How Dallas homemaker Mary Ferrell became
main collector of JFK assassination records

Aliens from Outer Space, Crop Circles, Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Bell Witch, the Kennedy assassination, etc will never cease. It a big industry. I believe Oswald killed JFK. He acted alone. The conspiracies have been debunked. Read Case Closed by Gerald Posner. Plus, I have an unscientific reason for believing Oswald was guilty. He was interviewed a few times before Ruby terminated him. From the sound of his voice you could tell he was having the time of his life. In one day he was transformed from an insignificant nobody to an international celebrity. More people know his middle name than know JFK's. He is a permanent footnote in history.

No way LHO could’ve made the shot. And the coincidence throughout is statistically impossible. Add to that Kennedy’s fearlessness (he’d been read the last rites three times) and that he couldn’t be bought. Look back to Ike’s Farewell Address, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Turn your eyes now upon the Twitterverse. Oswald-Ruby, the political outcome of the Warren Commission, and the plundering of the National Archives of Kennedy materiel is a crude, nailed-up construct compared to the mainlining of the edge-to-edge false narratives we endure today. Ever wonder why the Bush family of Texas turned so rabidly upon President Trump, and his intent to clean the Washingtonian stables? See, “Family of Secrets,” by Russ Baker.

All of those so-called “big industries” combined, that you listed, pale in comparison to the gargantuan industry of US intelligence services, specifically the CIA. I don’t know much about the Loch Ness Monster, but none of the other conspiracies have been credibly debunked, at all. That goes for the work of Gerald Posner, as well. It may be inconvenient, but it is a fact that both Oswald and Jack Ruby were connected to the CIA.

Contrary to the article, J. Edgar Hoover was not head of the CIA. He was head of the FBI. What else did this so-called journalist get wrong?

Re #2. You are either terribly misinformed or very uninformed about rifles. I own several of the 6.5 Carcano rifles like that Oswald used. The shot was rested on a window sill. at a car moving at 5 mph, slightly dowhhill, essentially directly away from him, meaning very littl motion of the target. The shot was a very short 60 yards, and those rifles can keep all shots in an inch at that range. Exactly opposite from your claim of an "impossible shot" it was actually a very easy shot, easily duplicated by any even moderatly competent rifleman. And Oswald was trained in riflery by the USMC. I am not sure of what Oswald's motivation was, but he had a serious grudge against then Gov. Connelly had been the Secretary of the Navy, and had turned down Oswald's repeated requests to change his dishonorable discharge from the Marines to a general discharge. In those days it was close to impossible to get any job with a dishonorable discharge, and all prospective employees were asked to show their discharge papers. Oswald was exceptionally poor, and had real trouble housing and feeding his wife and infant daughter. The rifle and scope only cost about $20 then. One theory is that he mistook Kennedy for Connelly, riding in the same car. But, perhaps the theories that the CIA put him up to it may be legit, I don't claim to know his motivation. But I am absolutely certain that this was an easy shot, and the rifle and man were CERTAINLY capable of doing it. And multiple witnesses saw him shoot police officer Tibbetts a relatively short distance from the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald worked. Huge amounts of money have been made selling total BS books, TV shows and even movies full of lies and nonsense on this topic because complex BS sells better than simple truths. I have owned several of these rifles since the middle sixties and have duplicated the speed and accuracy of the shots many times, as has my brother. Easy to do, even though people continue to claim it is "impossible". Baloney. But beyond the bare mechanics of "Oswald with a 6.5 Carcano from the School Book Depository", lots of other stuff may have happened around it. Motivation is impossible to discern after the fact.

A nice article of the glib style of USA Today... information to skim over with no depth of analysis and reporting. The very LEAST that could have been included in the article is the actual internet site which was created to document Mary Ferrell's research-- www.maryferrell.org There you will find the analysis and depth few people really know about. If one REALLY want to get an education with all released document for your own personal study, this site is essential. It is the Encyclopedia Brittanica at light speed. Most of the documents "released" this time are the SAME ones previously released with fewer black magic marker redactions while the guilty are still protected ignoring and flaunting the intention of the JFK Act to release EVERYTHING 25 years after the final report of the Assassination Records Review Board (1998) which was in 2017. Those records STILL WITHHELD in full have been acessable to previous Directors of the alphabet 'company' which in its history has overthrown other countries and killed leaders, and worked with organized crime to find those willing to do it on contract.. When the ARRB collected documents and testimonies of those who had been deposed and purposefully ignored, the picture became clear-- that the House Select Committee (HSCA) empowered to look into things in the 1970's after the Zapruder fill was shown on network televison, it became clearly evident that information was purposefully withheld from them as well to CYA those agencies calling into question that we were again stonewalled and lied to. The medical evidence was again covered up showing a complete back of JFK's head while those who attended in Dallas and the HSCA's own panel showed a large hole in the back of the head behind the right ear, which could only have ballistically come from a shot from the front. George Joanides was in charge of 'vetting' the documents from "the Company" and was HE HIMSELF in charge of an operation that he protected in the early 1960's called AMSPELL With this 'release' 44 documents pertaining to him are STILL under seal and were not produced this time. Jefferson Morley has found connections between his operation and LHO, so that would be the ultimate embarrassment.... Take a look at the Mary Ferrell site for yourself and prepare to find the real stories being withheld while finding out just how deep we have been off course since the coup in Dallas

I know it’s not a chat room #5 but wanted to thank you for the deeply knowledgeable response. I didn’t really have a problem with the rifle— it was a prewar (IIRC) with the full length barrel and original rifling intact. Conspiracy nuts who discount it as a cheap “$20 rifle,” don’t recall or never knew how economically you could get a mail order firearm in the 60s. Your response that taught me a thing or two, thanks. I was impressed by how well your briefing compared to some of the best research on that weapon’s capabilities. Question if you happen to revisit: the United States House Select Committee On Assassinations concluded the last two shots were seven-tenths of a second apart. That’s a pretty fast cycle and re-acquire. Possible? And at that time of year in Texas was LHO shooting through trees? Anyhow I didn’t remember well enough or amply enough to have spoken. Yours was a great post. It’s people like you who want the truth— that’ll maybe someday produce some clarity, if not justice.