# H. L. Hunt Bankrolled JFK Assassination? Ever Heard of This? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356 "2010-09-02T07:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/21 "2010-09-06T00:49:56Z")
Ok, fine…I give up. I confess. I shot Kennedy. Planned the whole thing out, traveled to Texas and hid along the route and shot him with my big brother’s BB gun. Sure, you say, a likely story…how would a six-year-old girl do that on her own? well, you’ll have to wait for those details in my tell-all, blockbuster book, coming out this fall from Phantom Press. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/22 "2010-09-06T02:39:37Z")
I am Lee Harvey Spartacus! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/23 "2010-09-06T03:17:13Z")
Doesn’t make any sense that the CIA or the Pentagon would have killed Kennedy. Kennedy was a Cold War Hawk - he loved spies and special ops. And he was escalating the war in Vietnam just like the military wanted. No, whoever killed Kennedy had to be somebody who benefitted from his death. Somebody who Kennedy would serve better as a martyr than as a President. Somebody whose agenda had been closed out of the Kennedy White House and who’d be back in with the Johnson White House. Somebody who no one would suspect. And that’s why Martin Luther King killed John F Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/24 "2010-09-08T17:28:31Z")
> [@David\_Myers](#): > > I don’t know about bankrolling the assasination, but he was present, along with J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, LBJ, Dallas Mayor Cabell (who changed the motorcade route to drive right by the Texas book depository building - and the grassy knoll, and was brother to C.I.A. deputy director General Charles T. Cabell (who was fired by JFK for his role in the disasterous bay of pigs invasion of Cuba) , a high level CIA officer, Carlos Marchello (New Orleans mafia don), and quite a number of other texas oil “high rollers” at a meeting at Clint Murchison’s lodge, outside of Dallas, for both a party and, later, near the end of the party, a select meeting, including all of the above on November 21, 1963 (the night before the assassination). After the meeting, LBJ came out and whispered to his long time mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, “those son of a bitch Kennedys will never embarrass me again, after tomorrow.” Parts of her interview are available on YouTube, as well as the full interview, at this website: > > [LBJ Night Before JFK Assassination: "Those SOB's Will Never Embarrass Me Again"](http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15167) > > The conspiracy deniers have a multitude of excuses (that supposedly disprove every conspiracy claim) for every single piece of evidence in favor of a conspiracy, but that doesn’t mean the evidence is wrong. In fact, the accumulated evidence, for anyone wanting to study it in detail, is overwhelming. (see also, David Lifton’s book, “The Best Evidence” as well as an update on this line of evidence by Douglas P. Hornes, Cheif Analyst for Military Records, Assasination Records Review Board, in his seminal work, "Inside the Assasination Records Review Board (2009). Do a little digging and you will know there was a conspiracy involving most of the criminal vested interests that were in control of the US government in 1963 and continue to have vast illegal influence today. OK, here’s the question I ask of everyone who believes in an assasination conspiracy. It’s been 47 years since Kennedy was shot. In that 47 years, the following people and groups have been implicated as being behind the Kennedy assasination: The right wing, specifically the CIA The left wing, specifically Cuba or Castro sympathizers Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon The Mafia There are some other suspects, but these five cover the majority of the theories. You’ll note that some of these suspects are direct competitors of others. After 47 years of both legitimate researchers and dedicated crazies digging into the assasination, wouldn’t you expect there to be some evidence from somewhere that would begin to focus on one of the suspects and eliminate the others? I mean, it seems unlikely that the right wing would hire a left-winger like Oswald, but it seems equally unlikely that the Cubans would hire someone who could be traced back to them so easily, and yet be so unstable. And if the Mafia had the goods on JFK, why wouldn’t they just blackmail him and shoot RFK, who was the real source of irritation? \*\*Little Nemo’s \*\*explanation makes a lot more sense than most of the theories out there. You see where I’m going here? After all these years, with all sorts of people digging into more and more obscure files and less and less credible sources, there’s been no revelation that has been able to drive the search toward the true killer, and away from the red herrings. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I’m still waiting. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/25 "2010-09-08T17:51:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And that’s why Martin Luther King killed John F Kennedy. And when Bobby found out, he hired James Earl Ray for payback. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356/26 "2010-09-08T17:54:13Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > … > And that’s why Martin Luther King killed John F Kennedy. This is news to me. I mean, I knew he killed Gandhi, but Kennedy too? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-l-hunt-bankrolled-jfk-assassination-ever-heard-of-this/552356.md?page=1)