I just read an interesting story

[John Corbett]

I was reading this story online and I found one paragraph particularly interesting:

"The problem wasn't simply that people disliked the verdict. The problem was that witness accounts didn't always match. Some statements changed over time. Certain details conflicted with physical evidence. Different people seemed to remember the night differently. The more reporters examined the story, the less straightforward it appeared."

Sound familiar. We've all seen the same issues raised over and over again in this forum. Only this story wasn't about the JFKA. It was about the suicide of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman in 1959. Despite this being an open and shut case of suicide, some people didn't want to accept the obvious answer. They continued to search for an alternate explanation and conspiracy theories grew out of it. The public lost interest in this story a long time ago but for many years, people interested in the case refused to believe it was a simple a case as the investigators determined. The convinced themselves there had to be more to it, just as JFKA CTs have done for decades.

[Charles Collins]

I was reading this story online and I found one paragraph particularly interesting:

"The problem wasn't simply that people disliked the verdict. The problem was that witness accounts didn't always match. Some statements changed over time. Certain details conflicted with physical evidence. Different people seemed to remember the night differently. The more reporters examined the story, the less straightforward it appeared."

Sound familiar. We've all seen the same issues raised over and over again in this forum. Only this story wasn't about the JFKA. It was about the suicide of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman in 1959. Despite this being an open and shut case of suicide, some people didn't want to accept the obvious answer. They continued to search for an alternate explanation and conspiracy theories grew out of it. The public lost interest in this story a long time ago but for many years, people interested in the case refused to believe it was a simple a case as the investigators determined. The convinced themselves there had to be more to it, just as JFKA CTs have done for decades.

I have found that people often times just believe what they want to believe despite what the evidence shows. This happens in all walks of life, not just investigations of crimes, suicides, etc. I think the phenomenon is due mostly to the fact that a lot of folks base their beliefs on their “feelings” (emotions), while others tend to be more rational.

[Lance Payette]

You need to read more about Superman. It may have been a suicide, but it definitely was NOT an "open and shut case of suicide." Both unfortunate accident and homicide were distinct possibilities. Ditto with Marilyn Monroe, although the supposed JFK/RFK/UFO connections are highly unlikely.

Pretty good summary of the Reeves mystery from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/nov/18/features.weekend1

The Good Old Days:

[John Corbett]

See what I mean.

[Michael T. Griffith]

I was reading this story online and I found one paragraph particularly interesting:

"The problem wasn't simply that people disliked the verdict. The problem was that witness accounts didn't always match. Some statements changed over time. Certain details conflicted with physical evidence. Different people seemed to remember the night differently. The more reporters examined the story, the less straightforward it appeared."

Sound familiar. We've all seen the same issues raised over and over again in this forum. Only this story wasn't about the JFKA. It was about the suicide of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman in 1959. Despite this being an open and shut case of suicide, some people didn't want to accept the obvious answer. They continued to search for an alternate explanation and conspiracy theories grew out of it. The public lost interest in this story a long time ago but for many years, people interested in the case refused to believe it was a simple a case as the investigators determined. The convinced themselves there had to be more to it, just as JFKA CTs have done for decades.

This is silly. There was no forensic, photographic, and ballistics evidence that disproved the suicide explanation in the George Reeves case, whereas there is plenty of such evidence in the JFK case. That's part of the reason that the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded at the end of their extensive two-year investigation that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, that two gunmen were involved, that four shots were fired, that one of the shots came from the grassy knoll, that Jack Ruby had extensive Mafia ties, that there was credible evidence that anti-Castro Cubans were trying to frame Oswald for the assassination weeks before the shooting, that Ruby had help getting into the police basement to shoot Oswald, that Ruby lied about how he entered the basement and why he shot Oswald, that someone was moving boxes around in the sixth-floor window within 2 minutes after the shooting when Oswald could not have been there, and that the eyewitness accounts of shots from grassy knoll were credible, among other findings.

[John Corbett]

This is silly. There was no forensic, photographic, and ballistics evidence that disproved the suicide explanation in the George Reeves case, whereas there is plenty of such evidence in the JFK case.

Only in your head.

[Lance Payette]

Well, hell, let's beat this to death. Both MTG and John C. are obviously uninformed about the Reeves case. Actually, in its own little way, it's practically a mini-JFKA. Truly, read the article in The Guardian and tell me this was an "open and shut suicide." Ironically, John C. could scarcely have picked a better story to illustrate precisely the opposite of the point he thought he was making.