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[Tekkie®]

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[micky]

Just one to add for the record that the single bullet theory actually involves two bullets. About one, even the conspiricists haven't expressed doubt, so that leaves the other which conspiracists say were really two bullets (that is, three total), but was, I'm sure enough, only one, two total.

I don't want anyone reading about the other bullet and thinking that contradicts the single bullet theory.

As to the other claim, that the shooter couldn't have fired even two bullets in the time between the first and last, I'll admit I didn't have a gun but I tried to similate two shots in the allotted time, and it didnt' seem so hard. I happened to be standing at the window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository** at the time, but I think one could do the same test anywhere. **They won't lend guns for testing purposes.

[trader_4]

Yes, I agree. He was also trained in Russian by the military. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that he was in fact involved with the CIA at some level. Doesn't mean the CIA had him shoot JFK, just that he could have been involved with them. And if he was, plenty of motive for the CIA to want to hide it.

I agree, Ruby had those connections. But one of the most interesting things I learned on the 50th anniversary was that it's documented than just a few minutes before shooting Oswald, Ruby was at the Western Union office a couple blocks from police headquarters, wiring some money to a stripper. If he was the guy the mafia or whoever sent to kill Oswald, it seems very odd that he would be screwing around, at WU, instead of getting to Dallas police headquarters. Also, Oswald was actually moved later than planned, so if he was supposed to be there to whack him, it sure was a strange performance.

Yes, that's another fascinating part. The one thing that convinces me more than anything else that this wasn't some grand conspiracy is how Oswald got the job at the TSBD. All this has been documented. There was an 18 year old guy from Arkansas, I think, who couldn't find a job there. So, he moved to Dallas to live with his sister. He wound up finding a job at TSBD. Some months later, his sister happened to be at the home of a neighbor/friend. That neighbor also knew Marina Oswald. Marina happened to come over and while there, the subject that Lee Oswald was having trouble finding a job. That women told Marina that she her brother had found a job at TSBD and that he should try there. The intermdediary neighbor actually called TSBD to inquire about job openings, because Marina didn't speak English well.

Oswald went to the TSBD and was hired at the same time as another fellow. The manager who hired both of them, stated that he had two positions to fill, at two different locations, and it was only by chance that he decided to put Oswald at the TSBD. So, either this was pure chance, or it was one hell of conspiracy to get all these people involved.

On the CIA/conspiracy or is it pure coincidence craziness, are you aware of this? There was a wealthy businessman named George De Mohrenshildt, who befriended Oswald. It's been alleged that he must have been Oswald's handler. It's clear that this guy had been passing info to the CIA, as was common back then, about his overseas business trips to countries of interest. If he was more than that, who knows. DM's version was that he was of Russian decent and met and took interest in Oswald through some Russian community organization in TX. But the 1 in a billion thing here is that DM had a brother on Long Island who he visited regularly. Who was a close friend of his brother's family? Jackie Bouvier. As a child she had sat on the lap of this DM guy and called him Uncle. I mean that this guy befriended both Jackie Kennedy as a child and later Oswald, what are the odds of that? It's like all the crazy planets aligned for all this to come into play. I mean it's all totally bizarre, but at the same time, what logical grand conspiracy would put Jackie into contact with the same guy who happened to later know Oswald?