The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy?

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The JFK Assassination Conspiracy?
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Just the facts

• On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy and
  Jacqueline Kennedy traveled to Dallas, Texas, to
  mend political fences with members of the states
  political party.
• After landing at Love Field, the President and
  Mrs. Kennedy traveled with Texas Governor John
  Connelly and his wife.

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Dallas

• Threats had been made toward Kennedy, but they
  were considered no more serious than those
  received previously. The Presidential party
  travelled through the streets of Dallas in a
  parade type fashion.

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Parade route
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Assassination

• Just before 1230 p.m. CST, Kennedys limousine
  entered Dealey Plaza and slowly approached the
  Texas School Book Depository head-on. Nellie
  Connally, then the First Lady of Texas, turned
  around to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her and
  commented, Mr. President, you cant say Dallas
  doesnt love you, which President Kennedy
  acknowledged.
• When the Presidential limousine turned and passed
  the Depository and continued down Elm Street,
  shots were fired at Kennedy the great majority
  of witnesses recalled hearing three shots. There
  was hardly any reaction in the crowd to the first
  shot, many later saying they thought they had
  heard a firecracker or the exhaust backfire of a
  vehicle. President Kennedy and Texas Governor
  John Connally, sitting beside his wife in front
  of the Kennedys in the limousine, both turned
  abruptly from looking to their left to looking to
  their right. Connally immediately recognized the
  sound of a high powered rifle. Oh, no, no, no,
  he said as he turned further right, and then
  started to turn left, attempting to see President
  Kennedy behind him.

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• According to the Warren Commission and the House
  Select Committee on Assassinations as President
  Kennedy waved to the crowds on his right, a shot
  entered his upper back, penetrated his neck, and
  exited his throat. He raised his clenched fists
  up to his neck and leaned forward and to his
  left, as Mrs. Kennedy put her arms around him in
  concern. Governor Connally also reacted, as the
  same bullet penetrated his back, chest, right
  wrist, and left thigh. He yelled, My God, they
  are going to kill us all!

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• The final shot took place when the Presidential
  limousine was passing in front of the John Neely
  Bryan north pergola concrete structure. As the
  shot was heard, a fist-sized hole exploded out
  from the right side of Kennedys head, covering
  the interior of the car and the a nearby
  motorcycle officer with blood and brain tissue.
• Secret Service agent Clint Hill was riding on the
  left front running board of the car immediately
  behind the Presidential limousine. Sometime after
  the shot that hit the president in the back, Hill
  jumped off and ran to overtake the limousine.
  After the president had been hot in the head,
  Mrs. Kennedy climbed onto the rear of the
  limousine, though she later had no recollection.
  Hill believed she was reaching for something,
  perhaps a piece of the presidents skull. He
  jumped onto the back of the limousine, pushed
  Mrs. Kennedy back into her seat, and clung to the
  car as it exited Dealey Plaza and sped to
  Parkland Memorial Hospital.

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Arrest

• After the shooting, investigations in near by
  buildings uncovered a rifle and three bullet
  shells on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book
  Depository.
• Lee Harvey Oswald would soon be arrested at a
  movie theater. His palm print was on the rifle,
  he worked in that building and on that floor. He
  was at work earlier that day.

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Oswald is shot

• A trial never occurred and Oswald never admitted
  an wrong doing. But, after saying he was a
  patsy he was to be moved to a new jail. On the
  way, he was shot and killed by a nightclub owner,
  Jack Ruby.

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Ruby
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The Warren Commission and the Zapruder Film

• Questions about the assassination persisted and
  as a result, the new president Johnson put
  together a team to investigate the assassination.
  They quickly researched the assassination and
  concluded that Oswald was a lone assassin. He
  shot three times from the Texas School Book
  Depository from the 6th floor from an area known
  as the snipers nest. It included an unusual
  theory known as the single bullet theory.
• The discovery of a film on the assassination
  became the basis of many questions and years of
  controversy. The Zapruder Film.

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Who did it? Conspiracy theoriesCuban Communist

• Players? Castro pro-Castro agents in the US
  posing as anti-Castroites Soviet-trained Cuban
  sharpshooters
• Why? JFK embarrassed Castro big time in the Cuban
  Missile Crisis
• Oswald? Pinko Castro sympathisizer opposed to
  JFKs Cuba policy silenced by one time Castro
  gunrunner Jack Ruby
• Cover-up? Full disclosure would have resulted in
  a full US response against Cuba leading to WWIII
• Sources Red Friday by Carlos Bringuler

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Cuban Anti-Communists

• Players? Exiled anti-Castro activists Eladio Del
  Valled and Sergie Arcacha Smith US henchmen
  David Ferrie, Guy Bannister, and Clay Shaw CIA
  babysitter Maurice Bishop mercenary snipers from
  Alpha 66 guerilla group the umbrella man
• Why? JFK withheld air support in the Bay of Pigs
  invasion.
• Oswald? Never shot anybody-set up. Silenced by
  Ruby
• Cover-up? Exposure would have risked disclosure
  of intimate US ties with anti-Castro operations
  including assassination plots.
• Sources Coincidence or Conspiracy? Bernard
  Fensterwald, Jr. On the Trail of the Assassins
  Jim Garrison Legacy of Doubt Pet Noyes

