Originally posted by scottnapa
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- Why, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis and at a time when the government wanted to avoid any escalation with the Soviet Union and with the general anti-communist feeling at the time would they have selected a recent defector to their plot which could only have fuelled fear and paranoia that the Soviets had been involved in the assassination of the President? Oswald’s defection couldn’t have been kept secret.
- We would surely have to agree that no conspirator (at whatever level) would have wanted their name, at any time, to have come out as being a part of a plot to kill the President. Indeed it’s difficult to conceive of the effect on the nation if was proven that the President was killed by, or with the help or knowledge of, one of the countries own trusted institutions. So why go with a plot that involves so many people. Police, secret service, doctors, military, CIA, FBI, Warren commissioners, experts employed for testing etc etc. it must be 100’s of people. Even when planning a minor secret the rule is always ‘the fewer in the know the better.’ And we can’t say “low level people wouldn’t have known who planned it all” because they wouldn’t have needed to. Simply letting slip at some point that they had been forced or cajoled into lying would have been enough of a risk. So why go with a plot involving so many?
- Why go with such a complex plot which requires so many actions after the event? Planting of prints, the ‘framing’ of Oswald over the completely unnecessary Tippit murder, the fake autopsy, the corrupt WC, etc.
- Why select the Grassy Knoll? It’s in front of a car park (used by the Dallas Police Department and Court House workers) and had a working railway tower so the killer could have been seen from back there. Then there were people on both sides of the street. Any of those on the Knoll side could have happened to turn around and seen the gunman. Ditto those on the opposite side but the added risk was of him being captured in a photograph or a piece of footage. There’s no way that the police could have had even 10% confidence in being able to gather in all film/stills before everyone left the Plaza. This must be the worst spot possible so how could an alleged group of high level conspirators have signed off on that?
- Why would conspirators go to the huge trouble of setting up a fake autopsy where they were trying to give a false impression of the wounds when they would have known that Kennedy would be taken initially to Parkland where no such precautions could be taken. It’s like a bank robber putting on his mask after he’s just done the robbery.
- How could a high level conspiracy manage to set up a fake autopsy and commission, plant evidence etc, fake that the 2 guns were owned by Oswald etc but not manage to provide a car to get Oswald away from Dealey Plaza? What kind of people leave a guy that they’ve apparently set up as the murderer of the President roaming around free, getting arrested and talking on national TV?
- Why not, top sniper with the best equipment, placed in a building (didn’t even have to be Dallas) one head shot, car waiting at the back of the building or down some side street. Assassin whisked away. Either payed off/new identity etc or killed. Didn’t our conspirators like ‘efficient’ and ‘low risk?’
- Why take the enormous and unnecessary risk of ‘planting’ 3 cartridges on the 6th floor and then employing a second gunman? It’s insanity. Just one bullet fragment found of a different type and it’s…2 gunmen. Just enough to take the total weight over 3 bullets and it’s…2 gunman. What if half a bullet had gone through and was found much later by a member of the public? It’s 2 gunman? These conspirators were risking all on luck. (Like what if a coworker or two had arrived on the 6th floor?)
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