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[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository

[Flack]

I'll give this a watch later tonight. I've been inside the book depository and they don't allow you to look out the exact window, but you can go up a floor and look out the same position from the 7th floor. It's unsettling to look down at Dealey Plaza from that angle.

[pinback]

I'm more a Mandalay Bay window guy. More bang for the buck.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I'll give this a watch later tonight. I've been inside the book depository and they don't allow you to look out the exact window, but you can go up a floor and look out the same position from the 7th floor. It's unsettling to look down at Dealey Plaza from that angle.

Whoa! Those fascist pigs really don't want anyone else up there. I love that they haven't torn it down. Don't mess with Texas. Although what a "Die Hard / Die Hard 2" situation if someone went to the exact same window and started blasting away. Second most famous guy to get zilched out by someone shooting through that window is still LAST PLACE.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I'm more a Mandalay Bay window guy. More bang for the buck.

Conversely, my understanding is that Nevada absolutely lets you go up to that window and in fact have a giant slot machine there to occupy you as you look out. I guess that's why one of those states were cool enough to get the Raiders.

[Flack]

Whoa! Those fascist pigs really don't want anyone else up there.

In their defense, I think it's for the safety of people driving convertibles.

[Flack]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The theory I like is that yeah, Oswald shot at JFK but then a secret service agent in the car in front if him accidentally discharged his rifle and that got him. It does answer the questions about the head direction. Have you heard about that theory, Flack???

[Flack]

Yeah, I used to own that book ("Mortal Error").

When I was in elementary school we visited a family friend who had turned a large room in their house into a library/reading room. It had bookshelves from floor to ceiling, all full of books, with a couple of nice reading chairs in the middle of the room. It made such an impression on me that I always wanted to have a room like that and in my early 20s I owned hundreds and hundreds of books. At some point I made the decision to own toys and electronics over books and so I sold 90% of them. I guess the point to all of that is that I had a JFK "section" with 30-40 books. I also had a UFO section and a "true crime" section that was split pretty evenly between books on Jack the Ripper and the Manson Family. Now that I think about it, selling all these books at once probably got me added to some list(s).

But yeah, I was pretty into it for a while.

[AArdvark]

The crime scene investigation sounds like the worst mish-mash of bumbling detectives ever. No wonder there are conflicting statements and conspiracy theories.

[Flack]

The amount of mistakes regarding the autopsy alone, from letting Jacqueline Kennedy pick the location of the autopsy to having a couple of bumbleheads with no forensic experience perform it, are -- pardon the expression -- mind blowing. Performing a tracheotomy directly over the bullet's exit wound and removing/losing the President's brain didn't help matters.

[AArdvark]

I heard a theory that a guy shot Kennedy fom a sewer grating.
Judging from the video clip above it's as plausible as any of the other wacky theories.