Another JFK Conspiracy thread - Gary Mack

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I think it’s been a week. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sorry if all you conspiracy people have covered this before. Something jiggled in my grey matter today, and I had a WTF? moment.

Gary Mack is the curator of the 6th Floor museum at the TSBD. That’s nice.

And most recently (say the last decade or so) he’s been exclusively Pro-lone nut (Oswald) as the killer.

I happened to stumble on an old video tape (yeah baby! VHS!) and popped it into the dusty VCR. The tape had the UK documentary “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”, which was a very interesting Kennedy assassination study that took a look at multiple shooters and the motives of a number of different possible suspects. To my surprise, there he was, a younger Gary Mack, and he was pushing one of the multiple shooter theories. In fact, it turns out that Gary Mack claims that he and another guy were the ones that found “Badge Man” in the Mary Moore photograph.

I found this interesting since I have heard of him spout nothing but “Oswald did it!” for a very long time. So long, in fact, I forgot he was the discoverer of BadgeMan.

Now, do you think his change of heart came with his professional opportunity as Mr. 6th Floor?

Here is a guy who lost all credibility with me on either side of the issue. I don’t mind if you don’t happen to agree with my opinions… that’s why the JFK Assassination has never been solved (at least for me), but to decide that Oswald did it alone when you were so involved with the conspiracy theories (including the “discovery” of the grassy knoll shooter, “Badge Man”) because someone offered you an easy gig as the curator of a small museum is just cheesy.

And to hear him talk with such conviction on the tape then and to know how he talks about people who believe in a conspiracy in part because of his discovery of “badge man”.

The next thing you know, Gerald Posner will state (from underneath that god awful Pete Rose-esque haircut) unequivocally that “Badge Man” not only did it, but he was Woody Harrelson’s father.

Do any of you that follow this particular story/conspiracy know how Mack defends his flip? And what does he think Badge Man is now? Shadows?

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So you believe people will make something up if there’s a financial incentive to do so?

I see Mark Lane has released a new book, Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. $24.95 in hardcover.

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From what I can tell from swift Googling, Mack has said that he still believes in a conspiracy, but his job requires that he be circumspect. He seems to be very measured in his statements, mostly saying that there is no hard evidence against the Oswald scenario.

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Of course he’s up to something sinister, all dressed in black…

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Badgeman has been thoroughly debunked. When you go back to the spot where Badgeman supposedly fired his shot, and attempt to get into the same position, it becomes apparent that if the outline of Badgeman as shown in the photograph is accurate, he would have been about three feet tall and too skinny to be a human.

I researched the assassination heavily for a screenplay I was writing, and I wasn’t able to come up with any conclusive evidence there was another shooter in the plaza.

That said, I think it’s possible Oswald was the lone shooter, and he was still part of a conspiracy.

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So JFK was shot by one of the Grays that the government had been keeping in storage since Roswell.

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I haven’t seen anything that suggests anything but Oswald as the lone shooter (but of course that doesn’t rule out a conspiracy, of course. I think it’s probably more likely others were involved, although it seems incredible that nothing would have come out by now).

The only thing that would even slightly give me pause: I always thought that it would be easier to shoot Kennedy from the front, as the car came down Houston Street, before the left turn on to Elm Street. Straight-on shot, no trees / stop sign in the way etc. The idea that Oswald would be worried about ‘Secret Service agents facing him’ doesn’t seem all that plausible to me. 'Course, I don’t have much gun experience so maybe the angle is easier moving away. Either way, it’s the only question mark in my head and it’s overwhelmed by the rest of the evidence.

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The windshield, the front-seat agent and Connolly are in the way of an oncoming shot. The shots taken were far easier, with an unobstructed view of Kennedy’s head and upper back.