re: So. How many here believe in some type of conspiracy?

I will always believe there was more to the JFK assassination than Oswald acting alone. I do believe he was the killer, or at least one of them. I have to wonder if the Mafia wasn't involved because Jack Ruby was known to have connections to organized crime and it makes sense that a bottom feeder like him would be chosen to silence Oswald before he could cut a deal. But on the other hand, this was 1963 and a lot of the old Mafia code was still being honored which prohibited the killing of police, prosecutors, or pretty much anyone outside of the Mafia. So maybe it was the CIA. Who knows and after almost 50 years it is a virtual certainty it will never be known. It is worth noting, for those who believe Oswald acted alone, that in 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which investigated the killings of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King concluded that the assassination of JFK was most likely the result of a conspiracy although they never determined, or at least never made public, what that conspiracy was.