A short post for the conspiracy naysayers.

[MicaelS]

53. I've lived in Fort Worth for 25 years.

The very first time I visited Dealy Plaza, I could not believe how small the place was. It looks enormous on film and TV. It is a near equilateral triangle about 400 ft on a side. The Grassy Knoll is the extremely small.

I stood on the sidewalk next to the X spot of the fatal head shot, looked up, and said, "Holy shit, Oswald could have done it all by himself."

After the Sixth Floor Museum was opened, and I stood next to the window where Oswald is supposed to have fired from, that convinced me. I said to myself. "Well LHO did it all by himself, and all those Conspiracy books I have read over the years are so much crap."

I have been shooting guns for over 40 years. For people who have never handled or fired a gun in their life it is easy to accept what other have told them about the Carcano rifle and its ammunition. Yes, the Carcano was a POS rifle compared to that of the other major combatants of WWII, but it was still a powerful weapon. It was perfectly adequate to do what Oswald is accused of doing. I think LHO did it alone, with the Carcano rifle he bought via mail order, but that he used the iron sights for the fatal shot. He might have used the optical sight for the first shot, but I think he realized the scope was off, and used the iron sights for the last two shots. Then again he might have realized the optical sight was off when he tried to shoot Walker and missed, and was just too lazy to take it off the rifle.

If there is anger it is because many of us think the whole JFK CT process has turned into a giant waste of time, effort and energy by a lot of people. Every year we argue the point, rehash the same old arguments, and very few people have their minds changed. Furthermore being accused of all sorts of perfidies by CT does little to persuade those of us who think LHO acted alone. Plus it is flat insulting.

I think the reason so many people are attracted to CT is that they have a hard time accepting the fact that the most powerful man in the world could be killed by a nobody. Despite that the Assassinations of Garfield and McKinley were by lone gunman. You can argue the point of Lincoln. They you have the lone nuts who tried to shoot Ford, twice. Did shoot George Wallace. Did shoot Ronald Reagan. Did murder John Lennon. Now, as to RFK and MLK, I'm still not sure about them.

People have trouble accepting the fact that cataclysmic events can happen without cataclysmic reasons behind them. People have trouble accepting that 9/11 happened because the National Security apparatus of the US totally failed at their duty. People still believe that Pearl Harbor was a LIHOP by FDR. Once again, they can't accept the fact that the National Security apparatus of the US totally failed at their duty.

I think if anything makes me personally upset, is the elevation of JFK to Sainthood by people who really believe that we would have had World Peace if JFK had lived. JFK was a flawed human being. He wasn't a Saint.

I am perfectly willing to accept that JFK was killed as the result of a Conspiracy provided there was clear incontrovertible evidence that stood up to rigorous scientific scrutiny. Film evidence never before seen. A confession with corroborating evidence. Something that would be accepted in a Court of Law.

The final question I would ask you, and those who believe as you is that:

"What would it take to prove to you, beyond any doubt, that you would finally accept that LHO was the Lone Assassin?"