In the 50+ years since the assassination, many statements have been made, many facts have been posted, and many claims have been shared. There seems to be a little bit of new info that comes forward every few years; statements and testimonies taken from released documents, or facts that have been pieced together after years of extensive research, previously unreleased interviews that have surfaced, or new theories that have been launched.

All this just to find the truth of what happened in November of 1963.

It has come to the point where I don’t see people like myself as ‘conspiracy theorists’, because it has been proven that there was a conspiracy that day. I think we’ve earned the right to call ourselves ‘conspiracy researchers’, because that is what we do.

We research every aspect of possible conspiracy theories based on the known facts and evidence in the hope of finding out how it was all done. And just as importantly; how it was covered up, and by whom. And why.

In any case these sort of things are always interesting to read for those with an open mind.

Those who stick with the lone gunman explanation will not find any of this to be worth their time.

I suggest those people keep reading Gerald Posner and Dale Meyers statements.

Below is a collection of facts, information, statements, and findings that have come by since the birth of the very first conspiracy theory; when Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Sam Holland

S.M. Holland pointed out to Mark Lane, author of the best selling book “Rush to Judgement”, where he spotted the shooter behind the picket fence. This was about where the Fort Worth turn pike sign stood.

The very first sign coming down Elm Street from the Texas School Book Depository, was for the Thornton Freeway, then came the Stemmons Freeway sign, then the Fort Worth turn pike sign.

All the road signs are gone from the grass now, only the overhead signs in front of the depository remain, but the older pictures from ‘63/’64 show all the signs, and the view from the overpass shows the oversight from that shooter’s position towards where the limo was.

It was a question of aiming along the length of the fence, under the cover of shade from the trees, which made it a very good spot to shoot from. It has never been 100% proven anyone shot from there, but it was the ultimate position for a frontal sniper with a silenced weapon.

And the proximity of the shooter to President Kennedy made the force of the impact that much more powerful.

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Mark Lane

Mark Lane has always been a firm opponent of the Warren Report.

He appeared with Warren Commission lawyers David Belin and Arlen Specter on BBC Television in 1967 for the documentary “The Death of Kennedy”, and contested them openly with regards to their work ethics.

Lane clearly stated to Belin and Specter: “The Commission operated from the thesis that Oswald was the lone assassin.”

And he is, of course, 100% correct.

Someone probably told them “Oswald is the only one who did it. That’s all you need to know. Now figure out how he pulled it off.”

And then the crazy theories were hatched.

That’s how Americans got lulled into a lie.

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But there’s more: it was the murdering of Oswald by Ruby that really got people to think there was more to the Dealey Plaza shooting than the authorities were letting on. Oswald was clearly silenced by Ruby.

Which means that Jack Ruby was involved with the Kennedy assassination somehow.

Especially when he later said in an interview “The world will never know the true facts, of what occurred, my motives...”

That’s right up there with “I’m just a patsy!”

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Donald House

Donald House, a young man who was arrested because he fit the description of the Tippit shooter on the police radio, was photographed being marched down the hall of the police station.

Oddly enough he doesn’t look like he’s unhappy about being wrongfully arrested.

He looks more like a guilty man who surrendered to the idea of being caught. That always puzzled me.

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A professional opinion

Many people like to lean on the skills Oswald seemed to have had with a rifle. That he scored 212, did worse after that, that he missed a close, stationary target (Gen. Walker), but then hit a target moving further away three times (President Kennedy).

But very few are even remotely qualified to have an actual opinion as to the kind of skill that’s necessary to kill with a rifle.

 

Retired Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, who died in 1999, was, like many conspiracy theorists, skeptical of Oswald's alleged shooting feat. Hathcock was a former senior instructor at the U. S. Marine Corps Sniper Instruction School at Quantico, Virginia.

He has been described as the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills.

He later conducted police SWAT team sniper schools across the country.  Craig Roberts asked Hathcock about the marksmanship feat attributed to Oswald by the Warren Commission. Hathcock answered that he did not believe Oswald could have done what the Commission said he did, to which he added:

 

"Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did".

[ SOURCE: "KILL ZONE", pp. 89-90 ]

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Craig Roberts, sniper (USMC), 26-year police veteran, specialist in sniper and counter-sniper tactics, author of the book Kill Zone, which is a professional sniper’s perspective of the JFK assassination, and which blows the lone nut theory right out of the water.

 

Carlos “Gunny” Hathcock, sniper (USMC), the Marine Corps’ premier sniper with 93 confirmed kills including history’s longest single kill-shot of 2,500 meters, nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam, former chief instructor of the USMC Sniper’s School, at Quantico, Virginia. (Note: Gunny Hathcock proved the impossibility of the lone-nutter scenario during tests he personally conducted at Quantico)

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Josiah Thompson 

Josiah Thompson always maintained he was sure that Oswald shot twice from the sixth floor window, and that the grassy knoll shooter fired once, and at least two more shots were fired from the roof of the records building. But he doesn’t explain the throat wound.

