Re: 50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination...
Ben it might be better to re-do this as a poll in General Discussion...I will think of something if you don't.
Re: The Assassination of JFK
I find myself 100 per cent in agreement with Stavros on this.
I was a kid and heard it when the BBC interrupted The Archers (long running british radio soap) to make the announcement.
I also found the Oliver Stone movie utterly deplorable - because it blurred fact and fiction. A lot of conspiracy theories exist and it is perfectly fine (indeed necessary) in my view, to explore them - to produce documentaries certainly or acceptable to produce fiction in the shape of films or books (which clearly present them as fiction). But Stone's film blurred all the edges to present something which rather purported to be factual when it was, in realty, one of the many plural conspiracy theories.
It seems no major event does not spawn a vast wave of conspiracy theories in its wake.
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'The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy' (it was revoiced for UK broadcast) convinced me that Oswald did it. A recording from an open mic on a police motorcycle on which the shots could be heard revealed a longer time between first and last shot. In the documentary, an elderly FBI investigator who was on the original case acknowledged that even he, at his age, could get the shots off in the time allowed.
I also liked the way the so-called "magic bullet" theory was discredited. Governor Connolly and his wife were seated in the limo's jump seats, removeable seats that sat lower and more inboard than the main rear seats. Position the Connollys properly, ie. not directly in front of and level with the Kennedys and suddenly the magic bullet's route isn't so magic after all.
So I agree with Stav that Oswald did it. Why, we may never know as he was a somewhat confused character. Do I think the conspiracy theorists will ever give up? Of course not. They're nut jobs ... :)
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IMDB link: Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy (TV Movie 2003) - IMDb
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1. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. CHECK.
For all the reasons given by Stavros (and Shelf) above. (Also I always wait to see what Prospero's going to do and then copy him).
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Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
Yep, nothing more or nothing less.
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Stavros
2. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting in a conspiracy with others (see below)
this.
btw: did you bring this up because of that history channel special that's coming out soon?
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Nah - not for me but I can't be arsed arguing or discussing it with you lot.
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LOL at Seanchai and at Trish.
Actually I did it... I confess. I also killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Gavrilov Princip was framed!