Cindy Adams (New book links Nixon to JFK murder)

New York Post ^ | July 10, 2006 | Cindy Adams

[tlb]

"Tricky Dick, The Mob, and the Assassination of JFK: The Case Against Richard Nixon." Supposedly it spotlights RMN's "intimate longstanding ties with the mob and JFK's assassination."

It contends:

* Kennedy was a mob hit designed to stop his war on organized crime.

* Due to Mafia connections, Nixon knew a rubout was in the works.

* The CIA concealed the crime to keep secret the fact that it - and Nixon as Eisenhower's VP - had worked with the Mafia in attempts to eliminate Castro.

* Nixon used his inside information to try to blackmail the Agency into derailing an FBI probe of White House involvement in the Watergate break-in.

* The then-president was personally linked to Dallas mobster Jack Ruby, who shot alleged Kennedy killer Lee Harvey Oswald.

Via recently declassified documents and tapes, plus fresh interviews, the author says that on an Oval Office tape, Nixon called 1963's Warren Commission Report "the greatest hoax ever perpetuated"

The History Channel has expressed interest in optioning the story.

[tlb]

As opposed to the recordings of LBJ's oval office phone call commenting how Castro got JFK before JFK got Castro. Nonetheless the History Channel loves this sort of thing.

[PAR35]

Where was Nixon the day before the Kennedy shooting?

I'd actually put Nixon pretty far down on the list of suspects.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Who cares?

[Rte66]

Really. Har de har har. RMN with mafia friends. ROTFLMAO. Oh, wait, I forgot about Bebe Rebozo. Yeah, right.

[Jameison]

"Assassination of JFK: The Case Against Richard Nixon"

There's no case against Nixon. Period.
Why doesn't this fool write a book about the arch criminal Joseph Kennedy (JFK's papa), and his long and very strong connections with the mafia, including running bootlegging with the mafia, during prohibition, and JFK stiffing mafia boss Sam Giancana, after Giancana had helped steal the presidential elections for JFK in Chicago?

[JohnLongIsland]

Bush did it when he was in his teens.

[Mad Dawg]

Okay, here's a pre-coffee and therefore pre-awakening of the conscience/super-ego thought:

Which threatens the nation more, the assasination of a president or the kind of attack on the legitimacy and credibility of elections carried out by the libbies?

When Kennedy was shot, LBJ became president. Yeah bad stuff happened as a result, but the fundamental soundness of the system seemed to survive. But when Democrats, unlike Nixon in 1960, question the legitimacy of two elections, 2000 and 2004, then they seem to think they are justified in doing anything whatsoever, lie, cheat, betray, to undermine Dubya and his legitimate goals.