Maybe we missed something': Warren Commission insider publicly concedes that JFK assasination was likely a conspiracy

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/22/maybe-we-missed-something-warren-commission-insider-publicly-concedes-that-jfk-assasination-was-likely-a-conspiracy/

Describing someone as a “conspiracy theorist” is usually meant as an insult, suggesting tin-foil hats and babbling rants on late-night radio talk shows. But when it comes to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the list of important, seemingly credible public figures who count themselves as conspiracy theorists is long and impressive.

Fifty years ago this coming week, the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the panel led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and better known as the Warren Commission, published an 888-page final report that identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole gunman in Dealey Plaza and said there was no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic.

Those findings were meant to put an end to the swirling conspiracy theories about the president’s murder. Yet the theories persisted. Americans had difficulty accepting that the most powerful man in the world could be brought down by a troubled young man wielding a $21 mail-order rifle. And in the wake of the Vietnam War, Watergate and so many other scandals and national tragedies that followed the assassination, people grew increasingly skeptical that the government could be expected to tell them the truth. By the late 1960s, opinion polls showed that most Americans had rejected the findings of the Warren Commission’s report. An April 2013 poll by the Associated Press found that 59% of Americans believed there was a conspiracy in Kennedy’s death.

The bold-faced names among the conspiracy theorists have included the president who established the commission. Lyndon Johnson said in the final years of his life that he believed that the Warren Commission was wrong and that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was behind the assassination. Another surprising conspiracy theorist: the slain president’s brother, former attorney general Robert Kennedy, who publicly supported the Warren report even as he told friends and family he was convinced that Castro, the Mafia or even some rogue element of the CIA was responsible for his brother’s death. Last year, Secretary of State John Kerry told a television interviewer that “to this day, I have serious doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.”

And this month, on the eve of the report’s 50th anniversary, the roster of seemingly credible Americans willing to identify themselves as Kennedy-assassination conspiracy theorists has grown to include someone from within the Warren Commission itself: Charles Shaffer, a former Justice Department prosecutor who served on the investigation’s staff in 1964 (he says he was dispatched by Attorney General Kennedy as “Bobby’s spy”) and went on to a headline-making career as a Washington-based criminal defence lawyer.

In interviews I have been conducting for a new edition of my 2013 book on the assassination, Shaffer told me there probably was a conspiracy in President Kennedy’s death, which makes him the first commission insider to say so publicly. He said he has no doubt that Oswald was the lone gunman in Dealey Plaza. Nor does he question the single-bullet theory, developed by the commission’s staff, which holds that one bullet passed through the bodies of both Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally. But he now suspects that the assassination was the work, ultimately, of organized-crime figures who somehow manipulated Oswald into gunning down the president in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, and then directed strip-club operator Jack Ruby to silence Oswald by killing him two days later.

[Dakine10 5,452]

A conspiracy theory that doesn't include Rockefeller. Come on!!!

[lostinblue 1,989]

Lets see now ... a cheating husband...... I vote for the wife....

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Lets see now ... a cheating husband...... I vote for the wife....

JFK was a hound dog. Maybe Jackie got tired of it...

[decocker 7,198]

Lets see now ... a cheating husband...... I vote for the wife....

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

JFK was a hound dog. Maybe Jackie got tired of it...

Maybe Onassis had him offed. I think Jackie was a little freaky also. Ex-first lady with nude photos on the net

Clinton did a good job and was a dog

JFK was a dog

HMMM I often thought GWB was doing Condi

[decocker 7,198]

HMMM I often thought GWB was doing Condi

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Are you trying to say he could not find her attractive because she is black. Black women fight that all the time. I would think better from you.

To be really honest I think Condi is sexy. It's the little tooth gap that does it for me.. No not joking

[decocker 7,198]

Are you trying to say he could not find her attractive because she is black. Black women fight that all the time. I would think better from you.

To be really honest I think Condi is sexy. It's the little tooth gap that does it for me.. No not joking

no one should find her attractive because she is a minion of satan. bush would certainly find her whole minion of satan bit hawt because he's got the same vibe, albeit limp and lackluster. i'm sure he blames the cocaine.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Maybe Onassis had him offed. I think Jackie was a little freaky also. Ex-first lady with nude photos on the net

Clinton did a good job and was a dog

JFK was a dog

HMMM I often thought GWB was doing Condi

We have a saying. There's levels to this ####. Clinton was a dog, but JFK was on a whole other level. I read somewhere if he didn't have a woman every three days, he'd suffered massive headaches. Not to mention Marilyn Monroe...

Are you trying to say he could not find her attractive because she is black. Black women fight that all the time. I would think better from you.

To be really honest I think Condi is sexy. It's the little tooth gap that does it for me.. No not joking

I think she's talking about GWB...

[decocker 7,198]

I think she's talking about GWB...

both of them are gross.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

both of them are gross.

Ms. Rice came here to our command about 2 years ago. I had a chance to meet her, but they ran out of seats. A lot of people wanted to hear her speak.

If I did meet her, I'd extend the basic courtesy out of respect for the position she held.

[decocker 7,198]

Ms. Rice came here to our command about 2 years ago. I had a chance to meet her, but they ran out of seats. A lot of people wanted to hear her speak.

If I did meet her, I'd extend the basic courtesy out of respect for the position she held.

i would never put myself in a position to meet her, because i'd never want to be in a position to feign respect. but i'm certainly not a fan of hers or gb.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

i would never put myself in a position to meet her, because i'd never want to be in a position to feign respect. but i'm certainly not a fan of hers or gb.

I swear you remind me of Huey Freeman.

[GBCW 397]

Condi is too bony to be attractive.

Boning Condi might start a fire, what with all the bone to bone friction.

(yes, i know its not actually a bone!)