Coincidence or Conspiracy?

FOR those still content to believe the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago this very day, perhaps you'd like to consider this list of people:

Jack Zangretti, Eddy Benavides, Mary Meyer, Hank Killam, Bill Hunter, Gary Underhill,  Jim Koethe, Teresa Norton, Karen Carlin, Marilyn Walle, William Pitzer, David Ferrie, Eladio Del Valle, E. R. Walthers, Rev. Clyde Johnson, William Pawley, George DeMohrenschildt, Carlos Prio Soccaras, Lou Staples, Joseph C. Ayres.

 All of the individuals identified above had connections to the vast story of President Kennedy's murder, some with bigger roles than others.

 Of those 20 people named, all met their deaths violently: Seventeen of them received fatal gunshot injuries, two died from blows to the neck while one had his throat cut.

 This list, incidentally, doesn't include people such as Lee Bowers Jr, William Whaley, Rose Cheramie, James Worrell or Mona B. Saenz, all of whom died in unusual road accidents.

 And not forgetting famed American journalist and TV personality Dorothy Kilgallen who was the only reporter to interview Jack Ruby - the man who shot Oswald - when he was in his jail cell in the spring of 1964 and began her own meticulous research into the President's death. Kilgallen, a regular panellist on the celebrated CBS TV game show What's My Line? for 15 years from 1950, was found dead in her New York apartment in November, 1965, not long after she had told friends: "If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to break this case. This story isn't going to die as long as there's a real reporter alive - and there are a lot of them." Kilgallen's death was said to have been caused by a cocktail of pills and alcohol although the exact circumstances were "undetermined".

But hey-ho, never mind. It was Oswald alone, don't forget, and there is nothing else sinister linked with this case whatsoever. Nothing. That's what we've all been told to believe, haven't we?