4:07 am and the clock goes tick-tick-tick Musings on JFK

famous image (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For no reason at all I’ve found myself watching youtube clips of varying length, quality and content with regard to the well documented assassination of a John F. Kennedy, President.

Some of it I enjoyed, some shocked me, some surprised me, and some made me laugh.

Some of the things I learnt though;

• There were 4 shots.
• There were 5 shots.
• There were 6 shots.
• There were 7 shots.
• There were 8 shots.
• There were 10-13 shots
• There was a lone gunman.
• There was a second sniper at the other end of the  Texas School Book Depository.
• There were two snipers on the grassy knoll.
• There were three snipers on the grass knoll.
• There were four gunmen and thirteen shots. Six of the shots hit either Kennedy or Connally, and the remaining seven shots were designed “distraction” shots used to mislead the police and to panic bystanders.
• There were snipers everywhere
• The snipers have names like
  • Black Dog Man
  • Badge Man
  • Umbrella Man
• There was a back-up sniper by the underpass.
• The assassins include
  • Frenchmen.
  • Italians.
  • Americans, including one Charles Voyde Harrelson, father of Woody.
• There are 3 tramps.
• Lee Oswald had a doppleganger.
• George HW Bush was the mastermind.
• LBJ did it.
• Nixon too, he did it.
• The CIA did it.
• The Mafia did it.
• The KGB did it.
• Castro did it.
• Nazi Illuminati, of course, did it.
• International bankers did it.
• More then 74 people have been murdered to stop them blabbing
• The final shot(s) was from in-front and to the right, from the knoll.
• The final shot came from within the car!
• The final shot came from within a storm drain the curb!
• Shots hit the curb, the grass, bystanders, street signs and didn’t I see a documentary recently where  one also hit some traffic lights.
• There are some very good quality video clips.
• The Zapruder film that you see today on the Internet is not the original film.
• There are vide clips that have gunshot sounds in them, which is kind of weird since that’s all you hear and no other background noises.
• There are some shocking autopsy photographs, variously in black and white and in colour.
• There are some strange people on the internets
• There are some sensible people on the internets who’ve put together some good work

After watching some of the clips and listening to some of the theories it would be easy to buy into the shot from in-front and from the right (the knoll).

Photo of Dealey Plaza (annotated), from Warren Commission report. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From many years ago  I remember reading a book “Mortal Error”  (1992) that claimed the final shot came from a secret service agent, George Hickey, in a car travelling behind, by accident as he turned in reaction to a shot from the TSBD building (Oswald), squeezed the trigger on his service rifle by mistake and well that ended badly.

I like that theory, it seemed poetic in a weird way.

It is clear that there was a lot of confusion at the time, and that just gets worse over time.

It’s also clear that this is a fantastic playground for the conspiracy theorists, and it doesn’t include aliens, ufo’s, or area 51.

I’ll get to them later.

In the meantime : I watched the documentary “Oswald’s Ghost” which is very good at playing it straight up the middle. in summary though, Oswald was not a simple man, and had the drive and passion to do something grand, Ruby was opportunistic, and everything else is wishful thinking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY93Y2ryqcc

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