[jordan8]

It is worth remembering that the motivation of those who first pushed these ridiculous theories, like Mark Lane and Sylvia Meagher, was essentially crypto-communism, America’s really an illegitimate closet fascist dictatorship, etc. And it is remarkable how successful they’ve been in turning an assassination by a communist into an assassination by anti-communists. The conspiracy theory that at first blush would seem to make most sense (and the one that the Warren commission really wanted to avoid), that Cuba, Russia, or domestic communists were involved, is the one that never gets pushed by the buffs.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Good point.

I continue to believe that the Soviet regime was behind Kennedy's murder. The early sixties (the period of Fail-Safe and Seven Days in May) was the only time in the Cold War that a president's murder could actually have helped the Communist cause; in fact, the Soviet leaders had reason to hope that it would plunge America into civil war. The weakness of the plan, as always, was the human factor. If the MVD or GRU had found an assassin with conservative credentials, they would have been home free; but evidently they couldn't. They had to settle for the defector Oswald, who was at least a white American.

I recall (does anybody else?) that Earl Warren actually said that there were things about the case that might not be revealed in our lifetime. Why not, unless for fear that the revelation would bring on World War III?