I know the moonbats think it's because Amerikka is run by a fascist business-mafia-racist alliance, and that they killed JFK because he was good. "They killed him because he was good" is the theme of most conspiracy literature.
But this makes no sense, on many levels. Many, many people, some of them important, must have been involved. It's been more than 40 years. For certain, the combination of a guilty conscience and the ability to profit would have turned up the story by now.
But what if the conspirators thought not that they did something bad (killing someone because he was good), but that they did something good?
Suppose that Richard Helms and J. Edgar Hoover (for example) came upon solid evidence of a sexual liason with a Soviet agent? In 1962-3, this would have led to impeachment, and a public Senate trial.
Suppose they went to the family, and said, "You can have a dead hero instead of a disgraced ex-President", and suppose Bobby agreed?
THIS would provide motivation for the conspirators to do the deed and keep silent. It would also explain the otherwise hard-to-understand indifference of the brothers to investigation, and would explain why Bobby apparently helped destroy critical evidence.
It seems to me that a key, really the only key issue left, is, "why do the conspirators keep silence now?"
Although I think this is an important part of the story, I wanted to limit the focus to just HOW JOHN CONNALLY was shot. Once that is credible to you, then the question; there had to be a conspiracy not only with multiple shooters, WHO had the power to pull this off?
There is ONLY one reasonable answer to that, and it's the President, Lyndon Johnson. You may remember after Lyndon became President, he made J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director for LIFE! Quite a payoff, woundn't you say, for someone who was going to be put out to pasture IF JFK would have been re-elected.
Now, WHY are they quiet? IF you are familiar with Billy Sol Estes, then you know he has written about this very topic. Mac Wallace, a killer with ties to LBJ, talks freely about it BUT the mainstream press ignores Estes. WHY? He's a criminal, so his word is not to be trusted.
If you want to know more, it's out there. For instance, Estes said Clark Clifford (LBJ aide, and I hope I am remembering his name correctly?) went to Estes just days before he died and told Estes about MORE killings than just JFK, LBJ's sister and boyfried, agricultural agent Henry Marshall (who shot himself FIVE TIMES with a bolt action rifle which was ruled a suicide in Texas, no evidence taken). Lyndon Johnson was about to go to jail for various crimes including murder. WIth JFK's death, he became President instead.
People talked, people died. The television show GUILTY MEN did a decent presentation but was removed from the air.