The way I’ve usually seen it posited is “How many people would have to be involved, with full knowledge, to make the conspiracy possible?” The followup is then “Do you believe that many people could have maintained absolute silence for 50 years?”
Most CTs would require at least a dozen inside people. Some would literally require thousands.
ETA: FWIW, the *one *alternate theory I leave room for is that Oswald discussed his plans with one or more people, of little or no significance, who were indeed wise enough to keep their traps shut. Or died before ever being tempted to speak up. It’s possible a letter, diary or deathbed admission could come to light even this far down the road. I do *not *extend this thinking to the participation of anyone who materially assisted or advanced the assassination.
Your comment makes no sense. I never said (or implied) that Castro and the Mob were behind the killing. What I said was, the Warren Commission most likely did NOT look at all the connections that the CIA had with the Mob. The reason for this, is that such revelations would be highly embarrassing. The Johnson administration did not want anything to come out on this, so no such pathways were ever looked at by the commission. What if it came out that Oswald was working for the CIA? Then you would have an agency of the US government working with a nut who killed a president. That would NOT look good for the CIA or the government.
I will stand by my comment. You are supposing that the commission members would have avoided an unpalatable truth in favor of an even more unpalatable lie.
You’re welcome to review the long, long list of interviews conducted by the commission and outline any gaps you perceive.
Step 1: demonstrate that there is an omission. Even ralph’s wording is qualified. The what-if of a what-if is what’s generated the mountains of trash related to the event.
I would agree the head shot came from the rear but most likely not from Oswald. Perhaps someone can explain Four things. First the entrance wound to Kennedy’s neck was a different size then the entrance wound to the back of his head, why? second the so called magic bullet fired from the Mannlicher penetrated both Kennedy and Connolly and remained wholly in tact while the bullet with the different sized entrance wound to the back of Kennedy’s head cause a large exit wound? why? and not one aspect of that bullet was ever found why? The flight of the neck shot and the head shot should have traveled at the same speed and same angle downward, if true why was the exit wound from the head shot in the top of the skull instead of the facial area?
first two shots? are saying he was hit three times?
look at a picture before the head shot and the position of his head.
Again…Kennedy and Connolly were hit by the same bullet from the same gun. One bullet goes through Kennedy into Connolly and is found intact, flight of the bullet, back neck, through neck downward into Connolly’s chest and then into his hand and leg indicating downward travel. But the head shot fired from the same window same gun two seconds later exits out the top of Kennedy’s head? and is never found. A wound like that is usually caused by a fragmenting round meant to fragment on contact. But that would mean two different rounds were fired.
Of course it does. Look at the Zapruder film; after the first shot, JFK leans forward. The third shot enters the back of his head, and exits the top. Perfectly consistent with a shot from the sixth-floor window in the Book Depository.
two entrance and exit wounds so you are saying a shot missed?
The entry wound to the head was low down on the back of President Kennedy’s skull. There was also a large wound, the location of which was variously described as toward the top, right and rear of the skull. All of these locations of the supposed exit wound are higher than the entry wound, and are incompatible with a shot coming from above and behind at an angle of about 10°–15° to the horizontal, given the inclination of Kennedy’s head at the moment of the fatal shot or shots.
Based on the exit wounds two different types of bullets were used and because each entrance wound was a different size indicates a different caliber was employed.
A bullet striking the heavy bones of the skull is quite different from one going into the soft tissue of the neck – that should be quite obvious.
Also, Project Gutenberg, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination, has posted the first 12 volumes (out of 26) of the Warren Commission Report online – see Volume 1 here.