Conspiracy Theories

I am personally of the opinion that people are generally too incompetent to successfully carry out most of the conspiracy theories I've heard of, but I do volunteer work at a non-profit community radio station where I've met my fair share of theorists. We actually have one guy there who, besides reading the news every other morning, hosts a show on Sunday afternoons dedicated to various conspiracy theories ranging from the standard political variety through alien coverups and even cryptozoological fluff. He's crazy, but still pretty damn interesting to listen to.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The Kennedy assassination is actually one of the extremely few conspiracy theories that hold any water at all in my eyes. The conspiracy around it has unquestionably turned into some kind of snowball effect and gathered up other unrelated conspiracy theories (as these things tend to do), but there's still truth in there somewhere. Probably the most reasonable explanation I've heard is that it was a botched attempt to kill the Governor of Texas, John Connally, who was also in the car and suffered serious though not fatal bullet wounds, and was apparently in a bit of trouble with his friends in organized crime.

Again, of course it's not something where you can say "this is exactly what happened and this is why they did it". It's interesting to look at, but totally apocryphal.

There's nowhere I can't reach.