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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: The smell of gunpowder
« Last post by Steve M. Galbraith on Yesterday at 02:30:20 PM »JC--The HSCA did not say there was "likely" a conspiracy. I can't understand why you (and others) continue to misstate what they concluded.
My best guess is the GK diversion was created to allow LHO and a second shooter better odds of leaving the TSBD unmolested. Indeed, police manpower was split up in the immediate aftermath of the JFKA. The diversion broadly worked.
In any event, the second official investigation into the JFKA, the HSCA-1979, concluded there was likely a JFKA conspiracy. The HSCA was full of smart and skeptical guys, who did not buy into sub-CTs, such the BYP pics being fake, or that LHO never ordered a weapon.
Unfortunately, the HSCA did not conclude who LHO's co-conspirators were. Some HSCA members say they ran out of time. I think they may have been barking up the wrong trees (CIA or Mob, rather than G2, DGI or KGB).
On the other hand, the WC LNT resulted from LBJ's diktat that nothing be found that might trigger a nuke war with Russia. At that time, a very real and tangible possibility, since the US and Russia had nearly nuked it out over Cuba in 1962. So was born the WC-LNT, also an unproven narrative. In some ways I do not blame LBF. Even if the KGB-G2 had assassinated JFK, a nuke war would be a horrible result.
The WC-LNT never even faced a legal test in court, let alone a compelling scientific test.
So, we have two unproven narratives regarding the JFKA.
Draw you own conclusions.

They did not say there were other gunmen either. They said a gunman, one person. They said they didn't know who that other gunman was, what his relationship with Oswald was, what his motivation was, where he and Oswald met, how he and Oswald planned their conspiracy out or anything else about whoever he was.
If you think their report supports your conspiracy beliefs then I think you need to think again.
As to LBJ: Could you cite/link/document where he ordered the Warren Commission to conclude it was Oswald alone? And ignore conspiracy evidence? I've read several books on the Warren Commission investigation and never once read that such an order was given down. And which of the Commissioner or staffers said this took place? I read (the Shenon book for example) that elements of the government - the FBI and the CIA - withheld information from the Commission, information about Oswald, about their operations; but they made those decisions on their own, they weren't ordered by LBJ.
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