[Ben Holmes]

(05-07-2017, 06:42 PM)Patrick C Wrote:  

Ben Holmes Wrote:Tut tut tut, Patrick... you dealt not at all with Hitchen's statement about what Chief Warren had said.

Speculation will never replace the evidence, you'll can't simply presume that if someone were more conversant with the evidence that they'd suddenly accept the Warren Commission's view. That's provably false. There are many critics who are highly knowledgeable on the case evidence, yet fail to slavishly follow the Warren Commission as so many believers do.

I don't pay much attention to the Warren Commion other than witness testimony. All the good stuff is much more recent - you know Myers and all the TV docs that support the lone gunman theory.......who needs the Warren Commission, we have Bugliosi, Posner, Ayton, Majerus et al......

Didn't address what I stated at all.

Nor is it true that you "pay attention" to the eyewitness testimony - I've frequently challenged believers to name the witnesses whom they believe completely in their 1963-1964 statements & testimony, and I never get an answer!

I won't this time either.

That fact tells the true tale.

(05-07-2017, 06:42 PM)Patrick C Wrote:  More to Oswald perhaps than meets the eye....Mexico City .....more to that I am sure, but Oswald may have been thinking about assassinating someone - and had influnces....then his opportunistic chance came NO EARLIER than Tuesday Nov 19th 1963.....and his decision was made on the night of No 21st .....

I suspect he even had doubts about going through with it until even as late as an hour before - probably had images of his kids in his head and doubts......one wonders even if he had Connally in mind initially.....?

Then he took his chance and sadly pulled it off......just like all the other young dissinfranchised young men with guns that have littered recent history....no conspiracies.....

It really is very very simple.

You clearly paid no attention at all to my assertion that speculation will never replace evidence. As President Reagan would say: There you go again...

(05-07-2017, 06:42 PM)Patrick C Wrote:  And there will be very little if not anything at all that will support your views in the Oct 2017 releases.

 I'm sure that's your prayer every night. But historically, each time there's been new releases of information, it's not gone well for your faith.