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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]coalition_unwilling
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2 weeks ago. Here's a question that you would do well to ponder: what evidence would it take to convince you that JFK was killed as the victim of a lone gunman, i.e., non-conspiracy? One major logical problem with conspiracy theories is that those theories are not 'falsifiable,' by which I mean there is no evidence that could be presented to render the theory false. Indeed, often evidence that refutes a given theory becomes only a means for proponents of the conpsiracy hypothesis to widen the circle of the conspiracy. Example: Arlen Specter promulgates the 'single-bullet' theory, so Arlen Specter must have been part of the conspiracy after the fact.
Put another way: many people and groups may have had a motive for wishing ill to JFK. But motive does not necessarily equate to acting on motive. There is NO evidence, NONE, for a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, only vague suppositions about motive, means and opportunity. There is a ton of evidence to implicate Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole, i.e., non-conspiratorial, assassin of JFK.