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It's not just crackpots
who question theconventional wisdom that
Lee Harvey Oswald acted
alone when he killed
President John F.
Kennedy on Nov. 22,
1963.
University of Virginia
professor Larry Sabato
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(http://politics.virginia.edu/people/sabato), author of "The Kennedy
Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John
F. Kennedy (http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Half-Century-
Presidency-Assassination/dp/1620402807)" argues that "the chance of
some sort of conspiracy involving Oswald is not insubstantial."
Sabato reached this conclusion after considering 50 years of evidence,
even while also debunking a conspiracy theory
(http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/sabato-
jfk-book-kennedy-assassination-theory-98245.html)
put forth by a House committee in 1979.
"For all attempts to close the case as 'just Oswald,'
fair-minded observers continue to be troubled by
many aspects of eyewitness testimony and paper
trails," he writes.
The founder of the UVA Center for Politics opened this never-ending
debate "because the assassination is critical both to understanding
America's past and future paths and to the lasting legacy of
John Kennedy (http://www.businessinsider.com
/john-f-kennedys-enduring-legacy-is-starting-
to-become-much-clearer-2013-10)that is the subject of this
book."
Alternative theories cannot be put to rest because of discrepancies and
inadequacies in the initial response to the assassination.
To start, there are the questions about why the autopsy was performed at
the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, not in Texas as required
by the law, and why the Bethesda team did not confer with doctors from
the Texas trauma room and did not have the president's clothes.
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"[The autopsy] opens it up to conspiracy theories immediately that the
body was altered, the wounds were altered, and all the rest of it," Sabato
told us. "I understand why they couldn't leave the body there but it would
have been so much better if it had been performed in Dallas."
More questions arise with the investigation ordered by President Lyndon
Johnson, which Sabato claims was haphazard and inadequate.
"The problem is the Warren Commission (http://www.archives.gov
/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-1.html) did not do a
thorough job when the trail was hot," Sabato told Business Insider. "The
trail went cold decades ago. It is virtually impossible 50 years later to put
all of the pieces back together. I've interviewed people 50 years later that
the Warren Commission never interviewed that were right there and took
important photos or films."
Because of these errors, certain conspiracy theories may never be put to
rest.
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While all evidence suggests that Oswald killed
Kennedy, some clues suggests that he may not have
been the only assassin or that he may not have acted
alone.
First, there remains "the live possibility of a second gunman in the grassy
knoll area," given the testimony of several witnesses, the presence of
phony Secret Service agents, and the armed men seen in the vicinity of
the Dealey plaza before, during, and after the assassination.
Adding to this theory is Dr. Robert McClelland, a physician in the trauma
room of the hospital where JFK was taken, who contends that the wound
he saw was consistent with a shot from the grassy knoll. Sabato notes that
the "ambiguous nature of the visual evidence" has led experts to disagree
as to whether the bullet that entered JFK's head came from the rear
(where Oswald was) or the front (the grassy knoll).
As for the idea that Oswald received help or encouragement, there is no
proof that he did, but there also is no proof that he didn't and there are
reasons to be suspicious.
"For a complete nobody, Oswald certainly did seem to hang out with
well-connected people," Sabato told BI.
Some of those shady connections include:
Upon returning from his short defection to the Soviet Union, Oswald
became friends with an international man of mystery named George de
Mohrenschildt, who "had ties with American intelligence and the State
Department ... and killed himself before he could testify to the House
Committee on Assassinations," Sabato said.
When Oswald moved from Dallas to New Orleans, he moved in with his
uncle, a small time hustler and bookie for New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos
Marcello. According to an FBI informant, Oswald received money from
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one of Marcello's chief lieutenants.
It was in the Big Easy where Oswald became
acquainted with the FBI. Oswald handed out pro-Castro
literature with the address 544 Camp Street on it. Curiously, FBI agent
Guy Bannister and a CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Council also
rented space at the same location.
"One thing that I've always wondered about is [Oswald's] time in New
Orleans because he was apparently associated with Guy Bannister, who
clearly had FBI and CIA ties, and yet he's also scuffling on the street with
[the local representative of] an anti-Castro group," Sabato said.
When Oswald was arrested after the fight, he demanded to speak with
FBI, and the agency sent Special Agent John Quigley to see him.
"All of these things are suspicious," Sabato told BI.
As a teenage Oswald was photographed with David Ferrie, a staunch
anticommunist who would allegedly go on to buy weapons from mob boss
Marcello and hand them off to Bannister and a CIA asset. Ferrie denied
ever knowing Oswald, yet in September 1963, six witnesses alleged that
the two showed up at a voter registration office in Clinton, Miss.
"It could be that Oswald was just a Forrest-Gump like
character who popped up at interesting moments
wherever he happened to live," Sabato writes. "But
just as conceivably, whether related to the Kennedy
assassination or not, Oswald actually had secretive
contacts with the CIA or the FBI, or both."
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Sabato details several more intriguing connections to Oswald, includingthe top CIA officials who withheld information about Oswald after he
allegedly showed up at the Cuban and Russian embassies in Mexico City
on Oct. 9, 1963, in a failed attempt to secure visas so that he could go back
to the Soviet Union.
