Final Conclusion*

[Richard Smith]

How did JFK "get a pass" about this matter? The evidence is that the drug regimen he was on was a well-guarded secret. No one outside a small circle of people knew about it. Robert Dallek only broke it in 2002 when he was given access to JFK's medical records.

It was a different era, a time when the media was much more supportive of the presidency. Any president. Especially on private matters.

I'm pretty sure Nixon would not have been treated the same.  In fact, a few years later the media basically ended his presidency.  But the real point is that JFK suffered from serious health concerns and took a laundry list of drugs that should have precluded him from ever being president.  He lied about those conditions and no one from the press ever bothered to investigate. 

[Patrick Jackson]

So you are suggesting that JFK would knowingly allow an innocent man to take the blame for his assassination and spend the rest of his life in jail or perhaps even be executed?

Of course not. Oswald was a wrong man on the wrong place. Because of his life in USSR and coming back to the US, he was a person of interest. If he did not left TSBD in panic, if he was calm and waited everything to settle that day, most probably he would not be charged. When he saw the "assassination" he left TSBD in panic knowing that he will be prime suspect. I am sure you would do the same.

[Patrick Jackson]

How did you come up with this "theory"?

Everything is in photos, videos, testimonies... When I started researching, I set my mind to see if there is something else apart CT and LN and it showed that the truth is somewhere between.

[Richard Smith]

Of course not. Oswald was a wrong man on the wrong place. Because of his life in USSR and coming back to the US, he was a person of interest. If he did not left TSBD in panic, if he was calm and waited everything to settle that day, most probably he would not be charged. When he saw the "assassination" he left TSBD in panic knowing that he will be prime suspect. I am sure you would do the same.

How do you figure that since Oswald's rifle was left at the crime scene by someone?  Obviously, he either left it there or someone else left it there to frame him for the crime.   

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Of course not. Oswald was a wrong man on the wrong place. Because of his life in USSR and coming back to the US, he was a person of interest. If he did not left TSBD in panic, if he was calm and waited everything to settle that day, most probably he would not be charged. When he saw the "assassination" he left TSBD in panic knowing that he will be prime suspect. I am sure you would do the same.

How did he know the "assassination" occurred? How did he know he would be the suspect? If he was having lunch at the time of the shooting, then came out to see what happened, how did he know anything about what happened? People around the TSBD were unsure as to what happened. They heard shots but weren't' sure whether the president was hit or not.

According to the people who where there and from photos and films, it was chaos. Nobody really knew what happened. It was all confusion and rumors. But you think Oswald saw all of this, concluded the president was shot, and then further concluded I better run because I'm going to be blamed? Why not stay and show he couldn't have done it?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

I'm pretty sure Nixon would not have been treated the same.  In fact, a few years later the media basically ended his presidency.  But the real point is that JFK suffered from serious health concerns and took a laundry list of drugs that should have precluded him from ever being president.  He lied about those conditions and no one from the press ever bothered to investigate.

My question as to how the media gave him a pass for his drug regimen is still on the table. Dallek broke the story in 2002. He says the treatment was closely held and only known by a small group in the Kennedy circle. The media didn't know about it so they couldn't have given JFK a "pass."

As to the press: RFK and JFK had to answer the claims that JFK suffered from serious illness, specifically Addison's Disease. He lied. It was a different era, the media were simply not as confrontational or challenging as they are now. And JFK appeared remarkably healthy except for his bad back problems. There was nothing indicating outwardly that he was as ill as he was.

[Richard Smith]

My question as to how the media gave him a pass for his drug regimen is still on the table. Dallek broke the story in 2002. He says the treatment was closely held and only known by a small group in the Kennedy circle. The media didn't know about it so they couldn't have given JFK a "pass."

As to the press: RFK and JFK had to answer the claims that JFK suffered from serious illness, specifically Addison's Disease. He lied. It was a different era, the media were simply not as confrontational or challenging as they are now. And JFK appeared remarkably healthy except for his bad problems. There was nothing indicating outwardly that he was as ill as he was.

Nixon lied to the media as well.  The media didn't give him a pass.  They investigated and found sources.  DC is full of folks willing to leak information.  JFK had long, well publicized stays in the hospital over the years including during his term in Congress.  He almost died.  It was a different time but the media gave him a pass on many topics including his health, womanizing etc.  Had they been interested in doing his administration harm, as they did with Nixon, he would have been toast.  But they were elitist liberals and JFK was their president.