Talk:John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory

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Anyone else find it interesting that of all the pages about conspiracy theories, this one is the least ridiculed of them all. I wonder what some of you folks think about all these conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK.

It's a hard one to ridicule because of all the crazy things involved with it. Quite a few unknowns. We never got a motive from Oswald because he was gunned down hours later, and the guy who shot him took it to his grave. We don't even know if he acted alone. --PitchBlackMind 23:48, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

The page does need some snarking up, but I find the obsession some people have with trying to tie their pet crank issues to a JFK assassination conspiracy more amusing than the idea of a conspiracy itself, which is entirely plausible and (I would argue) probable given all the unknowns. Secret Squirrel 23:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Possible backlashes

The point is, for most of the theoretical backers/initiators - the payback on their involvement being discovered was likely to be 'negative in the extreme-to-elimination.'

Given that JFK's private activities (relationships, links with certain groups etc) were probably well known 'in certain circles', and an election was coming up, discrete pressure 'puppet on a string activity' would have been far more practical - and the negative payback far more limited.

There is also the case that there are too many suggestions (has anyone brought in 'aliens on the Moon trying to stop JFK's space program or timetravellers - apart from an episode of Quantum Leap)? Jackiespeel (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Man on the Grassy Knoll

Is actually a spillover from a alternative universe in which LHO was based at that point - and they have a 'Repository Man myth.' (SF possibility for development) Jackiespeel (talk) 15:17, 7 January 2010 (UTC)