I also agree this is one of the few conspiracy theories that make sense.
1.How was Oswald, if he did the shooting at all, able to get into the Soviet Union and then re-enter the United States with no problems not too long later?
2.How did the shooter get off the number of shots fired in the time given?
3.I don't think the forensic evidence points to Oswald. The 'single bullet theory' is absolute nonsense. And the author of that theory, Arlen Spector, is not a physicist.
4.Why did Jack Ruby, a known Mafia member, kill Oswald? The reason he gave also strikes me as absolute nonsense.
5.It wasn't known at the time, but it is now known that the CIA and the Mafia were working together to assassinate at least one foreign leader: Fidel Castro. They may have collaborated on killing other foreign leaders, and if they collaborated on attempting to kill at least one foreign leader, why couldn't they have killed a domestic leader whom they both hated?
I am aware that in seemingly every murder investigation (which is what this basically is) there are anomalies that could be made out to suggest conspiracy theories, but I do think in this case these anomalies point to a possibility, and maybe even a strong possibility, of CIA/Mafia involvement.
Of course, I don't know if this was at the top of the CIA who wanted to stop Kennedy before he could 'break their agency into a million pieces' or just rogue elements who were unhappy with Kennedy's treatment of the Dulles brothers.
Adam just summed up my thoughts, which are the only things keeping me from calling this a typcally cockamamie conspiracy theory
Well...
In that list 1, 4 and 5 are reasonable questions.
However, there's been a lot of murky information about the remainder.
2. The timing.
Part of how this came about is due to people timing the Zapruder film. It's highlighted that JFK stops waving at frame 161, suggesting this is the time of the shot. However, if you combine eye-witnesses and a closer look at Kennedy, the shot is likely much earlier than frame 161. He seems to be reacting to something around frame 145, and given human reaction times, it was probably fire a couple of frames before that. A number of people who were at the corner of Houston and Elm said they heard the shot just as the car made the turn onto Elm. Some suggest that the shot actually hit the traffic light. Also, people have a tendency to add the first bullet loading into the shooting time, since that was already bolted... long story short all of these suggest the shooting happened over closer to eight seconds, instead of around six, not easy, but not impossible.
I think the other way is to look at the shooting is as a combination of accidents. First, the driver not reacting to the first or even second shot, second, Kennedy's back brace. VERY few people knew about this, if he'd not been wearing it, he would likely have fallen after the second shot, rather than being propped upright for the final shot. I think the shooter, Oswald or someone else, got 'lucky'.
3. The Magic Bullet is absolutely bulls***. However, it is BROADLY explicable. People seemed think that Kennedy and Connally were sitting at the same height, and one right behind the other. The problem is Connally was sitting significantly lower than JFK and almost a foot more toward the centre of the car. Connally was also not sitting front on, but was turning to his right at the time of the shooting, basically lining up his body perfectly. Try it yourself, put your hands on your thighs, then turn and look over your right shoulder, look at your alignment. The ONLY issue I have is every re-enacted is unable to recreate the shot through Kennedy and have the exit in the throat, it's usually exiting somewhere around the mid-chest.
If anything, the throat wound is the only thing that I think is off. EVERY doctor saw the throat wound as small, neat and basically an entry wound.
Wow... that was long-winded.
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