I get the impression that some CTers will believe anything. And that some do believe this story.
At what point do stories start to be unbelievable?
Stories:
Johnson was so mean he once tied a stick of dynamite to a dog. It was only by luck that the dog ran away from him and not toward him.
Johnson was so mean he once locked himself and a kid into a small room, produced a grenade and pulled the pin. It was only by luck that the grenade malfunctioned and failed to explode.
For some people, I don?t think that point is ever reached. The more lurid the story the more believable it is.
If it implicates Oswald they have this incredible - insuperable - standard of proof; if it implicates anyone else they just go with it.
I don't know who was the first person who said it but it's true: the JFK assassination is a Rohrschach test for people: what they see in it, who they think did it, tells us more about them than it does about their understanding of the event. Here we have the hatred of LBJ - a truly nasty person - showing itself.
Plus we have the ordinary human psychological problem of simply not accepting that a nothing like Oswald could do something so significant, could alter history with a $20 rifle and not much else. That's hard to accept. Great events must have great causes. And a 24 year old misfit simply can't be that cause.