JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy by John McAdams, Potomac Books, 2011.
I freely admit it–I’m a JFK assassination junkie and periodically get drawn into the vortex of the massive amount of material that’s out there. You could make a full-time job out of just watching all the videos on YouTube on the subject. (Not that I’ve done that–yet!) I can tell you Oswald’s scores on his two Marine Corps rifle tests (“sharpshooter” and “marksman”–with scores of 212 and 191, respectively), how much he weighed (150 pounds), how tall he was (5’9″), the path of the single bullet that hit Kennedy and Connally (basically straight and slanting downward), the length of the brown-paper package of so-called curtain rods that Oswald brought to work the morning of Nov. 22 (38 inches), why he bought the rifle that he
. . . This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
