The picture above is frame 231 from Abraham Zapruder's film of President Kennedy's assassination. From Zapruder's point of view, Kennedy's car disappeared for a split second behind the Stemmons Freeway sign. The first suggestion that something was wrong appears as the car emerges from behind the sign (just a few frames before the one above). Here you can see Kennedy clutching his throat - the so-called "magic bullet" had just exited and begun its improbable path through Gov. Connally's body. Just a second or so later Kennedy would dead from a shot to the head.

Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. As y'all probably know, I've had a little obsession with the assassination and different conspiracy theories. There's a ton of confusing, misleading, and poorly constructed arguments against the then official government story (that one assassin, acting alone, killed the president). I say then official story because after a second federal investigation of Kennedy's death in 1978 the US government concluded that at least two shooters were involved - a conspiracy - but said nothing about who was involved or why. The main evidence for this conclusion has been debated ever since and very well may not be valid. Regardless, I do believe there was a conspiracy and that the government actively worked to cover-up information about the assassination. I don't know who did it or why, but it's beyond certainty that the original investigation was not meant to find out the truth.

The one piece of evidence that, to me, clearly demonstrates this comes from Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico. Oswald went to Mexico just 7 weeks before the assassination. Oswald was in Mexico from Sept. 26-Oct. 3 1963. He made at least three trips to the Cuban Embassy and two to the Soviet Embassy and also made phone calls to the Soviet Embassy. He was trying to get a visa for Cuba, for which he needed to first get a Soviet visa. He didn't get either and returned home to Dallas. Supposedly nothing was made of this trip in US Intelligence circles - the official story was that they didn't have much interest in Oswald - until he was fingered for the assassination. The CIA and FBI frantically searched their records the day of the assassination and found, among other things, audio tapes of Oswald's calls to the Soviet embassy (the US was bugging the embassy).

The agencies freaked out when they found the tapes - the guy who just killed the president had been in contact with the Soviets & Cubans just weeks before. What if one or both of those governments had ordered the hit on Kennedy? Imagine if it became public - would the US have had to attack the USSR in retaliation? A weird thing happened though. Neither the voice claiming to be Oswald on the tapes nor the purported photos of Oswald entering the Soviet Embassy were actually Oswald.

Because of Oliver Stone's JFK movie people were up in arms about a conspiracy and the government agreed to release millions of documents relating to the assassination. One of these documents was a transcript of a call between LBJ and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover just hours after LBJ was sworn in as president. LBJ asks Hoover what's up with Oswald going to Mexico and Hoover tells him that they've reviewed the audio tapes and surveillance photos and found that it wasn't really Oswald, that it was someone else was using his name.

http://www.jfklancer.com/LNE/LHO-Mexi.html

Thing is, the official investigation never once said "Wait a minute, maybe the fact that the supposed assassin met with people from our two biggest enemies a few weeks before he killed Kennedy is something we should look into" or "Does our finding that Oswald was a lone nut fit with the fact that someone was impersonating him to our enemies just weeks before the assassination?". If Hoover was telling the truth, that means our government intentionally did not investigate the connection to either the Soviets or the Cubans (and remember, at that time we were actively trying to kill Castro as well as overthrow his government), or they did know that either/both were involved and wanted to avoid WW III and not let the public know, or they put their head in the sand in order to avoid WW III. If Hoover was lying to LBJ, Hoover was covering up possible/actual foreign involvement in the assassination. True or not, that the official investigation did not make the Oswald impersonator an important part of their work clearly demonstrates, for me, that the first official investigation was bullshit. Maybe y'all are smarter than me & can come up with a plausible scenario within which it would not be necessary to investigate the Oswald impersonator. Some have suggested that it was a US spy making the calls to find out what Oswald was up to. However, US intelligence at the time supposedly didn't have an active interest in Oswald, so why were they following him out of the country and why were they not watching him just a few weeks later on November 22, 1963?