14-02-2011, 03:40 PM
Except, of course, only one man in the world was the Vice President of the United States at the time and, should some ill-fate befall his predecessor, be in a position to insure that no one would ever be prosecuted for the crime. While my friend Charles makes an impeccable point of logic, its value is constrained by history. One and only one man was in the position to make sure it happened and guarantee that it would be covered up (with a little help from his friends among the Joint Chiefs and the Secret Service, on the one hand, and his dear, lifelong "brother", J. Edgar and the FBI, on the other). There were many ways to kill him, as JFK himself had observed. But if it had not been done in broad daylight before hundreds of witnesses, no one would have had any doubt that a conspiracy had been in place. The whole purpose of executing him in a public plaza and then stealing the body to manipulate the evidence, including altering the X-rays and photographs, substituting another brain, and recreating the film--not to mention having the "crime scene on wheels" send back to Ford to be rebuilt already on Monday, the 25th, the day of the formal state funeral--was to deceive the public about the true causes of his death. There is a point when appealing to abstract possibilities, as Charles does here, no longer cuts it because the accumulation of evidence is simply overwhelming. I am a huge fan of him, but his account is overdrawn in this regard and a decent respect for logic and evidence should tell him that the time has come to cut his losses and turn his attention to more promising issues. I prefer it when we battle side-by-side rather than head-to-head!
Charles Drago Wrote:James H. Fetzer Wrote:the problem lies within you, Charles, in your stubborn refusal to acknowledge the central figure in the death of our 35th president, who had more to gain personally than anyone else in the world. Lyndon was the pivotal player without whom it would not have occurred.
Again in the spirit of respectful detente, I offer not criticism but only praise.
I cannot speak for anyone but myself, but I am humbled by the sheer volume of Jim's analyses of this case. Proof?
1. He has studied every person alive in the entire world at the time of JFK's death in order to determine that it was LBJ who had more to gain than any of them by the president's elimination.
2. He has studied every possible assassination scenario and determined that there was one way ONLY to kill JFK.
I stand in awe of such labor and logic.