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Nono · Nov 17, 2005, 07:01 pm

I just saw one of the latest crop of documentaries on the JFK assassination and have to say it left me halfway convinced. Nothing new or revolutionary -- we've heard this one before -- but a persuasive array of individual witnesses assembled for by the documentarists who told stories that, if true, have to mean something pretty significant. (And it's hard to listen to these people of very different sorts and from various backgrounds and not believe they're telling something true.)

The story here is that LBJ had JFK killed because Bobbie Kennedy was showing an unhealthy interest in the Texas politics'n'graft clan of which LBJ was the Washington representative. The only way to get the Kennedys' noses out of their business was to end the Kennedy presidency, with the added benefit that their own man would inherit power. Anyway, they were well practised when it came to doing away with inconvenient individuals.

The chief witness was the venerable Billy Sol Estes, who said he was speaking now since his time was near anyway. And they had a raft of other people whose accounts would seem to dovetail with the explanation he was putting forward.

The attractive thing about this conspiracy theory is that it answers the main objections usually raised against conspiracy theories: (1) they're too vast and complicated and (2) why has no one come forward in all these years?

1) This one didn't have to be vast. It happened in Dallas and they had the Dallas police wired, as they did the FBI (through Hoover, who hated Kennedy). They carried it out with a small team of insiders, and the aftermath posed no challenge.

2) Billy S.E. is coming forward here, as are, in their way, a couple of other people.

We'll probably never know for sure, but this version strikes me as plausible.

Son of Belial · Nov 17, 2005, 07:08 pm

Kennedy said the presidency was being used for a plot against the citizen. He said he was going to inform them and get rid of the Federal Reserve system and I believe the FBI. Ten days later he was assassinated.

He said those things after he learned of Operations Northwoods, where two American airliners were going to be hijacked, blown up, and blamed on the Cubans to start a war. Sound familiar?

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Nono Throbbing Member Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,453	Who killed JFK? -- yep, that time of year again I just saw one of the latest crop of documentaries on the JFK assassination and have to say it left me halfway convinced. Nothing new or revolutionary -- we've heard this one before -- but a persuasive array of individual witnesses assembled for by the documentarists who told stories that, if true, have to mean something pretty significant. (And it's hard to listen to these people of very different sorts and from various backgrounds and not believe they're telling something true.) The story here is that LBJ had JFK killed because Bobbie Kennedy was showing an unhealthy interest in the Texas politics'n'graft clan of which LBJ was the Washington representative. The only way to get the Kennedys' noses out of their business was to end the Kennedy presidency, with the added benefit that their own man would inherit power. Anyway, they were well practised when it came to doing away with inconvenient individuals. The chief witness was the venerable Billy Sol Estes, who said he was speaking now since his time was near anyway. And they had a raft of other people whose accounts would seem to dovetail with the explanation he was putting forward. The attractive thing about this conspiracy theory is that it answers the main objections usually raised against conspiracy theories: (1) they're too vast and complicated and (2) why has no one come forward in all these years? 1) This one didn't have to be vast. It happened in Dallas and they had the Dallas police wired, as they did the FBI (through Hoover, who hated Kennedy). They carried it out with a small team of insiders, and the aftermath posed no challenge. 2) Billy S.E. is coming forward here, as are, in their way, a couple of other people. We'll probably never know for sure, but this version strikes me as plausible. "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne

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Son of Belial BANNED: Requested ban Location: Acheron 27 Posts: 1,461	Kennedy said the presidency was being used for a plot against the citizen. He said he was going to inform them and get rid of the Federal Reserve system and I believe the FBI. Ten days later he was assassinated. He said those things after he learned of Operations Northwoods, where two American airliners were going to be hijacked, blown up, and blamed on the Cubans to start a war. Sound familiar?