Why Conspiracy Theories Persist

Is FBI Director Hoover now seen as incompetent for just chasing after Oswald in the JFK assassination?  (Question on Quora.)

No, because all evidence is quite clear that Oswald, acting alone, assassinated JFK.

FBI Director Hoover is now known to have been corrupt, for thousands of abuses, and misuse of his office, to use his FBI agents to spy on and compile files on every possible President, and on every possible Cabinet Member, and on every possible member of Congress, so he could later “control them.”

But, none of that has anything to do with the JFK assassination, which was investigated by the Warren Commission, exhaustively.

Now, you see why some people continue to suspect a conspiracy?  Because of idiots like this who make statements like “No, because all the evidence is quite clear that Oswald, acting alone, assassinated JFK.”

The question was, was Hoover wrong to limit his investigation to one suspect (thereby ignoring all other possible suspects).   The responder seems to believe that once you have a suspect, no other possible suspect should ever be considered, and no evidence that contradicts the guilt of your one suspect should be investigated.

The evidence for Oswald’s guilt was anything but clear, and the idea of Oswald being a patsy for a broader conspiracy is, without a doubt, within the spectrum of possibility.

So if someone like Bruce Spielbauer dismisses conspiracy theories like that, I immediately think, well, clearly he has no evidence for this argument: he’s just a believer.

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