Hoover's recently released memo; does it prove conspiracy?

[Richard Smith]

"If that were the case, then why not go with the conspiracy nonsense that the Russians or Cubans were behind the assassination rather than putting the blame all on Oswald?"

Some think that was the original intent of the people involved, a pretext for invading Cuba etc,  - not me -

but was shelved when officials realized invading Cuba meant war with Russia.

A dead LN assassin cleans up all the loose ends and limits any investigation into who was responsible.

IMO

So it didn't occur to the conspirators in the months or years spent preparing the plot that blaming it on the Cubans would mean war with Russia?  But within a couple hours of the assassination it suddenly dawns on them.  LOL.  And they immediately abandon the entire purpose of the assassination plot and entirely reverse course on a dime to put all the blame on Oswald and cover up the involvement of Cuba.  The whole matter becomes a waste of time at enormous risk.  Those nutty conspirators.

[Jake Maxwell]

Putting an ear-ring on a pig doesn't make the pig smell any better...

Any law enforcement officer who is willing destroy someone's life and family because the officer is trying to save the neighborhood - or even trying to avert WWIII - is just as much a thug deserving of our full disdain, as the law enforcement officer who is willing to destroy someone's life and family to cover-up his involvement in killing a president for whatever reason....

There is no justification here at all... the end result, does not justify the means to that end....

[Richard Rubio]

Putting an ear-ring on a pig doesn't make the pig smell any better...

Any law enforcement officer who is willing destroy someone's life and family because the officer is trying to save the neighborhood - or even trying to avert WWIII - is just as much a thug deserving of our full disdain, as the law enforcement officer who is willing to destroy someone's life and family to cover-up his involvement in killing a president for whatever reason....

There is no justification here at all... the end result, does not justify the means to that end....

Trying to shame others with faux righteousness won't work either.  Oswald may well have been dead already when Hoover wrote this. Yeah, trying to save millions of lives is worse than feeling you've caught the assassin but are unsure.

[Richard Smith]

Putting an ear-ring on a pig doesn't make the pig smell any better...

Any law enforcement officer who is willing destroy someone's life and family because the officer is trying to save the neighborhood - or even trying to avert WWIII - is just as much a thug deserving of our full disdain, as the law enforcement officer who is willing to destroy someone's life and family to cover-up his involvement in killing a president for whatever reason....

There is no justification here at all... the end result, does not justify the means to that end....

Except that is not what happened.  Hoover and the FBI believed Oswald was guilty based on the evidence.  They had the same basic evidence to link him to this crime at that time as we do today.  Gun, flight, nutty political background, murder of a police officer etc.   Hoover didn't want WWIII based on the erroneous assumption that the Cubans or Russians were involved.  That was a very sensible and admirable course of action.  Thus, it was important to convince the public of Oswald's guilt because he was guilty and baseless rumors of the involvement of other countries could have led to the deaths of millions.   

[Jake Maxwell]

Within 2 to 3 days, two top government officials express their common concern that the public must be convinced that Oswald is the real assassin of the president, and that there is no conspiracy.

Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general at the time, wrote a memo the day after Hoover wrote his memo, restating similar concerns:

"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial."

For any investigator to think he or she has all the evidence to rule out any accomplices in an assassination within 3 days, is ridiculous. It was an effort to frame Oswald - most likely motivated as a cover-up.

[Royell Storing]

That all may be so ... but this isn't about that, it would be about avoiding frightening escalations with the Soviets.

               This Thread is about the Hoover Memo which was dated 2 days after the assassination. Hoover basically Tarring Oswald only 2 days after the assassination is Wrong whatever his motivation(s) might be.