[Elliott Jackalope]

I have a theory about Castro that I'd like to share with all of you. Simply put, I believe that Castro was involved with the assassination of JFK. The "coverup" that resulted in the wake of JFK's death was because of the fact that our intelligence community quickly figured out that Cubans were involved in the hit, as proxies for the Soviets. I'm guessing this was all sorted out within 48 hours of JFK's death.

The big question at that time was: What do we do about this? What do we tell the American people and the rest of the world? Remember, this was not long after the whole "missile crisis". The world was on a nuclear hair trigger. Did we want to risk the possibility of global thermonuclear war, or were we going to go with the "lone nut" explanation, and then quietly go about hitting the bastards back where it hurts?

There is a reason that we have normalized relations with China and Vietnam, and not with Cuba. It is because China and Vietnam do not have the blood of an American president on their hands. America will normalize relationships with Cuba within a month after Castro dies, IMHO.

[Ciexyz]

I remember the days immediately following JFK's assassination. People were wondering even then, did Castro do it. My Dad was convinced that the US government was covering it up, because if the truth was known, then every patriotic man in America would be at the recruiting office demanding that we go to war against Cuba.