[swilhelm73]

It seems to me the fact that Kennedy had Diem assassinated, or at least ok'ed, the assassination is on very firm factual grounds.

I know baby boomer Dems all believe that JFK was going to bail on Vietnam, but if anything he was likely to have escalated faster then Johnson did.

I don't really buy any of the conspiracy theories floated...the truth would be too explosive to stay hidden for long...but the idea that the CIA/military did it is just so beyond the pale.

If Oswald didn't kill JFK, you are left with only two possibilies with *any* possible credence - the Cubans or the Mob...

[justshutupandtakeit]

The available evidence indicates that JFK and RFK put a stop to the attempts on Castro as soon as it came to their knowledge. Not only were these attempts initiated before they took office but their attempts to stop them were ignored by William Harvey, the CIA man in charge. Harvey even kept his boss, the new director, McCone, in the dark about these attempts and the CIA/Mafia linkages.

Some of these operatives acted as though they were a law onto themselves and answerable to no one. They are the ones who assembled the Mafia team for the Castro hit and it was from that team that the killers of JFK were to come. However, I believe that the mob would have never allowed this to happen had it not been sure that a coverup would keep the truth from coming out. Otherwise the revelation that the Mafia had killed the President of the United States would have meant a full scale all out attack by the US upon it. One that would have been even worse than what it was undergoing at the hands of RFK which was already massive in scale.

[MHT]

Cubans or the Mob---or Johnson.......After all, the man was above nothing and rumors were fierce that he was going to be dropped from the '64 ticket.

[PhilDragoo]

It seems to me the fact that Kennedy had Diem assassinated, or at least ok'ed, the assassination is on very firm factual grounds.

E. Howard Hunt forged a cable.

[185JHP]

A book was written in the 70s (fiction) about Viet participation in the JFK hit. It was titled "The Tears of Autumn." A well-written book.

[Austin Willard Wright]

If every shooter who was allegedly on the grassy knoll was actually there, the resulting carnage would have made D-day look like a cake walk by comparison.