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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I don't know. Do they?
This Kennedy thing -- there can't be any secrets. We know exactly what happened. We know that this lone nut shot the President and nobody else had anything to do with it. There can't be any secrets because this is the complete story.
But still...
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Missing information lets the imaginations of people run wild and get creative with possible explainations. Every complex event in life has 'missing information.' Not satisfied with the most logical explanation ie "Occam's razor" these alternative 'explainations' get pursued by the individual and they search for evidence supporting their thoughts. All of a sudden otherwise random occurances independent of the simplest explaination get interpreted by the individual as support for their version of the 'explaination.' These little random occurances then get pieced together and lines are drawn to connect them in whatever pattern seems interesting to the individual's subconscious mind to form a 'theory.'
Back in JFK's day these people were usually harmless because A) Without modern forms of communication it was difficult to even get random pieces of information about occurances not in said individual's immediate area, and B) The wild and creative conclusions of one person or group of people were limited in reach, also due to a lack of modern communication. In the internet age both points A and B are easier to overcome and those 'random occurances' from part A can easily be based on fabricated information. Hence more conspiracy theories/explainations for events past/present/or future and a greater probability that some of these theories can grow into a movement.
Now going back to JFK, either details surrounding the assasination attempt are kept secret because of some mundane detail that might expose ignorance/stupidity on the part of the secret service, or that it's simply just protocol to keep things classified, or Oswald was working with rouge government officials who didn't like Kennedy in the White House due to their affiliation with the Bildeberg group, Illuminati or World Banker Group who secretly shape all major world events towards a New World Order where they will reign supreme over all aspects of human life on Earth or it could be something else completely.
1)Which one's (Not specific to my top of the head explainations but rather of all the explainations out there) easiest to believe?
2)Which one's the most creative/interesting one to believe?
3)Which one is actually more likely to be true?
4)Does it even matter?
Of course the answer to #3 might not be the real explanation, but in light of missing information it's the most logical. With each deviation from the most logical explaination comes an exponential drop in probability of it actually being true. So I'm not saying that those wacky theories about anything are 100% false, but their likelihood of being true is exceptionally small.