Don't believe everything you hear.

Conspiracy theories have been thoroughly debunked, repeatedly. When someone says, "Well, bullet casings on the roof of the Book Depository building PROVE LHO didn't shoot Kennedy" you can translate it as, "Well there's a new NASA picture that shows a reflection in a helmet visor that PROVES the moon landing was fake."

Start with Case Closed by Gerald Posner.

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No doubt there is a case to be made it was just LHO and I tend to think that was the case. However, lots of loose ends that you have to ignore, even when explained away.

For example, the motorcade was going less than 5mph when standard ops is never go less then 10mph when driving in a parade with open vehicle.

I don't tend to think it will be ever be a "Case closed" situation.

I do agree with your premise that many conspiracy folks make a lot out of nothing.

I'm not a conspiracy guy in general but have always had a problem with Oswald being capable of pulling this off.

While in the marines after intense training he barely qualified as sharpshooter (note: expert is the highest rating). He was later tested and barely made marksman (lower level). Supposedly when the guys he trained with were asked after the fact who they would pick to make an assassination attempt if they were the target, they all picked Oswald. There were three shots fired, the first shot missed the entire car. Anyone who has ever hunted knows the first shot is the most critical, you can't count on the target to remain in an undisturbed state. The next two shots were bullseyes. He had a poor weapon. There is no evidence that he practiced. He missed on an earlier assassination attempt (walker). When experts attempted to recreate his act I don't believe it was ever replicated and they were shooting at targets not a live President.

If Oswald did this it would be his equivalent of winning the lottery (twice).

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I watched "The Kennedy Detail" (I think that was the title) on Discovery channel and it centered on the USSS agents who were assigned to Kennedy. They addressed the open limo issue bit unfortunately I can't recall the details. I do recall seeing agents on foot around the limo at different times so it wouldn't be possible for the limo to be travelling at more that 10 mph at those times.

There’s a couple good books out there that lay out the facts and debunk virtually every conspiracy theory claim around the JFK assasination. Case Closed by Posner is good, as is Parkland by Bugliosi. There was also an excellent documentary by ABC News many years ago that also showed that Oswald acted alone. Parkland in particular does an excellent job of detailing Oswald’s movements after killing Kennedy up to the time he was apprehended in the movie theater. There were in fact a number of witnesses who saw Oswald very close to Tippit.

Also, some witnesses ran to the grassy knoll, but many also looked up at the book depository building; there is a famous photograph that shows the Secret Service agents looking to their back and right after the first two shots, and not to their front.

There has been a ton of disinformation about the assasination, such as the so-called “magic bullet” which theory that has been touted by conspiracists for years, which I think has created doubt. But, it turns out that they didn’t know the interior layout of the presidential car, and when you see how it was in fact laid out, with Connally sitting lower and further inboard from the President, his wounds align perfectly with the wounds from the first shot that hit JFK.

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Not really. A lot of folks bring this up, but in fact, the angle from which Oswald was shooting, coupled with the proximity of the target, made his job much easier than many people realize. The FBI in fact did replicate the shooting from Oswald’s spot on the sixth floor and I don’t believe they concluded that it was all that difficult. There is also a documentary out there that shows just how much time Oswald had to get all of the shots off with his bolt action rifle, and in fact he had quite a bit of time.

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Just dawned on me that a couple of these points are contradictory. If there were spent shells on the roof of the book depository, then why were folks running to the grassy knoll? Seems like the folks you talked to want it both ways...there were shooters at the grassy knoll, and shooters close to LHO. Doesn’t make sense to me.

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Everyone knows Spock was the shooter.

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Classic conspiracy methodology. Dig through the details of the story and try to find inconsistency and present them as evidence. You can do that with any somewhat complicated story regardless of the truth. Conspiracy theorists rarely present evidence of their alternative theory.

Who was the actual shooter and what evidence to support it?

The doctors in Dallas were trying to save his life, not perform an autopsy. The autopsy done in D.C.

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“Read the transcript.”

Not to mention that trauma doctors aren’t exactly trained as ballistics experts and even that field is more advanced today than it would have been when the Kennedy investigation and reports were compiled.