Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"...

[BlueStreak]

262. That's the problem. You assume that suppressed or covered-up evidence never existed.

It is certainly civic-minded of you. I don't have the same trust in this part of our government, especially when so much power is at stake.

I'm not suggesting that anybody assume facts that are not supported by evidence. But I do think, given the government's (any government's) propensity to hide damaging information, we should challenge EVERYTHING they do put out very intensely. And when there is the slightest hint of something not being "quite right" we should assume that we are not dealing with the complete picture.

Ask yourself some basic questions. This is critical thinking 101.

1) If LBJ had a role in it as Hunt alleged, and LBJ appointed all commission members, what are the chances that they would put out a report that lays tracks to Johnson's office? Alternatively, what are the chances that they would do anything possible to concoct a case for it being just a simple "good boy gone bad with tragic results that saddens us all deeply" report?

2) If Dulles was on the committee (and he was) and some of his people were involved (either at the order of the CIA hierarchy or as rogue operators), what are the chances that Dulles would let that get exposed? Likewise for Hoover and the FBI. Hoover wasn't officially on the committee, but he controlled most of the investigative assets.

3) If it was a mob hit in reaction to the pressure that JFK and RFK were putting on the mob, how eager do you think the Warren people would be to pursue that, considering it just cost the President his life -- and later cost the AG his life in much the same way? We know for certain at least one member of the panel begged LBJ not to put him on the committee. Gee, why not?

Not considering these questions, to me, represents a very childish view of the world.

Were you alive at that time? I suggest you don't have an appreciation of just how powerful the mob was at that time, and just what a fight the Kennedy's had picked with the mob. Read this article in yesterday's Boston Globe and then tell me if you start to understand what that scene was like back then. This wasn't a pillow fight and very few politicians had the courage to stand up against the mob. I would suggest to you that there wasn't a single person on the Warren Commission with that kind of courage, and especially not Dulles who was in partnership with the mob when it suited both parties' needs.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/24/his-brother-keeper-robert-kennedy-saw-conspiracy-jfk-assassination/TmZ0nfKsB34p69LWUBgsEJ/story.html