Do JFKA CTs have a psychological need to believe it was a conspiracy?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

My research shows that the cover-up was both for hiding actions of government agencies AND revealing the identity of the conspirators would damage national security -as has always been mooted. This does NOT mean that the CIA or FBI -or even the Dallas Police Department had anything to do with the assassination

The only thing that drives myself and fellow researchers is discovering the truth of what happened, and has nothing to do with 'psychological need' as some sort of satisfying cognitive function.

And your research says the conspirators were? Who exactly? You keep mentioning them but never telling us who they were.

It's 2025 not 1963 or '64. What national security threat or harm is there today if the government revealed that "X" killed JFK in 1963? Anyone who was involved is probably long dead. If they were in the 30s and 40s at the time they would be 90+ if even still alive. What would be revealed that injures the state, threatens US security? Besides, how have they kept it quiet all of these decades?

The question about a psychological need to believe in a conspiracy wasn't, as I understood it, just about you and your fellow researchers (whoever they are) or conspiracy activist types. It was a question about conspiracy theorists in general, those who think it wasn't Oswald alone.

[Tom Graves]

Just curious: What happened between 1966 and 1976 that caused the percentage of people who believed it was a conspiracy to rise precipitously, and the percentage of people who believed LHO did it all by him widdle Marxist self to fall equally dramatically?

Likewise, what happened between 2001 and 2003 that caused the former to fall by 6 points and the latter to rise by 6 points?

[Michael T. Griffith]

The OP is rather silly. Tom Graves has also made it clear that his conception of America compels him to reject any and all evidence of conspiracy in JFK's death. In his mind, as he has plainly admitted, the conspiracy claim is "nation-rending."

The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory. I am one of them. Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.

[Tom Graves]

The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory.

I went from November 1963 to mid-1992 assuming LHO did it all by himself, then to watching Oliver Stone's Jim Garrison-based, self-described mythological film "JFK" and believing for about twenty-five years that it was a conspiracy by the evil, evil, evil Military Industrial Intelligence-Community Complex, then to reading about the assassination and participating at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum for several years (and, more recently, the "JFK Truth Be Told" FB forum) and to finally realizing that a self-described Marxist and former sharpshooting Marine U-2 radar operator by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, with or without the logistical help of the KGB or the DGI, by firing three shots at him over 10.2 seconds in the echo chamber known as Dealey Plaza.

Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.

What was it about "JFK" that made you want to read about the assassination? After doing all that reading, how accurate did you find Stone's self-described mythological ("to counter the myth of the Warren Report") film to be? Which "details," if any, do you think he got wrong? Which (KGB-influenced) authors did you read? Joachim Joesten? Thomas G. Buchanan? Mark Lane? Jim Garrison?

At what point did you conclude that "only" 20 to 30 bad guys were involved in the planning, the "patsy-ing," the shooting, the getting-away, and the all-important (and evidently ongoing!!!) cover up?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

The OP is rather silly. Tom Graves has also made it clear that his conception of America compels him to reject any and all evidence of conspiracy in JFK's death. In his mind, as he has plainly admitted, the conspiracy claim is "nation-rending."

The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory. I am one of them. Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.

Where is your evidence that the "vast majority" of conspiracy believers originally believed in the lone gunman theory? I've never seen anything remotely supporting such a claim. Where's the support for this?