Vincent Bugliosi: Why Did Oswald Assassinate JFK?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/05/15/Vincent_Bugliosi_Reclaiming_History

In this highlight from May 2007, "Reclaiming History" author Vincent Bugliosi discusses what he believes may have been Lee Harvey Oswald's motive to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Rather than acting out a personal attack against the former president, Bugliosi speculates Oswald may have viewed JFK as the "quintessential representative of a society for which he had a grinding contempt."

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Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of the Manson family and best-selling author of Helter Skelter, reexamines the assassination of President Kennedy in his newest book Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Evan Thomas, editor at large of Newsweek magazine, interviews Bugliosi on the stage of The Great Hall.

Polls reveal that more than 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald; some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent.

Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson and the author of the number one bestseller "Helter Skelter" has spent 20 years investigating the assassination and its aftermath. "Reclaiming History," Bugliosi's absorbing and historic book - the first ever to cover the entire case - shows how we have come to believe such lies about the tragic event. Using the skills that made him one of the most successful prosecutors in legal history, Bugliosi has examined every conspiracy theory from every angle.

"Reclaiming History" strips the paranoia away from an event that changed the history of America and the world - The Cooper Union

Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964 from U.C.L.A. law school, where he was president of his graduating class. In his career as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial was the Charles Manson case, which became the basis of his true crime classic, Helter Skelter, the biggest-selling true crime book in publishing history.

Bugliosi has uncommonly attained success in two separate and distinct fields, as a lawyer and an author. Three of his true crime books, Helter Shelter, And The Sea Will Tell, and Outrage, The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder, reached number one on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list.

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[gohepcat]

@melrobRTF Sorry that reality isn't as interesting as a John Grisham novel, but Oswald was just a nut who acted alone.

[GraeHall]

@melrobRTF Seriously, the Fed was his motive? He did it because Kennedy opposed the Fed?

Do you know any other human beings - at all? I mean, really? I'm serious. Are you that politcally crippled, that it infects, redirects and affects your basic understanding ot other human beings as if they were humans, not simply conduits through which to express your political dogma?

Wow. You;'re like, and I mean this seriously, god damned weird. If you believe what you said there.

Clean it up.

[joaquinmurrieta1850]

@steved8878 Exactly, LHO was just a nut case waiting to explode and he did. The sob was a loner who could not keep a friend for one minute. He was a liar with a capital L. Had told his wife Marina that he would be Prime Minister in about a year, and that Castro needed him to be an officer in his Cuban Revolution hence his approac to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City earlier that year: they denied him a visa to Cuba because he was nuts. Weapons in Alec Hiddel's name; his adopted immaginary charact

[TheLensSolution]

Vincent Bugliosi is a disgrace. His book is full of errors and distortions, many of which have been documented by other authors online. Just in some of the interviews I've seen of Vince on YouTube, I've already caught Vince in many distortions myself. I'm not sure what his agenda is, but he is full of baloney. Most people do not believe the Oswald acted alone theory - why can't he accept that?

[JillAngie2]

It appears from good research and from speeches made by Colonel Kadafi, that the main reason behind the assassination of JFK was because he wanted to monitor the Dimona Nuclear Plant in Israel at 6 monthly intervals. President Kennedy wrote to Israeli PM Eshkol July 5, 1963 requesting this.

[MrGuitartramp]

FREE MANSON,VOTE QUIMBY!

[Tippersnore]

Vince is the only one relentlessly fighting those making money off of and those duped by the conspiracy crap.

[sudaev]

@melrobRTF - That actually isn't true at all. Google it and see.

[andrelebaron]

@melrobRTF there was no bill to kill the fed. that's just another one of those things put out there by guys who make a living selling snake oil to gullible people like you.