Oswald on the steps ?

Hello everybody,

For a few weeks some JFK-assassination forums have been inundated with hundreds of posts piling up on threads about a new conspiracy theory.
Looking at a shadowy figure in a blurry picture, some fringe conspiracy theorists claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was on the steps of the Texas School Book Depository building at the time of the shooting, thus "proving" his innocence.
That's funny, really.
Last year Ralph Cinque and his friends told us that Billy Lovelady (the man we see on the famous Altgens picture), a man on the steps of the TSBD, was not really Billy Lovelady but was, in fact, none other than Lee Harvey Oswald.
OK, why not ?
But now, a Sean Murphy and some of his followers tell us that a shadowy figure whom they call "Prayer man", a man on the steps of the TSBD, is, in fact, none other than Lee Harvey Oswald.
So, if we are to believe them, there were two Oswalds, on the steps, at the very same time, side by side.
Lee Harvey Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald, together, watching the motorcade...

Fascinating, indeed !

Can you imagine Lee Oswald, in custody at the Dallas Police Headquarters, telling the reporters in the hall :
"No, they've taken me in because of the fact that I was on the steps with another myself. I'm just two patsies."

Conspiracy theorists will never ceaze to amaze me !

But please, don't laugh, or a nobody called Colin Crow may be angry at you...

[joke] Proof of conspiracy, at last !

Fifty years !
Yes, we had to wait fifty years....
Until now, nobody had been able to prove with any kind of certainty that there had been a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Nobody.
Not even David Lifton.
Not even James DiEugenio.
Not even Robert Groden.
An the public was beginning to think that maybe, yes, maybe the Warren commission, Gerald Posner and David Von Pein were right, after all.
If no evidence had been found yet to show Oswald's innocence, it probably indicated that he must have been guilty.
-> And then he came, the great, great researcher, the one and only, the hero who found the proof !
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he found the ultimate proof.
Proof that Oswald did not shoot anyone that day.
Proof of conspiracy.
His name is Sean Murphy.
Fifty years after the event, at last, we now know the truth, thanks to him.

And here is the proof :

This very CLEAR picture shows Lee Harvey Oswald (and no one else in the whole universe) on the steps of the School Book Depository at the time of the shooting.
It is OBVIOUS.
Who would dare say they don't recognize Lee Oswald ?
It's him, beyond any doubt.
No, he did not kill Kennedy.
Thank you so much, Mister Murphy.

Conviced?

Another book that won't change a thing...

Hello everybody,
I was visiting The Education Forum and discovered a new thread, started by none other than John Simkin, and titled : "Joseph McBride, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit (2013)" [link to that thread]
The thread is about a new book, by researcher Joseph McBride [link to the Amazon page], which allows its author to add his name to the seemingly never-ending list of people who staunchly refuse the historical truth and prefer to theorize, theorize .. and theorize.
The forum thread is still short, but in it I was able to read that Joseph McBride claims :

• Lee Harvey Oswald is innocent in the Tippit shooting
• Two, three, and possibly four men were involved in the Tippit murder (but not Oswald)
• Lee Oswald was in the second-floor lunchroom at the time of the Kennedy shooting
• Mary Ferrell was a disinformation agent (a "gatekeeper", a person delegated by the US government)

My God ! As Vincent Bugliosi would say : "These conspiracy theorists, have they no shame ?"
So, in other words, according to McBride, Oswald did not do anything wrong that day, and the evidence was altered.
. . .
I'm tired. Really tired.
. . .
I was glad to see David Von Pein inject common sense and critical-thinking arguments into the thread.
Of course, McBride is wrong, utterly wrong.
Nonetheless I guess I'll do what I always do : I'll order his book, read it and add it to my collection.
As I have always done, I'll give the author a chance to prove his case. But as always, I bet he won't be able to !

The acoustic evidence : confirmation of the official version (again)

Hello everybody,
You have all heard of the acoustic evidence debate. To put it simply, conspiracy theorists have been claiming that the Dallas Police Department radio recordings show that there had been four shots fired in Dealey Plaza (four impulses heard = four shots = two shooters = a conspiracy), while Warren Commision defenders say that the impulses heard on the tapes are not shots, and therefore prove nothing.
This blog has a short article that presents a Charles Rader interview which prove conspiracy theorists are wrong.
There's more.
A few days ago Steve Barber (yes, the famous Steve Barber !) started a new thread by writing a post on the JFK Assassination Forum. It is a very interesting post, that I recommend everybody to read.
You've got to listen to his audio clip.
Let me quote a very important sentence written by Steve Barber in that thread :
"... That the Decker crosstalk is authentic, it is "true crosstalk", and that the Ramsey panel has it right."
Well, in essence that's what I had written in my book. That's what all the Oswald-was-guilty researchers (from Gerald Posner to David Von Pein) have been saying for years.
In other words, Robert Groden is wrong, 100% wrong. (Or he is voluntarily lying, which would be even worse). Any "researcher" that would dare keep talking about the so-called "acoustic evidence" would be either ignorant, or a liar (or both ?)
For sure, conspiracy theorists have lost that battle. Come to think of it, so far they have lost all of them.