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Among All Of Those JFK Conspiracy Theories Floating Around -- Where's The One That Is Solid Enough To Hold Some Water?
An employee of the Texas School Book Depository Company in Dallas by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald took his own rifle to work one day in November of 1963 and murdered the President of the United States (John F. Kennedy).

That very simple crime of one man firing three shots from his own rifle (within his own workplace) at a passing automobile, and killing the U.S. President who was inside that vehicle is an act that has been dissected and examined by thousands of people since the tragic day it occurred in late 1963.

The majority of people who have looked into JFK's assassination have come to the conclusion that it wasn't the crazy act of just one lone screwball named Oswald. They believe, instead, that a wider conspiracy plot was in place that Friday in Dallas when President Kennedy was gunned down on Elm Street.

The only problem with such conspiracy-leaning talk is this -- In the several decades since John Kennedy's death, there hasn't been a single conspiracy theory that rises to the level of a truly "solid, reasonable, verifiable, and believable" theory that would totally destroy the notion, embraced by the Warren Commission's investigation into JFK's murder in the months immediately following the assassination, that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled off the terrible deed all by himself.

The main problem with every "CT" is that no such theory can supply a lick of hard, physical (chiefly "ballistics") evidence to support the idea that other guns (besides Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with serial number "C2766") were being aimed at President Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.

Every piece of ballistics evidence connected to the assassination points to Oswald's rifle being the weapon which ended the President's life on 11/22/63 (and which severely wounded Texas Governor John Connally as well).

There are no bullets or bullet fragments or spent bullet shells/cartridges in the record which don't lead straight back into Lee Harvey Oswald's gun, which was a gun that was found on the 6th Floor of the Book Depository Building less than one hour after Oswald himself was physically seen firing a rifle at the President's car from that very same sixth floor.

Many "CTers" believe that up to 4 or 5 gunmen were taking aim at JFK's body that afternoon in Dallas, Texas. And yet, somehow, via some seemingly-magical way, none of those bullets from any of those OTHER guns that were supposedly blasting away at Mr. Kennedy show up anyplace (not in the car, not in the bodies of the victims, nowhere).

Sounds kinda silly, doesn't it? Sure does to me at any rate. And that's because such unsupportable multi-gun "vanishing bullets" theories ARE silly, when one stops to think about the implausibilities of them for more than just a few fleeting moments.

And to the conspiracists who think Lee Oswald's rifle WASN'T inside that brown paper bag that Oswald took into the Book Depository (TSBD) on the morning of 11/22/63 (per Wesley Frazier's affidavit, wherein Frazier said he saw LHO carry the bag into the back entrance of the TSBD) -- they (the conspiracy kooks who spout such nonsense) haven't come close to coming up with a logical and reasonably-believable scenario that accounts for Mr. Oswald carrying an approximately rifle-sized (when dismantled) package into the very same building where Oswald's own rifle was later found on November 22.

If the paper bag really had curtain rods in it (as Oswald told Wes Frazier) -- then where did the rods vanish to? And: why didn't Oswald take them with him to his roominghouse on Beckley Avenue when he left the Depository, en route to Beckley, on 11/22/63?

And if there were any curtain rods, why didn't Oswald even once mention "curtain rods" to Ruth Paine or his wife, Marina, when he was at the Paine home on November 21st?

The following quoted passages are from Mrs. Ruth Paine's Warren Commission testimony (in March 1964):

QUESTION -- "Had there been any conversation between you and Lee Oswald, or between you and Marina, or any conversation taking place in your presence prior to this occasion, in which the subject of curtain rods was mentioned?"

MRS. PAINE -- "No; there was no such conversation."

QUESTION -- "Was the subject of curtain rods--had that ever been mentioned during all of these weekends that Lee Oswald had come to your home, commencing, I think you said, with his first return on October 4, 1963?"

MRS. PAINE -- "It had not been mentioned."

QUESTION -- "Never by anybody?"

MRS. PAINE -- "By anybody."

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In short, the "curtain rod" story that Oswald spun just does not add up. And there's no way that that story would have held up to the scrutiny of 12 sworn jurors had Mr. Oswald lived long enough to face such a jury and a court trial.

Also -- If the paper bag really had Oswald's rifle (but within the context of "A Patsy Plot Is Underway To Frame Oswald For JFK's Death" POV), then how on Earth did those amazing plotters get Oswald to aid in his own frame-up by deliberately toting his own weapon into the Depository...but for SOMEBODY ELSE TO USE at 12:30 when the President drove slowly by the building?

Nothing regarding "the paper bag" fits into any "reasonable" or "believable" conspiracy-flavored scenario.

But the "bag" fits perfectly within the "Lone Assassin" scenario......

1.) Lee Harvey Oswald goes to Ruth Paine's home in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas, on Thursday, November 21st. An unusual occurrence for LHO; he usually made such trips on Fridays, not Thursdays. (And, I ask of CTers, what the heck was the hurry, IF HE'S JUST GETTING CURTAIN RODS? Why couldn't Oswald have waited for 24 more hours to get those rods via his normal Friday visit to Irving?)

2.) Oswald wraps his rifle in a 38-inch paper sack.

3.) Oswald takes the bag/rifle to work on the morning of Friday, November 22nd (and tells a lie to co-worker Frazier about the contents of the paper bag).

4.) Oswald hides the bag somewhere within the TSBD prior to 12:30 PM.

5.) Oswald takes the rifle from the bag in the "Sniper's Nest" on the 6th Floor shortly before 12:30, and leaves the empty bag (with LHO's prints on it) on the floor near the sniper's window.*

* = And one of the prints is Oswald's right palmprint, situated on the bag in exactly the manner where a print of that nature would definitely have been located per the way Wes Frazier said Oswald had carried the bag -- i.e., cupped in his right hand, so that the weight of whatever was contained inside the bag would be pressing against LHO's right palm.

This is a critical piece of print evidence that not only links Oswald to this particular paper sack found right underneath the window from where a sniper fired shots at the President, but also links LHO to the bag in such a way that perfectly corroborates a specific piece of testimony given by co-worker Wesley Frazier with regard to the precise way Oswald handled the paper bag that morning (and in which hand Oswald carried it -- his right hand).

6.) Oswald shoots and kills John F. Kennedy with rifle #C2766 after removing it from the homemade paper bag.

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Can ANY conspiracy theorist construct a reasonable, non-kooky-sounding alternative theory that will debunk the above lone-killer scenario? That is to say -- a reasonable CT version which has Lee Harvey Oswald carrying that paper bag into the School Book Depository on the very morning a U.S. President would be passing right by that building in a motorcade -- and yet NOT have Oswald being a gunman who took part in JFK's assassination?

I've yet to hear such a reasonable conspiracy-slanted alternative.

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The following excellent quote comes from author and ballistics expert Larry Sturdivan (and it seems like a good quote to insert at this point)......

"The totality of reliable physical evidence, supported by eyewitness accounts of his doing what the physical evidence shows he did, makes the case against Lee Harvey Oswald an open and shut case. He murdered John Kennedy and Officer Tippit and gravely wounded John Connally. The {Mark} Lane myth of 'Oswald as Patsy' and all similar conspiracy myths merit no serious consideration." -- Larry M. Sturdivan; From his book "The JFK Myths" (c.2005); Page #246