Hi
Are there likely to be any more government commissions on the kennedy assassination? If so, what would likely prompt them? I look forward to your feedback.
I’ve been reading
“But did McCone come close to perjury all those decades ago? Did the onetime Washington outsider in fact hide agency secrets that might still rewrite the history of the assassination? Even the CIA is now willing to raise these questions. Half a century after JFK’s death, in a once-secret report written in 2013 by the CIA’s top in-house historian and quietly declassified last fall, the spy agency acknowledges what others were convinced of long ago: that McCone and other senior CIA officials were “complicit” in keeping “incendiary” information from the Warren Commission.”
Interview with Oswald’s older brother
FINDINGS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY IN DALLAS, TEX., NOVEMBER 22,
Well, I suppose if they can continue to investigate Benghazi, then they could reopen the case. But since there hasn’t been the slightest bit of evidence to contradict what’s already known, it’d just be a waste of time.
I recently read Gus Russo’s Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder, which agrees with some of your posts. Russo claims that the assassination of Kennedy was a conspiracy – but a pretty low-key one – the Cuban intelligence services gave Oswald encouragement and some money (but nothing else, apparently; they were supposed to help him get away, it claims, but that was botched), but Oswald killed Kennedy on his own (no second gunman). It was in retaliation for the attempts by the CIA under Kennedy’s attempting to assassinate Castro.
Afterwards, there was another conspiracy within the US government to avoid implicating Cuba (or Russia). After the Cuban Missile Crisis no one wanted to play brinksmanship and again raise the spectre of nuclear war, so the Warren Commission quickly came to its conclusions and didn’t raise the connections they could have about Oswald’s connections with Cuba. This was supposed to quiet things down, but instead gave fuel for years of conspiracy theories.
It’s not the conspiracy theory most people into this sort of thing were looking for. Ruby wasn’t involved, according to Russo, nor the mob. A lot of things, he claims, were coincidence. Russo relies upon the testimony of two anonymous figures who had access to Russian and Cuban inside information, and whom he can’t name. This is more than a little convenient and annoying.
Thanks for the insight! I wouldn’t have seen the link between the 1963 Kennedy assassination and Republican Congress 2015. Is there no end to their nefarious time traveling power! And to think that some believe this site leans left!!!
My question to you. Why wouldn’t the case be closed? What hasn’t been reviewed to your satisfaction?
Yawn. So the LHO we already know and love, the guy who was walking the streets waving FREE CUBA banners in the weeks before the assassination, might have have some contacts with Cubanos who supported his efforts with little more than some money and a vague escape plan, which LHO did not appear to try to use.
It’s mildly interesting in trying to figure out the void that is Oswald’s exact motivations, but in the end, even having the CIA do a bit of godlike misdirection (to keep the investigation from sprawling out of control) doesn’t change anything about the rest of the case, which is indeed closed, and justifiably so. Bits of gravel like this will still be coming into the picture for a hundred years, literally.
At this point, while technology to investigate may continue to improve, the evidence becomes more and more faded, more and more of the witnesses are dead, and so on. So, even if some of the original conclusions were wrong, it’s incredibly unlikely that there will ever be solid evidence worthy of consideration.
For that matter, who cares? If other people besides LHO committed the murder, they got away with it as they are most likely dead now. The whole point of investigating crimes is supposed to be to punish the guilty and deter others from committing the same crime. Horse is out of the barn by now - if there were other guilty individuals, they got away with it, and other would be assassins are not deterred.
Even that strains credibility. How was Oswald supposed to come near Kennedy? It was just a coincidence that Kennedy would be coming to Dallas, and be having a motorcade right in front of the building where Oswald was working. If all that hadn’t happened, I can’t see that Oswald would have ever had the opportunity to act.
So there *couldn’t *have been a grand conspiracy, where someone convinced Oswald to do it or paid him, because it was just luck that led to Oswald being in the right place at the right time.
Of course, a big enough conspiracy would have had dozens of other people also with their rifles in Dallas that day, and those people just all got away with it.
