by Flack » Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:58 am
I watched the entire thing last night and it was kind of interesting. The big takeaway wasn't whether or not Oswald did it which, let's face it, Oswald did it, but rather the fact that human beings in general are pretty bad eye witnesses, and that once the investigators determined/decided what the narrative was, they hand-picked the testimonies that backed that story and ignored the ones that contradicted it. For example, multiple witnesses placed Oswald on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting, and a few people said he was in the cafeteria, so they just kind of listened to the ones that placed him on the sixth floor, where he most likely was. Some people said there were two shots fired and some said there were three and some said all the shots came from the book depository and some said all the shots came from the grassy knoll... so at the end of the day, they kind of did their investigation and then picked the accounts that backed it, because by definition not all of the accounts could be right. All the shots can't have come from only the depository and also the knoll. The guy makes a pretty good point at the end saying that all these things don't rule out a conspiracy, but it would be the world's worst planned conspiracy of all time, especially when Kennedy was a president who loved to ditch the secret service and meet large crowds of people -- so getting Oswald hired by the book depository and putting him in a spot where he had make a difficult shot of a small moving target which at times was obscured by a tree would have been literally the worst and toughest way to do it.
I watched the entire thing last night and it was kind of interesting. The big takeaway wasn't whether or not Oswald did it which, let's face it, Oswald did it, but rather the fact that human beings in general are pretty bad eye witnesses, and that once the investigators determined/decided what the narrative was, they hand-picked the testimonies that backed that story and ignored the ones that contradicted it. For example, multiple witnesses placed Oswald on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting, and a few people said he was in the cafeteria, so they just kind of listened to the ones that placed him on the sixth floor, where he most likely was. Some people said there were two shots fired and some said there were three and some said all the shots came from the book depository and some said all the shots came from the grassy knoll... so at the end of the day, they kind of did their investigation and then picked the accounts that backed it, because by definition not all of the accounts could be right. All the shots can't have come from only the depository and also the knoll. The guy makes a pretty good point at the end saying that all these things don't rule out a conspiracy, but it would be the world's worst planned conspiracy of all time, especially when Kennedy was a president who loved to ditch the secret service and meet large crowds of people -- so getting Oswald hired by the book depository and putting him in a spot where he had make a difficult shot of a small moving target which at times was obscured by a tree would have been literally the worst and toughest way to do it.