THINGS TO PONDER ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION

1.) What motive did Lee Harvey Oswald have for shooting Kennedy?

After his arrest, when speaking of the assassination, Oswald reportedly said the new president, Lyndon Johnson, would more than likely follow the same path in his administration as had Kennedy. Does this sound like the response of someone considered a lone nut? Some people would have you believe that Oswald killed Kennedy so he would be famous, but that would seem to dissolve by the fact that Oswald vehemently denied shooting Kennedy.

2.) If Oswald was the lone assassin, why would he pass up a clear shot of the president's limo coming towards him, and shoot all his shots as the limo moved away from him, with the first shot, according to most Warren Commission proponents, almost completely blocked by a tree?

3.) Oswald's actions after the assassination.

Oswald was spotted on the second floor within a minute and a half of the shooting. If you think about Oswald's actions after he has supposedly just shot Kennedy, he wipes the prints off the gun, hides the gun at the opposite end of the floor from the assassin's window, then races down four flights of stairs. He is then spotted by his boss Roy Truly, and Dallas police officer, Marion Baker, either drinking, or buying a Coke. Would someone who just shot the president, and raced down to the second floor, stop to buy a Coke?

4.) Much has been made of the many deaths of several people associated in one way or another with the Kennedy assassination, within a few short years of the assassination. I'll be the first to admit that some of the deaths that conspiratorists have mentioned are a little reaching, but there are some that even the biggest proponent of the lone assassin have to wonder about.

a.) David Ferrie and Eladio del Valle (Feb. 22 & 23, 1967)- Whether you believe New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison was onto something in his investigation of the Kennedy assassination, or that he was a nut, the deaths of these two has to be labeled as suspicious. They were associated with each other, and at least one seems to have known Oswald, and they ended up dead within hours of each other. There is debate as to the circumstances of Ferrie's death, whether it was murder or suicide, but considering that de Valle was shot in the heart at point blank range, and had his skull split open with an axe, it is safe to say, his death wasn't a suicide.

b.) Lee Bowers- I know that someone dies in an auto accident every day, but the fact that Bowers happened to be one, within three years of the assassination would seem suspicious. Here's a guy who was in the best position to see anything strange going on behind the picket fence by the grassy knoll. He reported seeing two men, and said that something in that area caught his attention at the time of the shooting.

c.) Bill Hunter and Jim Koethe- Two reporters in Jack Ruby's apartment on Nov. 24, the day Ruby killed Oswald. Hunter was killed by a gunshot wound, and Koethe by a karate chop to the neck, both in 1964. Not exactly natural causes.

d.) Eddy Benavides and Warren Reynolds- Reynolds witnessed the escape of Officer Tippit's killer, and Benavides is the brother of another Tippit witness, and apparently looks very similar to his brother. Both were shot in the head, Reynolds in Jan. 1964, and Benavides in Feb. 1964. Both described seeing someone else flee the scene after the shooting of Tippit, rather than Oswald.

e.) John Roselli, Sam Giancana, and George deMohrenschildt- Roselli and Giancana were mafia members, and were linked to CIA/mafia plots to kill Fidel Castro during the Kennedy administration, and rumors came to light that they may have conspired to kill Kennedy. When these rumors came to light, the pair were murdered in grisly fashion, just before the Committee to Investigate Assassinations came to be. DeMohrenschildt turned up dead, from an apparent suicide, just days before he was to testify before the committee.

5.) The fact that not a single person in all of Dealey Plaza that day, saw the assassination the way the Warren Commission said it happened.

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