A hypothetical discussion on the JFK assassination

[Magda Hassan]

Hi Mark,
JFK isn't my area but taking all your hypothesis as is I can see a few problems.

Now lets for a moment take them at their word, could it not be that the true conspiracy was that someone learned that there maybe an attempt on JFK's life (maybe even they knew that LHO was the person who would attempt this) and let it happen.

Well, this would need for LHO to have talked about killing Kennedy or wanting him killed and there is no evidence that he did and lots of evidence that he talked favorably about Kennedy. If he had talked in a threatening way about Kennedy the WC, FBI, SS would have jumped all over it and shouted from the roof tops. They didn't because they could find no instances of LHO doing such things. Quite the opposite.

1 There was nothing to lose for the people/dept/CIA etc etc, that let this happen, if successful, they would get what they wanted (because of personal dislike of JFK and his policies or 'other' unknown agenda's) and it would be extremely easy to cover up, if unsuccessful they could use it as a political wedge for both JFK and the american people.

The same can be said if they 'made' it happen. Also it is a sure bet then. Nothing left to chance. Even, if, assuming that they knew LHO was hostile to Kennedy and was hostile enough to kill him, there is no guarantee of when, how, where. He could have not gone to work or quit his job or been fired from his job. he could have slept in and been late. He could have been called over by his boss to do a job while the motorcade was passing. How did they know LHO was going to pull this trick at his work place. Why not at the airport or the Trade Mart lunch? Too many variables.

2 By letting this happen, it could always be used as stick for future presidents to keep them in line as there are always lone nuts who make threats and a smaller percentage that carry them out and if they don't tow the line, they may just let it happen again (Nixon cryptically hints as this) .

Yes, but carries even more menace if the President knows it was his Praetorian Guards that did it rather than a random one in a zillion lone nut.

3 The warren commission was an inept body who made many mistakes and was manipulated in a way, as a smoke and mirrors trick over the years to mask what had really gone on.

The WC did a fine job. Just what it was intended to do.

If indeed these scenarios have any foundations at all it would explain how the relevant government bodies can keep saying with a straight face, that LHO acted alone, it can also be used to cover up the real truth and also make many researchers look in all the wrong places.

The government has no problem lying to the people any time over any matter. They say war is peace. Black is white. Up is down. They have the MSM to show us the news and what is truth de jour.

...ALA Clinton who stated publicly before taking office that he would look into the JFK assassination, but went extremely quiet on the matter once in office.

Yes, you've got to wonder what they tell them or show them once in office. Some seem to change so suddenly.

I don't know all the ins and outs of the Kennedy assassination but I don't buy that LHO was ever a lone nutter. I think he was involved in some way peripherally in the plot. He had way too many connections with intel people indeed they seemed to be his only friends. He wasn't just some guy working in a warehouse who decided to bring his gun to work. And JFK wasn't just unlucky. Both were positioned to be there that time that way.