# Who killed JFK? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 4, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767 "2000-03-04T04:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/1 "2000-03-04T04:55:00Z")
Voice your opinion. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/2 "2000-03-04T06:47:00Z")
[Public Health Officer hat ON] This post is placed under quarantine. OP is to remain in absolute isolation. Under NO, I repeat NO, circumstances should anyone attempt to feed this or any other troll. [/Public Health Officer Hat OFF] We now return you to your regularly scheduled debates. Dr. Sue US Army Division of Pest Control ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/3 "2000-03-04T14:35:00Z")
Umm… I looked in my history book and it said, “Lee Harvey Oswald.” * * * There’s always another beer. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/4 "2000-03-04T21:50:00Z")
The “Topic:” line for this thread is a trick question. JFK has not been killed yet. It’s still a thriving airport that handles lots and lots of arrivals and departures every day. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/5 "2000-03-05T00:38:00Z")
Tacer! Beeruser! Public Health Officer instructions are NOT to be taken lightly! Further violations will result in being quarantined in the same thread with the OP, comparing dick size, wallet thickness, and pubic hair length. You are hereby warned. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Vinny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Vinny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/6 "2000-03-06T00:54:00Z")
I did it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/7 "2000-03-06T00:58:00Z")
So, Melin, how long **is** your pubic hair? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/8 "2000-03-06T20:27:00Z")
As a sometime lurker I find that I have very little to offer to most of the debates, but I read a theory (I repeat THEORY) that the death of JFK was due to an accidental shot from a Secret Serviceman responding to the first Oswald shot. This would explain the need to keep details confidential for 75 years. I can’t find the theory, but it sounded interesting to me when I read it. Anyone else know of it (or can post a link to it)? ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/9 "2000-03-06T20:37:00Z")
[http://www.reality.gov](http://www.reality.gov) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/10 "2000-03-06T21:05:00Z")
No one killed JFK. He was killed by a mean spirited and hateful gun. The alleged gun was found and the proper ballistics were performed and it was found that the gun in question was indeed the murder of JFK, as such the gun is still and will forever remain in custody so that it may never kill again. I know that I for one feel safer knowing that this gun is not out roaming the streets and tempting innocent folk into pulling its trigger to kill other innocent folk. Please do not attempt to blame innocent people for deaths that were so clearly caused by evil guns. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![J\_Blues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@J\_Blues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_Blues)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/11 "2000-03-07T02:06:00Z")
Kennedy was shot by \*\*\*\*\*. Proof can be found \*\*\*\* and \*_ **, I quote "** _ the president \*\*\*\* thursday." What more could you ask for? Just surf to [http://www.\*\*\*\*\*/\*_ **/** _.com](http://www. *****/**** /***.com) to see for yourself. Trust me, I work for the \*\*\*. (ps, kennedy was shot in Nov '63, that would be about 37 years, not 75 🙂 * * * “If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.” - Elbert Hubbard. ---
**Author:** ![bossbuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@bossbuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bossbuster)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/12 "2000-03-16T09:16:00Z")
**Please do not attempt to blame innocent people for deaths that were so clearly caused by evil guns.** Oh, your just one of those silly gun control advocates! Any real gun toting american will tell you, if oswald didn’t have a gun, he would have just used a butter knife! Well…a really long butter knife…or a rocket propelled knife…with radar…or a scope…Well o.k. a slingshot then!!! ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/13 "2000-03-16T15:05:00Z")
So are we all looking forward to Billy Crystal hosting the Oscars again? Wow, he’s some funny guy! Esprix, who blames everything on hijackers * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/14 "2000-03-17T06:01:00Z")
Michael, if you are really interested in the subject, a previous thread regarding JFK is at: [http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001105.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001105.html) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/15 "2000-03-17T06:15:00Z")
My brother likes to concoct completely absurd theories regarding the Kennedy Assassination. The time before last, he asserted that it was Howard Hughes. Trouble is, someone published a book with exactly that theory. So now he just says it was the Amish. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/16 "2000-03-18T20:43:00Z")
According to Occam’s Razor/the principle of parsimony, of all possible explanations, the simplest explanation that covers all the facts is most likely to be the correct one. The Teeming Millions, like anyone else, would do well to approach the JFK question accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![bossbuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@bossbuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bossbuster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/17 "2000-03-19T08:12:00Z")
Ok , I’ll open myself up for some abuse here. Several of the films I saw many years back, mentioned that some little “no name peons”, swore that JFKs coffin, upon entering the plane in dallas, was not the same one he was in when he landed. Of course they were called everything from slow to conspiracy freaks and publicity whores. Then to find out that the SOB’s did change the coffin and dump the original in the ocean! Ok…did I miss something, was this admission a hoax? Assuming the admission was true… Proof of a conspiricy? No, but Damn…that pisses me off! I could be wrong…it happend once before… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/18 "2000-03-19T20:25:00Z")
The Kennedy Assassination was a brilliant plot by the Bavarian Illuminati to draw attention away from themselves. With all the conspiracy theorists poring over Who Shot JFK, the Illuminati would be able to slip beneath the preoccupied conspiracy theorists’ collective radar. And so far, it’s worked. You don’t see Oliver Stone making any movies about the Illuminati, do you? ---
**Author:** ![bossbuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@bossbuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bossbuster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/19 "2000-03-20T09:58:00Z")
Tracer!!! sshhhhhhhh… ---
**Author:** ![cleosia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cleosia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleosia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767/20 "2000-03-20T21:06:00Z")
bossbuster: ## I heard somthing about this. Supposedly, the coffin was dumped to prevent it from becoming a grisly souvenir. I’m not sure how you make a souvenir of this if it’s buried or why the coffin they subsequently put him in didn’t become a souvenir, but that’s what I heard. Bitch by Birth [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/17767.md?page=2)