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...October 1964 poll by Lou Harris showed that 31 percent of the American people doubted the crux of the Commission's conclusion--that Oswald had acted alone. The theorists came from all shades of life--from left-wing lawyer and civil rights activist Mark Lane, to Haverford College's philosophy professor Josiah Thompson. And many still harbor such thoughts today. The most common objections to the report's findings are as follows...
Sylvia Meagher, a lifelong United Nations employee who wrote an exhaustive index of the Commission's exhibits, has said that the Commission's report "pronounces Oswald guilty," while the hearings and exhibits "create a reasonable doubt of Oswald's guilt and even a powerful presumption of his complete innocence." Her goal was not to sniff out and expose conspiracy theories, but rather to question whether the FBI and the Commission acted in good faith...
Beyond challenges to the Commission's work, a spate of actual conspiracy theories have emerged. Mark Lane's second book on the assassination, though published as fiction, was Executive Action, suggesting very strongly that Oswald was used as a patsy for Dallas right-wing elements. An old theory suggests a link between Oswald, his killer Jack Ruby, and murdered Dallas officer Tippit. Evidence for this theory is almost exclusively circumstantial. Oswald's landlady said a police car drove by Oswald's rooming house, honked the horn, and drove away. This was five or six minutes before the time that Tippit...
...district attorney of Louis Parish, La., Jim Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced...
...theory that has received the greatest speculation is that Oswald was an agent for someone, and speculations on for whom are a dime a dozen. As a Russian KGB agent, evidence, circumstantial mostly, points to his defection to the Soviet Union, and his easy employment and marriage, and very easy departure back to the U.S., a rarity for defectors. In a trip to Mexico in 1963, Oswald met with a KGB agent working in its "liquid affairs" department, the department utilized for assassination in Soviet intelligence...