My signature (before it got removed) used to include "The truth can oft be more misleading..." (not as if you care).
You do realize JFK got shot in the head 2 weeks after giving that speech, right? Wait; nvm. 2 years. Didn't even check my facts.
Thank you God, I finally get to reply to a JFK conspiracy idiot.
TD, I've read ALL the JFK theories, and I believe
none of them. IMOHO,
The Purge: Election Year is a more realistic political story than the nonsense folks spout, which is full of conflicting theories so diverse they could fill the Library of Alexandra.
What was or is the truth? It depends greatly on who you ask.
Some believe that the CIA was behind it. They were very angry at Kennedy over the whole mess with the Bay of Pigs. A name that comes up often with them in regards to this is David Sánchez Morales, a CIA agent who had lost several friends and colleges in the failed invasion.
Some suspect the Mafia. Attorney General Robert Kennedy had introduced many strict reforms against organized crime, and it stood to reason that killing his brother – the President – would be a subtle message for him to yield. Not to mention that the mob had lost a lot of business in Cuba when Castro took over, and might have blamed Kennedy for that.
One powerful figure in organized crime mentioned more than others was Sam Giancana who may have had a lot of reasons for wanting Kennedy dead. There were allegations by the Republican Party that he rigged the Illinois elections so that Kennedy would win, and some believed he was upset now because of the tougher reforms (of course, even if Illinois' Electoral Votes had not gone to Kennedy, he still would have won), OR that Kennedy had stolen his girlfriend, OR that Giancana was involved in some plot to assassinate Castro… Again, it varies depending on who the speaker is.
Then there was the theory that filmmaker Oliver Stone used, that the military-industrial complex was behind it, fearing the President would abandon South Vietnam to the communists, hurting their business. (You can blame the Red Scare on this. People those days saw a communist behind every tree, it seemed.)
Other popular theories to suspected masterminds: The KGB, who wanted revenge for being humiliated after the Cuban Missile crisis; Lyndon B. Johnson, who some thought feared would be dropped from the ticket in Kennedy's reelection; the Federal Reserve, who thought Executive Order 1110 was the beginning of a push to abolish them; the Cuban Exile community, who felt Kennedy had betrayed them at the Bay of Pigs (starting to see a trend here?); and on the flip side to that, Fidel Castro, who sought retaliation for constant attempts on his life.
There was even one theory that Oswald did act alone, but Kennedy was not his target. According to this one, his true intended victim was Texas Governor John Connally (who was also in the car). Why? Well, Connally was then Secretary of the Navy, and some felt that Oswald may have held him responsible for his undesirable discharge from the Marines. Oswald's widow staunchly believed this one.
Some of the crazier theorists believe Haitian dictator (and our
very reluctant ally at the time) François Duvalier, who claimed he had put a voodoo curse on Kennedy. (Guys like Duvalier should logically act as a lesson and prevent nations from trusting or tolerating insane leaders, but it seems nobody does.)
Most theories include Jack Ruby, the vigilante who killed Oswald. They claim that he was "in on it", and had killed Oswald to silence him. Ruby was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but died in prison – from lung cancer, the coroner's report said – while his sentence was on appeal.
When you look at all these theories as a whole, you realize they can't ALL be right. The more you group them all together, the more absurd the overall idea becomes. They conflict and contradict each other in several areas. They only agree on one thing: The Warren Report is a sham, and the government was lying. This in turn, is rooted in the fact that some guys can't trust authority and love to challenge it. Regardless of the potential consequences.
No one ever considers that Lee Harvey Oswald - like those guys who love to challenge authority - was just a deranged loner who wanted to be a white supremacist hero. Which is most likely the case. And look where it got him.