Are Federal agents are botching the assassination investigation? Will this fuel conspiracy theories for years to come . . .?

Photo above - will the real Thomas Matthew Crooks please stand up . . . ?

My condolences to the relatives of the bystander who was shot, and the 2 additional injured attendees in Butler Pennsylvania. That said, there are a LOT of errors being made in this investigation.

1. Failure to secure nearby rooftops before the rally. The rooftop – 130 yards away – is approximately the same unobstructed distance that Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy and Connolly from. And they were moving targets in a motorcade. Trump was standing motionless.

2. Thomas Matthew Crooks was photographed near the entrance to the rally, avoiding entry because of the magnetometers. He was allowed to depart without being searched or questioned.

3. Attendees on the ground later noticed Crooks crawling on a nearby rooftop carrying a rifle, and alerted the police officers nearby. Either that information was not conveyed to the Secret Service, or it was ignored.

4. Immediately after the shots were fired, Crooks was killed by a single headshot even though he was not wearing body armor. An eyewitness said “they blew his head off”. From 130 yards away, Secret Service agents had the same unobstructed view of Crooks, as the assassin had of Trump.

5. The rally site was cleared almost immediately, allowing potential eyewitness to depart, without securing attendee videos or stills of the shooting. The departing attendees could also have removed evidence like shell casings, and items with fingerprints.

6. It took nearly 3 hours to disclose the shooter had been killed immediately, and that he shot 3 attendees in addition to Trump.

7. Crooks wasn’t named for an additional 8 hours. The dead and injured bystanders still have not had their names released.

8.Crooks' residence – the one he shared with his parents – wasn’t entered for 5 hours. There was a police cordon more than an hour earlier, but they did not enter. This would have given an opportunity for occupants or co-conspirators to destroy evidence.

9.There is a report that Crooks was one of 11 million subscribers to a popular YouTube gun channel. He had been wearing “hunting gear” to public school for years. But there has been no identification of which shooting range Crooks practiced at. He didn’t develop these skills by watching TV. Lee Harvey Oswald received weapons training while a US marine. Who trained Crooks?

I'm just askin' . . .

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SomeMichGuy · M

Oswald was a Red herring.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SomeMichGuy Oswald killed JFK and acted alone.

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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@LeopoldBloom thank goodness a sane voice!

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@SomeMichGuy

i find it out that we have 500 government employees running around saying they saw an alien autopsy, or collected flying saucer debris, yet NO government employee has said "my agency coordinated the kennedy assassination" Statistically improbably to keep a secret like that for 50 years.

SomeMichGuy · M

@SusanInFlorida For how you posited it, yes, of course.

Read Best Evidence. Then we'll talk.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SomeMichGuy Suspicion and motive are not evidence. Just because LBJ benefitted from JFK's death doesn't mean he was behind it. After 60 years, no actual evidence of a conspiracy has been found.

You need to read Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History. He describes the events of that November in great detail, along with mini-biographies of Oswald and Ruby, and a thorough debunking of the major conspiracy theories.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SusanInFlorida What no conspiracy buff has ever explained is why the killers chose such a risky and difficult way to kill JFK. Any number of things could have gone wrong, exposing the entire plot. If someone wanted him dead, all they had to do was slip some ricin into his dinner, and his death would have been attributed to Addison's disease. Whenever I ask this question, it's dismissed with a hand-wave and "they wanted to send a message." Really? What message was so important that they had to concoct a Rube Goldberg mechanism to kill him in front of the entire world, then fake his autopsy, fake the Warren Commission report, and every other piece of "evidence?"

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@LeopoldBloom i don't think it's beyond belief that russian or american "handlers" could have selected a low-IQ madman to carry out an assassination. i just don't see any evidence for it. if this was a government conspiracy, its been shut down better than any in history.