# JFK Assassination Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437 "2003-11-21T03:30:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/41 "2003-11-22T00:35:17Z")
So my Elvis theory isn’t popular? :dubious: Of course it was Oswald and a lucky shot (or three). ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/42 "2003-11-22T01:13:09Z")
oswald killed jfk. whether it was his own idea just to get headlines, or if on a to cuba, it was suggested over a game of dominoes is up for grabs. for oswald’s personality type, even a passing, “chez, someone should just shoot him” remark could seem like an opportunity to get noticed and attention. he really seemed to enjoy the small limelight he had after he was arrested. i think that ruby thought he would be a hero and get a medal for shooting oswald. the fact that ruby was in texas doesn’t make that seem unreasonable. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/43 "2003-11-22T01:18:32Z")
Lee Harvey. BUT what happened to the man with the umbrella??? ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/44 "2003-11-22T01:29:58Z")
I used to be on the fence but fairly sure Lee Harvey Oswald was alone. Since coming here I’m now certain that he did. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/45 "2003-11-22T01:37:51Z")
Oswald was the only shooter. No doubt in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Sneeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sneeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sneeze)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/46 "2003-11-22T01:59:17Z")
I realize this is just a little poll, but this seems like the best place to get my 1.99 cents in (_yes, I’ve slashed prices!_). A word of advice. Don’t listen to the name-calling cranks posting on this site. Most of them have read one book or web site, now think they’re experts, and want nothing more than to show off. And don’t listen to the media, either. If you watched the ABC special the other nite, which was little fact and all persuasion, you’ll know what I mean. If you really want to understand this event, you have to read the literature, both pro and con, and keep an open mind. Do not treat the Warren Report as anything more than just another competing theory (albeit a good one). Do not take what anyone says as established fact. Know that it will take a lot of time. And realize that the best you’ll ever do is to come to your own conclusion. You won’t be able to come to a definite conclusion. The facts don’t permit a definite conclusion. Not yet, anyway. Not if you’re intellectually honest. My answer to who killed JFK: I don’t know. The same answer it’s always been. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/47 "2003-11-22T02:25:16Z")
From my post in another thread: Hugh Aynesworth, a reporter who was in Dallas forty years ago, concluded a recent article on this subject with the following, which seems to sum it up pretty well: "Often I am asked why I do not believe there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. After all, most Americans do, according to several legitimate polls. I usually tell them I do not know if there was or there wasn’t. All I know is, there is absolutely no evidence of it. I’m still a reporter. Still looking for the evidence 40 years later. If it exists." ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/48 "2003-11-22T02:35:40Z")
Edward deVere, Earl of Oxford. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/49 "2003-11-22T04:58:39Z")
Oswald alone. I’m asked to believe that a conspiracy can be this airtight after this many years? Someone would have popped a leak, even if just for peace before dying. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/50 "2003-11-22T05:18:00Z")
I’m delighted at the virtual unanimity and Oswald all by himself, of course. ---
**Author:** ![stormchaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@stormchaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stormchaser)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/51 "2003-11-22T05:22:02Z")
uummm I have a silly question-----who cares??? It happened 40 years ago-- and knowing or not knowing is’nt going to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Palewriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/52 "2003-11-22T05:24:35Z")
An amazing concensus. Makes me doubt the validity of the jury system. - PW ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/53 "2003-11-22T06:03:22Z")
Interesting connection in the Florida Keys: [http://keysnews.com/297891154517275.bsp.htm](http://keysnews.com/297891154517275.bsp.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Silvio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Silvio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvio)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/54 "2003-11-22T06:06:56Z")
Oswald acted completely alone- 99% chance Oswald carried out the assasination alone but was manipulated into it by others (renegade KGB, Castro, mob, but not CIA)- 1% chance ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/55 "2003-11-22T06:30:02Z")
I believe that Oswald fired the first shot that missed and the second shot that hit the President in the throat and the Governor in the back. I believe the shot that hit President Kennedy in the head came from the front right. I do not know why the fatal shot was fired or even if Oswald was aware that someone else would be shooting. At least Lyndon Johnson agreed with me that Oswald didn’t act alone…:dubious: Before Kennedy’s assassination, there really wasn’t very much of an “antiestablishment” faction in the sense that we think of it today. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/56 "2003-11-22T07:02:44Z")
Why not ask who believes in UFO’s or Bigfoot? You’re not going too get many (if any) folks that are gonna voluntarily wear a tin foil hat. Except for me maybe. I think Oswald was probably duped into it. Too many coincidences, too much disinformation, too many conflicts between interested parties, too long coming up with the “facts”. Too simple to swallow. Sorry folks if I disappoint but I’m not convinced. I don’t know who, how, and why. But I think GHWB knows and I don’t trust him and his bunch, never have. and this is too long, Sorry **Eve** BTW, I used to think Oswald acted alone. Now, I’m not so sure. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/57 "2003-11-22T07:54:08Z")
I don’t think it was Oswald by himself. Who did it? I don’t know. No lack of suspects though. But assuming there is a file somewhere that has more evidence than the general public has seen - it would be pointless to release that information during this generation. My guess is that any “new” infomation will be released in 50 years, if ever. I think one problem was that the American public, and the world at large back then, was not prepared to hear all the facts. It was a simpler time - and it was more important to carry on than to air all the dirty laundry that was involved. Would a nuclear war of vengence been better than allowing people to think it was the hand of a single madman? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/58 "2003-11-22T08:48:24Z")
There still is some information that is not to be released for about another 25 years. I can remember wondering as a young person if I would still be alive. (Now I’m wondering as an old person.) What is it they still need to keep secret – especially when so few people concerned are still living? Two things that were not seen until more recent times: the photos of JFK’s body and the film of the fatal bullet hitting his head. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/59 "2003-11-22T10:35:19Z")
He was killed by active American Military. LBJ knew about it in advance. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437/60 "2003-11-22T12:25:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bup \* > \*\*Edward deVere, Earl of Oxford. \*\* FUCKING BRILLIANT!!! I’m Jealous that I didn’t think of it first! . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-assassination-poll/214437.md?page=4)