The assassination of JFK - conspiracy or lone nut?

That’s putting the subsequent events in Vietnam as the reason, there is no way you could tell that Kennedy wouldn’t have done the same. He had been escalating matters in 'Nam and supported a coup beforehand. Now there’s divided opinion on whether he would have escalated it like LBJ did, but there were a number of events subsequent to 1963 which led to that too.

People look at the Cuban Missile Crisis like it was a clear sign that he was more of a dove on foreign policy. Well naturally he didn’t want nuclear war and warheads on his doorstep, but he was in favour of US intervention to stop the spread of communism. He also consistently voted in Congress for extra military spending after World War II.

I can well believe some CIA guy wanted him gone over Cuba but it being about Vietnam? That seems to be a stretch to me.

Didn’t Jack Ruby mention something about Adlai Stevenson and Vietnam whist he was incarcerated? @anon7035031 you know anything about this?

The Donald Sutherland cameo in JFK was great
Was there a story that Jim Garrison was involved in one of the wilder conspiracy theories

Garrison pretty much wrote the entire plot of the stone movie. It’s fascinating but riddled in plot holes.

Ruby was a complete nutcase.

Where did you get the nonsense on Oswald from? He was a marine so would be quite familiar with a rifle. He tested at sharpshooter level, 49 hits out of 50 to a target 200 yards away. The furthest shot, the last, was 88 yards. The scope was dodgy but you wouldnt need a scope from that distance.

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these fruitcakes like @fisty don’t do logic

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They’d literally believe any old shite. Understandable from the clueless social media generation but you’d expect more from a seasoned veteran like fitzy.

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The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle.

https://youtu.be/a5IWK9sRYTs

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Private Joker show me your war face

Are there any conspiracies about Jack’s death?

Yes. He died of cancer but the loonies say he was poisoned with cancer inducing stuff. To shut him up, even though he had been babbling to anyone who would listen for years.

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It’s a first for the board.

I meant assassin, I wasn’t there.

@johnnysachs is the boss on this thread, please keep us updated js. Don’t fancy reading through 3000 docs and obviously won’t be able to rely on the fake news media for summation.

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They’re not being released. CIA still have a few details to piece together. Oswald bragging to their spies in Mexico City that he was going to bump off Kennedy had to be airbrushed out.

Ahh balls. All right, speculate away.

Youve such a lovely way with words

Over 100 posts. Fucked if I’m reading them. Anyone care to tell us what has been learnt from the 100 or so posts guys?

Bullets have magic powers.

If you blow someones brains out from behind, nerves make their head lurch back and not forward with the momentum of the bullet as expected.

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