by Eileen M. Nix

Created on: February 17, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

There are literally millions of conspiracy theories abounding today on almost any subject one had time enough to name. Nothing happens simply anymore, and the more horrendous the event, the more theories surface, ranging from the highly plausible to the completely outregeous.

Why are there so many conspiracies floting in the ether of human curiosity? Because we want to know the facts, just the facts, mam, and in that search to understand events in perspective, the journey from experiencing an event to understanding and coping with it evolves into a journey mirroring our own inabilities to believe what happened.

Take the John F. Kennedy assasination. A near mythical figure now, his death started what I believe to be the fall of our trust in governmental verasity. Before this particular Kennedy assanation, we, as Americans, believed what we were told by the government about almost anything. If before this event someone spouted theories about Franklin Roosevelt contriving our entry into WWII by tacitly allowing the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, and perhaps with foreknowledge of the event making it easier for them to strike, the theorist would have been laughed at, perhaps ostracised, maybe locked up for his or her own good. After the Kennedy assasination and the convienent explanation to fit the facts started to unravel, the country slipped into a quagmire we have yet to recover from.

Kennedy's murder shook the very foundation of who we thought we were. These things may have happened earlier in out past, with the assasination of Lincoln, but surely this was distant and bore more resemblence to the days of frontier justice and the Wild West than the dealings of an advanced civilization global superpower with atomic capabilities under our belts. We were the nation that beat polio, fought in two world wars and beat back tyranny, we had all the modern conviencences at our disposal, and our national leader was the most powerful man in the world. How could it be possible for the most powerful man on the planet to be brought down by one of the most pathetic?

Just a quick study of the facts shows that nothing in it is exactly as it seems. The rifle Oswald used was of poor Italian design. The scope was not zeroed and had to be compensated for, thus making the tight timing, and moving target aspect probmatical. Oswald, while a Marine, was not one of the best on the rifle range. Lee came from a broken home, joined the Marines, and served in a sensitive spot at Atsugi, Japan,

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