sa One of "Vic's Greatest Hits" - find more on Jerry and Tom, and the other two shows from Working It Out, here.

"Grassy knoll. {...} Dallas, November 1963, he was there." 

Okay, so here's the big on. The really big one (as Tom says, after all, these are "two huge little words" we're talking about. Forget Lee Harvey Oswald; it was Vic who did JFK. Is that so hard to believe? Plenty of people have suggested that there was more to the case than has ever been admitted. Plnety of people have claimed that a second shooter was involved. And plenty of people have suggested that the mob or even the CIA had a hand in plotting the assassination.

All right, all right. Let's step back and review the presumed facts. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was campaigning in Dalls, driving through the city in an open limousine while exuding the infamous Kennedy charm. At 12:30 pm, while passing through Dealey Plaza, Kennedy was shot twice (a third bullet missed its target). Half an hour later, Kennedy died. The assassination was pinned on  Lee Harvey Oswald, who apparently fired at Kennedy from the Texas Book Depository. Shortly thereafter, before Oswald could be thoroughly questioned and anything determined, Oswald was shot and killed by the mob-affiliated Jack Ruby.

Beyond that, the details begin to blur and the questions to clamor. That Oswald acted alone seemed unbelievable to many. That only one assassin was put up to the task seemed strange; why not have on-site backup? Perhaps there was some other, some second figure lurking in the grass knoll near the Book Depository. Many witnesses did claim to have seen a man scrable away after firing from the knoll (carrying a suspicious-looking object), or to have heard the shot from his rifle. Though they have no evidence save a story, they remain adamant in their assertions.

And surely, many have asserted, there must have been some greated motivation behind the assassination, some larger force that had perhaps prompted Oswald's action. It was thought that too many people, too many organizations held grudges against the President for Oswald's action to have been entirely random. Some have suggested that the CIA had reasons for wishing JFK away. Others have mentioned the mob, prompted in part by Jack Ruby's mob ties, and certainly by records of JFK's own connections to the Mafia. Indeed, it seems that mobsters helped to secure necessary votes during JFK's presidential campaign. Once in office, JFK turned his back on the mob and joined his brother, Robert, in a sweeping effort to wipe out crime and take down the Mafia. None too pleased with this (or with Kennedy's failure to assassinate Fidel Castro), the mob certainly had its reasons for ordering a hit on Kennedy.

But maybe there was another reason, altogether.