why was jfk assassinated?

JoeinOhio

Look at Who Benefitted....

When a spouse is a homicide victim, law enforcement always takes a close look at the other spouse because he or she usually benefits financially by inheriting the entire estate and receiving the life insurance proceeds. Plus, the surviving spouse may have one or more potential motives for the murder...infidelity, abuse, unhappy in the marriage, etc. So, who really benefitted from the JFK assassination?

The most obvious beneficiary in November 1963 was LBJ who succeeded immediately to the presidency. LBJ was unhappy and insecure in his position as vice-president. In late 1963, LBJ's protege, Bobby Baker, was being investigated by Congress for corruption matters involving LBJ that could have caused JFK to drop him from the 1964 Democratic ticket. The investigation was halted after LBJ became president. The assassination also took place in Texas, which was LBJ's political base and a place where he retained plenty of political influence.

The Mafia benefitted from the JFK assassination, because Attorney General Bobby Kennedy made it a top federal priority to vigorously pursue and prosecute organized crime, whereas FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had not given it such priority under previous administrations. The Mafia reportedly felt it had been double-crossed by the Kennedys after allegedly helping JFK win in Illiniois and Nevada during the 1960 election and, further, by allegedly providing the Kennedys with large amounts of untraceable cash as "hush money" to pay off former JFK lovers. LBJ and Bobby Kennedy hated one another, so the assassination of JFK led to the inevitable resignation of AG Bobby Kennedy in 1964. Jack Ruby, a mobster and strip club owner in Dallas, killed Lee Harvey Oswald in an obvious and sucessful effort to silence Oswald. (RICO legislation targeting the Mafia, which was drafted by G. Robert Blakely--a veteran of Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department and a Notre Dame Law Professor--was not enacted by Congress until late in 1970.)

Fidel Castro benefitted from the JFK assassination, because the Kennedy Administration was trying to have Castro assassinated (via Operation Mongoose) in the aftermath of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion--the Kennedy Administration's most obvious foreign policy blunder and blemish on the Kennedy record.

The CIA benefitted from the JFK assassination, because they had borne the blame for the failed Bay of Pigs operation and were being pushed by the Kennedy Administration to carry out unrealistic efforts to assassinate Castro. In the broader military and intelligence establishment, there was disagreement with JFK's policies and "soft" handling of the communist bloc---especially with respect to the Soviet Union, Cuba, Laos and elsewhere in Asia.

J. Edgar Hoover benefitted from the JFK assassination because he did not get along with the Kennedy brothers (Hoover disapproved of JFK's womanizing) and feared being forced to retire as FBI Director. After JFK won a second term in 1964, he would have less reason to fear being blackmailled by Hoover. LBJ and Nixon let Hoover remain on as FBI Director well passed the mandatory retirement age. Hoover eventually died in that position.
 
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Cook

Cook

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JoeinOhio said:
When a spouse is a homicide victim, law enfrocement always takes a close look at the other spouse because he or she usually benefits financially...Plus, the surviving spouse may have one or potential motives for the killing...infidelity, abuse, unhappy in the marriage, etc.
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Ah Hah! So it was Jackie all along!
 

SergeantHeretic

Emperor Norton I said:
  • Oswald grew up a lonely child with an uncaring mother who told him he was a burden.
  • Oswald was mentally unstable with an inferiority complex and a need to be important.
  • This lead to him becoming a fervent Communist to become different and stand out, and hence be special.
  • This also lead him to form the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" so he could stand out against trend and especially conflict with anti-Castro Cuban exiles who would argue with him.
  • Oswald's support for Cuba lead him to dislike Kennedy, who had attempted to oust Castro. Kennedy also represented the United States society and its government as he was President.
  • Oswald was also a violent man due to his being a sad, lonely man as previously stated, and he beat his wife. He also attempted to kill General Edwin Walker, and was thinking of shooting former VP Richard Nixon when he visited Dallas once, partially from that violent nature, and partially because he wanted to do something to stand out in history to be special, and to be a warrior for his cause.
  • Oswald shot Kennedy because of those mental issues and his need to be special, his violent nature, and his want to be a hero for Communism and to go down in history.
Had Oswald lived, he would have continued lying and saying he didn't do it, would have made the trial a soap box for himself and his ideology, saying he was only being targeted because he was a Communist and so on. And because he was lying, he would have been convicted, and either executed or rotting in prison today.
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The above gives the motive, the means and thr opprotunity for the true murderer of President John Fitzgerald Kenneny.

He was bat$#!% insane and willing to trade his life for JFK's. that is why the President was murdered.
 

Garrison

Donor
JoeinOhio said:
When a spouse is a homicide victim, law enfrocement always takes a close look at the other spouse because he or she usually benefits financiallyby inhereiting the entire estate and receiving the life insurance proceeds. Plus, the surviving spouse may have one or potential motives for the killing...infidelity, abuse, unhappy in the marriage, etc.

