# Who killed President Kennedy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481 "2004-12-01T13:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/61 "2004-12-02T06:20:31Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > In fact, most of the stuff Oswald did, he did alone. He seems to have had a hard time forming relationships with other people and also to have had a problem with authority. So he was a pretty unreliable guy. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/62 "2004-12-02T08:17:10Z")
This is one off-beat theory I have wondered about for years. Basically, Kennedy gave the go-ahead for a military coup in Vietnam. President Diem (husband of Madame Nhu) had been disobeying CIA orders…there is evidence that he was about to open negotiations with Ho Chi Minh, and end the war. Kennedy’s CIA people did not want this-they wanted the puppet regime of Diem to continue the war (and don’t forget all the business interests that wanted the war). So Kennedy told the generals of the South Vietnam Army to go ahead and overthrow Diem. AS we know, this coup took place, and President Diem (and his brother) were viciously murdered (shot to death). Madame Nhu fled Vietnam, vowing vengeance for her husband. Kennedy never had a good explanation of why we were sponsoring the overthrow of an ostensible ally…although all of the Vietnamese generals who participated wound up with piles of cash. So, was the powerful Nhu clan responsible for the assasination? ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/63 "2004-12-02T11:59:07Z")
As others have mentioned, the acoustics argument on which the House Select Committee on Assassinations relied has been thoroughly discredited. The [report of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Ballistic Acoustics](http://www.jfk-online.com/nas04.html#7) which did the discrediting as long ago as 1982 is now available online. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/64 "2004-12-02T13:56:58Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So he was a pretty unreliable guy. That’s it! Oswald is too _unreliable_ to have shot Kennedy! I’m convinced! Just kidding. So, Dewey, you like _America’s Army_, do you? Well, just watch out you don’t fall into the sights of a stone killer like Bryan514. That’s me, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/65 "2004-12-02T14:12:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So he was a pretty unreliable guy. Very. So unreliable that nobody in his right mind would want him in their conspiracy. He couldn’t even work in his manual labor job in a warehouse without shooting a president, a governor, and a cop. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481/66 "2004-12-02T15:50:34Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > He couldn’t even work in his manual labor job in a warehouse without shooting a president, a governor, and a cop. Don’t forget shooting at, but missing, a prominent general. However, he did that before he got the TSBD job. About the Madame Nhu conspiracy theory - I had never heard that one. I guess you could find people in the world who didn’t like Kennedy, and therefore might have motive to knock him off. But you can’t get around the fact that there is truly a mountain of good, hard evidence pointing to the idea that Oswald, acting alone, shot him, and not one piece of credible evidence to the contrary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-president-kennedy/277481.md?page=3)