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                                                 December 18, 2013

I'm going to call this the Standard Model
for what happened in the JFK assassination,
(as opposed to the Serious Model, which is         WEAK_HEADS
a joke):
                                                        ASSASSINATION_DON
   There were bullets fired from two
   directions: in or near the Book
   Repository; and up on the Grassy
   Knoll, behind the picket fence.

   The Knoll fired first, possibly
   missing with the first shot, then
   hitting JFK in the throat, and then
   the front-right side of the head,       A possible total of five
   exiting in the rear-left.  A shot       shots vs the Warren
   from the Book Repository hit            commission's three.
   Connolly.  Another Repository shot
   apparently missed, hitting the curb         (Why the uncertainty?  The
   far up ahead.                               police radio audio recording
                                               should settle it, right?)

   The medical staff at the Parkland
   Hospital that saw the body immediately
   afterwards described the exit wound on               A later investigation
   the rear-left side of the head: so,                  ordered by Congress
   we're driven to the conclusion that                  in the mid-70s found
   the photos in the Warren Commission                  that the Warren
   report were faked (flipped negatives,                Commission got it
   some other corpse?).                                 wrong, and there was
                                                        in fact a conspiracy.

         SMOKING_REPORT
                                                It does seem significant that
                                                this second investigation
                                                seems to have fallen (or been
                                                pushed?) down the memory hole.

Soon after the killing, Oswald                       TALE_OF_TWO_TALES
was arrested for it, and shortly
afterwards Jack Ruby shot and
killed him, going to jail and dying      There are details in the saga
of cancer a few years later.             that I don't know what to do
                                         with, but don't think I care.

                                           o  Jack Ruby's motivations

                                           o  Oswald: shooter, patsy
                                              or bystander?


   So who killed Kennedy?

   I lean towards blaming a
   CIA/mob/anti-Castro faction.      UR_CONSPIRACY
   Possible goals include            ASSASSINATION_DON
   getting an enemy of the CIA
   out of office, and provoking     The Oliver Stone notion that LBJ was
   an invasion of Cuba.             in on it, and the actual goal was
                                    ramping up the Vietnam War, has
                                    always seemed like a stretch.


   People who prefer blaming
   everything on the left often
   pick a Soviet/pro-Castro faction.     That also seems like a
                                         stretch: wreckless
                                         action for little gain.







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