After reading of the recent death of comic and conspiracist author Richard Belzer (Sun Journal, Feb. 20), I did a little digging to find out what his take was on the Kennedy assassination.

I found all I cared to read in an article he wrote for HuffPost (Aug. 13, 2007), a progressivist website.

In it, he accused the late, great prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi of having “triumphantly declared” that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin in his book “Reclaiming History,” a massive, unequaled examination of the event that Belzer ridiculously dismissed as “defaming” history.

But Bugliosi had good reason to speak triumphantly of a book he spent fully 20 years writing; whereas in his article on the assassination, Belzer’s own triumphalism barks.  Bugliosi, at least, didn’t feel the need to resort to making assertions, all in caps, accompanied by quadruple exclamation points. Belzer did, as witness this statement (absent his caps), repeated twice:

“It was physically impossible for Oswald to have shot President Kennedy!!!!”

Nonsense; there’s plenty of evidence he did. In the nearly 60 years since that event, conspiracists have been unable to believably identify a single person involved in a conspiracy to murder Kennedy.  They’re long on speculation, but evidence eludes them.

One very telling thing that demonstrates Oswald acted alone is his movements between the assassination and his arrest: He was a pitifully helpless fugitive police discovered in the darkness of a movie theater 80 minutes after committing the crime of the century.

William LaRochelle, Lewiston