Talk:John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories

Another theory
Should and be added to the list? Anna Livia (talk) 12:42, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Consequences
Copied from Saloon Bar discussion (before it disappears)
 * X (person, group, organisation, state of choice) - 'You do what we want or we will reveal (you had Y girlfriends etc, were involved in these dubious activities etc) during the election campaign. Result of revealing blackmail - slapped wrist equivalent (depending upon the prudishness etc of the electorate).
 * Result of assassination revealed - prompt, possibly disproportionate, response (possibly by third parties taking 'the moral high ground' aka 'better act now, or it will be us next time.' Anna Livia (talk) 15:51, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Books
Was the Book Depository firm investigated - LHO brought a rifle/'a long gun' (I am fairly ignorant about types of gun) into work and was not questioned. He also set up a sniper's nest and nobody appeared to notice. Anna Livia (talk) 15:51, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * LHO didn't just wander in carrying a rifle, he hid the Mannlicher-Carcano he used in a large paper bag, and told anyone who questioned him it contained curtain rods. The sniper's nest was set up behind a wall of boxes, with the rifle itself hidden among them; since the TSBD was filled with boxes, this was not hard to accomplish.


 * As for those sources you posted on Bush and Nixon, they don't exactly seem authoritative, especially the Bush one (which seems to just be a deleted Youtube video). I think it tracks back to a book by Russ Baker called Family of Secrets, which among other things posits that Bob Woodward was an intelligence agent. Call me dubious.2A00:23C7:99A4:5000:74BE:7039:E330:5371 (talk) 01:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 'The official investigators' might well have taken the more hostile approach.
 * With the videos 'found while looking for other things.' Anna Livia (talk) 09:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Regarding the TSBD specifically, Oswald's supervisor, Roy Truly, was questioned by the Warren Commission, as were a number of others, which you can see on the witness list (https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix5.html). Truly never saw Oswald carrying a rifle, but according to his testimony, two days previously, a Mr. Warren Caster showed him two rifles that he had purchased for hunting and brought into the building in a carton on his lunch break (https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/html/WC_Vol7_0195a.htm). 86.154.177.175 (talk) 18:18, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
 * So an element of 'benefits of 20/20 hindsight' involved. Anna Livia (talk) 19:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

LHO misses scenario
What sort of conspiracies would have arisen if LHO had fired, but missed JFK/injured someone else? (There being many obvious reasons why.) Anna Livia (talk) 19:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Cui bono?
So who would have benefited more from having JFK killed over some form of blackmail? (Multiple blackmailers would have been feasible.)

I read 'somewhere' that 'assassinating the President' was not a Federal crime at the time of JFK's death - is this so? If Oswald had survived which judicial authority would have taken on the case? Anna Livia (talk) 20:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC)