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In reply to the discussion: My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists. [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)122. Oswald went to Mexico City to try and get a visa to go to Cuba.
He visited the Cuban embassy, who told him he could only get a transit visa to go to Russia, so then he went to the Russian embassy to try and get a visa to Russia, which he also didn't get. Workers at both embassies have testified to this.
I guess it's possible that the embassy workers were lying, and actually Oswald was at the embassies to plan the assassination, but, like other allegations of conspiracy, there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
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Someone once told me to trust in one who seeks the truth, and avoid any who claim to have found it.
Scuba
Nov 2013
#10
Sigh... His passport was never taken away because he never returned to the Embassy to officially
stopbush
Nov 2013
#109
You mean after he ducked in without buying a ticket? Despite having $13 in bills and some change?
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#80
You know that repeating and repeating a blanket statement doesn't make it true, right?
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#92
All film including unexposed rolls were confiscated by the FBI from everyone at the autopsy. n/t
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#143
This is in the records of the HSCA investigation. It's quite easily confirmed.
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#147
Yeah, because a group organized enough to kill the leader of the most powerful country in the
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#96
Agreed. But people who are constitutionally incapable of acknowledging that rich white guys with
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#142
I'd take you seriously if you could supply any evidence that supports your contentions.
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#121
There seems to be some truth to the claim that the CIA and FBI weren't fully forthcoming.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#19
Who said Oswald was not the shooter? I believe he was. That is not the question, that is merely a
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#48
What they mostly got wrong was claiming Oswald acted alone according to the opinion of a majority
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#78
Except that conclusion was based on acoustical evidence that everyone knows was false.
zappaman
Nov 2013
#5
If Nixon was talking about being involved in any way in the assassination of Kennedy ...
zbdent
Nov 2013
#27
Watergate also shows how journalism got into the ring better equipped than it was during the Kennedy
ancianita
Nov 2013
#111
Studies have shown that people seek out news and information they already agree with
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#35
A majority of Americans believe in a guardian angel that watches over them and keeps them safe.
zappaman
Nov 2013
#14
Most Americans are completely ignorant of the evidence in the Kennedy assassinaton.
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#63
Historians will tell you that history's evidence gets killed and buried all the time, or else we
ancianita
Nov 2013
#17
You're right about me, Stone and others being deniers. So be it. The truth will out.
ancianita
Nov 2013
#29
No harm no foul. However...All overturned evidence in any human arena is relevant.
ancianita
Nov 2013
#33
Fair Enough. And like I said in the OP, I've been reading about this for only a few weeks.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#49
No,we can't reject existing evidence. But it's not the whole truth.Thus, disputes that get dismissed
ancianita
Nov 2013
#68
True. There is no evidence that he received support in any of the "stops" he had....
RagAss
Nov 2013
#65
I agree with you. The Warren Commission's mission was to come up with "official theory."
ancianita
Nov 2013
#39
There were no competing investigators to fight the evidence scrubbers of that analog time. There
ancianita
Nov 2013
#38
You're right. Vetting takes time, what with all the disinformation bot system at work digitally.
ancianita
Nov 2013
#72
It's not that just he was a lawyer for People's Temple, it's that he alleged that
DanTex
Nov 2013
#59
Believing in a government conspiracy against the paradise of People's Temple makes a person a nut.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#64
That's not true at all, and misrepresenting my argument doesn't help your case.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#131
I agree completely with your first sentence. However, there is plenty of room on the jerkwad train
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#76
I hate the term 'conspiracy theory'. A 'conspiracy guess' does not a theory make.
Captain Stern
Nov 2013
#73
If you were objective about it, then how did you resolve all the inconsistencies?
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#99
You accept the Warren Report. Oh well. A lot of your information is wrong though. n/t
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#141
And who impersonated him on the phone to the Cuban & Soviet embassies? Why did the CIA cover it up?
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2013
#137
From what I've read, the impersonation theory has been pretty soundly disproved.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#138
Any public deprived of citizens' right to information of public concern is not in any way CT. This
ancianita
Nov 2013
#112
The HSCA basically agreed with the WC about everything except the audio evidence.
DanTex
Nov 2013
#124