Look here Ma, that durn POKO has started up a blog on this here internet thingamabob.
BillyBob, have you done finished milking the cows? You know reading that tripe POKO writes wont get the chores done!
Okay Ma, I'll do my chores now and read the blog after I feed the pigs. That durn POKO, he's always up to something...






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The Kennedy Assassination
The following two paragraphs are taken from Wikipedia:

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza. He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, and the eighth to die while in office.

Two official investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, was the assassin, with one government investigation concluding that Oswald acted alone and another suggesting that he acted with at least one other person. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of conspiracy theories.

There are many theories about Kennedy's assassination, but here's one from Catallarchy That bears attention:

Always timely, I’d like to give my own speculation about the JFK assassination. I haven’t put in thousands of hours of fevered conspiracy-theorizing, but I do know something about political behavior and government, so it’s worth a shot.

There are a few things to consider:

  • The evidence from the Zapruder video seems to indicate more than one shooter—at least two coordinated shooters.
  • In the decades prior, there were Soviet moles all throughout the government. I believe this died down after Stalin, but Soviet espionage in general did not stop, and I see no reason why their infiltration of the US government would stop either.
  • John Kennedy had at least three times directly aroused the anger of the Soviets. The botched Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis are well known. A German professor I had tipped me to a third: Kennedy’s visit to West Berlin and the passions this aroused in Germans. According to my West German professor, this event was stamped into the German political consciousness for years.
  • The USSR was funding insurgents, terrorists, assassins, and general violence all over the world. They supplied training, troops, and weapons to communist movements across the world.

Taken together, these seem to point to the Soviets as the culprits. This is now our hypothesis: the Soviets killed JFK. They had the motive and the means. What’s left to ponder now is if the aftermath of the assassination makes sense if indeed the Soviets were guilty.

One unrelated deduction I’d like to mention is that with all the conspiracy theories and missing puzzle pieces, many who really study the case seem to think that the American government is hiding something, however significant. (Gasp!) Our guys aren’t stupid, so it’s no stretch of the imagination to think that they may have been able to find out. This brings us to the present problem, introduced above, of reconciling the aftermath with this speculation.

If the Soviet government was behind it, and if the American government knew so, is what happened afterwards logical?

Entirely. If the guilty party were identified, it would mean war. Despite all the rhetoric and the hardlining, nobody wanted war, because that would mean nuclear war. Hence the elaborate cover-up. In the minds of the citizens, it’s better to appear unlucky and slightly vulnerable than to have everybody duck-and-cover for the rest of their short lives.


Catallarchy's theory is interesting and possible, but others have more interesting theories. One author states there are at least 36 other JFK conspiracy theories. Knock yourself out with a search on Google keywords: kennedy, conspiracy, theories and read the 550,000 hits!
Personally, I think it was a combination of Texas businessmen and the mafia that plotted the assassination and I wouldn't be surprised if the vice president, Lyndon Johnson , was involved. Jack and Robert Kennedy posed too much of a threat to the crooked businessmen of the day and had to be eliminated.

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