Before I continue with the normal topics of this site I would like to say a word about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on the 13th of this month and Thomas Matthew Crooks, who lived with his parents in Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive from Butler, the site of the attack, about whom the schoolmates who knew him said ‘He was bullied so much…’
According to the FBI director’s testimony last week, Crooks had searched online for information: ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ Crooks had apparently plotted to escape with the distraction of remote-controlled detonation of explosives in his car, but a Secret Service sniper spoiled his plans big time!
The day after his death I said that I wouldn’t write about the event because to me it wasn’t that big a deal. I still believe that. But what prompts me to post this entry is an issue related to it: the conspiracy theories that inevitably arise after such events.
Judge Napolitano’s most recent interviewee believes there was a conspiracy in this month’s event. Even Chris Martenson, an American whose videos I have publicised extensively on this site regarding peak oil, is now promoting the theory of a second shooter. Likewise, the racial right is rife with such theories (consider The Unz Review for example). Since it is the 14 words that interest me, this aspect of the urban myths that affect racialists do concern me.
In my view it is premature to believe that Crooks didn’t act alone. We must wait for the official report to see how convincing the lone wolf hypothesis is. But it is possible to shed some light beforehand on that future report through another case. I am referring to an assassination which, unlike Crooks’ attempted assassination, was successful. Although I was a five-year-old boy, I remember very well that November 1963 when Sandra, my little schoolmate at Arnold Gesell Elementary School, told me at recess that the American president had just been assassinated (I felt very bad)!
I have already spoken on this site about Vincent Bugliosi’s book which refutes the conspiracy theories and proves that Oswald acted alone. Bugliosi’s book is so voluminous that it is accompanied by a DVD with secondary information (the publishers didn’t want to add hundreds more pages to a volume that was already too thick). Keep in mind that most Americans believe there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. But as I said recently, I lean towards the minority reports because I think that the prolefeed with which the System feeds the proles is unreliable (remember that in a market society it is sensationalism that sells best, not the most prosaic explanations).
Those who don’t want to read Bugliosi’s book can now educate themselves about the hypothesis that Oswald acted alone with a couple of clever videos that can be viewed on YouTube, whose subjects are listed here:
Part 1 Chapters:
00:00–11:22: 1 – Intro & Road Map
11:22–20:51: 2 – The Most Unpopular Opinion in America
20:51–26:41: 3 – The Other Assassinations (& Attempts)
26:41–34:41: 4 – The Bank Robbery Analogy
34:41–39:56: 5 – Back and To The Left
39:56–42:58: 6 – Three Shots–No More, No Less
42:58–47:22: 7 – Five Point Six Seconds
47:22–53:05: 8 – The Bullet Didn’t Do Anything “Magic”
57:32–1:01:56: 10 – There Wasn’t a Gunman on the Grassy Knoll
1:01:56–1:06:23: 11 – The Attempt on General Walker
1:06:23–1:09:00: 12 – The Killing of J.D. Tippit
1:09:00–1:10:08: 13 – How to Support the YouTubber’s Work
1:10:08–1:18:25: 14 – Foreknowledge & Opportunity
1:18:25–1:27:03: 15 – Oswald Wasn’t a “Patsy”
1:27:03–1:33:20: 16 – Jack Ruby Didn’t Work for the Mafia
1:33:20–1:39:37: 17 – Oswald Was Unreliable
1:39:37–1:42:42: 18 – Oswald Was Broke
1:42:42–1:43:56: 19 – Outro to First Video
Part 2 Chapters:
00:00–02:50: 20 – Intro to Second Video
02:50–13:03: 21 – The Warren Commission Got it Right
13:03–24:51: 22 – The Autopsy Got it (Mostly) Right
24:51–30:14: 23 – The Mafia Didn’t Do It
30:14–38:27: 24 – The Military (and the CIA) Didn’t Do It
38:27–43:39: 25 – The Secret Service Didn’t Do It
43:39–53:01: 26 – Clay Shaw & David Ferrie Didn’t Do It
53:01–58:35: 27 – “Material Witnesses” Didn’t Die Mysteriously
58:35–1:04:57: 28 – The “Clown Witnesses” (Obviously) Got it Wrong
1:04:57–1:14:40: 29 – The H.S.C.A. Got it Wrong (And Right)
1:14:40–1:19:35: 30 – “The Men Who Killed Kennedy” Got it Wrong
1:19:35–1:25:49: 31 – The Warren Commission Didn’t Seal Documents for 75 Years
1:25:49–1:27:05: 32 – How to Support the YouTubber’s work
1:27:05–1:32:09: 33 – Lee Harvey Oswald Did It
1:32:09–1:38:13: 34 – “But What About (Insert Theory Here)?”
