What is the JFK conspiracy?
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The Illuminati.\nI had to do a report on them and sought all ranges of info.\nIt turns out they've slowly come to control most governments (major and minor) with America as a strong foothold.\nSupposedly, all the American presidents were either members of the Illuminati or were approved by them somehow.\n\nIt seems the Kennedy family was "punished" for not playing along with the Illuminati game plan. Somehow, they control or affect almost everything.\n(Scary stuff to do research on... trust me)
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It's possible.  He was shot before he could be questioned by police, but when he was arrested he screamed "I am just a patsy".  So I guess it could be a part of the conspiracy to keep the real murderer a secret.\n\n\nWe're talking about the shooting of Oswald, not the shooting of JFK, right?
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Actually nobody knows who did it.\n\nThe Conspiracy...\n\nThe Conspiracy\n\nDealey Plaza\n\nWhat about those witnesses? Didn't everyone hear shots from the Grassy Knoll? What about the Tague wounding? Who was the "Umbrella Man?" Was the rifle recovered really a Mauser? Does "acoustic evidence" show a shot from the Grassy Knoll? Were the Three Tramps suspicious? How could Kennedy's head go "back and to the left?" \n\nThe Single Bullet Theory\n\nYou've seen Kevin Costner give the conspiracy version of the Single Bullet theory. You know: Connally seated directly in front of Kennedy, at the same height, and facing straight ahead. Was that really what happened? \n\nLee Harvey Oswald\n\nWhat sort of person was he? Did he really have "Top Secret" security clearance? Did he shoot at General Walker? Were there two Oswalds? If Oswald shot Kennedy, what was his motive? Was the man exhumed in 1981 really somebody besides Oswald? \n\nJim Garrison and New Orleans\n\nDid Oswald really share an office with Guy Banister? Did Clay Shaw really use the alias "Clay Bertrand?" Why did Oliver Stone make a movie about the Shaw trial and not even mention Perry Raymond Russo? Did David Ferrie die a "mysterious death?" What about Jim Garrison and the Mafia? \n\nMedical Evidence\n\nDid the bullet that hit Kennedy in the back penetrate only an inch and fall out? Was Kennedy hit in the head by a bullet from in front? Are the autopsy photos and x-rays faked? Did all the doctors at Parkland Hospital believe that Kennedy was hit in the front of the neck, and if so, are their opinions decisive evidence that that is what happened? Was the back of Kennedy's head blown out? Are the autopsy photos faked? \n\nBogus Evidence\n\nDid you know that all the evidence in this case proven to be forged has been on the conspiracy side? One key piece originated with the KGB! Did you know that the "mysterious deaths" are virtually all not so "mysterious" when you look at them closely? Do you trust authors like Mark Lane to tell you the truth about what witnesses said? \n\nJack Ruby\n\nThe "lone nut" theory of the assassination is really the "two lone nuts" theory. What sort of person was Jack Ruby? A mobster? An intelligence agent? A small-time hustler? The sort of volatile character who might really have shot Oswald out of righteous anger? \n\nOliver Stone's Movie "JFK"\n\nWe expect Hollywood movies to take some liberties with the historical record. But what do we think when Hollywood turns history on its head? Oliver Stone wants to overturn the verdict in the Clay Shaw trial. The jury found that District Attorney Jim Garrison had no case — so Stone invents a case on celluloid. Just how honest was Oliver Stone, Shaw's Hollywood prosecutor? \n\nJohn Kennedy: Liberal Martyr?\n\nFor some in the conspiracy crowd, John Kennedy was a liberal saint, who was going to implement policies that would bring America into a new Utopia. So, of course, a threatened Power Elite had to kill him. Was Kennedy the kind of left liberal who threatened established interests? Was he a hero of Civil Rights? Had he decided to pull out of Vietnam? Historian Eric Paddon dissects these claims in a series of essays based on his posts on the Internet. \n\nAssassination Logic\n\nSome notions about logic, probability and statistics necessarily underlie all discussion of "conspiracy" or "lone assassin." Does the lone assassination theory involve too many implausible "coincidences?" Are there a suspicious number of "connections" between various figures in the case? Is the Single Bullet Theory highly "improbable?" \nAssassination Witnesses\nIt writings about the assassination, as in real-world criminal justice, witness testimony looms large. But just how reliable are the witnesses? How many witnesses are just flat out telling tall
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. A member of the politically prominent Irish-American Kennedy family, he is considered an icon of American liberalism. During World War II, he was cited for exceptional bravery rescuing fellow sailors in the South Pacific. Kennedy served his home state of Massachusetts in Congress 1947-60, as both a member of the House of Representatives and as U.S. Senator. He was elected President in 1960 in one of the closest elections in history.\n\nMajor events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, early events of the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Rights Movement. In rankings of U.S. presidents, historians usually grade Kennedy above average, but among the general public he is often regarded as among the greatest presidents. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Official investigations later determined Lee Harvey Oswald to be the culprit. His assassination is considered one of the most defining moments in U.S. history because of its traumatic impact on the entire nation, its impact on the political history of the ensuing decades, Kennedy's status as an icon for a new generation of Americans and American aspirations, and for the mystery and allegations of conspiracy that surround it.
