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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]nyquil_man
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Mark Lane, who took on the role of defense attorney for Lee Harvey Oswald even before Oswald's mother hired him to do exactly that with the Warren Commission, was laying out a considerable chunk of the Anybody But Oswald argument less than a month after the assassination. His approach to the case, to impeach every piece of evidence pointing to his client, has been adopted both consciously and subconsciously by most modern CTs.
I don't fault Lane or the first generation of WC critics for their motives. We should question the evidence and approach it skeptically. We should expect transparency of our government institutions. Innocent people can be railroaded and even the most plainly guilty deserve an impartial trial and a rigorous defense. Oswald was denied the opportunity to defend himself; the early critics took on the task with a great deal of gusto.
But where did it get us? You get a guy, making a phone call in the Dal-Tex, transformed into an hired assassin. You get Garrison, with talk of homosexual thrill killings and propinquity, dragging an innocent man into court on the testimony of a guy under hypnosis, wasting taxpayer money on a wild goose chase. You get talk of Walt Disney altering the Zapruder film. You get talk of caskets being switched and bodies being altered. You get Greer shooting JFK. Or Jackie.
This stuff eats away at history and leaves behind Murder on the Orient Express. Everybody did it. Nobody did it.