Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, and acted alone

[Cruzan]

LOS ANGELES, May 13 — The prosecutor who put Charles Manson behind bars now wants to solve another crime — a really simple one, he insists. So simple that it takes only 1,612 pages to prove his case.

Vincent Bugliosi, whose prosecution of Charles Manson in 1970 led him to write one of the best-selling true-crime books of all time, “Helter Skelter,” has now turned his attention to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

And that is his full attention: 20 years of research, more than one million words, hundreds of interviews, thousands of documents and more than 10,000 citations. The result, “Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (W. W. Norton), is due out tomorrow. His conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, and acted alone.

Why would such a simple conclusion require so much argument?

“Because of the unceasing and fanatical obsession of thousands of researchers over the last 43 years, from around the world but mostly in the United States,” Mr. Bugliosi said in an interview at the cafe of the Sportsmen’s Lodge Hotel in Studio City, Calif. “Examining under a high-powered microscope every comma, every period, every detail on every conceivable issue, and making hundreds and hundreds of allegations, they have transformed this simple case into its present form.”

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/books/14jfk.html

[SoCalDem]

1. ...and the dish ran away with the spoon... n/t

[rwenos]

2. "Back and to the Left"

JFK's head, as it is struck from the right front, from the grassy knoll.

[Wetzelbill]

3. the MTV Veejay was assassinated?

Holy shit..

[Blue_Tires]

8. well played....

[Wetzelbill]

10. see it's just this kind of edge that has won me two DUzy's in a row

That and I sold out and went mainstream. No use fightin' the power, you know?

[Tom Joad]

4. I agree with Vincent

[spacelady]

5. Hasn't this already been done & paid for by the taxpayers?

That is one magic loogey!

[JVS]

6. Shouldn't this be in LBN?

[Jim Sagle]

7. Sheer hogwash!

[dailykoff]

9. This makes me wonder if Manson was framed.

What a load of crap.

[MonkeyFunk]

11. I don't think we'll ever know

if Oswald "acted alone", as far as plotting the murder. But I agree with Bugliosi that Oswald was the lone gunman.

[illinoisprogressive]

12. I have always thought Oswald acted alone

[FourScore]

13. Bugliosi is a VERY smart man

His book "None Dare Call It Treason" about the 2000 election is brilliant!

I'll take a look at what he's come up with. Although, I must say, it surprises me.