Why I Think Oswald Acted Alone

Posted on the 27 November 2013 by Erictheblue

Whew!  For a few days there Boxers versus Briefs was being eclipsed by Conspiracy versus Oswald Acted Alone.  I am myself an Oswald acted alone devotee.  It's in line with an absurdist view of things that I find--not congenial, I guess, but persuasive, resonant, plangent, True.  That a disturbed loner could kill the president without any help from the Commies or the Mob or Lyndon Johnson doesn't strain my credulity.  To me, it seems like something that could happen, like Ted Cruz being president.

I shouldn't suggest that all the conspiracy theories are equally crazy.  If LBJ was in on it, we would have heard from Robert Caro by now.  The outlandish theories that have been advanced tend to strengthen the hand of us bland capitulators to the findings of the Warren Commission.  Nevertheless, the conspiracy theory that fingers the Mob has a certain plausibility, mainly because of the strip club guy's murder of Oswald.  But if you can accept one crazy guy acting alone, for reasons sufficient to him, why not two? 

And don't tell me that Oswald was not enough of a marksman to have done it.  I once hit two doubles in the same high-school baseball game.  Every dog has its day.