Errol Morris' Short Film on Josiah Thompson

The best case for the existence of a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy, one that deviates from the official version of a lone gunman that is memorialized  in the Warren Commission report, is still the photographic evidence taken that day from bystanders in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, particularly the Zapruder film.

Today on its web site the New York Times publishes a short film by Errol Morris, "November 22, 1963." Morris interviews Josiah Thompson, author of an early and extremely influential book on the Kennedy assassination, Six Seconds in Dallas (1967).

Thompson's argument is simple a one. Look at the pictures -- just look at them -- of the assassination. The conclusion one must come to is that the kill shot came from the front and to the right of the motorcade as it drove down Elm Street, the area that is known as the grassy knoll. This means that the conspiracy theorists are correct because the Warren Commission's official conclusion is that the only gunman was Lee Harvey Oswald who made an impossibly difficult kill shot with a junk Italian rifle from his perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

I immersed myself in the Kennedy assassination for a couple of years. I did so from the perspective of Deconstruction and the idea that everything is textual, everything -- for us to know it -- is written. So what was the "Moby Dick" of all that Kennedy assassination literature trying to say?

The photographic documentation alone compels one to accept that there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. After spending time with the literature I arrived at the working hypothesis based on the simple but necessary question "cui bono?" that LBJ was involved in the conspiracy. LBJ handpicked the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission relied on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI for its research and documentation in formulating its lone gunman theory. LBJ and J. Edgar were good buddies whose careers both benefited from Kennedy's departure. Both were buddies of proto-Tea Partier Texas oil mogul Clint Murchison, Sr.

To flesh out the nature of the LBJ "cui bono?" I looked at the TFX contract investigation. All the major Congressional investigations of the Kennedy administration -- Billie Sol Estes, TFX, and Bobby Baker -- track back to LBJ. The answer to who benefited with Kennedy out of the way is obvious.

Check out Errol Morris' film on Josiah Thompson. It's dynamite.