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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you still believe the conspiracy theorists you need to read Case Closed, written by Gerald Posner in 1993. The book pretty much put the people perpetrating the conspiracy BS out of business.

Obviously technology has advanced considerably since that time. Subsequent analysis always supports his findings. </div></div>

I was a big conspiracy believer back in the '80s re the Kennedy assassination. Read all the paperbacks written by the theorists. Oliver Stone's movie &quot;JFK&quot; began to stretch the theories a little beyond my belief though. Then, in 2003, ABC and Peter Jennings produced a very good anniversary documentary based, in part, on Posner's work and also Vincent Bugliosi's writing on the subject and both men were featured in the ABC special. They completely disassembled every conspiracy angle with intellectual brilliance and accuracy. Posner and Bugliosi, among a few others, convinced me that Oswald was simply a screwup whose only talents were seeking attention for himself and his marksmanship skills he learned from the marines. I would bet that no one was more surprised in the seconds after Kennedy's head exploded from the fatal shot than Oswald himself. He saw that through the rifle scope. You can imagine him thinking, &quot;Oh s*it...I did it...&quot; Witnesses saw him minutes later in a lunchroom and said he looked pale and nervous. Well, he had just killed Kennedy and it was sinking in. His &quot;patsy&quot; claims were merely his life-long craving for attention. Oswald wanted to kill someone and make a name for himself, that's all. Oswald had tried to kill a retired Colonel and failed and then when Oswald heard Kennedy was coming to Dallas he saw his big opportunity.

The conspiracy theories persist because, in the words of historian Robert Dallek, &quot;For many people it's simply not believable that this wretched individual could kill a president of the United States all by himself. But he did just that.&quot;