Recently the House Oversight and Government Reform committee's task force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing on the JFK files. It included the deeply weird claim by one member of the panel, testifying that the man arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy “might have fired a gun” that day in Dallas, but was absolutely “not the intellectual author” of the murder.

After plenty of thinking, I must admit: I have no idea what that means either.

I am not alone. JFK anti-conspiracy nation was appalled.

“My expectations were low going in and it was still worse than I expected,” said Gerald Posner in an interview. Posner is the author of “Case Closed,” the bestselling book on the assassination. The one that lays out the-beyond-convincing case that Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested 80 minutes after the assassination — after murdering a Dallas police officer — is irrefutably much more than just “the intellectual author” of the assassination.

He is the lone shooter of the president, proven by the evidence, melded with a solid understanding of his biography, confirmed by multiple investigations as well as by decades of hard work by individual researchers unimpressed by tales of invisible additional shooters; or of somehow popular explanations such as that either of two Secret Service agents in the motorcade shot JFK. (Really. This scenario is huge on social media.)

The reason the Oswald-is-guilty case was not made at the........

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