I have researched the JFK assassination countless times in the past and have become exhausted with its maddening research. It gets to the point where every theory concerning it seems plausible. I can believe that both Oswald acted alone and that he did not act alone at the same time. So...I decided to get back into the research when a magazine was released about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination telling about Roger Stone's new book placing the blame on LBJ. Hmmm...I have heard that theory before. And it seems to make sense that LBJ could have been behind it. But it also makes sense the mob was behind it, and that Castro was behind it...and this one and that one. Gee, no wonder it gets so exhausting. Even if the truth came out (if the truth deviates from the Warren Commission on Oswald acting alone) then we will probably have trouble believing that that is exactly the truth. So...I decided to go back to square one today. I picked up an old book on my book shelf entitled The Death of a President by William Manchester published in 1967 based on the most intense and vastly accurate research he could seemingly get. It was a bestseller in its day and can still be bought. Manchester is of the belief that Oswald acted alone. But...there has been a lot of research conducted since 1967. And if the Kennedy assassination wasn't a conspiracy, then isn't this strange from our own government:
United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA): The HSCA was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA. The House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1979, a single Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that there was a “probable conspiracy,” though it was unable to determine the nature of that conspiracy or its other participants (besides Oswald). This finding was based in part on acoustics evidence from a tape purported to record the shots, but was also based on other evidence including an investigation of Ruby’s mafia connections and potential CIA and/or FBI connections to Oswald. To this day, many conspiracy deniers are unaware that the Congressional investigation into JFK’s assassination concluded beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was a conspiracy. What made them come to this conclusion? Aside from reading the report, many witnesses (some of whom were CIA agents and station chiefs in Dallas that morning) were killed the night before testifying. For example, George de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He also worked for the CIA. He also blew his brains out the night before he was to testify to the committee. The committee also uncovered, among many things, that Oswald left the marines where he learned how to speak fluent Russian (at the height of the cold war). He was given money by the State Department to travel to Russia where he stopped off in Japan at a top secret US Military facility. The Warren Commission even mentioned this part. What most people do not know is that he probably was working in the Cold War infiltrating the Russians as either a “dangle,” “double agent,” or “defector” of some kind. What is interesting is that upon his return he got more money from the State Department to buy a house and work with an ex FBI Chief and CIA officials in training anti-Castro Cubans for an invasion. In Louisiana, where he was working, the CIA was involved in Operation Mongoose, Where Oswald worked under CIA Agent David Ferrie, who killed himself before testifying in a trial on the Assassination as well. Operation Mongoose worked closely with Southern Mafia figures largely because the casinos in Cuba, which were shut down after Fidel obtained control over the country, were epicenters for control on the island. The CIA even hired the mafia to assassinate Fidel on many occasions, 3 attempts which failed are common knowledge. What is funny is that figures who worked very close with Oswald either ended up dead (over 100 of them connected to the assassination died within a few years of unusual circumstances) or they ended up in other conspiracies.
For instance, E Howard Hunt (CIA Agent) confessed to being involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy on his deathbed. E Howard Hunt was one of the Watergate Burglars. Barry Seal, who worked with Oswald and Ferrie ended up being one of the largest cocaine smugglers in the United States during Iran Contra, as a key player for the agency and informant for the DEA. There is so much more to get into, but there just isn’t enough time. Oswald’s tax returns are still classified top secret to this day. Why? Perhaps he was still getting $$ from the United States, which places him on the payroll. That money trail leads to figures, many of whom were murdered, that would have blown the story wide open. For 14 years, most didn’t know this. The HSCA investigaitons by congress went against the findings of the Warren Commission and both reports are from the same source, Congressional Committees. Which is true? Why do we only teach one to our children in school?
December 30, 1978 Report on HSCA Findings
Conspiracies do happen. And Lincoln's assassination was part of a conspiracy. So it's not out of the question that Kennedy was assassinated as part of a conspiracy. But I am not going to state my conclusion until I have sifted through my latest research on Kennedy. But although there were people who wanted Kennedy out of the way, would they kill him?
If Lincoln was a conspiracy, and there are theories that Kennedy was a conspiracy, then what about the other two presidential assassinations? McKinley? I don't know, I haven't done much research on that one. How about Garfield? Hmmmmmm.
James Garfield's assassination (which was unknowingly helped along by ill-trained doctors who infected the president) was committed by Charles Guiteau who was known to be a "mad" man who had stalked Garfield. After shooting the president, he declared that the Stalwarts (a faction of the Republican Party that Garfield was not a part of) were in power now---"Arthur is president now" (Vice President Chester Arthur was a Stalwart). And, after becoming the president, many of Garfield's cabinet members resigned and Arthur replaced most of them with Stalwarts. Interesting...Garfield was a "half-breed" Republican (moderate Republican) while Arthur was a Stalwart (political machine type Republican). The two groups of Republicans didn't like one another. So essentially, the President and Vice President belonged to two different groups of Republicans who were political enemies. A conspiracy theory could be made that Arthur arranged to have Garfield assassinated in order to put Stalwarts in power. But have you ever seen a conspiracy theory on that? Probably not, because Guiteau was thought of as mad anyway, and therefore he acted alone. Or did he? Personally, I don't believe Arthur had Garfield killed, but I am surprised that there haven't been theories abounding on this.
But with Kennedy...there are all kinds of conspiracy theories. Why? Why not let it drop? For one thing, it is like a game of Clue of whodunnit. And it can be fun to try to come to reasonable conclusions on this case---because so many of the theories make sense. So many had motives. There are a lot of unanswered questions and seemingly contradictory elements to it like autopsy photos that don't match doctors' descriptions of the autopsy. And it's challenging and interesting to try to think of complicated plots to how this could have been pulled off. And the house committee in the '70s even leaned toward a conspiracy versus the Warren Report findings. And in the '60s, there was a lot of mistrust. And as the decade wore on, and into the '70s, many people mistrusted the government more and more. So it was easy to believe a conspiracy or two. And you know what, many former conspiracy theories have been proven true---around the world both recently and in centuries past. Although Oswald may indeed have acted alone, it wouldn't be far-fetched if it were actually a conspiracy involving top names surrounding Kennedy.
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08 Jun 2013, 5:54 pm
