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Possible reasons:

1.) The libtards can't read and are waiting for the audio version of the story.
2.) There is no way to blame Bush.
3.) Bush did do it and all the major media outlets are part of the Rovian Enron Halliburton military complex and are deliberately keeping silence. REMEMBER: The elder Bush once ran the CIA!!!!!
4.) People are too smart for this kind of crap.
5.) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I said that people are too smart!
6.) Keith Olbermann has been too busy dressing up like Edward R. Murrow and staring in the mirror.
7.) All the crazies are too busy proving that fire can't melt steel.

LBJ was an evil bastard. I've often wondered if he had Kennedy whacked.

"He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion and led the Watergate break-in."

Yeah, that E.H. Hunt. He "planned" the operation in which a small group of anti-communist Cubans were dropped off on a beach - with only one way out, and a much larger force of Castro's military well-positioned to come racing down it while our guys were still unloading their boats. But that was a well-thought out professional job compared to the Watergate burglary. I recall watching the Congressional hearings as they went over the details of that operation, and wondering who put The Three Stooges in charge?

One thing I'm quite sure of is that, if the Kennedy assassination was the work of a conspiracy, it did not rely upon men like E.H. Hunt. If it had, they'd have shot everyone nearby except the President and all been caught within 48 hours.

I always liked the theory that the assasination was planned by... JFK.

It was supposed to be Jackie who got hit you see. Then after a period of public mourning, he would be free to marry Marylin Munroe, and he would have public support for an invasion of Cuba (who could be easily framed.)

Of course, it all went wrong, BECAUSE he relied on guys like E.H. Hunt.

Afterwards, some of the "cuba connection" came to light, but it was fragmentary and incomplete... because it was fake. And Munroe had to be silenced.

It all fits see.

This one was in the English press weeks ago: they picked up the Rolling Stone story.

I think people are tired of JFK conspiracy theories.

We have tapes, where Johnson comments on his concerns re the Cubans and Kennedy assassination. Maybe LBJ was dissembling, but it was a real concern to him, apparently.

Charles McCarry's 'The Tears of Autumn' is still the best fictional treatment of the conspiracy, for my money (see also Don Delilo, Libra).

It all hinges on whether you think that that photo, of the 3 tramps from the grassy knoll, that one of those tramps is, in fact, Howard Hunt. If it is, it would rip American politics right open, even now.

I think that if there was a JFK conspiracy it is well buried in false-conspiracy tales that we'll never know.

DoctorPat, I think you were joking - if not, I've got a line of high quality tinfoil hats for sale - but it's not quite as nonsensical as any of the other theories.

Just accept that there are some things you aren't meant to know, people.

Anything said by EH Hunt is as believable as all the corroborating evidence you've amassed - rather, a little bit less so.

Markm,

You don't need to worry about me. I said it was my favourite story, not the one I believed.

Hunt had a new book to publicize. Small wonder he revealed shocking new "inside" knowledge of the Kennedy assassination -- people have been doing that for forty years. That's why the story got no coverage.

Something I've never seen satisfactorily explained is WHY more than one shooter would have been involved. You only need one, if he's got a rifle and the target isn't aware of him.

"Why is this the the first I've heard of this?"

Uhhh, you don't read Rolling Stone.

Dan, it's the number of things hit in the Kennedy's limousine within just a few seconds (timing thoroughly proven by the filmstrips) that makes people doubt that one man, firing an old Italian bolt-action rifle, could have done that much damage. If it was only Oswald, he worked that bolt and fired again amazingly fast, while keeping pretty well on target, and got quite lucky with one bullet that had to bounce around so as to account for two separate wounds and other holes in the car. There's nothing there that says to me it's completely impossible, but it's rather unlikely unless Oswald was one of the world's greatest riflemen.

Two ancillary controversies that I cannot shed any light on:

1) How good was that rifle? Some claim that this model is inferior and simply couldn't be worked that fast. I've never had one in my hands. On the bolt actions I have fired, with a little practice I could pump out bullets that fast, but only without aiming. (Not that I shoot that well even when I can take all the time I want.)

2) What were Oswald's firing range scores as a Marine, and how much did he practice with the (quite different) rifle he used? That might shed some light on whether he was even good enough to have a chance of making those lucky shots. Some people are much better when they get the particular weapon that fits them best in their hands, but they still have to practice. I have never heard of anyone remembering him taking that rifle to a range, and you'd remember if the guy next to you was getting bulls-eyes as fast as he could work the action.

Dan, it's the number of things hit in the Kennedy's limousine within just a few seconds (timing thoroughly proven by the filmstrips) that makes people doubt that one man, firing an old Italian bolt-action rifle, could have done that much damage.

The tape clearly shows two incidents of people being hit -- JFK and Connelly both react to being hit in Z225, then JFK gets hit in the head in Z313, 4.9 seconds later. It doesn't take a world-class marksman to fire two shots in 4.9 seconds.

But that's not my point. My point is that there's no reason for the conspiracy to use multiple assassins like that, rather than just the one man with a rifle. One man with a rifle can easily do the job. Even harder to explain is why Oswald -- who was unquestionably *a* shooter in the assassination, even if there were more -- would have been given such a supposedly inferior rifle to do the job with.

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