Someone would have squealed by now.
They did Bobby too.
Our government isn't competent enough to pull it off.
I think, between Posner and Bugliosi, this question has been answered, hasn’t it?
Someone would have squealed by now.
Exactly, that many people couldn't keep a secret for this long.
Here’s one who seems to have talked:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt/print
My father was an expert on the assassination. I grew up with the Warren Report strewn on our kitchen table. He covered Ruby’s trial for the Saturday Evening Post and was working on a book about Ruby when he died. He interviewed every single player...and his conclusion was the same as yours: Too many people would have had to keep quiet..and that’s just not human nature.
No, it was the Mafia. Payback for Bobby K’s going after them when they had helped Kennedy go after Castro. Same for Bobby’s death.
Some did squeal and they are dismissed as nuts.
I remember those days. I remember the talk that LBJ was out in 1964. I remember the investigations of Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, et al -- including organized crime and murders -- and I ask, who had the most to lose BIG time if JFK was re-elected?
I did not source this but I swear I remember talk that the Kennedy's had taken note of LBJ's shenanigans and LBJ would not be on the ticket in 1964. Meanwhile the federal investigations continued and they had "legs" in the MSM world.
Call me a nut.. please! but I believe LBJ was definitely involved if not the actual leader. The involvement of the Vice President, CIA personnel, et al in no way besmirches the office of the VP or the CIA itself, these were individuals.
See also Barr McClellan.
Because to a True Believer, no amount of evidence will ever be enough.
Tactically your conclusion is absurd. Many techniques for effectively enforcing silence are well understood. The only real variables here are scale, both in numbers of people and numbers of years. But with enough motivation, money and power, it certainly could be accomplished.
So the real subject of examination should be for any evidence of the existence of enough motivation to pursue such a huge suppressive effort. Of course, this is precisely the subject which is never examined, in the name of world-weary "common sense" (one of the most effective suppression tactics of all).
But if it were to be explored, I think the fact that there were so many different parties that wanted Kennedy killed is very interesting. It brings to mind the plot of the 1974 movie "Murder on the Orient Express (Sean Connery, lots of stars and lots of fun - check it out and ponder it's ending).
By definition, a conspiracy would need to involve a minimum of two people. I do believe that more than two people were involved in the planning that led up to the killing of JFK, but I don't believe this conspiracy involved hundreds or even thousands of people.
“Someone would have squealed by now. “
Or some have? There was a guy (now dead i think) who worked for the cia who said he was one of the 3 tramps arrested on site. He said all tramps were cia backup for the operation, and gave names. Photo comparison of the extant tramps photo(s) and the names given (including himself) was interesting.
I’m not sure about that.
Deep Throat at Watergate stayed quiet over 30 years with far less implications.
E Howard Hunt and Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante and Cuban 2506 Brigade type mercs never seem the type to me who would rat or needed to vent to get stuff off their chest.
Kennedy ...like someone else who comes to mind....made a lot of enemies quick.