John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK)

Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). He was the 35th President of the United States of America. Kennedy was born on 29 May 1917, and assassinated on 22 November 1963.

In my humble opinion the United States went downhill after President Kennedy was killed, and this decline continues to this day. I think the assassination of Kennedy was a coup in the true sense of that word, ie the sudden and illegal use of violence by a small organized group to remove a head of state and change the course of the governance of a country without reference to its citizens. When I say that Kennedy's assassination was a coup you will recognize that I do not hold with the 'official' theory that a lone gunman murdered the President.

Who do I think was responsible for Kennedy's assassination, and for the coup? All I am going to reveal in this post is that I believe  one of the following motives was behind the assassination, and you already know that it is not the first one:

1. The individual motives of a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. (In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy).
2. The Mafia motive, because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's attacks on organized crime.
3. The Cuban Exiles and the C.I.A. motive, because of President Kennedy's failure to support the Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
4. The Secret Service cover up motive, because secret service agent George Hickey allegedly accidently shot the President.
5. The Military-Industrial-Complex motive, because of President Kennedy's support for the 1963 Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
6. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Military-Industrial-Complex motive, because of President Kennedy's plan to withdraw from Vietnam before the end of 1965.
7. The Vice Presidential motive, because President Kennedy was going to drop Vice President Lyndon B Johnson from the Presidential election ticket in 1964.
8. The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit motive, because the secret agency (successor to the IPU) that was aware of the recovery of alien spacecraft in the late 1940s and of alien technology, wanted to prevent President Kennedy's access to and probable publication of UFO files following Kennedy's request for these files on 12 November 1963.
9. The International Bankers motive, because of President Kennedy's monetary policies and his efforts to transfer power from the Federal Reserve to the US Department of the Treasury.
10. The Secret Service cover up motive version #2, because the presidential limousine driver, secret service agent William Greer, allegedly shot the President.
11. The Cuban Government motive, in retaliation for attempts by the C.I.A. to assassinate Fidel Castro.
12. The Israeli Mossad motive, because President Kennedy planned to prevent Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.
13. The Texas Oil Men motive, because President Kennedy was considering removal of the oil-depletion allowance.
14. The Texas Rascist Billionaires motive, because of President Kennedy's active civil rights policies.
15. The Soviet KGB motive, because the Kremlin had targeted a number of international leaders for assassination, and the Soviet union had been maneouvered into backing down during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
16. The New Orleans Right Wing Extremists motive, because of President Kennedy's attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam (investigated by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1966).

President Kennedy was a great orator. He was a far better orator than the current sham President Obama, who does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as President Kennedy. My favourite five quotes from JFK are:

1. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable".
2. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on".
3. "Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought".
4. "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. we all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal".
5. "Geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder".

I wonder how different the world would be today if President Kennedy had not been assassinated in 1963.

Comments

[Paul]

I may reveal more ... but I wanted some guesses first!

[Thygocanberra]

"all I am going to reveal ..."

Paul the gnostic? >:-o

[Thygocanberra]

Was this particular Kennedy part of the beginning of the end for the Catholic Church in the USA, and by influence elsewhere?

[Paul]

Correct, I do not accept 1 or 15. Lee Harvey Oswald was a classic 'patsy'. Who played him, that is the question.

[Thygocanberra]

There was a show on TV recently which concluded that all 3 shots could have come from the book depositry because of trajectory and mapping different home movie shots.

I think sometimes shit happens. Who put Lee Harvey Oswald up to it? We will probably never know.

[PythonMagus]

Let me guess. You do not accept theory 1 either.

[Paul]

Your preference for 15 is a fair theory, but it is not the one I hold to.

[PythonMagus]

I would like to add:

17. A cabal of discarded mistresses as JFK was a philander in a style that is no longer acceptable in modern politics, perhaps Italian politics being an exception. (Perhaps if modern politician were more openly fornicating, we would have more respect for them.) Women in the 60s had very little political power but his mistresses generally came from a wealthy set, so had cash and an expectation of privilege. They must have decided "enough is enough" and hired a hit.

Perhaps we could add "18 the society of flat-earthers", but I can't see those gentle loons descending into violence.

An intriguing possibility would be a time traveller from the future averting the nuclear incident during JFK's second term, but I am temporally constrained and can do no more than conjecture on that.

However, I vote for 15, the KGB acting for global revolution.