Michael Collins Piper

[Bob Prudhomme]

Most people work backward on this case, picking their favorite suspect first (usually based on their political biases) and then looking for the evidence to support that scenario. Lone-nutters do the same thing, since they have a predisposition toward supporting the official story (again, usually for ideological reasons). We have the same problem with 9/11 and other cases. Politics trumps everything.

This is the worst possible way to solve any crime. It's like a Kafka story, where someone is determined to be guilty, and then we'll have the "trial" and maybe some evidence if we feel like it. You have to look at the evidence first - difficult in these cases, because so much of it is corrupted or questionable - and then determine who had the means, motive and opportunity to carry it out.

Would Israel try to make it look like JFK was assassinated by a pro-Cuban/Soviet communist? What would they gain from that? If an Arab or Muslim had been blamed for the killing, then you might have something.

It works both ways, though. An investigator could just as easily think it was the Israelis setting things up, if an Arab or Muslim was originally blamed, and the blaming of a pro-Cuban/Soviet Communist might divert attention away from themselves.