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It's Lee Harvey Oswald, and he shot JFK (John F. Kennedy), not LBJ, on Friday, November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.\n\nHowever, it does not say why Oswald killed Kennedy.
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The US Govt. I'm convinced. Don't have the proof, but one day I will. It's just too much build up for it not to be the govt. Why seal the FBI files till 2007 and now they have been pushed till 2013. WHy? If it was just Oswald? Then RObert Kennedy gets assassin too in '68 in the Ambasador Hotel, strangely his route to the hotel's entrance was changed at the last minute. WHy have the JFK photos of his assassin been taken away from the public? As well as the any 8 mm cameras that people had, they were pushed aside and interrogated. Many eyewitnesses "disappeared". This doesn't happen when it's a murder. In the words of Malcolm X's daughter, "that is why it's called an assassin, because the government was involved"\n\nTry to get a hold of the original newspapers of the day after his assassin, it will state clearly the 3 bullet theory. I do not believe Cuba was involed in it like the author of JFK states so, but Oliver Stone also believes in this conspiracy theory.
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If 9/11 was what many suspect it to have been,then the Axe needs to fall.  It rarely does, however, as we seem to be cursed with the JFK syndrome of believing the public can't stand to hear the truth.  Those that run things have a cynical view of humanity, and they don't seem to care about us at all.
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It's so interesting how you asked that. You said "current opinion." They mystery behind his assassination is just that......a mystery. So theories and conclusions have been drawn and studies and research into the magic bullet are still being evaluated. As a result, our own opinions seem to change as often as the investigation. When Oliver Stone's movie came out, we all began to "pick a little, talk a little" about Johnson's involvement. Cuba's involvement..........the mafia's involvement......... Marilyn's old boyfriend's involvement...........and the list goes on and on. When a country has an trauma as extreme as JFK's assasination, we need answers. When we don't have straight out answers, we create theories, when the theories don't always pan out, we create more theories. So here I've gone on a ramble about agreeing with your words and didn't even answer your question. My current opinion...........I don't know. *sigh*
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I Think It Was A Shame. We Will Never No The Whole Truth. JFK Is The Only One That New What Happend.
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You'll find it discussed in most conspiracy books, and most especially in Jim Garrison's book, On the Trail of the Assassins (right). Supposedly, John Kennedy's motorcade through Dallas, which was to go directly down Main Street and onto the Stemmons Freeway, was changed at the last minute to turn of Houston Street, and then Elm Street. \nWhy is this supposed to be sinister? Because the route down Elm Street takes the limo near the Grassy Knoll, where a shooter was supposedly stationed. It also takes the motorcade near other buildings (such as the Dal-Tex) were shooters could be hidden, supposedly creating a "triangulation of crossfire." \n\nBelow is a drawing of the "originally planned" parade route, and the "revised" parade route -- taken from On the Trail of the Assassins is shown below.\n\n\n\n\n\nGarrison's Account of His "Discovery"\nJim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who prosecuted Clay Shaw for conspiring to murder Kennedy, claimed to have discovered the "changed route." He says that, during his investigation of the assassination in 1967: \nThe temporary respite from the investigation did not last long. Frank Klein could not stay away from it, and neither could I. One morning I was in my office reading and rereading a newspaper. I did not hear Frank enter. \n"I have never seen you so preoccupied," said Frank. \n\n"It's not just any paper, son," I said. "This is the front page of the Dallas Morning News for November 22, 1963." \n\n"Well, what's got you so hypnotized?" \n\nI gestured to the large diagram on the paper's front page, indicating the route of the presidential parade. "Have I ever shown you this before?" I asked. \n\nHe shook his head.\n\nI turned the paper around facing his way so that he could read the diagram of the motorcade. It covered almost five-sixth of the front page.\n\n"Frank," I said, "I want you to follow the parade route with me. Let's pick it up right here as it comes down Main approaching Dealey Plaza. Are you with me?"\n\n"Yes," he said, his finger following the thick line indicating the motorcade. "And here is where it reaches Dealey Plaza . . . " He stopped.\n\n"What's the matter?" I asked.\n\n"This diagram indicates that the President's parade was supposed to continue on Main Street through the center of Dealey Plaza -- without even leaving Main." He stared at it in disbelief.\n\n"So what's wrong with that?" I asked.\n\nHis finger was moving off of Main, inches downward to Elm until he found the Depository area where the President had been shot. "If that was the presidential parade route up there on Main . . . "\n\nI finished the question for him. "How did he get way down here on Elm?"