The Kennedy's: A very Political Family.

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The Kennedy's A very Political Family.
LR Robert (Bobby) Kennedy younger brother
John Joseph P. Kennedy father. The Kennedy
Family were driven by political ambition. To
understand John Kennedys personality and his
policies one has to consider his family
background, particularly the influence of his
grandfather, John F. Honey Fitz Fitzgerald and
his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. The path to John
Kennedys election success in 1960 was achieved
not just by charm and political skill but by
some controversial wheeling and dealing with
criminal organisations.
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JFK A Kennedy Dynasty?
Bobby, Teddy and Jack in 1960. Did far-right
conservatives not only fear that Jack would be
re-elected in 1964 but that Bobby would serve two
terms after him and Teddy two more, leading
effectively to a Kennedy lock on power in the USA.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis

of 1962,
had brought the
world to the edge of nuclear annihilation.
JFK Conspiracy Theories - The CIA?
Many on the Far-right felt that Kennedy was not
doing enough to eliminate the threat posed by
Cuba.
They held Kennedy responsible for the failure of
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. The US
had helped exiled-Cubans, based in Florida,
launch this coup against Castro, the Communist
Cuban leader. It turned into a disaster as the
invaders never got off the beaches.
Fidel Castro
Many exiled Cubans and American extreme
right-wingers never forgave Kennedy for
withdrawing US air support, part of the original
plan. They looked on Kennedy as being soft on
Communism.
The CIA had been responsible for planning the
invasion. As a result the head of the CIA, Allen
V. Dulles, was forced to humiliatingly step down.
Had Kennedy created a powerful enemy in Dulles?
Allan V.Dulles
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JFK The CIA and the Cuban Obsession.
Project 'ZR/RIFLE'
In 1959, on the orders of
Allan Dulles, the CIA had
set up secret camps in the Florida Keys to train
special assassination squads to kill foreign
leaders. The project was
led by William Harvey. Harvey was to use any
means to achieve his ends,
building links between the CIA and
criminal groups such as the Mafia, the French
Connection, Sicilians and others.
William Harvey
One such group was led by Gerald Patrick Hemming,
who had taken part in Operation Mongoose, the
attempt to assassinate Castro. After the failure
of the Bay of Pigs invasion, could rogue elements
in the CIA units have considered assassinating
President Kennedy?
Gerald Patrick Hemming
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JFK Conspiracy Theories - The Extreme Right
.......
Rabid anti-communist and racist, billionaire
Texas oilman, H.L.Hunt, was a major contributor
to extreme right-wing organisations, a friend and
supporter of Lyndon Johnson, and closely
associated with J.Edgar Hoover. The night before
Ruby shot Oswald, Hunt ordered his security man
to check out the security of Oswald in custody.
His man went to the jail and reported back that
there was no security at all. Ruby had visited
Hunts offices the same day.
Howard L.Hunt
... And the Military-Industrial Complex?
Many US Army leaders held Kennedy in contempt,
partly over the failure at the Bay of Pigs but
also with the stand-off over the Cuban Missile
Crisis. They were also aware that Kennedy was
thinking of reversing his policy over Vietnam and
withdrawing all US personnel.They felt he was
going soft on Communism. Also military
industrialists, who stood to gain billions of
dollars with new orders for weapons, were opposed
to any reduction in rivalries with the Communist
world.
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JFK Conspirators? Hoover and the FBI?
John and Bobby Kennedy with J.Edgar Hoover in the
centre.
J.Edgar Hoover was the FBIs Federal Bureau of
Investigations, charged with internal security
first ever director, being appointed in 1924. He
was due for retirement in 1961 but very much
wanted to continue in office. He knew a lot about
the corrupt practices that had helped bring
Kennedy to power in 1960 but never acted upon
this. Why? The day after Kennedys election
victory Hoover was reappointed FBI Director. Was
a deal done? Both Kennedy and Hoover knew much
about each others personal lives. Hoover was kept
informed of Kennedys womanizing and John was
aware of Hoovers bizarre practices.
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Rivals within the Party?
Jack Ruby wrote a letter to a friend in which he
wrote They alone planned the killing. By that I
mean Johnson and others Did LBJ have a motive
to kill Kennedy?
Johnson and Kennedy
LBJ had little certainly had little respect for
Kennedy, referring to him a scrawny man with a
bad back, a weak and indecisive politician, a
nice guy, a gentleman, but not a mans
man. Johnson had at first rejected Kennedys
offer of the vice presidency but eventually
accepted the position. Johnson told friends that
one president in four dies in office. Im a
gambling man. Was Johnson ruthless enough for
power to help eliminate a sitting President of
the USA?
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JFK Who wanted Kennedy dead?
His Private Life - mistresses and mobsters.
Were his activities becoming a security threat?
The image of the presidential couple projected to
the world, was one of a happy contented couple
who complemented one another perfectly. They were
both young, intelligent, charming and attractive,
and both were adoring parents to their children.
How true was this image? Did Kennedys behaviour
begin to threaten the security of the Presidencygt

