Conspiracy Interpretations of the Assassination of President Kennedy

Alfred Goldberg in the mid-1990s. He died at the age of 105 in 2024.

Here is a very important paper written in 1968 by Alfred Goldberg, who was the official historian of the Warren Commission and who was also the co-author and co-editor of the Warren Report:

The first section of this paper deals with elements of an international conspiracy and the second part revolved about a domestic conspiracy.

Here is an important section of the latter section:

Money Quote:

And what is the alternative to the Warren Commission reconstruction of the assassination -- this distressing, banal, ambiguous event that has all the earmarks of real life which are familiar to all of us, but which we often refuse to recognize or accept as true events of great import also? The alternative is some nebulous conspiracy hypothesis seeking some sanction of fact or reality that has thus far escaped it. The element of chance in this hypothesis is confined to Oswald. All the elements of the event that have to be supplied by the imagination -- the conspirators, the other other assassin or assassins, the physical circumstances of the deed, the escape of the other assassins, the keeping of the secret -- all these are presented in one-dimensional terms. There is no allowance for the chance and ambiguity of real life. There is no evidence, there are no eyewitnesses, no one talked or betrayed the conspiracy. And yet with each additional assassin and conspirator the element of chance would have been all the greater -- the loose ends, inconsistencies, and contradictions. But none has come to light. To accept the mountain of improbabilities inherent in these conspiracy hypotheses required a far greater suspension of logic and judgment what does the Warren Report with its imperfections. Indeed, it is the presence of these real life imperfections which is one of the strongest arguments for the fundamental honesty and soundness of the Report.

I don't believe there is any alternative hypothesis to the Oswald as lone gunman that explains all the physical evidence. You can allege the CIA killed JFK but one has put together a coherent theory that can explain Oswald, the Tippit murder, and all the physical evidence.

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