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Military Industrial Complex

• Players? Pentagon hard-liners, arms
  manufacturers, oil producers, Lyndon Johnson and
  White House Hawks right-wing Secret Service
  agents who stripped the Dallas motorcade of
  normal security who helped alter the evidence.
• Oswald? Set up in the plot unknowingly
• Cover up? Was basically a government
  overthrow-Coup de te
• Sources JFK and Vietnam John Newman Crossfire
  Jim Marrs The Secret Team Fletcher Prouty Best
  Evidence David Lifton JFK movie

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Renegade CIA Clique

• Players? Chief CIA hard-liner James Angleton
  fired Bay of Pigs architect Gen. Charles Cabelli
  dark-ops master William Harvey Dallas Mayor
  Earle Cabell (who rerouted the motorcade as a
  favor to his brother) professional European
  assassins OAS terrorists Jean Sourctre the
  three tramps
• Why? After the Bay of Pigs, JFK began carrying
  out his vow to splinter the CIA into a thousand
  pieces and scatter it to the wind.
• Oswald? Recruited by the CIA while serving at U-2
  bases in Japan sent to the USSR as a defector
  and brought home along with look-a-like Saul was
  to escape and go to Mexico but JD Tippet got in
  his way silenced by Ruby
• Cover up? Warren Commission member Allen Dulles
  had been fired by JFK
• Sources Plausible Denial Mark Lane Appointment
  in Dallas Hugh C McDonald Conspiracy Anthony
  Summers Reasonable Doubt Henry Hurt

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Organized Crime

• Players? New Orleans-Dallas boss Carlos Marcello
  Miami boss Santo Trafficante Chicago boss Sam
  Giancana Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa Meyer
  Lansky Johnny Roselli Marcello family
  retainers Bannister, Shaw and Ferrie Eugene
  Hale, whom Dallas police picked up in Dealey
  Plaza
• Why? To get back into the Havana casino action
  to get Bobby Kennedy off Hoffas back to get
  back at the Kennedys for Bobbys anti-mob
  vendetta-the mob had helped with Chicago mayor
  Richard Daley steal the 1960 election
• Oswald? Fingered as the fall guy by Marcellos
  New Orleans flunky Ferrie silenced by
  debt-ridden Mafia underling Ruby.
• Cover up? Through JFKs alliance with Giancanas
  mole Judy Erner and Peter Lawfords the Rat Pack
  in Vegas JFKs father was a bootlegger in the 30s
  and the mob knew about the Kennedy familys
  skeletons
• Sources The Plot to Kill the President G. Robert
  Blakey and Richard w. Billings

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Right Wing Extremists

• Players? Oilman HL Hunt Alliances of wealthy US
  defense security agents Cuban exiles Perminder
  Corp
• Why? Considered JFK soft on communism, hated
  JFKs foreign, domestic and economic policies
  didnt like Bobby either
• Oswald? Perfect fall guy JD Tippet failed to
  silence Oswald, Ruby a devotee of Hunt finished
  the job
• Cover up? Right-wing clout in the FBI, CIA and US
  military helped change evidence
• Sources Nomenclature of an Assassination Cubal
  William Torbitt The Men Behind the Guns WR
  Morris Spy Saga Philip Melanson

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Soviet Commies

• Players Khrushchev KGB chair Andropov Marina
  Oswald leftist guerrillas Alek Hidell
• Why? JFK out bluffed the Russians at the Cuban
  Missile Crisis
• Oswald? Marxist and Soviet agent Oswald had
  assisted in bringing down Gary Powers Marina was
  an assigned wife slain by low-level KGB agent
  Ruby
• Cover up? Warren Commission didnt want to stir
  up anti-Soviet opinion that would fuel impeach
  Warren rightists, elect Goldwater and thus risk
  WWIII
• Source The Oswald File Michael Eddowes

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The FBI

• Players J. Edgar Hoover former FBI officials
  FBI sharpshooters
• Why? JFK was threatening to force the aging
  longtime director into retirement and to bring
  the agency under control
• Oswald? Former Marxist ideologue-defector was
  turned when he came back to the US set up by
  being told he was spying on the real assassins
  slain by fellow FBI asset Ruby
• Cover-up? The Warren Commission relied
  exclusively on the FBI for its investigations and
  received only what Hoover wanted to receive
• Sources The Assassination Tapes George OToole
  Act of Treason Mark North

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The Mastermind

• Players Howard Hughes Mr. X CIA Mafia
  anti-Castro Cubans right-wing paramilitarists
• Why? Elimination of wealth, independent Kennedy
  discredit to liberals elevation of LBJ election
  of puppet Nixon
• Oswald? Sold his services to the highest bidder
  was suppose to die in the Texas Theater while
  resisting arrest Hughes hired Ruby to knock
  him off
• Cover up? Not even the Warren Commission could be
  sure of what Hughes owned, or whom
• Sources The Assassination Chain Sybil Leek, Bert
  R. Sugar