JFK was murdered, it's not some conspiracy theory

I do not assert that the findings of the Warren Commission [1] or the House Select Committee on Assassinations [2] necessarily encompass the whole truth of JFK's death although I do think both investigations were generally well intentioned, fairly comprehensive, and sufficiently analytical given their respective contexts. I need not prove that the Central Intelligence Agency had no role in the affair to win this debate. I don't consider the point provable at such far remove beyond the cacophony of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the event. Rather, my expectation is that FanboyMcTroll is unlikely to establish as irrefutable that which so many talented investigators have failed to prove; that which if proved would surely demand banner headlines on the front pages of newspapers across the globe; that which would disband the CIA and require treason trials against surviving usurpers. FanboyMcTroll's job here is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the CIA killed Kennedy. My job is to poke holes in his theory. Unfortunately, Fanboy has not furnished much by way of word count in which to lay out a theory of such monument nor has he posited any evidence for our evaluation in the first third of the debate. We will just have to look forward to arguments in the second round. In the meanwhile, here is a short checklist offered by a Scientific American from article entitled "The Conspiracy Theory Detector " 1. Proof of the conspiracy supposedly emerges from a pattern of "connecting the dots" between events that need not be causally connected. When no evidence supports these connections except the allegation of the conspiracy or when the evidence fits equally well to other causal connections"or to randomness"the conspiracy theory is likely to be false. 2. The agents behind the pattern of the conspiracy would need nearly superhuman power to pull it off. People are usually not nearly so powerful as we think they are. 3. The conspiracy is complex, and its successful completion demands a large number of elements. 4. Similarly, the conspiracy involves large numbers of people who would all need to keep silent about their secrets. The more people involved, the less realistic it becomes. 5. The conspiracy encompasses a grand ambition for control over a nation, economy or political system. If it suggests world domination, the theory is even less likely to be true. 6. The conspiracy theory ratchets up from small events that might be true to much larger, much less probable events. 7. The conspiracy theory assigns portentous, sinister meanings to what are most likely innocuous, insignificant events. 8. The theory tends to commingle facts and speculations without distinguishing between the two and without assigning degrees of probability or of factuality. 9. The theorist is indiscriminately suspicious of all government agencies or private groups, which suggests an inability to nuance differences between true and false conspiracies. 10. The conspiracy theorist refuses to consider alternative explanations, rejecting all disconfirming evidence and blatantly seeking only confirmatory evidence to support what he or she has a priori determined to be the truth. [1] . https://www.archives.gov... [2] . https://www.archives.gov... [3] . https://www.scientificamerican.com...