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In Dr. David Mantik's pre-recorded appearance for the 3/22/12 "Black
Op Radio" program (linked above), Mantik devoted the whole program to
attacking John McAdams' 2011 book "JFK Assassination Logic: How To
Think About Claims Of Conspiracy".
Naturally, since Dr. Mantik is a devoted conspiracy theorist when it
comes to the topic of President Kennedy's assassination, it's no
surprise that he can find no worthwhile or redeeming features in
Professor McAdams' book whatsoever. So that's no real shocker.
I jotted down a few notes while listening to Dr. Mantik, and here are
a few observations that I think should be made:
1.) Mantik's comparison between McAdams' hypothetical 20 conspirators
in the JFK case and the real-life 19 conspirators who hijacked the
four jetliners that were used as flying bombs on 9/11 is not a valid
comparison at all.
McAdams' hypothetical example involving "20 conspirators" in the
Kennedy case was obviously referring to the likelihood of any of those
20 plotters spilling the beans AFTER the assassination had taken
place.
Whereas in the 9/11 instance, it's quite obvious to everybody on the
planet (except perhaps James Fetzer) that the 19 hijackers had no
intention or desire to "hide" their conspiracy from the world after
the four planes struck their targets in Washington and New York.
Since there were FOUR planes being used as terrorist bombs on 9/11,
does Dr. Mantik think that the hijackers themselves could have kept
their plot secret from the world after the planes reached their
targets (even though each hijacker would be silenced for all time when
they each died in their respective crashes)?
Mantik's "9/11 vs. JFK" comparison is simply laughable.
2.) Mantik berates McAdams for supposedly ignoring all of the so-
called "new" evidence of conspiracy in the JFK case that has surfaced
since the Warren Report came out in 1964.
But I want to know what "new" physical evidence Dr. Mantik or any CTer
has unearthed since '64 that would undermine the conclusion that
Oswald acted alone? I have yet to see any hard, physical evidence that
would prove the Warren Commission got it wrong.
And the reason we haven't seen any such "conspiracy" evidence (of a
physical nature) is because no such evidence exists--and it never did.
It didn't exist at the time of the Warren Commission's investigation
and it doesn't exist now.
All Dr. Mantik has are his suspicions and his theories about
conspiracy. But in the final analysis, the physical evidence hangs Lee
Harvey Oswald. That evidence proved Oswald was guilty of killing JFK
and Tippit in 1963; and that same evidence proves he was guilty
today.
The evidence against Oswald hasn't suddenly VANISHED in the
intervening 49 years, even though many conspiracy theorists seem to
believe there's no hard evidence against their prized patsy
whatsoever--in EITHER the JFK case or the Tippit case.
So if somebody wants to say that I, too, am "stuck in the 1960s"
regarding my views on this case, I don't really mind. Because being
stuck in the 1960s when it comes to the JFK assassination is being
stuck in the place where all the real evidence is.