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Originally Posted by mapuc
Here's another thing, to think about
During his three days visit to Texas, the killer or killers had so many opportunity to get John F Kennedy, why wait until he was in Dallas??
Markus
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Exactly. Why the complicated public opportunity to kill Kennedy?
I've found it interesting how various tales come into and out of vogue over the years, some disappearing and some staying alive in spite of being debunked over and over again. Whenever a new proposal is proffered, it is always interesting to ask whether it actually solves anything or whether it actually less likely to occur than the scenario it supposedly supplants.
For example, it has been said that no one could have made the shots from the sixth floor window, and this is a "problem" for the single-assassin view. Since it is universally agreed that SOMEBODY was shooting from SOMEWHERE, where did the shots actually come from? What have been put forth as "solutions" are that there were one or more other shooters who were further away than Oswald, who had less visibility of the target, who had less time to fire, and who had far trickier shots to make. Since it has also been suggested that the goal was to frame Oswald and make him take the blame for the true assassins' crimes, these shooters would have to know in advance that they would not be seen at any time before, during or after the shooting, and that none of their bullets would ever be recovered in an examinable condition.
In other words, it was proposed that the "problem" was "solved" by a "solution" that brought more complexities than the original problem ever had. (And it turns out that the "problem" was not much of a problem in the first place; a trained shooter of Oswald's skill could have done the shooting from the window in question.)
The eternal paradox with many conspiracy theories. Their explanation is often much more complex, unlikely and full of holes than the explanation they wish to supplant.