his niece said she does not know if lee harvey oswald acted alone in the killing. that s just the kind of speculation that has kept conspiracy theorists busy for a half century. senior political analyst brit hume has some thoughts on all this tonight. good evening, brit. hi, bret. when the night club owner jack ruby shot accused kennedy assassin lee harvey oswald to death in a dallas police department hallway he ended more than oswald s life. he ended any chance that the case that oswald had killed kennedy and done so alone would ever be tested in a court of law. the blue ribbon commission led by then chief justice earl warren has proved a poor substitute. reams of material pointing in a multitude of directions have given rise to a welter of alternate theories of the kennedy murder. some say the cia was behind it. some say lyndon johnson was. others say the mob did it. my personal favorite is the one propounded by a british writer who continued in a book called the oswald files that
soviet agent pas oswald. he claimed that huddle, not oswald is buried in os wald s grave. eventually a judge actually ordered the body dug up. it was, and it was oswald s. but the conspiracy theorists have succeeded in sowing enough doubt that only about 30% of americans believe oswald killed kennedy, acting alone. if this proves anything it is the wisdom of trying facts under the strict rules of evidence applied in our courts, unlike the wild and wide open world of public opinion, whereas the kennedy case illustrates, there is such a thing as too much evidence. bret? what do you think attracts people to the conspiracy theories, in these big cases? i ve always thought that it was the idea that someone so significant, lee harvey oswald in the kennedy case, james earl ray in the king case, someone so insignificant could take down someone so large. it offends, i think, a person s sense of proportions. and to such an extent that people think, that couldn t be