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Well, I was until I heard of Felt's background, and I had no fucking idea about Woodward's navy career.
But then, I'm not a Republican so this was never a much debated nor research question.
Hmm. I remember being convinced once that he couldn't possibly have been preparing to kill Kennedy bc of the specific circumstances of the attack - basically that he blundered into it.
That doesn't rule out him getting rubbed out because someone thought Oswald might be part of an op and wanted to make sure no one would talk, however.
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Yes. I have literally never heard that theory before this thread.
I suppose so. I haven't given it any real thought, but what I learned in school was basically that he was acting alone and I never had reason to question that.
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I was aware of the "Watergate as a palace coup" theory, but this is only because I have done indepth and extensive reading of various conspiracy theory claims. I mean, not being an American is an additional complicating factor, but even the local conspiracy theorists often spend their days poring over American theories (Americanization...) and I don't remember this being discussed.
It's only a year of two ago that I learned of this particular theory - the only theories I had seen before it had been related to Watergate break-in being about trying to obtain call-girl information to implicate the Dems or general theories about Nixon being an even bigger crook than conventional wisdom would allow, but I think the first time I learned of this theory was actually perusing Oglesby's Yankee and Cowboy War, which was a fairly recent thing for me.
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