Chicago Way w/John Kass: Anatomy of conspiracy with Dr. Cory Franklin
Chicago Way w/John Kass (03/31/25): On this episode, author and retired director of medical intensive care at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for over 20 years, Dr. Cory Franklin joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to discuss why the JFK assassination has captivated conspiracy theorists and the general public for decades and what we, if anything, have learned from the latest release of files.
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When I served in the US Army, I trained on the M14 and M16 Rifles. I qualified as an Expert Marksman on the M16.
Fast-forward to 2011. I was in Sicily, Italy shooting on a private range. That day, I fired a German 8 mm Mauser Sniper Rifle and a 7.62 mm Yugoslav Zastava 7.62 x 54 Sniper Rifle. Both rifles had a telescopic sight. I was shooting from a bench rest on a calm morning at 350 and 1,000 meters. The 1,000 meter target was a steel disc about a foot in diameter. I could hear a distinct Ping when most of my shots hit that target.
Ot is not a surprise that a trained marksman could reliably engage a target the size of a human head at only 88 yards with a common military rifle.
I, in boot camp in the 60’s, iron sights at 500 yards with garand. But, with a crap rifle 3 shots in less than 10 secs at a moving target ?? ……
Conspiracy theories today exist chiefly to supply topics for podcasts. Oswald was on the spot with the weapons and was a communist; method, opportunity, motive! Who, if anyone, backed or supported him – who knows? Most of the theories have connections that are either too big or too heterogenous to have remained secret.
The only thing that complicates it is his murder by Jack Ruby two days later. As far as all of the ‘marksmanship’ nonsense; it all rests on the assumption that he was good, not lucky!
The old Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle dictum still holds true: eliminate all the explanations that are impossible and what remains – however unlikely [or unsatisfying] – must be true!
Oswald acted alone.
Oswald definitely did NOT act alone. The CIA was behind this.
Thanks guys for the provocative and at times amusing conversation regarding the JFK assassination events. My problem is not whether Oswald acted alone or fired the killer gunshots, he did, but the connection of Jack Ruby to the events. A low life strip club owner originally out of Chicago who conveniently takes out Oswald that prevents the country from gaining more insight into Oswald’s motives or potential backing. A strip club owner who basically peddles flesh and traffics in human flesh being that upset at the assassination of JFK who he does not know, come on man. I was 13 years old at the time and it did indeed change our vision in the country. By the way, JFK was already deeply involved in Vietnam, remember the assassination Diem on 11/1/63 by CIA hacks.
Perhaps Dr. Franklin can explain why physicians that attended Kennedy were told to stop saying the the wounds at the back of the head were exit wounds. The physicians described a huge hole in the back of the head yet the photos released do not show the huge hole. Why did Kennedy’s brain disappear? Why were two physicians with no knowledge of performing autopsies allowed to do the autopsy? Why did Johnson say to his secretary, “after Friday, I won’t have to worry about the Kennedys?” The Warren Commission was a whitewash. Why was Dulles, fired by Kennedy allowed to serve on the Commission? Gerald Ford a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist served on the commission. Senator Russell told Johnson he did not believe there was a single shooter.
Daniel:
Yes, I could explain all those things, but it would. not matter because you wouldn’t believe the explanations anyway so there would be no point in doing so.
What would be far more dispositive is if anyone could explain what person shot JFK, how he did it (or maybe it was a woman), from where, what weapon, means of escape and what happened to the shooter. That should include physical evidence, ballistic and forensic, that supports that theory.
That has never been done in 60 plus years.