It’s an interesting bit of historical trivia, but Fred’s attempt to turn it into social commentary on “conspiracy theories” falls flat, because the fanciful narratives of the WC and their followers are no less Rube Golbergian.
The Ramparts article did remind me a lot of some of Tom Scully’s posts though.
The WC version has one guy shooting three other guys with a rifle and a pistol. Not very Goldbergian.
The, uh,
alternative versions quickly spiral into some combination of:
- a small platoon of shooters. Well, maybe a whole platoon
- ice bullets
- umbrella guns
- corpse-jacking
- body alteration
- multiple manipulations of many photos
- and just as many manipulations of multiple films
- oh, and x-rays, too
- repeated acts of forgery
- repeated acts of perjury
- repeated acts of suborning perjury
- repeated acts of evidence tampering, other than the above
- a veritable mighty murder machine whose many minions mowed down masses of witnesses.
But wait! There's more!
- The CIA
- The FBI
- The LBJ
- The DoD
- The Secret Service
- The Cubans (take your pick which. Any combination of Castro+, Castro-, or Castro ennuites will do)
- THE NIXON!!!
- The Soviets
- The White Russians (while drinking black russians)
- The Billie Sol Estus
- The Madame Nhu
- The Mafia
- The Big Oil Men
- The Aliens
- The Discordians
- The Mainstream Press, feat. Walter Cronkite
- The Freemasons
- The Illuminati
- The The, feat. Johnny Marr
...and many, many more!!!!
Collect them all, and trade them with your friends!
Or maybe you're the kind of guy who believes everything he reads in The Onion
Aw, darn. Totally forgot about the Teamster angle.
