I'll admit, I used to be a huge believer in JFK conspiracy theory, thanks in no small part to my [much] older brother. For the record, he won't be bothered to even pay attention to the 9/11 CTists. He enjoyed Abby's Conspiracy Wars video, but has expressed complete disinterest in anything regarding the Truthers and the debunking thereof. I guess that's OK.
I still can't buy the "jet effect" explanation for the "back-and-to-the-left" bit. I now think it's more likely that it has to do with the tension of Kennedy's back brace suddenly being unopposed by the muscles that of course slackened at the moment his brain was obliterated.
When I first moved to the DFW area, one of my first stops was of course Dealey Plaza and the grassy knoll, etc. My first impression was that the actual scene is much smaller in real life than it had appeared to be in all the photos I had seen. I haven't fired a rifle in decades, but there was a time (and this is not an Internet Tough Guy brag, it's just the facts, ma'am) when I could hit a running prairie dog at ~50 yards with a Marlin bolt-action .22 caliber rifle using only iron sights. (I could also hit them with a Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14, but the end result was a bit more gross than I cared for at that age). I do not have the least bit of difficulty believing that Oswald could have hit JFK with a scoped rifle at the distance of a mere 60 yards. It's hardly a feat, and frankly I'm surprised that he took 3 shots to do it.
A much easier and closer shot could have been made as the motorcade was coming down Houston street, directly towards the TSBD. Why would a well-orchestrated conspiracy dictate that the "patsy" pass up the easy shot in favor of a slightly harder one which would "necessitate" multiple shooters thereby multiplying the complexity of the coverup? Why fear being seen by the approaching motorcade if everyone who isn't In On It has been intimidated or ridiculed into silence?
I could go on for ages, but frankly I need to get back to World of Warcraft.
For a very long time I'd been coming to reevaluate my JFK conspiracy leanings. I couldn't really express why (some of the JFK debunkers leave a lot to be desired, Gerald Posner being a prime example), but it just sort of started not to smell right to me. The final nail in that coffin was the never-ending Loose Change thread on this forum. There are a lot of parallels between the two conspiracy cults, and the blistering light of logic and reason I've seen here over the past several months contributed a lot of tools I've used to slice through that particular bit of BS occupying my mental real estate.
A sincere 'thank you' to the contributors; you know who you are.
