CNN Tonight: The Assassination of JFK

[Spider Jerusalem]

40. heh.

I believe the evidence. I used to think there was a conspiracy, partly because of an early exposure to conspiracy theorising; but discovering the actual facts of the case, and the evidence that points to Oswald, led me to change my mind about that...I came to realise that the case for conspiracy rests on wilfully ignoring, distorting, and misrepresenting most of the actual evidence, while engaging in lots of handwaving about why it's not relevant. "Oswald's rifle was planted!" "the 'magic bullet' and the fragments in the limo were planted!" "The Zapruder film was altered, and so were the autopsy photos!" A case that rests on the insistence that not one or two but dozens of pieces of crucial evidence were falsified and manufactured is no case at all. If you're just going to ignore all the evidence, that allows you to make wild assertions that don't require any evidence to support them (it was LBJ! the Mafia! Castro! Anti-Castro Cuban exiles! It was Joe DiMaggio taking revenge for the Kennedys killing Marilyn Monroe! etc.)