Is the guilt of the Lone Persian Archer backed by a mountain of scientific, forensic and reliable eyewitness evidence, like the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald is? If the answer is yes, I’d say you should have gotten over the death of Julian about sixteen hundred years ago.
There are certainly assasination conspiracies throughout history. That does not mean that all assasinations are conspiracies, or that there is not such a thing as a lone nut. The “anti-conspiracists” are strongly motivated by the principle that evidence and logic make a more compelling case than speculation and fantasy. Sorry, the whole premise of “an ancient Roman emperor was killed in a conspiracy, so goeth JFK” doesn’t exactly pass critical muster.
Just a few random points, and I’m sure I’m repeating what I’ve already said in another forum…
The question of why Oswald didn’t take the frontal shot as JFK comes towards him on Houstan is a standard conspiracist catchphrase. It was mentioned here, but I’m suprised that no-one mentioned the two most obvious reasons: (1) his view would have been obscured by the windshield, the Secret Service man in the front passenger seat, and Connelly (a rarely mentioned problem with all frontal shots) and (2) Oswald would have been eyeball to eyeball with the security men, who would have been in much better position to see a shooter directly ahead than one firing behind and at an angle. It is likely that Oswald would have been seen before he made the first shot. It is certain that he would have spotted after the first shot.
If Oswald, who was in one of the most secluded and hidden positions that any sniper in Dealey Plaza could hope to be in was seen by several witnesses, how could snipers firing from far more open locations have not been noticed? The idea of someone firing from the Knoll, a wide open location in a crowded street in broad daylight with dozens of people close by, without a single even vaguely credible witness seeing him and mentioning it at the time, is totally ridiculous. The Dal-Tex, Texas County Records Building and jail were all very crowded office buildings. Hard to believe someone inside of them wouldn’t have heard a gun fired from inside of the building, as did the people in the Depository under Oswald did.
Anyone have a theory of how anybody besides Oswald could have gotten to the Sniper’s Nest, fired three shots and escaped? Stone’s theory of outside workmen being involved is a fabrication, since all of the repairs were being done by Depository employees, not outsiders. Oswald did the deed and got downstairs in just about the minimum time allowed. If he had immediately tried to exit, he would have been intercepted by the policeman on the stairs. There are absolutely no accounts of any strangers in the building except for one man who came in to use the john and left. So, any conspiracy theorists out there want to come up with a story?
Oh, by the way, what happened to those curtain rods Oswald was bringing up with him?
The Z film very clearly shows a head shot from behind and nowhere else. There is a big, gaping crater in the front of his head that clearly opens outside, which is just about the most obvious exit wound in the history of gunshots. The back of his head is clearly intact on both the Z and Nix films, except his hair is mussed up. There is a huge spray of blood and brains to the front of the president. There is no spray of debris to the back. There were a few small fragments that went directly up into the air from the rear shot and rained back down on the officers cycling behind him, and evidently a piece of brain came dislodged when his head was thrown violently back, but nothing remotely close to the spray to the front from the rear shot. All of the evidence from the Z film (and everything else) points to a rear shot and ONLY a rear shot.
Everyone wants to focus on the headsnap as Exhibit A for a conspiracy. Forensic and ballistic scientists were never impressed by it, because bullet wounds do not normally possess the kinetic energy to make someone’s head fly back like a rocket. Getting shot isn’t like being hit with a hammer, it is like being stabbed with a very fast needle. The headsnap clearly does not occur until immediately after the spray of debris to the front, just like it is CAUSED by the spray. In other words, the jet spray theory.
Why would any conspirators want to plant a “pristine” (not really) bullet on a stretcher? At the time, weren’t they assuming that three bullets would be recovered? They couldn’t have known about the missed shot. Why set a situation where four bullets were recovered? Since all of the other fragments matched Oswald’s rifle, they already were able to magically trace everything to Oswald’s gun. So what was the point of doing this? By the way, if the Single Bullet Theory isn’t correct, where was the other shooter, how do you get around the invisiblity/inaudibility problem that I’ve already mentioned, and how was he able to hit Connely without hitting Kennedy first?
