My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists.

[DanTex]

49. Fair Enough. And like I said in the OP, I've been reading about this for only a few weeks.

That obviously does not make me an expert, and also I wasn't alive when it happened, so I did not trace the events in real time like you did, and I can appreciate that being there is different than just reading about it.

With regard to overturned evidence, my point is just that we can't reject what the existing evidence points to simply because of the possibility that it might be overturned in the future. If we went that way, we would just toss all of science out the window.

I have no idea how difficult it would be for the government to scrub all the evidence in this case as you describe, but it just sounds implausible to me, given the specificity and the extent of the evidence that exists. Like I wrote somewhere else in the thread, my experience is that the less one looks at details and specifics, the more it seems like a conspiracy.

At a high level, JFK had lots of enemies, and Oswald's background screams conspiracy -- marine, defected to Russia and back, went to Cuban and Russian Embassies in Mexico City the summer before, etc. But you start to look at the actual forensic evidence, and look at Oswald's life and his movements in more details, people who knew him, etc., the possibility of conspiracy starts to fade. It became much more difficult to believe that the powers that be scrubbed or faked all the evidence once I started getting a sense of just how much evidence there is, and how thoroughly things were actually investigated.