1:38:13–1:43:34: 35 – Why People Want it to Be a Conspiracy
1:43:34–1:46:17: 36 – Accepting the Warren Commission’s Conclusion Doesn’t Mean You Trust the Government
1:46:17–1:49:06: 37 – Conclusion
The YouTuber refutes JFK conspiracy theories but anyone who wants to delve deeper into why even intelligent people forge these theories might want to read Michael Shermer’s The Believing Brain, and pay attention to what Shermer says about ‘pattern perception’ and ‘agency detection’.
Agency detection is also a feature of conspiracy theories by assuming that an act was carried out on purpose. Conspiracy theories rarely assume incompetence among the alleged culprits (e.g., the Secret Service, which until recently was run by a woman who only wanted to escalate feminist quotas!). Keep in mind what in my Day of Wrath we call ‘paleologic thought’. Our gullible brain sometimes makes us see agency where none exists.
3 replies on “The failed Oswald”
My elders say that it is most likely planned and they just wanted the news out of sensationalism rather than having Trump killed.
Kennedy’s assassin was a former marine who got away from the scene while this pathetic kid was killed at the spot after failing. Go figure.
But why waste energy on this? Who wins the elections is completely irrelevant.
What is relevant is there is no political solutions for the moral sickness of the public.
As Volkor said here, invest your money in getting fit and learn skills that will be useful when the economy crashes.
Prevent your children from doing stupid things like Thomas Crook.
I went down this path too. I came to the same conclusion; Oswald was the lone gunman. Was he assisted or not I still don’t know (probably not). But what you say about Conspiracy theories is fascinating. So it turns out that the agency feature of our evolved software which is responsible for the belief in god/gods is also responsible for the belief in major conspiracies. Not surprising.
I always found this epidemic of right wing conspiracy theories (the Alex Jones affect) to be a consequence of the mainstream right’s refusal to reject both Christianity and secular Christianity. Today’s right is losing the battle for European civilization badly. They are staring at racial extinction and they don’t know how it is that they are losing so thoroughly. They refuse to consider the universalism that underlies their deepest conviction (“brotherhood of man”, “all men have souls”, etc) and its relation to their beloved God of Abraham and his saintly universalist son. So they find solace and self-medication in conspiracy theories.
I would say that government’s lie, certainly in war (ie false flags). But I think most assassinations were a combination of incompetence, security break down, and serendipity. The more details come out about the security breakdowns and depraved indifference of Trump’s security detail the more it looks like the Secret Service has become a version of the Keystone Cops; although a feminist version.
Thanks for linking to the run-through of Bugliosi’s book. His books on Charles Manson and OJ Simpson were first rate too.
I recently acquired two books on the subject, one by a couple of Americans and another by a European:
Both are terribly flawed precisely because their authors are normies. And normies are incapable of seeing the truth, which you summed up so well in your second paragraph!
If I dabble in the subject it is because, for a dozen years now, I have been extremely dismayed that many on the racial right subscribe to these theories which, in my opinion, are like a Vampire sucking the sap from the dissident: who could devote his efforts to developing the theoretical aspects of National Socialism to an evolved, post-1945 NS.
Yesterday I was leafing through the book by the Americans whose pic appears above. I corroborated something I had observed: It is the proles who have no say in the spheres of power who weave these cobwebs! What strikes me is that intelligent people like Chris Martenson are now spinning these kinds of webs while less intelligent people, like those listening to the Secret Service at the Capitol Hill hearings this very day, are much more sceptical of conspiracy theories.
Indeed, the powerless weave cobwebs in a representative democracy. If demography collapses thanks to a Kalki-like apocalyptic catastrophe, and Aryan man was to return to direct democracy as in ancient Greece, it would be much easier to circumvent these webs where the proles are presently entangled.
The subject is very complex, and the authors of the American book pictured above—although it is a book I consider bad and boring; the European book is even worse!—are at least right in saying that it is impossible to define a ‘conspiracy theory’, while some turn to be true, such as the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s.
Incidentally, to those who are emailing me recommending a book that promotes the conspiracy theory about JFK, I would suggest: Please watch the couple of videos I linked to in the post above…