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Originally Posted by spacemanspiff
Second conspiracy. The JFK shooting,
I know this one has been talked to death. Maybe it's the cynic in me but I really believe the CIA or FBI had something to do with it. Again, no proof just a belief. Kennedy was I believe thinking about disbanding the CIA wasn't he?
And it's hard for me to believe that Oswald could pull something like that off all by himself. Now conserning the idea that there were four or five shooters? I don't know. I just believe that Oswald did not act alone or that he was a scapegoat. It's more a feeling than anything else really. I mean if it was cut and dried positive that he acted alone would there be so much controversy about all these years later?
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I'm repeating the part of Spiff's original post about his JFK beliefs here.
The claim that Kennedy was planning to abolish the CIA evidently appears in a
book by "Colonel" Donn Grand Pre. Some sources claim he's a retired US Army colonel, some a retired US Marine colonel, and one a US Air Force colonel, which is why I put the rank in quotations. Grand Pre is definitely a hard-core September 11 conspiracist, but from what I gather, he has written a series of books basically claiming that everything is a conspiracy. I couldn't find much direct information about his views on the JFK assassination, except for a
quotation in which he makes the claim about the CIA. The quotation references another book, an advertisement for which contains the above quotation.
Therefore, in short, there is no credible evidence that Kennedy was planning to disband the CIA.
May I ask why, specifically, you find it "hard to believe" that Oswald could have carried out the assassination by himself? Oswald was trained to shoot in the US Marine Corps, and his qualification scores with a rifle were about average. Kennedy's limousine was moving slowly away from Oswald, with minimal apparent motion of the target. All three shots were fired well within the effective engagement range for the Mannlicher-Carcano carbine.
As for the continuing controversy, there are two major issues. The first issue is the fact that the autopsy was completely mishandled. Kennedy's body should have been autopsied in Dallas, by the county coroner. However, for perfectly understandable but misguided reasons of emotion, the Secret Service chose to return Kennedy's body to Air Force One and fly back to Washington, along with the Presidential party, as quickly as possible, in violation of Texas law. The choice of where to have the autopsy performed was, again for understandable but misguided reasons, left to Jackie Kennedy. She chose Bethesda Naval Hospital because of JFK's naval service. The pathologists there were inexperienced in gunshot autopsies, and, undoubtedly for reasons of pride, the Navy declined to engage a qualified civilian forensic pathologist, though they did call in Army Colonel Pierre Finck, who had had some experience (though not recent) in homicide autopsies. On top of this, there was tremendous pressure to complete the autopsy quickly, and to further damage Kennedy's body as little as possible. Therefore, the autopsy was far from thorough.
The second issue is that the Warren Commission made several mistakes in its work, which has left the door open to charges that its conclusions are inaccurate.