\n\nFrank looked up at me with a slight frown, then looked back at the diagram. He moved his finger back along Main Street to where it reached Houston. "The motorcade turned right on Houston and went down onto Elm," he said. . . . "Here on Main Street, continuing through the open meadow," he said, "they couldn't have hit him. Are you telling me that at the last moment they just moved the President of the United States off of his scheduled route to here where the Depository is?" He pushed back his chair and stood up. "Hell, I haven't read a damned word about that anywhere. How can they keep something like that a secret for three years?"\n\n[...]\n\nFrank grabbed the front page of the Dallas Morning News and pointed to the diagram. "Hell," he said, "was the Warren Commission blind? Didn't they see this?"\n\n"Oh," I said. "Would you like to see the front page that was introduced to the Warren Commission?"\n\nI pulled open my middle desk drawer and took out a copy of the Dallas Mor
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John F. Kennedy was getting ready to lessen the power of the CIA and had fired top CIA man Dulles.  The CIA and the Mafia worked together on a plan to assassinate Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion that Kennedy agreed to.  President Kennedy did not provide Air defense protection for the guerilla fighters who were ambushed by Castros guerillas.  This upset both the mob and the CIA.  The mob was already mad because brother Robert was coming down hard on them.  Also JFK was planning on letting LBJ go in 64 and LBJ knew that his political career would have been over.  Also a lot of top leaders were upset at Kennedy's plan to get out of Vietnam.  In other words Kennedy had a lot of people against him that I believed conspired together to assassinate him.  I believe that a lot of people were involved in the conspiracy  but the CIA and mob worked together on how it was carried out.  I believe there were at least 3 snipers firing from front and back.  If you watch the Zapruder film closely it appears as if the limo driver and special agent Greer is doing something with his hands in the front seat looks back once turns around and looks back again and fires the fatal shot.  I have been told that he did it using a famous CIA ice bullet.  Big cover up and the first Crime of the Century.
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Let it go. Why can't we have any mysteries in this country. Hoffa, JFK, Deep Throat. Why do we always have to know everything. Mysteries are fun. They give us something to debate, to speculate about. Hell, they even dug up the unknown soldier at Arlington a few years ago. I vote for not knowing.
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I just did a search for "Kennedy Administration and the Middle East" and came up with the web site listed below.  It looks very interesting.  Good Luck.
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While there have been several theroy's as to who assasinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 and I for one always was willing to look at any conspiracy theroy there was.  I have watched the Zapruter Film over and over again trying to see any little detail that could prove something.  They can establish where most of the spectators were when the shots were fired, either on movie film or by still photography.  No matter what I have studied it still points that Lee Harvey Oswald committed the crime.  The Motorcade's path was changed the day before the parade and it was at that point that Oswald saw that he had a chance to pull this off and planned the assasination all in one night and morning.  Until the day before the Motorcade it was not scheduled to drive through Delany Plaza and past the Texas Book Depository Building.  It was a point in history that changed the innocence of the country and brought us to the cynical people we are today about everything political and governmental.  It was one of those things in life that was one way before that and another after.  It changed a whole nation in 13 seconds and three shots.  What was before and what came after were two different ways of thinking about things.  Jack Ruby comes in 2 days later while we are all still numb and kills Oswald taking away forever the chance to know exactly why the Assasination took place at all.  There is no smoking gun hidden away here folks just one man who decided to change history.
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"Conspiracy theory" is simply a great catch-all phrase. And by definition a good conspiracy is one that cannot be proven.\nI mean, it's entirely possible that politicians have been bribed, cabals have been formed, secret treaties and arrangements have been made.\nHowever, the problem with pulling out the conspiracy theory card, is that there is a significant contingent of people that have gone to that well far too often; the nut cases. The folks that think everything's a conspiracy, like the Vietnam War was fought because of a bet Aristotle Onasis lost to Howard Hughes. These folks cry conspiracy so often that when and if it does actually happen, no one's listening.
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There is not just one conspiracy theory, there are many. And every year a new one emerges as well. They all pretty much all have one thing in common and that is that Oswald didn't act alone.
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The death of Marilyn Monroe has some conspiracy theories. There is the OJ Simpson case.  And there is the Fatty Arbuckle case.