When you are young and you arrive at the idea that there might be a conspiracy involved in some sensational crime, only it has been covered up– you probably think you know it’s a conspiracy because you are smarter than most people. You see the clues. You read between the lines.
It is only later in life that you begin to realize that, if there is a conspiracy out there, the people conspiring might be as smart or smarter than you. They might be ahead of you.
They might realize that the best way to prevent anyone from ever “proving” that there is a conspiracy is not to deny that there is a conspiracy, but to fill the world with conspiracy theories until most sensible people are nauseated and exasperated.
No one says, “how can you believe there was a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy when J. Edgar Hoover himself denied it?” No, no, no. But people might say, “oh– you believe that the CIA stole his body on the aircraft flying back to Washington, surgically altered the body to make it look like the shots came from the front, and then snuck it back into the coffin without Jackie noticing?” Or that both the Mafia and the Cubans were involved, and the CIA for good measure, as well as Naval Intelligence and the oil industry.
On the other, hand read a credible biography of James Angleton, or of Reinhard Gehlen, or Allan Dulles, or George de Mohrenschildt. You don’t need to read a biography by a whacky conspiracy theorist. Find one written by a reputable, serious, accountable journalist who doesn’t believe in conspiracies. You will see the whacky become real. You will realize that there are people out there who would seriously contemplate assassination as a political strategy.
You have to realize, as well, that “proof” isn’t the point. I have never heard a JFK conspiracy theorist discuss this important point: what is proof, really? It is the evidence you use to apply force. The force is the police, the army, the FBI. Without the power to arrest and detain people and seize evidence, there can be no “proof”.
Suppose, for example, a couple of investigators went to a federal judge in Washington DC shortly after the assassination and asked for a warrant to search the offices of J. Edgar Hoover, because someone had provided the investigators with evidence that the FBI did have a file on Oswald and that J. Edgar Hoover had lied to the investigators. A lot of people, reading of his arrest, would have come to believe that J. Edgar must have done something seriously wrong, or why would he have been arrested?
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If Oswald Acted Alone…
–and I’m not saying he didn’t– he was essentially a lone nut. No conspiracy. Some whacko just got it into his head to kill the president, because he could, and because he happened to work in a building that was right on the parade route. And he happened to be a former marine, and a defector to the Soviet Union, and he had a close relationship with George de Mohrenschildt… who, among other things, had a personal acquaintanceship with Jackie Bouvier, and whose father was imprisoned by the Soviets as an anti-communist. And whose wife and daughter were immediately taken in by a couple with direct links to a military contractor, Bell Helicopter, which also happened to employ an ex-Nazi rocket designer, General General Walter Dornberger.
In your own entire life, have you ever met anyone who claimed to even know someone who directly knew someone involved in intelligence work, or in building V-2 rockets, or conducting overseas operations for the CIA? All the time, right?
Sure, Oswald could have acted alone. Maybe all of this contact with the Marines and the Russians and the CIA and Clay Shaw and so on contributed to his frustrated delusions of grandeur.
Or he was the ideal patsy, an operative who carried out various missions for the U.S. intelligence community, who wasn’t too bright, and came to be exactly what he claimed to be: a patsy.
The Nazi Connection to the JFK Assassination
This is a Relatively Serious and Thoughtful Collection of Research on the subject of the JFK Assassination.
On the remarkable Major General Dr. Walter Dornberger. If you are a devoted Nazi and you are going to commit war crimes– like leading the effort to bomb civilians in London– you better be smart. That way, after you have surrendered, instead of being hanged as a criminal, you get to move to Dallas, Texas and work for Bell Helicopter.