Before Kennedy? Off the top of my head:
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[li]The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[/li][li]FDR either plotted to have Pearl Harbor bombed or suppressed knowledge he purportedly had that it would be bombed.[/li][li]UFOs (Either they were government projects or the government knew about space aliens and hushed it up). [/li][li]Both of the Red Scares were strong on CT material.[/li][/ul]
It’s relevant because that’s why Garrison investigated Shaw; because one of Jim Garrison’s beliefs, at least in 1967, was that homosexuals were prone to thrill killings, and that the entire assassination was a homosexual conspiracy to kill JFK, because that’s what gays did. . .they killed people. He didn’t include this theory in On the Trail of the Assassins, maybe because 1988 Jim Garrison no longer believed it, maybe because he thought it made his investigation look silly, but that was what he believed in 1966-7, and he didn’t make any secret of it. He told reporters (Saturday Evening Post’s James Phelan, Life Magazine’s Richard Billings and David Chandler, Newsweek’s Hugh Aynesworth, Art Kevin at KMPC in Los Angeles). He had his staff investigate New Orleans’ gay subculture. That’s what it has to do with things.
One thing that always disturbed me and seems to show Oswald didn’t act alone was the Zapruder film of the head shot. This seems to show a shot coming from in front, not behind. The autopsy photos and sketches are of a very large exit wound at the back of JFK’s skull. I don’t see how this could be caused by a shot coming from behind, but I’d certainly be open to having my ignorance fought.
Bri2k
The first google hit on this is rife with cites (though poorly formatted and presented):
Someone else will provide a link to the relevant sites, but common sense isn’t helping you here. Tests show that human bodies don’t react the way you think they should. The physical evidence completely supports the shot from behind.
You are mistaken. The autopsy photo clearly shows a small entrance wound at the back of JFK’s scalp, and a huge exit wound in the top front of his skull. No question, the kill shot came from behind.
Really? The Zapruder film clearly shows the top right of his head exploding, while his face was pointed directly away from Oswald’s sniper nest. I can’t see how that could possibly lead anyone to believe it was a shot from the front.
JFK’s head snaps backwards after a shot hits it which suggests the shot coming from in front, not in back. If the shot came from behind him, his head should snap forward.
Bri2k
You are mistaken again. Ballistics tests show exactly the opposite; the mass of brain tissue ejected forward by the shot from the rear causes the head to snap backward. Action. Reaction. Newton figured this out hundreds of years ago.
Sure, if people had been throwing rocks at him instead of, y’know, bullets.
Thank you for the additional information and apologies for making one of you sigh.
Bri2k
It was the mafia. I don’t know if Oswald was involved or not. He probably was in some way.
Lamar Waldron an Thom Hartman documented the case extremely thoroughly in their book Ultimate Sacrifice.
I think they’re making a movie about it called Legacy of secrecy. Might be easier to take in that way because the book is a beast of a thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are about a dozen well-documented cases presented, all conflicting with each other. Did you know that the fatal head shot was actually due to a secret service agent, riding on the car behind the presidential limo, accidentally firing his gun and hitting Kennedy in the head? It’s been documented extremely thoroughly.
Has anyone promoted the theory that it was a really elaborate suicide yet?
THere was some theory that the driver turned around and shot him and no one noticed.
- The mafia sent out flyers looking for someone who wanted to kill the president, and whom had access to one of the buildings in Dealey Plaza. Oswald read one, and called in cause hey, the mafia could help him get away.
OR
- A crazy dude, with access to one of the buildings in Dealey Plaza, decided to kill the president and went ahead and did it, with little thought to how he was going to get away with it.
Evidence for #1: Hm…
Evidence AGAINST #1: Finding someone of such particular stripes is pretty impossible, let alone keeping the search secret, let alone performing such a search before the internet. And of course, if Oswald had any help, in the form of the mafia or whatever, then why did he start hoofing it and hang around town?
Evidence for #2: Plenty
Evidence AGAINST #2: Hm…
Maybe he committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head and no one noticed.
However, the theory about the driver was posted in a previous thread on this matter on this board.
Wow, what school did you go to ?
Sack that Physics tutor.
I don’t encourage trawling the net looking for gruesome gunshot executions, but I can’t ever recall seeing the head of bullet strike victim move TOWARDS the gun.
Check out poor old Bud Dwyer’s demise, Holocaust footage, or the South Vietnamese Police Chief summarily executing the Vietcong officer.
The camera never lies.