David Lifton has died

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Isn't it far easier to just kill the President and split town instead of setting up Oswald (how could they be sure he wouldn't be in someone's company at 12:30 PM?) and stealing/altering the body?

They wanted to frame a pro-Castro assassin to justify an invasion of Cuba. Sure, they then investigated the assassination and cleared Cuba/Castro of any role - thereby removing the reason/justification or purpose of the entire conspiracy - but let's not sweat the details. It's conspiracy thinking; it doesn't have to make sense, be logical; it just has to promote a conspiracy.

How about this alternative? Plant the rifle and shells in front of where JFK was located? Frame Oswald as being behind the fence. Then you don't have to change everything.

[Martin Weidmann]

They wanted to frame a pro-Castro assassin to justify an invasion of Cuba. Sure, they then investigated the assassination and cleared Cuba/Castro of any role - thereby removing the reason/justification or purpose of the entire conspiracy - but let's not sweat the details. It's conspiracy thinking; it doesn't have to make sense, be logical; it just has to promote a conspiracy.

How about this alternative? Plant the rifle and shells in front of where JFK was located? Frame Oswald as being behind the fence. Then you don't have to change everything.

They wanted to frame a pro-Castro assassin to justify an invasion of Cuba.

Who are "they" and how in the world would you know what "they" wanted to do?

How about this alternative? Plant the rifle and shells in front of where JFK was located? Frame Oswald as being behind the fence. Then you don't have to change everything.

Some witnesses said they heard shots coming from more than one direction. How do you work that into your "alternative"?

[John Iacoletti]

We should start numbering the bad LN arguments.

“The conspiracy that I just dreamed up in my head would never do this thing I just made up and attributed to conspiracy theorists, therefore Oswald did it”.

[Sean Kneringer]

Who are "they" and how in the world would you know what "they" wanted to do?

Unnamed "rogue elements." 

[Jim Brunsman]

  Sad news to learn David has passed. I interviewed him on the phone in 1986. At the time I was bewildered why Sylvia Meagher was so angry with him and Lifton didn't really know why. He admonished me for stressing the importance of the Secret Service speed limit but I felt the president was extremely vulnerable particularly since there were so many threats. There were some important discoveries in "Best Evidence" but I don't agree with everything David said over the years. I respect his research and tenacity greatly and he is rightly venerated as one of the most important critics of the laughable conclusions of the government. Hoping his finale, "Final Charade," is published soon.

[John Iacoletti]

Word is that Lifton lost the manuscript in a computer crash.