WI: JFK Assasination was a Conspiracy?

There are many theories about who really killed Kennedy, and whether Oswald killed Kennedy by himself or with other shooters. IE, the Mafia, Castro, the Soviets, the CIA, Johnson, Hoover and the FBI, the Military-Industrial Complex, the Grassy Knoll, a "Magic Bullet" making the current explanation flawed, etc., etc. And frankly, all these theories ignore ballistics, the positions of Kennedy and Connolly (they were not on level; Connolly's seat was lower than Kennedy's and further in), much evidence, and so on.

But what if by some stroke of fate in an AH it really was a Conspiracy (any one of them) and what if that was discovered either by the Warren Commission or later on?
 
Your scenario for discussion is too broad since you list multiple conspiracies and multiple conspirators. Unless you are proposing that Johnson, Hoover, the CIA, the military industrial complex, and the Mafia allied and coordinated the assassination of JFK.

You need to pick a single conspiracy theory for the purposes of discussion.
 
It's meant to be broad. Boiling it down to any single one would be a random pick and detrimental to such discussion IMO.

Pick one and discuss it. Pick the most probable one and discuss it. Select a broad range of them and discuss them in a post. Whatever.
 
The Masons are goin' be pretty pissed they didn't get a mention. Same with the Greys.
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Well, in the X-Files universe, the Cancer Man was recruited to assassinate Kennedy by a group of military officers and CIA operatives, because they felt that Kennedy was a danger to the United States (because of Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis). Perhaps something similar could be the secret conspiracy.
 
Your scenario for discussion is too broad since you list multiple conspiracies and multiple conspirators. Unless you are proposing that Johnson, Hoover, the CIA, the military industrial complex, and the Mafia allied and coordinated the assassination of JFK.

You need to pick a single conspiracy theory for the purposes of discussion.
I think he wants to discuss,not so much the particular consequences of the conspiracy itself as the collective psychological
repercussions of admitting the conspiracy theorists were right...
Would it drive some significant fraction of the humanity to re-examine other
conspiracy theories focusing on other things for the possibility they
might be well-founded, too?
There other considerations, too. In a sense, it is better that Kennedy
was killed by a madman who got a "lucky shot" in, than his having
been killed by a group of men with a specific purpose. In the first
case, the president of the USA was killed almost by a random factor, and of random accidents nobody can be free. In the second case,
the madman was just an expendable pawn, and the conspiracy won. Thus, if the conspiracy gets confirmed,
also gets confirmed a defeat of most powerful national government on Earth...
 
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I think a proven conspiracy at this level would create a lot of extra paranoid people across all levels of the population.
You would have a lot more crazy people holed up, hiding away from the government etc.
Possible increase in people believing in aliens, Roswell is a conspiracy.
I think overall people will consider such conspiracies more likely.

Titanic, sunk on purpose.
Elvis, alive.
Monroe, murdered.

All of these will be more widely believed.

:)
 
A lot depends on who the conspirators were. A completely successfull conspiracy would never be discovered. If the Warren commission discovered CIA or FBI involvment it would probably be involved in a cover up as it would be too embarassing so it is possible that a conspiracy was discovered and concealed. Possible but not very likely.

A conpiracy involves 2 or more people planning to carry out an unlwaful act or carry out a lawful act unlawfully so there is an element of conspiracy in a lot of crimes. If Oswald didn't act alone then there was a conspiracy of some sort. The fact that Oswald was assassinated suggests he wasn't just a lone nut but that he knew too much therefore there was a conspiracy of sorts. Probably related to organised crime rather than any far fetched scenario. However the one lone nut assassin of American history was the Vice President Aaron Burr
 
A lot depends on who the conspirators were. A completely successfull conspiracy would never be discovered.
maybe not. There is the vanity factor. Some of them, or maybe just one of the conspirators might wish to have it known that "they did it"
even if only posthumously, and leave testamentary dispositions to release certain information (that may be unknown even to those charged with the will) exposing the whole scheme, so that the world may know "how clever they were, fooling everybody, and killing the most powerful man in the world".... They may even provide for the release to occur a numberof decades after their (his) deaths, so that no vengeance is wreaked on their
direct descendants...
 
It depend on the conspirators. A interesting option is a Soviet conspiracy revield when Soviet fall. Then what????
 
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