Who Killed JFK?

[Berzerker]

I didn't know that... But how do you explain Ruby's role in all this?

 

[luiz]

Which would make the rifle guilty.

And Oswald told his wife about it, and wrote it in his diary...

And he was an extreme defender of Castro, so extreme and so unbalanced that Cuba didn't want anything to do with him... In other words, he shot Kennedy and the general for the same reason, his obsession with Cuba.

 

[luiz]

I didn't know that... But how do you explain Ruby's role in all this?

Ruby was telling his friends that someone should put a bullet in Oswald the moment he was ID'ed.

 

[Berzerker]

maybe thats why he told an informant to watch the fireworks then? I was under the impression his comment to the informant came before JFK was killed, but if it came afterward you might be right - he just didn't strike me as a JFK uberfan acting out of anger

 

[Kyriakos]

And Oswald told his wife about it, and wrote it in his diary...

And he was an extreme defender of Castro, so extreme and so unbalanced that Cuba didn't want anything to do with him... In other words, he shot Kennedy and the general for the same reason, his obsession with Cuba.

Did he give any help to Pinochet (enablers of the future resistance against evil socialism in Chile, i mean; not the general himself)? That is what would actually make him a force for good.

 

[luiz]

Did he give any help to Pinochet (enablers of the future resistance against evil socialism in Chile, i mean; not the general himself)? That is what would actually make him a force for good.

This is Greek to me.

 

[Zkribbler]

Another point that conspiracies usually overlook is that Oswald tried to assassinate some far-right (and fervently anti-Castro) general before he killed Kennedy, and tests later showed that the bullets from both attacks were fired from the same rifle.

Thanks, luiz. I either didn't know or had forgotten this fact.

from Wilipedia:

In March 1963, Oswald used the alias "A. Hidell" to make a mail-order purchase of a secondhand 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle for $29.95.[78] He also purchased a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver by the same method.[79] On April 10, 1963, Oswald attempted to kill retired U.S. Major General Edwin Walker. He fired the Carcano rifle at Walker through a window from less than 100 feet (30 m) away as Walker sat at a desk in his Dallas home. The bullet struck the window-frame and Walker's only injuries were bullet fragments to the forearm.[80] The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that the "evidence strongly suggested" that Oswald carried out the shooting.[81]

 

[Berzerker]

hmm...that just means JFK's real assassins spent a bit more time setting up their patsy

 

[onejayhawk]

Which would make the rifle guilty.

We know. And it just disappeared. Doesn't call, doesn't write. Gone.

J

 

[Perfection]

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[Zkribbler]

I didn't know that... But how do you explain Ruby's role in all this?

Oswald was unwittingly recruited by the mob. When it looked as if he might talk, Ruby was sent in to silence him. Then Ruby soon after died in jail.

 

[luiz]

maybe thats why he told an informant to watch the fireworks then? I was under the impression his comment to the informant came before JFK was killed, but if it came afterward you might be right - he just didn't strike me as a JFK uberfan acting out of anger

Yes of course the Ruby angle of the story is quite weird. But Ruby was a nutter, and the mob certainly would not entrust him with silencing Oswald. By all accounts Ruby was very upset about the assassination, crying like a kid and shutting down his clubs for several days in mourning.