Salon: "the Warren Commission... was stacked with RFK’s political enemies"

[Martin Eden]

14. Some Questions regarding Oswald and the Conspiracy

Did Oswald take his rifle to his job at the School Book Depository that day, and did he fire at JFK from the 6th floor window?

I think the evidence is quite clear that he did. However, that alone does not preclude a conspiracy or another shooter.

If there was a conspiracy, then the other conspirators either had to have discovered Oswald's plans or put him up to it somehow. It would be too much of a coincidence for other shooters to fire at the same time as Oswald, without being aware of his role. Therefore (in my mind at least) a conspiracy most likely requires Oswald being contacted and enlisted into the assassination.

I have another question, which should be entirely answerable:
When was it first decided that JFK would go to Dallas, and when was Oswald hired to work at the School Book Depository? If he was hired before the trip was known that's another coincidence, though perhaps not as hard to swallow as a conspircacy with shots fired almost simultaneously from two different sources unknown to each other.

I recently saw a documentary based on the book Mortal Error, in which a ballistics expert determined the bullet that blew off a section of JFK's skull was an explosive round rather than the full metal jacket ammo Oswald was using that ostensibly passed through JKF & Connelly without leaving large exit wounds. The forensic evidence showed the entrance wound at the back of JFK's skull was smaller in diameter than the bullets used by Oswald, and came from an angle much lower than the 6th floor window.

The conclusion of Mortal Error was that a Secret Service agent in the following car accidentally discharged the AK47 he was seen to grab and bring up immediately after the first shot. This would explain the nose-witness accounts of many who smelled gun powder that could not have been detected from Oswald's position.

This theory explains away the coincidences I cited above, and does not involve a conspiracy -- except the cover-up of the accident by the other SS agents in the car who would have known what happened, and by the Warren Commission.

I do not have a firm belief that this is what happened, or that there was a conspiracy to kill the president, or that Oswald acted alone.

I'm asking questions and trying to apply logic in an effort to make sense of what happened.