Lee Harvey Oswald did it!

It always seemed bizarre that a little man, somewhat inconsequential and ordinary-looking, could have been solely responsible for squatting on the sixth floor of a building in Dallas, Texas, and with unerring accuracy shoot President John F Kennedy in the head while he was sitting in his open-top Lincoln convertible. Bizarre but true. There have been so many conspiracy theories since that traumatic point in history on November 22, 1963 that many of them have appeared more believable than the official Oswald assassin verdict. But that's the wonderful thing about conspiracies. If they are really cleverly outlined, they do become credible. The Russians, Cubans, CIA, Mafia et al have all been blamed over the years. But the fact is the Warren Commission headed by the then Supreme Court Chief Justice, uncovered not a scrap of evidence that pointed to a wider conspiracy. So unless the FBI and CIA, in giving evidence, deliberately left out bits that undermined the Oswald only story, then the Warren Commission was right. There was no evidence, so no conspiracy and only Oswald to blame. The release of all the remaining classified pages from the near-five million already made public will make no difference to the official line that has been taken for 54 years, although I have no doubt the conspiracy squirrels among the true aficionados will discover some paragraph or some quote or some footnote that will help their cause. Trump tickled their palates by saying the classified stuff was very interesting. Interesting yes, but a bombshell? No, I doubt it. The little ex-Marine did it and two days later he himself was killed by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner. Why Ruby shot him in the stomach, apart from professed patriotic reasons, will continue to enthuse the conspiracy theorists for ever.