It’s hard to imagine a small conspiracy killing Kennedy.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Oswald had been part of some conspiracy supported by the Cuban government. The assassination was thoroughly investigated after it happened; the investigators would have found the evidence of Cuban involvement. And, as has been noted, the Cuban government wouldn’t have had the resources to influence factors like Kennedy going to Dallas and choosing the route he’d travel on.
So the assassination was either what it appeared to be; a random confluence of events that put one individual in a situation where he had the opportunity to shoot the President. Or it was a massive conspiracy that involved thousands of people, inside and outside of the government, who would have needed to plan out all these events beforehand and then worked on concealing all of the evidence of their planning after the fact.
And if you accept the possibility that such a huge conspiracy existed, you then face the question of why there was an assassination. If all of these people, including law enforcement, presidential security, the military, and the White House staff, wanted to kill the President, they would have had much better opportunities to act. Why choose Oswald and engineer a public assassination in front of hundreds of witnesses? Why not just kill Kennedy in the middle of the night while he was sleeping in the White House and make it look like he died of natural causes? It would a lot easier to cover up a murder like that.
It’s not at all hard to imagine LHO had contact with some subversive group - Soviet, Cuban, maybe even Da Mob - who on some low level was giving him money and encouragement. Such a “support group” would go a long ways towards explaining his peculiar behavior, in a time when it was much more extreme to be an extremist.
But “imagine” is the key word. If no hard evidence has turned up of LHO meeting with figures from such groups, or money passing to him, or anyone else involved ever leaving so much as a deathbed confession… we’re not likely to ever hear of it.
Nor does it matter much. Oswald acted alone in the end, and was bent to act that way most of his adult life. He was the lucky winner of the Being in the Right Place at the Right Time with the Right Twisted Mindset award… it could have been any of dozens or hundreds or thousands of others, in Dallas or another place. It would be interesting to know more about the exact thinking and mentality that put him in that position, but in the end… it doesn’t matter.
Case closed, as some semi-expert in this field once said.
The theory doesn’t make sense. Oswald began work at the Texas School Book Depository on Oct 16, 1963 (cite). The route of the motorcade wasn’t published until November 19, 1963 (cite). How would the Cubans know to recruit him before then?
And Oswald already had the rifle he used to shoot Kennedy (and the pistol with which he shot Tippitt) in March 1963 (cite). He tried to shoot Walker in April. He seemed to be up to no good long before anyone had any idea he would get a chance to kill Kennedy.
He might have been half-smart enough to stash it under a phony name that never came to light. Or in a hollow tree. But this is all literally sheerest speculation about something with no real basis and on the flop side of Occam’s Razor.
Any hypothetical individuals involved are probably dead by now, but many institutions most certainly aren’t. If – and I’m saying this just for the sake of argument – there were any government agencies involved, then exposing them now would I think create punishment for the agency and deter similar agencies in the future.
More importantly, it would give society information that would be helpful in preventing future crimes.
Again, I’m not saying that in this case there’s enough evidence of anyone else being involved to make it worthwhile digging any more; I’m saying that even if all individuals involved are dead, there still can be value in knowing what really happened.
Maybe I’m not cynical enough but I think some people keep digging into the JFK conspiracy because the official explanation* is just so…boring. It’s kind of like walking through a field and casually looking for a four-leaf clover; you probably won’t find one but wouldn’t it be cool if you did?
In case I’m not clear, I fully support the official explanation of Oswald being a lone whacko.
This makes sense. Look, it’s pretty obvious Oswald was the sole assassin. But why, and did he have support are questions which are usually lost in the farrago of nonsense about the Grassy Knoll, etc.
What new information is likely to be produced? Do you really think that the government has evidence that Cuban agents (or mobsters or Diem loyalists or KGB agents or Texas millionaires or homosexual thrill seekers) were involved in the assassination of an American President and then decided to just classify that information for fifty years? If there was any evidence implicating anyone other than Oswald, the government would have released it long ago.
And if you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes the government itself was behind the assassination, then why would you think they would have written everything down and put it in a file cabinet?