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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
(14,180 posts)this context, it is impossible to 'prove' that JFK's assassination was NOT the result of a conspiracy. That said, it is only fair to ask you what proof or evidence you might require to change your mind and conclude that LHO was the sole assassin acting alone and that there was no conspiracy.
I have posted elsewhere in this thread and in other threads that the entire affair suffuses me with incredible sadness even though I was only a very little boy at the time of JFK's murder. It is that immense sense of loss, of possibilities thwarted, that makes the lure of the conspiracy so seductive. We simply cannot believe that our prince was brought down by some crazed crackpot with a mail-order rifle in a hand-crafted sniper's nest. I am sad not just for JFK, his widow and children, nor for Lee Harvey Oswald and his surviving family. I am sad for what the world seemingly lost on that Friday in Dallas so many years ago.
I strongly recommend you read Bugliosi's work Reclaiming History. Reading it changed me from an agnostic who leaned toward a conspiracy to someone now firmly convinced Oswald acted alone. Bugliosi addresses most of the points you raise immediately above and pretty convincingly dispenses with each. Lest you think Bugliosi a member of the 'counter-intelligence forces,' I would note that he has also published a pretty compelling argument for indicting Bush and Cheney for murder and crimes against humanity for what they allegedly did in Iraq from 2003-2009.