When the CIA Mexico City station informed CIA headquarters that a man
named Lee Oswald had been in contact with the Soviet consulate, Langley
only sent a bare-bones reply with Oswald's basic facts. And the CIA,
which had self-operating surveillance cameras and telephone bugs in both
buildings, has never produced a photo or recordings of Oswald at either
embassy.
"The pieces of the Oswald puzzle stamped CIA may
be ill-fitting, but they could reasonably create a
portrait of covert action," Sabato writes. "CIA
headquarters might have found a good use for
Oswald and would not have wanted to share how
much they knew about this particular asset with
lower-level employees or foreign country stations."
Taken together, Sabato concludes that the prime suspects for influencing
Oswald to murder JFK would be the Mafia, the anti-Castro Cubans, or a
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Larry J. Sabato
rogue cell within the CIA.
"They all had means, motive, and opportunity,"
according to Sabato.
"As far as the CIA goes it is clear beyond question that the CIA lied
repeatedly to the Warren Commission and continued lying to the House
Select Committee on Assassinations," Sabato told BI. "Revealing nothing
about the assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. Revealing very little
about the fact they kept close tabs on Oswald: They knew what he was
doing, they were evaluating him. I think they had something in mind. I
don't subscribe to the hidden coup within the CIA, although I don't rule it
out. "
The suspicions about CIA went all the way to the top. Sabato writes that
Marvin Watson, LBJ's postmaster general, told the FBI that "President
Johnson expressed a belief in private in 1967 that the CIA had had a role
in Kennedy's death."
"Given the lack ofhard evidence, to
accuse any arm or
agency of the federal
government of
orchestrating
Kennedy's
assassination is both
irresponsible and
disingenuous,"
Sabato writes. "At
the same time, it is
impossible to rule
out the possibility
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that small, secret
cabal of CIA
hard-liners, angry
about Kennedy's
handling of Cuba and sensing a leftward turn on
negotiations with the Soviets ... took matters into
their own hands lest the United States go soft on
Communism."
The truth is that we may never know.
"I think this subject after 50 years requires some humility, which very few
analysts of the assassination have," Sabato told BI.
"I am tired of reading books by authors who are absolutely certain that
they have found the truth about the assassination. Malarkey," Sabato
said. "There is no way to have a full picture. We are where we are and I
think we are just going to have to accept that."
New details could come out soon, however, when
thousands of documents are scheduled to be released in October 2017.
"The President at that time will get to rule whether
anything can remain secret and redacted," Sabato said.
SEE ALSO: Sabato explains the legacy of
John F Kennedy
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Perhaps it was conspiracy of husbands pissed off that he was
borrowing their wives?
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on Oct 23, 2:16 PM
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Go watch the films, seconds before the shot(s) was/were fired the
secret service was called off of the president's motorcade. Moreover
there was a Deathbed confession by Everette Howard Hunt, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Posthumous_allegations:_.22deathbed_co
nfession.22_of_involvement_in_JFK_Assassination(http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Posthumous_allegations:_.22deathbed_co
nfession.22_of_involvement_in_JFK_Assassination)
Jesse Ventura's show that has the confession video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FDflK_Iug
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FDflK_Iug)
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@Not so fast :Yes, there are always detractors for just about
anything, the Holocaust, the moon landing, ect. But there is more
evidence that there was a conspiracy then there wasn't. Go watchthe film showing the closest secret service agents being called off
the motorcade (you can see the confusion one of the agents is
expressing, this is not anything close to normal).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEK16kLHsM
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEK16kLHsM)
The "official" line is JFK ordered the secret service agents to back
off days before hand however you can clearly see the command is
not given by JFK, in fact he doesn't seem to even realize the agents
behind him are gone.
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@Tom Slick: Hmm, I guess video evidence of agents being called
off the motorcade is all bullshit then....
Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
-Chico Marx
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@Peter Verkooijen: Oh really??
Then I'll just leave this here.
Explosive Jackie O tapes 'reveal how she believed Lyndon B
Johnson killed JFK and had affair with movie star'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023418/Jackie-
O-tapes-reveal-JFKs-affairs-believed-death.html
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@Peter Verkooijen: That was her initial reaction.
After the president's death, she refused to remove her blood-
stained clothing and regretted having washed the blood off her face
and hands. She continued to wear the blood-stained pink suit as
she went on board Air Force One and stood next to Johnson when
he took the oath of office as President. She told Lady Bird Johnson,
"I want them to see what they have done to Jack."
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um, there was actually a good special on bio I believe that explained
the whole backstory and how the shooter was the nephew of a shady
mobster/businessman that John and his brother were trying to
deport out of the country unsuccessfully numerous times. surprised
everyone doesn't know about this by now.
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"New details could come out soon, however, when thousands of
documents are scheduled to be released in October 2017.
"The President at that time will get to rule whether anything can
remain secret and redacted," Sabato said."
Some say this is over fifty years of obvious federal obstruction of
justice.
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