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I watched a pretty solid documentary a few months ago which convinced me that the conspiracy theories were just more nonsense. I can't find it right now, but if somebody has a good video that backs the "official" side of things, you should post it.
So then I watched this video (while I played poker, it's friggin 3 hours long). It's episodes 7, 8, and 9 of a 9-part series made by a British company, and apparently these 3 are the most relevant or interesting episodes. They were run on the History Channel in the states, but were pulled with a lot of apologizing (and lawsuits) for the 9th episode, which fingers LBJ as the main conspirator.
The men who killed Kennedy
Anyways, here are the main topics they talk about/investigate in these 3 episodes:
I think the first thing they get to is, to me, the most interesting part. It's about how the Secret Service not only completely dropped the ball, but how they acted extremely strangely.
Firstly, Kennedy's car was first in line. Usually it would be somewhere in the middle, with other cars in front of it and behind.
Second and most fascinating is that the two men on Kennedy's car were pulled off of it minutes before he was shot.
I think this is Woodrow Wilson. He has four friggin guys on his car.
This is the man who was on Kennedy's right rear bumper, aka the man who was Kennedy's human shield, confused as he is ordered off of the car. The film of this is shown early in the documentary I linked.
Note how the police motorcycles, usually riding in front of and beside the limo, have also been yanked, and are now riding behind.
Then there's more about how they didn't have men on the ground like they normally do, how they didn't sweep the area beforehand like they normally do, and of course that Kennedy's route was changed to include a slow turn (a move which is against secret service regulations) right before he got hit. There's a former agent or somebody who talks about how the Book Depository had open windows, and that normally the area would be secured to the point that that would not be allowed, and that if a window was opened they would have a man in the room in seconds. But on that day they did not even have men on the ground.
The next part of the documentary is about Oswald, and much of it is an interview with this pretty odd but very smart woman who was Oswald's lover. She tells an extraordinary story, some of which is true and the rest of which is uncorroborated, at best. I mean it's possible that she's telling the whole truth - the truth is often stranger than anybody could believe - but her story is just too wild to believe without more evidence. She was like a super awesome cancer scientist or something though, so she has some credentials.
The last part is the part that got the doc banned in the states, and it totally blames LBJ. I think this was also the part that got all into the grassy knoll theories, and autopsy questions. They get like the friggin doctor who treated Kennedy and tried to revive him, and he says that Kennedy had an entry wound in the front of his neck. And they have another doctor saying about how the fatal shot caused a massive exit wound in the back of his skull, and that the official autopsy pictures were forgeries. They also get like the dude who performed the autopsy or something. They get a lot of people who seem unlikely to be lying.
And near the end they drop the most shocking evidence/revelation/theory they found. They get a match on the only unidentified fingerprint from the room in the Book Depository, and that match is Malcolm Wallace, a friend of LBJ's and also a convicted murderer (for whom LBJ, then a Texas Senator, managed to get a 5-year-suspended sentence on that 1st degree murder conviction). One of the best-respected fingerprint experts says that he is positive that it is a match.
Anyways, anybody in the mood for some good ol' conspiracy talk?