Everyone who DOESN’T believe the magic bullet theory knows that since there was no wound at the back of the neck, it could only mean that the throat shot could have ONLY come from the front.

And this means that either there was a second shooter at the front too, or the grassy knoll shooter fired twice.

And the latter was easy to accomplish in that time frame with a good rifle.

However, since JFK was looking towards his right for almost 2 seconds (1.91 to be exact), between frames 160 – 195 …. frame 195 is his very first reaction to being shot, it’s possible, however unlikely, the throat shot could have come from his right.

Like from a shooter standing next to the TSBD, or just behind the alcove.

But the more shooters you have in place, the more exposure you’re risking.

So for me the number, and position, of the frontal shooter(s) remains debatable.

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Labelling evidence as Top Secret 

The fact that the U.S. Government used whatever method they could muster to lock away evidence pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy, and keep it locked away for 75 years, should tell every skeptic in the world that this wasn't done to protect the investigation, or the assassin, but to hide the truth.

If it was all so open and shut, why not share the evidence you have that backs up your claims?

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Violation of Justice 

Lee Oswald was interrogated for nearly 12 hours, and not one second of it was documented for public record.

No tapes, no stenographer, no dictation. Nothing. And this is the alleged assassin of the President of the United States!

This was a clear violation of justice.

They could have never gone to trial. Period.

 

The Presidential limo was washed inside and out, right outside of the hospital while doctors were working on Kennedy and Connally.

This was another violation of justice. They destroyed a crime scene. They destroyed evidence.

And it got even worse.

On Monday November 25th, the day of JFK's funeral (!), that same limo was sent to the Lincoln factory in Detroit, Michigan, where it was pulled apart, refurbished, and rebuilt. The windshield + frame and the floorboard were replaced/repaired, the replaced parts were destroyed, and the limo was reinforced and then repainted.

It was never used again and shipped to the museum in Deerborn, Michigan where it still stands today.

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The sniper’s nest

The South East corner of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was quickly dubbed the ‘sniper’s nest’.

Bonnie Ray Williams used this corner to have his lunch and had planned to watch the motorcade from there.

He explained that some of the boxes were already there. He leaned up against some of them, then sat on a cart to finish his lunch.

The fact is, whoever planned to use that corner to shoot from, would have had to have been of an average, or smaller than average, size in order to be able to have minimal room to move in.

A trained sniper would know that the key to getting away would be to keep out of sight, meaning to shoot from a ‘prone’ position.

This was impossible to achieve in that corner at that time due to all the boxes stored there.

And kneeling meant that too much of the sniper would be seen above that foot high window sill, even behind boxes.

I doubt a trained marksman would ever choose that particular spot.

Since the shells were found there, and one of the three workers on the 5th floor heard the shells drop, and the young boy on the street was adament that he saw “14-15 inches of pipe sticking out of the window”, investigators quickly assessed it had to have been the spot where shots were fired from. However, it has never been 100% fully proven that even ONE SHOT had been fired from that position, especially since Howard Brennan's statements can't be trusted since he changed his story at least twice.

So his claim of seeing one shot fired from there goes out the window. (pun intended)

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Johnson’s big mouth

“… as well as LBJ, who revealed to Mike Wallace at CBS in 1969 that the U.S. had been running a “damned Murder Incorporated in the Carribean”, and that one of the those operations against Castro had likely backfired. This comment was deleted from the program and not shown until after LBJ’s death in the early 1970s.”

 

[ SOURCE: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/creatingapatsy.htm ]

 

That sounds suspiciously like the speculation that the ingredients of 'Operation Mongoose' were used on American soil; use the same team and methods for the assassination of Kennedy as was previously attempted against Castro.

The “Murder Incorporated” Johnson referred to was 'Operation 40'.

In that region, during the infamous 'Bay of Pigs invasion', there was a similar Cuban exiles group installed in Cuba, called 'Brigade 2506'.

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Gunman theories 

If it was indeed Larry Crafard who went up the embankment along Elm Street, and keeping in mind that Jack Lawrence left a company car up there and returned to work on foot, sick, sweaty, and dirty 30 minutes after the shooting at Dealey Plaza, one could easily draw up a theory that one of the two was the grassy knoll shooter while the other was a spotter.

Alas, like many other theories, this has never been proven.

Lawrence was a marksman, and Crafard did odd jobs for Jack Ruby in exchange for room and board.

Using a silenced rifle would be the key to a successful frame-up job.

