Published in The Star-Ledger, Nov. 24, 2010

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerletters/2010/11/tsa_inspections.html

Carl Leubsdorf’s recent opinion piece “ ‘I did the best I could’ ” (Nov. 21) quotes a former Secret Service agent as saying, “there has not been a single bit of evidence to show that it was a conspiracy” that killed President John F. Kennedy. This oft-repeated claim overlooks the significant evidence that led the House Select Committee on Assassinations to conclude in 1979 that Kennedy’s death was, very likely, the result of a conspiracy.

Proponents of the lone assassin theory also conveniently ignore the lack of evidence pointing to Lee Harvey Oswald’s guilt. A paraffin test indicated Oswald could have fired a handgun, but not a rifle.

Many eyewitnesses, backed by acoustic evidence, claimed that at least one shot came from the grassy knoll. Perhaps most significant, the rifle allegedly used by Oswald was not capable of firing the requisite four shots within the time frame established by the Zapruder film.

Most Americans rightly reject the lone gunman theory because more than enough evidence exists to cast reasonable doubt on Oswald’s guilt.
Eddie Konczal, Monroe Twp.