My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists.

[ancianita]

33. No harm no foul. However...All overturned evidence in any human arena is relevant.

I do understand the internal validity of present evidence, but I was also an alive, alert, scanning, reading adult back then. I kept my radar out for what had happened to the eyewitnesses, and how the "official story" developed. In the early 70's, a British article appeared in a Chicago paper which I've long since lost, and isn't findable on the nets, that laid out all the paper trail of reports on the disappearances and systematic intimidation of at least four key witnesses by police and the FBI. There were secret files kept on all kinds of dissidents in those days.

By 1975 when we were smirking about the Weather Underground's johnny-come-lately behavior at blowing stuff up, or kidnapped Patty Hearst running around with some weird gang, we just knew that when the evidence sandbox was built, everything else became invalid. It was the time when we realized that our country's leadership had gone to bed with bad guys. We couldn't get the evidence in that analog time, is all.

Living with uncertainty has been the overriding fact of the past analog world. We lived with that and our patience. I'm not trying to describe 'grand' conspiracy by any means. We learned then and take for granted now that 'scrubbing' is a whole profession, and that it's pretty easy for organized security forces in states and national levels to erode evidence and discourage witness. It happens all the time today, and it's just Tuesday.

I'm claiming, lamely now and without evidence, that much nonexistence evidence and eyewitnesses were 'lost,' or 'eroded.' Much evidence and important witnesses just disappeared. Powerful forces had much to gain from the stealth burying and killing off of evidence then, and there was no bulldog internet crowd to call it out.

So, thanks for trying to get me to understand the internal validity of the prevailing opinion. I do appreciate your commitment to the current facts and logic that fits what's left. It's just that those of us still alive saw and now believe that historical agency got bulldozed. I can live with it. I've had to for a long time. It's what people do in a rigged game.

Edit: I read the Warren Commission's Report. I and everyone else who were grown enough to see events play out knew that the report left all kinds of key facts out, including the Zapruder film. Arlen Specter was key in getting everyone to buy into his "theory." Talk about conspiracy. The Warren Commission Report was seen as the codified narrative that the PTB wanted to have stand as the official history. And here we are. The "official story" now stands. I hated Arlen Specter from that day forward and was glad when that old bastard died. I knew I'd never join any political party that he was a part of.