Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy

[Rhatkinson]

(11-19-2013 06:44 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  I wonder if there is anything in the Kennedy assassination lore that is outrageous as this regarding Lincoln's assassination. Has anyone ever written that Jackie was the real assassin?

"When Booth actually opened the door to the darkened room where Abe and Mary were sitting, he went into a panic and shock. Abe was asleep with his head on Mary's left shoulder and the First Lady had her head turned toward the left looking at the door. . . When she was sure the man who opened the door was Booth, she turned and looked at the President to be sure the pistol she was pointing would explode beneath the lower left earlobe of her husband. Before Mary pulled the trigger, John Wilkes Booth, drug supplier to the First Lady, realized he was the patsy in all this mess."

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/pandora.htm

I'd say that the claims that JFK was shot by one of his secret service agents in the follow up car is about as asinine as this "theory" about Mary.

I have a huge problem with all these conspiracy theorists that pop up in practically every national tragedy. The proponents of them, instead of "telling the truth" about history instead do a disservice to history. I went to a lecture here in SC last week about JFK's assassination by a self professed "expert" on the subject who turned out to be instead just a sociology professor at Coker College. He spewed out for 20 minutes the most ridiculous parts of the completely ludicrous Oliver Stone movie and then opened the floor for questions. I stood and politely asked the audience to read "Case Closed" or some equally well researched REAL history before they just believed this so called expert. I then told him that he did a disservice to history because he knowingly ignores confirmed evidence that shows his whacky theories are just that. To the general population who is not as informed about history as some of us are, they believe what people like him say because they present themselves as experts and they don't know any better (plus, it makes a great story!) That's how history is corrupted and why - frankly - stupid theories like "Stanton was behind Lincoln's murder" or "Oswald had nothing to do with JFK's murder" become accepted by huge percentages of the population.

I just think it is a shame and is a mixture of general ignorance of vast parts of the population and a disbelief that great men could be killed by the simple equation of willing fanatic plus chance.

Heath

ps, in my opinion, there is no worse person than a 9/11 "truther" who argues that the WTC was imploded with dynamite by the government. It is an insult to the thousands of families who lost their loved ones.