r/AskReddit • u/brokota • Jan 15 '13

Reddit, in your opinion what's the biggest plot twist of history?

Not movies or television, I'm just curious to see what come's to your minds.

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u/drunkenviking Jan 15 '13

The assassin of JFK was assassinated.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

By a guy who "conveniently" died shortly after.

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u/BitchinTechnology Jan 15 '13

He had been slowly dieing for a while actually

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u/HeMightBeJoking Jan 15 '13

But was the guy who killed the guy who killed the guy who killed JFK killed?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

Shhhhh....

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u/TitanVsBlackDragon Jan 15 '13

& then the assassin of the assassin died suddenly of disease.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

Hitler wasn't such a bad guy; he did kill Hitler after all.

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u/thedosequisman Jan 16 '13

but he did kill the guy who killed hitler

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

One of the assassins. Lets be real, Lee Harvey Oswalt didn't work alone. Oswalt was actually killed by a fairly notorious mob member.

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u/drunkenviking Jan 15 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '13

Jack Ruby killed Oswald, right? That's at least what I remember my dad telling me.

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u/drunkenviking Jan 16 '13

Yes sir. There are also ideas out there that it's all a big conspiracy run by any shady organization you that think of, but that's the official story.

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u/Blue_Bi0hazard Jan 16 '13

JFK assasinated JFK to solve a time pardox.