Mr and Mrs President the perfect couple?
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Conspiracy Theories The Secret Service?
Secret Service agents (L-R) Clint Hill, Roy
Kellerman, and William Greer.
On the day of Kennedys assassination, many
standard procedures usually followed by the
Secret Serviceto ensure the Presidents safety
were not followed. Was this just inefficiency or
was it deliberate? Had Kennedys personal
behaviour, with his womanizingways and with his
links to the Mafia, made him a security threat?
Did some in the Secret Service feel that feel
that it might be better for Kennedy to be
eliminated?
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Was JFK sharing mistresses with mobsters?
Sam Giancana
Johnny Roselli
Alicia Darr - Smith
Sam Giancana and Phyllis McGuire.
The Girl Who Spilled the Beans - Judith Exnor
Campbell
Ellen Rometetsch
Durie Malcolm
Marilyn Monroe?
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SAM GIANCANA Helped Kennedy win elections in
Chicago and West Virginia. He played a role in
several attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Did the Mob want Kennedy dead?
Giancana later felt betrayed when the Kennedys
turned the full power of the Justice Department
against him and organised crime. He was murdered
a few days before he was scheduled to appear
before the House Select Committee on
Assassinations. It is uncertain whether Giancana
was murdered by the Mafia or the CIA.
JUDITH CAMPBELL EXNOR In her book and a national
television appearance, Exnor made sensational
revelations about President Kennedy.
JIMMY HOFFA Teamsters president who had close
ties with the Mafia. Hoffa may have been the
first to get the idea of assassinating Robert
She revealed that she was Kennedys mistress for
2.5 years (beginning March 1960) and also served
as liaison and courier between the president and
mobster Sam Giancana. She also has stated that
she had a brief affair with Giancana after her
relationship with Kennedy ended Exner has also
revealed the end to her affair with President
Kennedy that she became pregnant by him and,
with his knowledge, had an abortion.
Kennedy, later to develop into assassinating JFK.
Hoffa reportedly put up the money first to
finance the JFK assassination.
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CARLOS MARCELLO Mafia chieftain in New
Orleans, was illegally deported to Guatemala by
Kennedy. In 1963, before the assassination,
Marcello uttered his famous death threat about
John Kennedy.
Did the Mob want Kennedy Dead 2?
Marcello ran a multi-billion-dollar crime empire
out of New Orleans. David Ferrie and Oswalds
uncle worked for him. Marcello was involved with
the CIA in the attempt to assassinate Fidel
Castro. He was a rabid anti-Communist and
right-winger.
JOHNNY ROSSELLI Close subordinate of Sam
Giancana. Rosselli operated out of Las Vegas and
Los Angeles.
SANTO TRAFFICANTE, Jr.
Mafia chieftain in Florida. Traffi-cante was
reported to have made a death-bed confession to
his
He was a Mafia hit man who
rose to the top. He told columnist Jack Anderson
that Ruby was one of our boys who was ordered
to kill Oswald. (Rosselli was the Mafia man
assigned to the CIA operations to assassinate
Fidel Castro. Shortly after he testified to the
Church Committee, Rosselli was chopped into
pieces and stuffed in an oil drum in the late
summer of 1976.
Attorney, Frank Ragano. He said, Marcello f.d
up. We should not have killed Giovanni ie.,
John, in Italian. We should have killed Bobby
instead.
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The Death of Marilyn Monroe - Was it
suicide or Murder?
And did the Kennedy's have a part in it?