JEK was assassinated because J. Edgar Hoover did not want JFK and his brother RFK to go after the mob. Hoover feared the mob would try to blackmail him with their knowledge of his transsexual activities. When Hoover tried to blackmail JFK because of his flings with women, it backfired. RFK was prepared to fire Hoover when the assassination plot was hatched. Also, Hoover hated the Kennedys because of Kennedy patriarch, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr’s ties to the mob. Bottom line, it was Hoover who conspired with power hungry LBJ to launch the assassination.
This battle between Hoover and the President have significance today with Comey.
You know the whole “transvestite” thing was Soviet disinformation, right? Not to mention, use your head, I’m doubtful the mob would be that stupid to try and kill the President in the middle of a really bad time like, I don’t know, escalating hostilities between the Soviets and the Americans, as well as the all-too-real possibility of nuclear war (especially when the Communists most likely would have them shot as Capitalists). Not to mention, if they didn’t dare try to have FDR assassinated for practically destroying their primary source of income by repealing the 18th amendment, it’s extremely unlikely they would have tried to risk killing JFK while he was still in office. Now, maybe if he was out of office, they could try to lay a finger on him. And do I REALLY need to point out that Hoover was as anti-communist as they come? I’m really doubtful he’d willingly work with a known communist like LHO to kill JFK (especially not after the two worked together alongside McCarthy to take down several communists in government or die trying).
And while I am all too aware of just how much of a monster LBJ was, I’m extremely doubtful that even HE would have risked committing nuclear war just to get an easy way into the presidency (for goodness sakes, he refused to give sensible strategies of actually confronting the North Vietnamese because he was too scared of repeating what happened in China during the Korean War). Besides, the concept of the president having a line of succession in the event of being killed prematurely was not implemented into the constitution until AFTER JFK’s assassination, anyway.