Quote:I don't think it's ludicrous that LBJ would be involved. Many a Benedict Arnold has poisoned the supper of their king or queen to steal the throne throughout the history of mankind. To think it couldn't happen in modern America is hubris.


I don't agree with your perspective on Ruby. For me, the facts and circumstances about his life don't line up with his actions. He was a nightclub owner who pimped women out to corrupt police officers. He had known ties to the mob. The idea that a pimp's natural reaction to the murder of his president is compassion for his wife is incomprehensible to me. For me, it makes more sense that he was coerced into silencing Oswald.


In regards to the idea that people love conspiracies, I would argue that people just want to know that what they believe is true.

 

It's not that people love conspiracies, it's that it's a natural human reaction when things happen that they can't immediately explain.  In the JFK case, looking at the unexplained circumstances over the years, they generally turn out to be pretty mundane once they are understood.  Jack Ruby is a just an example.  His ties to organized crime were minimal and at best circumstantial.  Given some of the issues he'd had in his life, he would have been one of the worst choices to participate in a high level conspiracy.   Not to mention that in his final days he made a statement to the associated press that he'd acted alone and that no one else was involved.  It's Occam's razor.  You have to be able to take things like that at face value or before long, everything is a conspiracy.

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