To reject the conclusion of the Warren Commission that John F. Kennedy was killed by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald is to automatically become a conspiracy theorist, because if more than one person was involved in the murder, by legal definition it was a conspiracy. Once over the hurdle of the CIA’s pejorative, you can begin to examine facts and evidence and the gaping holes in the Warren Commission report. That leads to the consideration of the possibility that a high-level cabal murdered Kennedy, and that is a possibility many Americans, even those who reject the lone gunman conclusion, would rather not think about. From Jacob G. Hornberger at fff.org:
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 2 (of 2)
One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment rather than simply a murder carried out by a supposed lone-nut assassin.
The mountain of evidence that has surfaced, especially since the 1990s, when the JFK Records Act mandated the release of top-secret assassination-related records within the national-security establishment, has been in the nature of circumstantial evidence, as compared to direct evidence. Thus, I can understand that someone who places little faith in the power of circumstantial evidence might study and review that evidence and decide to embrace the “lone-nut theory” of the case.
But many of the people who have embraced the lone-nut theory have never spent any time studying the evidence in the case and yet have embraced the lone-nut theory. Why? My hunch is that the reason is that they have a deep fear of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” which is the term the CIA many years ago advised its assets in the mainstream press to employ to discredit those who were questioning the official narrative in the case.