Looking at the JFK assassination, the most obvious beneficiary in November 1963 was LBJ who succeeded immediately to the presidency. LBJ was unhappy and insecure in his position as vice-president. In late 1963, LBJ's protege, Bobby Baker, was being investigated by Congress for corruption matters involving LBJ that could have caused JFK to drop him from the 1964 Democratic ticket. The investigation was halted after LBJ became president. The assassination took place in Texas, which was LBJ's political base and a place where he retained plenty of political influence.

The Mafia benefitted from the JFK assassination, because Attorney General Bobby Kennedy made it a top federal priority to vigorously pursue and prosecute organized crime, whereas FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had not given it such priority under previous administrations. The Mafia reportedly felt it had been double-crossed by the Kennedys after allegedly helping JFK win in Illiniois and Nevada during the 1960 election and, further, by allegedly providing the Kennedys with large amounts of untraceable cash. LBJ and Bobby Kennedy hated one another, so the assassination of JFK led to the inevitable resignation of AG Bobby Kennedy in 1964. Jack Ruby, a mobster and strip club owner in Dallas, had killed Lee harvey Oswald in an obvious and sucessful effort to silence Oswald. (RICO legislation targeting the Mafia, which was drafted by G. Robert Blakely--a veteran of Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department and a Notre Dame Law Professor--was not enacted by Congress until late in 1970.)

Fidel Castro benefitted from the JFK assassination, because the Kennedy Administration was trying to have Castro assassinated (via Operation Mongoose)in the aftermath of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion--the Kennedy Administration's most obvious foreign policy blunder and blemish on the Kennedy record.

The CIA benefitted from the JFK assassination, because they had borne the blame for the failed Bay of Pigs operation and were being pushed by the Kennedy Administration to carry out unrealistic efforts to assassinate Castro. In the broader military and intelligence establishment, there was disagreement with JFK's policies and handling of the communist bloc---especially towards the Soviet Union, Cuba, Laos and elsewhere in Asia.
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But of course all of the above ignores the question that should cross the minds of any wannabe conspirators at some point; what if we get caught? There is not one of these groups for whom that risk brings any reward that would be worth it. I suppose though you could argue such conspirators would be too arrogant of their own abilities to seriously consider the possibility.
 
metastasis_d

metastasis_d

Emperor Norton I said:
He also attempted to kill General Edwin Walker, and was thinking of shooting former VP Richard Nixon when he visited Dallas once, partially from that violent nature, and partially because he wanted to do something to stand out in history to be special, and to be a warrior for his cause.
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It's funny how often people who try to convince me about their JFK conspiracy theory don't know about this incident.

I usually catch them by asking them if they "heard this conspiracy theory" or if they did research themselves. If they assert the latter, I ask them what they think about General Walker. If their response is "Who?" (and it always has been in my experience) I stop listening to them.
 

SergeantHeretic

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metastasis_d

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SergeantHeretic

kfol14, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assasinated, because a sad, mad deeply disturbed man named Lee Harvey Oswald was so desperate for reccognition and percieved importance that he was willing to trade his life for that of the President's.

Once a man makes that desciesion there is no way to stop him, not in effective terms.

Oswald was an angry frustrated man with a lot of emotional problems and he had a history of violence and assasination attemps, one against AIr FOrce General Edwinn Walker and once planned against former VIce Presidenr RIchard Nixon.

The man was a loser and he wanted desperatly to get into the history books.

Well, in the end he got his wish, but not the way he wanted.

He is remembered as a violent emotionally disturbed loser and one of the most reviled figures in our history.
 

Paul V McNutt

Banned
There is no evidence of a conspiracy. All the evidence points to Oswald doing it on his own. Oswald was a sick man who was angry at the world. That is why he killed two people: the president and the Dallas police officer.
 

JoeinOhio

Emperor Norton I said:
  • Oswald grew up a lonely child with an uncaring mother who told him he was a burden.
  • Oswald was mentally unstable with an inferiority complex and a need to be important.
  • This lead to him becoming a fervent Communist to become different and stand out, and hence be special.
  • This also lead him to form the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" so he could stand out against trend and especially conflict with anti-Castro Cuban exiles who would argue with him.
  • Oswald's support for Cuba lead him to dislike Kennedy, who had attempted to oust Castro. Kennedy also represented the United States society and its government as he was President.
  • Oswald was also a violent man due to his being a sad, lonely man as previously stated, and he beat his wife. He also attempted to kill General Edwin Walker, and was thinking of shooting former VP Richard Nixon when he visited Dallas once, partially from that violent nature, and partially because he wanted to do something to stand out in history to be special, and to be a warrior for his cause.
  • Oswald shot Kennedy because of those mental issues and his need to be special, his violent nature, and his want to be a hero for Communism and to go down in history.
Had Oswald lived, he would have continued lying and saying he didn't do it, would have made the trial a soap box for himself and his ideology, saying he was only being targeted because he was a Communist and so on. And because he was lying, he would have been convicted, and either executed or rotting in prison today.
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The only problem I have with the "Oswald did it alone" conclusion by the Warren Commission is Oswald's own assassination by mobster Jack Ruby a few days later. The conclusion that the mob killed Oswald to silence him, and that the mob had some role in the JFK assassination, is unavoidable.
 
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