{"id":3927,"date":"2013-11-10T01:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:53:48","slug":"jfk-conspiracy-theories-still-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"JFK conspiracy theories still abound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am in a distinct minority of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my countrymen believe something even more sinister happened on Nov. 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>I am not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/11\/09\/21335792-why-do-jfk-conspiracy-theories-endure-new-book-blames-top-us-officials?lite&#038;ocid=msnhp&#038;pos=3<\/p>\n<p>No sir. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe he managed to fire of three shots from that building in downtown Dallas. I believe the third shot struck the president and killed him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe the Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, offered convincing enough proof that Oswald did the terrible deed.<\/p>\n<p>NBCNews.com wonders why so many Americans believe in some conspiracy theory. My guess is that it gives them something to talk about. Perhaps it also boggles their minds that a loser such as Oswald could pull off one of the 20th century&#8217;s most hideous crimes. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, Oswald was every bit the loser. He was a Marxist who sought to defect to the then-Soviet Union. He was a devotee of Fidel Castro, the Cuban commie who was ruling the island nation at the time of the JFK assassination. <\/p>\n<p>I have read accounts of the Warren Commission report. I&#8217;ve read detailed books looking at all sides of the panel&#8217;s findings. I&#8217;ve decided that Oswald did it. He acted alone. He killed the 35th president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Why the interest 50 years after the fact? Human nature just doesn&#8217;t allow people to put these matters to rest.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in a distinct minority of Americans. Most of my countrymen believe something even more sinister happened on Nov. 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas. I am not one of them. http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/11\/09\/21335792-why-do-jfk-conspiracy-theories-endure-new-book-blames-top-us-officials?lite&#038;ocid=msnhp&#038;pos=3 No sir. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe he managed to fire of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JFK conspiracy theories still abound<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1239,2461,2532,2755],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dallas","tag-jfk-assassination","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-lee-harvey-oswald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}