My guess is it was a contract killing paid for by LBJ.
I said then and I still feel somewhat the same way now that if this had been an ordinary murder that the focus would have been on the person with the most to gain, and who would that have left?
I was 23 years old at the time, in the USAF and fresh off the anxious days of the Cuban Missile Crisis where, from my standpoint at Tyndall AFB in Florida I watched as we went to 24 hour alert with enough firepower to reduce the whole island to a skim of cenospheres all the way back to the U.S.S.R. until all the “agricultural equipment” was unloaded and de-aimed to be shipped back where it came from.
There was an ineffable charm and an attraction to JFK never equaled since, the sort of thing that one can never put his finger on and cloaks him in comfort and lingering dread at its passing.
Two full generations have come and gone and a third is underway, made up of those who still look back over their shoulders thinking a rose had been clipped just before it reached full bloom.
Perhaps that explains why now we so eagerly seem to embrace the poisonous weeds.