Dallas and the strange turn of events

[Jerry Freeman]

When JFK came to Dallas, the city's political structure was staunch white male Republican Conservative.
This would include the mayor, the city council, the police, the district attorney, the sheriff's office, and the local media.
This ad was run in the Dallas Morning News on Nov 22 1963---

 

Upon his arrival at Love Field and during the motorcade, the crowds were warm and friendly for the most part. I left school and went downtown to see that parade. There were some guys passing out some handbills----



I threw mine down on the street along with dozens of others after I glanced at it. I called that handbill guy a name.
It was considered idiotic to question the authorities' decision that it was Lee Oswald who killed JFK.
Presently [2022] the political status of Dallas is the complete opposite of 60 years ago. All the above mentioned [mayor, DA, city council for the most part, sheriff's office etc] are black liberal Democrats and females occupy certain various offices.
Yet...it still considered a local absurdity to suggest that the government was all wrong about a lone assassin so many years ago. A case of poor Dallas living down the shame?

As a side issue...I do not understand why some [not all] observers from other countries support the official story. Has this..the USA government been really all that holy after all?
For interest, read this more recent Dallas Observer article---
https://www.texasobserver.org/welcome-to-texas-mr-obama/

[Jerry Organ]

It was considered idiotic to question the authorities' decision that it was Lee Oswald who killed JFK.
Presently [2022] the political status of Dallas is the complete opposite of 60 years ago. All the above mentioned [mayor, DA, city council for the most part, sheriff's office etc] are black liberal Democrats and females occupy certain various offices.

That shows the evidence of Oswald's guilt wasn't political. Nor was the Warren Commission. The evidence and conclusions drawn from it are what it is. Sure you can bury your head in the sand and hold out for motion picture film of every event; even then some would say they "might" accept it as a fact.

Yet...it still considered a local absurdity to suggest that the government was all wrong about a lone assassin so many years ago. A case of poor Dallas living down the shame?

As a side issue...I do not understand why some [not all] observers from other countries support the official story. Has this..the USA government been really all that holy after all?
For interest, read this more recent Dallas Observer article---
https://www.texasobserver.org/welcome-to-texas-mr-obama/

It was a simple homicide that occurred in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses, with most of the limousine travel captured on film. The evidence from Day One has only led to a lone malcontent. The US government behaving badly, or LBJ "waiting in the wings" are just a few of the "usual suspects" in the critics' playbook. Having a motive doesn't mean one did it.

[Jerry Freeman]

That shows the evidence of Oswald's guilt wasn't political.

Agree... only because he wasn't found guilty in a court of law.

Nor was the Warren Commission.

The commissioners themselves were just another group of old conservative white guys.

  Sure you can bury your head in the sand and hold out for motion picture film of every event

What is with you and movies?

It was a simple homicide

Apparently not unless you want to ignore Jack Ruby and loss of the opportunity to cross-examine those witnesses you mention [many who were never called to testify]

  Having a motive doesn't mean one did it.

It is the usual starting point.

[Jon Banks]

That shows the evidence of Oswald's guilt wasn't political. Nor was the Warren Commission. The evidence and conclusions drawn from it are what it is. Sure you can bury your head in the sand and hold out for motion picture film of every event; even then some would say they "might" accept it as a fact.

It was a simple homicide that occurred in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses, with most of the limousine travel captured on film. The evidence from Day One has only led to a lone malcontent. The US government behaving badly, or LBJ "waiting in the wings" are just a few of the "usual suspects" in the critics' playbook. Having a motive doesn't mean one did it.

You mean the case involves TWO "lone malcontents" (Oswald and Ruby). Both men coincidentally had links to the US intelligence community, anti-Castro Cubans, and organized crime in New Orleans.

[Jon Banks]

Presently [2022] the political status of Dallas is the complete opposite of 60 years ago. All the above mentioned [mayor, DA, city council for the most part, sheriff's office etc] are black liberal Democrats and females occupy certain various offices.
Yet...it still considered a local absurdity to suggest that the government was all wrong about a lone assassin so many years ago. A case of poor Dallas living down the shame?

The JFK assassination has never been a partisan wedge issue. There are LN's and LN-skeptics on both sides of the political aisle.

On the Left, the most politically powerful Liberals have always stood by the official story in spite of any doubts that they may have (ie LBJ, RFK, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, etc). If you are an ambitious Democratic politician, expressing skepticism or doubts about the official narrative of the JFK assassination could harm your political career. Most people aren't willing to risk losing everything they've worked for over something that may or may not be true.

On the Right, the Populist-wing of the Republican Party today (ie Trump, Roger Stone, Ron Paul, etc), are more openly skeptical of US intelligence agencies and more open to speculation about a conspiracy in the JFK assassination than most traditional Republicans.