Why are people still talking about or believing alternative theories about the JFK assassination?

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1. Watch the Zapruder film at full speed.

Have you ever watched the Zapruder film at full speed? Almost all of the times I have seen it, it was shown frame by frame. Somewhere on YouTube you can see it played at full speed. I tell you, that bullet that blew JFK's brains out of the back of his head came from in FRONT of that motorcade. I have no doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was up in the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building shooting out the window at the presidential motorcade with his mail-order rifle, but the shot that took out JFK came from in FRONT of the motorcade.

Do you ever listen to Thom Hartmann's radio show? He and Lamar Waldron wrote an exhaustively detailed and researched book about the JFK assassination. They talk about it sometimes on Hartmann's show. They say it was a mob hit, and they sure sound like they know what they're talking about. JFK and his attorney general brother were going after the mob and mobsters with names like Roselli and Traficante were behind the mob hit.

Back in the late 1980s sometime, or maybe it was the early 1990s, there was a short article in the inside pages of the USA Today about a deathbed confession made by a retired Dallas cop who said he was the shooter behind the grassy knoll, and he also said he killed Officer Tippett later that day. I wish I had kept a copy of that USA Today, but I thought this would be all over the news in subsequent days, weeks and months. I never heard another word about it. Who squelched that story?

I don't know what happened on that day, but I do not believe the official story. And we might never know.

-- Ron