A short history of lone nuts shooting US presidents.

[DanTex]

12. I guess it you're going to be a CTer, might as well go all in.

I didn't say Booth was a lone nut, I said the assassination was not linked to any powerful political or economic organizations, the kind that CTers insist are behind JFK. As to the number of people imprisoned, the circumstances of the trials were highly questionable. Military tribunal rather than ordinary court, conviction only required simple majority rather than unanimity (I assume you are in favor of changing the way the justice system like this in order to satisfy the public's desire to find people to hang for for a crime). Still, regardless of whether the number of people was three or eight, it was definitely a small group of nuts and not "the powers that be" that organized the assassination and hired some professional guns to carry it out.

Re: Truman, I didn't claim that the people weren't members of any political groups, I claimed that there were no powerful political groups involved with the assassination. I'm sure you can understand the difference. Oswald was involved with Fair Play for Cuba, but that doesn't mean that Fair Play for Cuba had anything to do with the assassination.