The diversionary ‘POP’ drawing attention to the right, so no one would notice anyone shooting from the front – throat shot.

 

As for other shooting perches, the Texas School Book Depository can’t be overlooked.

The main focus has always been on that ‘sniper’s nest’ because that’s where three 6.5mm shells were found, but think smart set-up for a second, and think of that first rifle that was found.

That Mauser.

Like I mentioned before, that story never went away. And it never will.

If that particular rifle was indeed found on the roof of the depository, somehow completely overlooked by Baker and Truly, we can draw up a simple theory: what if the shooter actually operated from the roof?

 

The whole goal, aside from killing the President, was to set up the patsy; Lee Harvey Oswald.

So it had to always look like shots had been fired from there. Someone was up there causing some misdirection (the pipe sticking out the window, the shells on the floor, movement in front of the window), while the actual shooter was up where no one could really see him.

Well, people standing on the overpass or at even higher spots might have, but their focus would primarily be on the Presidential motorcade down on the street. They had no reason to look up that high.

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I could also easily launch the theory that the shooter wanted to shoot from the ‘sniper’s nest’, but couldn’t because Bonnie Ray Williams hung around there too long. The shooter could have grown impatient and decided to go to the roof instead. (which would have been a long shot – it doesn’t seem like something that would have been rehearsed as a plan B scenario)

After the last shot, he goes to the sixth floor and plants the three shells, stashes the rifle, leaves out the back of the building, and the 30-06 was returned to Warren Caster later in the day. Again, it's just a theory.

 

The team on the second floor of the Dal-Tex building: they got off one shot, then packed up and left.

Perhaps they felt it was too dangerous to stick around.

Let’s not forget that Eugene Hale Brading (a.k.a. Jim Braden), was arrested and briefly questioned by the Sheriff’s Department, who had an office there, after behaving suspiciously and having no immediate reason for being on the premises in the first place.

He had, however, no weapon on him at the time of his arrest. But he was a known low-level gangster.

He was there with Larry Florer (who some claim was actually Edmund Kolby), and if indeed Charles Nicoletti was there too, like some researchers have clamied, I seriously doubt they were just sightseeing.

In any case, there was a trio of men in that building who stood out, and had little to no valid reason to be there.

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Some seem to think, Josiah Thompson is one of them, that an additional team was on the roof of the County Records building along Houston street, and that at least two shots were fired from there; one missed and hit the inner frame of the windshield, and one got Kennedy in the back. It’s not an impossible theory, but the more teams you have in place, the more you risk exposing yourself.

I will be going out on a limb a little further on this website and share my own more elaborate, impossible to prove, theory.

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The patsy

When one reads just how complicated everything surrounding this one event was, so far from being open and shut, and a simple assassination by one lone nut, and how complicated this lone nut’s existance was from the time he joined the Marines until the time of his death on November 24, 1963, we cannot help but come to the conclusion that this goes beyond just a single gunman with an antiquated World War 2 rifle.

Lee Oswald was obviously a young man with anger management issues, who found himself being moved around from base to base, and later from home to home, and from job to job, who couldn’t cope with all the changes and responsibilities of being a family man and an intelligence operative at the same time. It angered him greatly to be turned down so many times by so many people for so many reasons, and it might have made him feel inconsequential. And this is not who he wanted to be.

 

Part of his anger was created by his discharge status, and when it became clear this status would not be changed and he would not be getting his benefits, this gave him reason to hate the Marine Corps, and the Navy.

He was still under the impression that John Connally was the Secretary of Navy at the time, and that his referral of Oswald’s case to someone else meant that he wasn’t important enough to handle personally.

For someone with his issues (feeling that there was more to him than people got a chance to see), it would have given him plenty of motive to take his anger out on John Connally.

 

Of course it’s mere coincidence that Connally was riding in the same car as Kennedy (originally Senator Ralph Yarborough was to ride with the Kennedys), but the motive was definitely there.

 

Someone who had made so many moves in just a few years, with his level of intelligence, but unfortunately with a very short fuse, it seems surreal that he would allow himself to be arrested within two hours of the shooting at Dealey Plaza.

Some have said he was in the Texas Theater that day to meet a contact.

Seeing as how he would have normally been at work at that time of day, those accusations would mean that he was indeed one of the conspirators to the shooting.

Was it possible that Lee Oswald was indeed that gullible into thinking he was there to meet someone, when in fact while he sat there waiting someone had tipped off the authorities?

And while the Dallas law machine was sure they had their man clean and clear, the rest of the conspirators packed up and took off.

Leaving Lee Harvey Oswald to yell “I’m just a patsy!”.

 

Case Closed?

Not so fast, Gerald Posner.

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