JFK wasn't kill at all, he faked it so he could live on some secluded island with james dean and marilyn monroe as his neighbours. Or so the stappler told me.
why was jfk assassinated?
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*Opens doors briefly*
Both of you, get in here now!
*Throws both in, closes all doors behind*
Pangur
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Think so and Elvis plays some music every second Saturday night, rides to work and back again on Shergar
JFK was assassinated because Oswald wanted to be important and he had failed to kill General Walker.
George Carty
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If assassination was that easy, why didn't the CIA manage to whack Fidel Castro?
Garrison
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Because the US is a democratic state with freedom of movement and fairly liberal gun laws and Cuba...isn't.
It's been mentioned in passing in other 'Kennedy Survives' threads but I don't think the scenario has ever been addressed directly.
Snake Featherston
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This the same CIA that didn't think the PRC was going to show up a second time in strength in 1950 after it had made it clear it was already there?
^This. What's hilarious is that the conspiracy nuts (of which I am occasionally one, admittedly) often don't realize the logical trap they're forced into by posing questions like "Well, don't you think governments ever lie?" while they themselves seemingly can't comprehend the idea of governments ever telling the truth.
The Osama bin Laden case last year is a good example. Before he was killed, the default conspiracist position was that he had died of kidney disease or gotten shanked by Omar Sheikh. Now that the government told us he's dead, he's suddenly alive and well and spending time at the aforementioned bar with Elvis, Morrison, and Kurt Cobain, presumably waxing cars for tips and probably doing something totally non-terrorism-related, given how innocent he was and all.
The Osama bin Laden case last year is a good example. Before he was killed, the default conspiracist position was that he had died of kidney disease or gotten shanked by Omar Sheikh. Now that the government told us he's dead, he's suddenly alive and well and spending time at the aforementioned bar with Elvis, Morrison, and Kurt Cobain, presumably waxing cars for tips and probably doing something non-terrorism-related, given how innocent he was and all.
I don't know about this. Isn't the default position still to say he had been dead for a while and that the strike against his compound was merely to cover that up - to "kill his ghost after it had outlived its usefullness" and that is why his body was so nebulously disposed of?
There are many kinds of people who believe in conspiracy theories, but I understand the more sane kind are usually pretty consistent in their views - it comes with the territory of arranging various bits of information to fit with your theory/world view, rather than the other way around.
The easist way to take a castle is have the defenders open the door for you. And to all military members of the board, thanks for serving the country!
Anyway, JFK angered a lot of people. There were military commanders angry about his decisions in Cuba, the Mob had problems with many in the Kennedy family for various reasons, the Cubans had their reasons, the oil industry had a lot to profit off of a war that JFK seemed as though he wanted to avoid, etc. So there are a lot of potential players and reasons for him to be loathed. As for whether there was a conspiracy, I'm not sure how it would change things now, but if there is more than meets the eye on this I'm not sure I would want to know about it.
Just asking why Kennedy was whacked isn't a conspiracy in of itself. It's also a good question. Since the assassin was whacked himself, we'll never know a good answer.
The good, and certainly correct, answer is already known. People just don't want to hear it.
A pro communist whackadoo with serious emotiona lproblems was willing to die to get his name i nthe history books for killing and AMerican PResident, full stop.