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...Assassins through history have always proclaimed their act. They've been proud of it. They've killed for a political reason. But Oswald always said, "I didn't do it. I'm a patsy." And we have an enormous accumulation of physical evidence that makes it very difficult to buy that one gunman could have done that kind of shooting...
...created the motorcade. We had a massive motorcade moving through that ravine called Dealey Plaza. We fired. We heard the shots and echoes too. We did more of an enactment than the FBI ever did, and by the way, their best marksmen were never able to match Oswald's feat...
...European press was much more skeptical, because they saw in this assassination political forces at play. The press in fact never did ask why Kennedy was killed. They immediately were, in a sense, trivialized by the questions of who and how. It all became a matter of scenery -- Oswald, Ruby. Scenery distracts from the essential questions. Who benefited? Who had the power to cover it up? I don't point the finger of evil intention, but it is documented that the agency spent quite a bit of money to keep a leg up in journalism, that there were...
...think the most conclusive thing it shows is the fatal head shot coming from the front, from the fence. In addition, it shows the time frame of the shots, which makes it very difficult to believe Oswald fired three shots in 5.6 seconds. And of course it raises the whole question of how Connally and Kennedy were hit by the same bullet...
...metaphorical sense. I think there was an erosion of trust in the government on the subconscious level. On the conscious level, we moved on. We buried Oswald and got rid of Ruby. The nightmare went away. But subconsciously / the major fissure had occurred. Historians in the 21st century are going to point to this as a key moment in American history...