[morby]

It’s an amazing bit of history. Leaders of major powers have regularly been assassinated in history. Here the leader of a globally hegemonic nation was assassinated on camera.

[neom]

Google tells me the number of leaders/former leaders assassinations in recent history that have been caught on camera is indeed very low.

Kennedy, Gaddafi, Shinzo Abe, Benazir Bhutto, Yitzhak Rabin, Rajiv Gandhi, Anwar Sadat.

[mongol]

So Kennedy was the first one even

[toyg]

There are more, if you include the failed assassinations. Reagan, Pope JPII...

[gordian-not]

Rabin assassination has a pretty weird conspiracy theory though

[PrimeMcFly]

> It’s an amazing bit of history.

Sure, it's the obsessing over conspiracy theories that I don't get. There's no way to verify the various speculations, so what's the point?

[diogenes4]

There's no way (for most of us with finite resources) to verify the vast majority of history, even recent history, even history that happened today. To me this is like saying "who cares what may or may not have happened in the past".

This particular conspiracy theory is interesting because the assumed enemy here—the Soviet Union—was ostensibly (and seeming authentically) unhappy to see this happen. So who wanted JFK dead and why?

[JPws_Prntr_Fngr]

Fair enough, as long as you leave the thinking and decision-making to people who have even a modicum of historical curiosity.