US government. @ da time, JFK was going to spill the beans on a number of things including extra-terrestrials. Just a thought.
Why do discussions of UFO's always get lumped with JFK assassination conspiracies -- among other things?
Mafia....sponsored with the money of the exiled Cubans. The Mafia lost their gambling business in Cuba, so they were pissed. The CIA was supposed to help the Cubans oust Castro. The Mafia and the exiled Cubans collaborated. JFK was hated by the Cubans for failing to support the counter-revolutionaries at the Bay of Pigs. The CIA was also doing business with the Mafia in trying to assassinate Castro. Doubtful the CIA was directly involved in the assassination, but not unlikely some former or disgruntled CIA personnel were involved helping with the Mafia planning. Cuban money, Mafia planning. Lethal combo. Mafia was not too happy with Bobby Kennedy's way of running the Justice Department. Not to mention they wanted their casinos in Havana back. So they probably gave the Cubans a nice discount. Maybe even "comped" them. Choice number two....Oswald acted alone. LOL!!!! Reality; so many conspiracy theories. In Oliver Stone's movie, if JUST 1% was accurate, there had to be a conspiracy. While the movie did go overboard, there were a lot of mysterious facts. If it were one or ten, that would be one thing. But when you have hundreds of things that don't add up...... But the real proof is that Joe Pesci played David Ferrie. And Joe Pesci's bad guy characters are always guilty. Everyone knows that!!! Peace, RS
The most fascinating, compelling, and disturbing film ever made about the Kennedy assassination is not Oliver Stone's vastly overated mish-mash of a few facts and a boatload of fiction, "JFK", but instead a little known film called "Executive Action," starring Burt Lancaster and made in 1973. By the time this film is over, if you're not convinced--like virtually all respected commentators who once accepted the conclusions of the Warren Report and later rejected them--that at the very least Lee Harvey Oswald could not possibly have acted alone, then it's likely that absolutely nothing could convince you. If you're really interested in the subject, you really should rent this film; it is truly chilling. As to who actually participated in the assassination besides Oswald, don't forget the possible participation of some very wealthy Texas oilmen who were very upset at Kennedy's position on the elimination of the oil depletion allowance. Any one over the age of five at the time of the assassination remembers exactly where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot. Notwithstanding, when the redoubtable George Herbert Walker Bush, our former President and 39 years old at the time of the assassination, was asked where he was when he heard that Kennedy had been shot, he claimed that he couldn't remember. Interestingly enough, though, it is known that he was somewhere in Texas at the time. Food for thought... Happy trading. Adios, cwb1014
Dgabriel, you say it was not the Soviet KGB. I suggested it was. You're wrong; fact is you don't know. Kruschev was ousted well after Kennedy's assassination .. there were links to Russia with both Oswald and Ruby. Its an answer no one wants; you prove that much.
It might or might not have been the KGB, but I doubt that their motivation was as primitive and emotional as you suggest. Average morons think like that, not the KGB. That would be like suggesting that the CIA is going to kill some French guy now because the bad, bad French didn't condone the attack on Iraq. Average Americans would now lynch randomly selected Frenchmen, the CIA wouldn't.
JFK rattled the cage more than any other president I can remember except GWB. He stood up to entities like the Mafia, Soviets, some big business, Ben Gurion (who he persuaded not to enter the nuclear race), and segregationists. While he might have been disliked by 40% of the American people, a large number of both Americans and people around the globe LOVED him, for the symbolism he projected...we sure haven't had that since! ."Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" IMHO Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, his twised brain acting as a conduit to commit the crime so many wanted done. I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?" When after all It was you and me (who who, who who)
Lobster, I agree that the KGB were not morons. But their ruthlessness had no limits; they did kill national leaders .. Nagy of Hungary for example. They could also reason that you like most others would not believe they did it. They are the likeliest candidate and the links of Oswald and Ruby to Russia tell you the same thing. Kennedy was a very dangerous loose cannon on the world stage from the Soviet viewpoint aiming right at the heart and workings of the then Soviet worldwide communist empire and network.
A pretty good case was made against LBJ and other Texas power brokers on a show I watched a few nights ago. It was incredible that he was actually our president as he was no doubt behind other murders and was at least one of the sleaziest presidents we've had. Well, at least in the top five. Anyhow, the show sure made sense.