. The rifle's hiding place was on the way to the staircase.
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#68
Facts are facts, former9thward. The hiding place for the rifle is along the path to the staircase.
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#72
It doesn't take a great deal of common sense to know that if you're the Mafia intent on killing
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#86
Apparently Oswald didn't want to quit or get fired from that job unlike the other two
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#95
The trip to Dallas had been planned for a long time but they added a day to it in Sept. That
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#103
Of course he wasn't aware. But others were. Just one more historical coincidence, an amazing
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#113
If the shots were from the rear, how did JFK's brain material get on the trunk?
FarCenter
Nov 2013
#43
Because the shockwave of the bullet passing through his brain exploded his head.
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#47
+1000. I agree on the "bizarre mission to "debunk" with strawman arguments etc."
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#51
Thanks Mc Mike -- my avatar is actually a tribute to the late "PurityofEssence,"
villager
Nov 2013
#135