November 21, 2013 – My dad was a claims adjuster.

Thirty years ago, I began my insurance career as claims adjuster.

My wife, too, was a claims adjuster.  We met at work.

One of my brothers was a claims adjuster.

So was his godfather.

All told, my family and our assorted godparents can lay claim (pun intended) to about 150 years of adjusting and insurance experience.

So when, while reading an article entitled “One JFK conspiracy theory that could be true,” I learned that one of the world’s preeminent Kennedy assassination researchers is a retired claims adjuster, I knew this was a guy whose opinion I was going to value.

Dave Perry doesn’t so much set out to prove conspiracy theories as he does to rule out why they can’t be true using simple, good old-fashioned fact verification techniques.

Not unlike a claims adjuster who uncovers an original receipt for an item on a theft inventory for which the insured estimated a different figure, he values only the verifiable.

The world will likely never be satisfied with the Warren Commission report or any of the subsequent theories of “Who Really Killed JFK?”

But with a professionally trained insurance adjuster looking into things, we can at least take comfort in knowing every possible (dare I say, Oliver) Stone is being unturned.