Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was bed-ridden through the year 1977-1978 (the year of the House Subcommittee on the assassination), and I read about 20 books on the subject. Many were still in print from the 1960's. I came away from it thinking that the investigation was so badly flawed and the Warren Commission so incredibly one-minded (they didn't want the truth, they wanted to find that Oswald acted alone and therefore ignored everyone else), I knew that we would never really know the truth. I recently saw a documentary with some work done in Australia on the ballistics of the wound entry, etc., that showed pretty conclusively that Oswald's gun could have done the magic bullet. But was it a conspiracy? I sure think so. Read Norman Mailer's "Oswald's Tale". He makes a pretty good argument for Jack Ruby being forced by the Mafia to kill the patsy before he talked. -- Jeffery ---- "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: > I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist about Dallas until a couple of years > back when I saw the special ABC did with a reexamination of the sound tapes > from the shooting. The show didn't really deal with whether Oswald acted > "alone" or whether he was a patsy - still leaves open 'was it a mob it? Was > it a commie plot? Was it Castro? Or was it just a lone wack job? But, it > sure demolished all the 'magic bullet' nonsense, and the contentions re the > amount of time between shots and whether someone could get them off. I'm > not > saying 'yeah' or 'nay,' just don't write off the Oswald did it theory until > you've seen this thing. > > Last comment on this subject. Honest. :-) > > > On 10/13/06 3:51 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > > He also brought up Charles Whitman, the UT sniper who killed a bunch of > > people > > in the 60's (also an ex-marine). > > -- > > Jeffery > > > > ---- Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Walt wrote: > >> > >>>> Yes, I was in the Marines when that happened. If Jesus showed up > >>>> at my > >>>> font door and said "Walt, trust me, Oswald did it alone" I'd have to > >>>> call him a liar. > >> > >> What was that line from "Full Metal Jacket"? I paraphrase here > >> because my memory is a bit fuzzy but I recall the marine rifle > >> instructor informing his trainees that: > >> > >> "Lee Harvey Oswald got off two shots in a second and a half and hit > >> President Kennedy at a distance of two hundred yards. AND HE WAS A > >> MARINE!" > >> > >> Larry Z > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information