Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

In order to conduct a JFK poll properly. there would have to be 4 choices laid out, as follows: 

Do you believe that 

a) Oswald killed Kennedy as a lone gunman, acting alone and telling no one, or 

b) Oswald killed Kennedy as a lone gunman but acted within a conspiracy, where others put him up to it, or 

c) Oswald killed Kennedy within a conspiracy but not as the lone gunman, that there was another shooter or multiple shooters besides him, or 

d) Oswald did not kill Kennedy but rather was a framed and innocent patsy. 

And even that doesn't lay out all the positions correctly because choice c) should be divided according to whether you think there were other shooters but Oswald did all the damage, or whether you think there were other shooters who did some of the damage, or whether you think there were other shooters who did all of the damage. For instance, the HSCA took the position that there was at least one other shooter besides Oswald, but he did all the damage. But, there is a loudmouth named Robert Harris who thinks that Oswald was up on the 6th floor shooting, but he did none of the damage. And, the third possibility- that the damage was divided between Oswald and the other shooter or shooters- is also theoretically possible.

I am aware of all that, but still, I wouldn't go beyond the four choices listed above. Four. That's it. That's as many choices people can hold in their head at any one time. You can't push it to five. Five is too many.  

Even four is pushing it. Three would be better. Much better. But still, I'd go with the four. 

But, the question, as it has been phrased in all the polls to date has essentially been:

Do you believe the Warren Commission or the HSCA? 

Or, another way of putting it is:

Do you believe Government Story #1 or Government Story #2?

Of course, the most important thing is to give people the option of saying that Oswald was innocent, framed and innocent.

But, neither Gallup nor any other polling organization will do it. And the reason is that they don't even want to articulate the existence of that possibility. They don't want to give it legs in the public debate. And it's out of FEAR- the fear that it will catch on and spread like wild fire. 

There are only about a thousand people who participate in a poll, but there may be millions who hear about the results, and that's who they are worried about. 

It's not really a poll at all; rather, it is an exercise in propaganda and mind control.