My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists.

[DanTex]

124. The HSCA basically agreed with the WC about everything except the audio evidence.

The audio evidence was later discredited scientifically, so in that regard, yes, the HSCA was wrong. But with regards to everything else, it is the conspiracy community, not the Warren Commission, that are at odds with the House Committee.

It's not true that "virtually everyone" pointed to the grassy knoll. Some people did, but more people heard shots from the TSBD. Yes, the people who heard shots from the grassy knoll were mistaken, an easy mistake to make, trying to determine the direction of sounds. And then there's the fact that no person was found there and no gun, bullet, shell casing, or any kind of forensic whatsoever has ever supported the theory of a grassy knoll shooter, whereas for Oswald in the TSBD there is all of the above and more.

The real questions for conspiracy proponents, that are never answered, is how did Oswald's gun end up on the 6'th floor of the TSBD, with his fingerprints on and around it, with three shell casings on the floor, and how did the bullets matched to his gun end up at the crime scene, and why was he the only employee at TSBD to hurriedly leave, and why did he shoot a police officer later that day, and so on.

In fact, your post is a good illustration of the enormous difference in strength of evidence between the WC theory and alternative theories. The WC has things like fingerprints, ballistic matches, etc., stuff you could bring to court and get a conviction with, whereas the conspiracy theory evidence is questions like "why did Oswald deny it?" and "why was the Zapruder film classified?", but no positive evidence whatsoever.

Thom Hartmann is one smart guy who dug into it for 16 years with a co author and he's sure Oswald isn't the one.

He is a smart guy, and I wasn't aware that he wrote a book about it. I am interested in what he has to say.