Contender's Pick

Thanks for the fair chance, Wylted. I've written this in approximately fifty minutes, so I suppose you can say that I rushed. Then again, I didn't have really anything to rebut. ______________________________________ Con has not provided a rebuttal to the correlation between the three gunshots and the three bullet shells found in the sniper's nest, although I will expect one in the next round. I will continue on with my contentions. C2: During the aftermath of the assassination, LHO had also shot police officer J. D. Tippit. According to the Warren Commission, at approximately 1:15 PM, the Dallas Patrolman identified as J. D. Tippit confronted Oswald in his police car due to his resemblance to the description of the shooter given by witness Howard Brennan. When Tippit exited his car, he was killed by Oswald with four shots from a revolver. At least twelve eyewitnesses claimed to have seen him at the shooting or directly afterwards,[1] which eliminates the possibility of Oswald not being the one who has murdered Tippit. If Oswald was brainwashed into an assassination for the KGB, why would he blatantly kill a minor patrolman and ultimately draw even more attention to himself, risking the exploitation of the KGB conspiracy? This must be as follows: P) If Oswald was brainwashed into an assassination for the KGB, his captors would make sure he would do it discreetly in order to avoid the exploitation of their conspiracy. Q) Oswald instead killed Tippit in plain view, thus drawing even more attention to himself with more compiled evidence. R) Therefore, Oswald was not brainwashed or he did not constitute the behaviors of being brainwashed, which Con must prove to fulfill his part of the BoP. C3: Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two days after the Kennedy assassination. Prior to Oswald's delivery to the county jail, a nightclub operator named Jack Ruby stepped from the crowd and shot Oswald in the chest, effectively killing him due to a hemorrhage.[2] Many theories suggest that Ruby was a part of the same conspiracy as Oswald and disposed of him to prevent the revelation of secret information. However, there are two major flaws that loudly outcry this speculation and contrarily is an aid in proving the lone gunman theory. 1. Ruby was a nightclub operator. I've already addressed this, but why would a nightclub operator be trusted to join the KGB conspiracy? Furthermore, unlike Oswald, Ruby had no contact with the Soviet Union whatsoever. Although Ruby had records of juvenile delinquency and truancy, this does not support the notion of Ruby being a member of the KGB, as in that logic, all juvenile delinquents and truants should be in the KGB.[3] One proposition could be Ruby's role in World War II where he was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1943, and could have had contact with the Soviet Union. However, this is invalid as he was merely a mechanic for the US bases.[4] He later managed many nightclubs and strip clubs (that's right, Wylted), and developed friendly relationships with the local cops with free liquor and prostitutes (maybe you should be a cop).[5] Due to his history not pertaining to the KGB at all, it's virtually impossible for Ruby to be a member of the same conspiracy as Oswald. Which leads to my next flaw. 2. An autopsy on Oswald was performed. This is a key negation of my opponent's theory that Oswald was brainwashed by the KGB. After Oswald was shot, his body was examined to have died of a hemorrhage, but was otherwise perfectly healthy.[6] Had he been brainwashed, doctors and medical examiners would have picked up on any possibility of whether his mind was being influenced or controlled. Instead, they have said that "he was a physically healthy male".[7] This can be summed up in the law of contrapositive: 1. If Oswald was brainwashed, the results of the autopsy would have discovered his mind being controlled. 2. The autopsy has had no such result or confirmation. 3. Therefore, Oswald was not brainwashed. Further, this clears up the premise of Ruby being a member of the KGB as well: 1. Suppose the theoretical existence of the conspiracy. The death of Oswald would bring an earlier autopsy, and therefore an earlier exploitation of his brainwashing, which leads to the discovery of the KGB conspiracy. 2. Ruby has killed Oswald, which resulted in an earlier autopsy, and an earlier discovery of the KGB. 3. As the conspiracy would not want to be exploited, Ruby should not be a part of the KGB, and has therefore acted on his own. I believe this will be a suitable rebuttal to my opponent's claim that Oswald was brainwashed by the KGB. Back to you, Wylted. Sources: [1]http://www.archives.gov... [2]http://www.jmasland.com... [3]Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 332. [4]http://www.archives.gov... [5]http://www.aarclibrary.org... [6] and [7]: http://news.google.com...