Mauser......Mannlicher

[Tracy Riddle]

I asked Charles, if the plotters wanted us to know there was a conspiracy, why would they attempt to remove the evidence of it from the Zapruder film. Maybe his reply is stuck in the moderators' traffic jam.

See my reply in post # 15 above.

It was indeed stuck in traffic; the direct route accessible to everyone else posting here is not available to me.

Accordingly, whenever the expectation of a response from me arises on this or any other thread, you should backtrack to the point where it would have appeared had not a priori restraints been imposed.

Thanks for your patience and interest.

And thank, Tracy, for continuing this exchange.

Thanks, Charles, I missed both of your responses because they were delayed, and I don't think to go back and look at older pages in the thread.

I respect your analysis, even though I disagree with it. I think it would make a fine film noir, or a great novel like Libra. But I've studied a lot of historical plots (the Hitler bomb plot in 1944, the Benigno Aquino assassination, the Archduke in 1914 and others), and in real life they are messy, haphazard things. Stuff goes wrong, there are unforeseen complications and unexpected changes of plan. Attempted cover-ups sometimes fail (Aquino's killing was like RFK's, but too many people in the Filipino government wouldn't cooperate in hiding the truth). They are, after all, run by human beings, not movie supervillains, so they are not infallible and have no magical abilities.

The more complicated a plot becomes, the more likely someone will screw it up. A lot of things went wrong with the JFK assassination (Oswald being captured alive, Kennedy not being killed by one bullet fired from the rear, etc.)

Maybe it's just because of my own experiences, all the companies I've worked at where I see just how dysfunctional and badly-run organizations are. The people at the top have more money and power, but they still aren't any smarter than the rest of us. Just more ruthless.