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                                                   September 1-4, 2021

A little while back, Z at electoral-vote.com made
some odd remark about how Oswald's death in custody     https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2021/Pres/Maps/Jul10.html
helped fuel belief in conspiracy theories:

  "Lee Harvey Oswald (1963): His death helped fuel the Kennedy
  conspiracy theories, which led to (1) greater distrust of the
  government for some people, and (2) many other, non-Kennedy
  conspiracy theories. Some, or maybe even a lot, of that might
  have been avoided had Oswald lived and been able to fully
  tell his story."

This seems pretty strange-- if not outright dumb--
if you know anything at all about the subject:
Oswald is on record (on camera, actually) denying
forcefully that he did it.  He referred to himself    Some versions of the JFK
as a "patsy".  If he lived longer, one suspects he    conspiracy-- has it that
would've had more time to expound on those themes--   Oswald was actually CIA
                                                      (or ex-CIA) and when he
                                                      realized he was being
And I also think it's peculiar to just presume        set-up for the
that obviously all right thinking people know it      assassination, he bolted
really was Oswald-alone-in-the-book-repository--      and phoned his handler,
                                                      arranging a meeting in
  A bunch of us have what we think are good           the movie theater where
  reasons to go with "multiple shooters"-- I          the police caught up to
  would say the Oswald-alone theory really            him and arrested him.
  isn't tenable, which means the Warren report
  isn't credible, which means the official            I don't think these
  sources of information all need to treated          details are terribly
  with caution--                                      important, myself, though
                                                      occassionally I wonder how
      And that's admittedly a tricky place            the police were supposed
      to be: almost anything someone says             to have tracked him to
      against the "conspiracy" position can           this movie theater.
      be shrugged off ("so they got to you
      too, eh?").  How do you know you're
      not overdoing the paranoid skepticism?
   
This is one of those things where people think it    
makes them sound Very Serious affirm their faith     To Z's credit (I suppose),
in the Warren Report (and not the HSCA report?),     he did publish a comment
but they just end up sounding stupid or ignorant.    making the obvious point
                                                     that Oswald did not look
                                                     like he was getting ready
                                                     to confess.
    TALE_OF_TWO_TALES
                                                        It was, of course, a
                                                        comment that also
                                                        presumed Oswald was the
                                                        lone assassin.

                                                          The comments he
                                                          recieved from people
                                                          like me didn't make
                                                          the Very Serious
                                                          grade.
                                                          
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