John Kennedy’s assassination has sparked controversy around the world. The 50th anniversary of his death recently passed in 2013, and we still don’t know for sure who killed the 35th President of the United States. Such a large period of uncertainty has led to many conspiracies put in place, to explain what really happened that day in Dallas, Texas November the 22nd 1963. Although some conspiracies have arisen over a long period of time, others emerged just days after the assassination and have carried on through generations for a number of reasons. I will attempt to explain the 44 major theories as well as three “fringe” theories, these are: The Mafia, The CIA, Lyndon Johnson and The Communists, the fringe theories I will cover are: George. W. Bush, Jackie Kennedy and the Storm Drain Shooter. Whatever you believe welcome to the conspiracy circus.
A website known as www.thirdworldtraveller.com credited John Kennedy’s election victory to stolen votes in southern states. These votes were organised by the Mafia leader at the time Sam Giancana, as well as this Lyndon Johnson supposedly disqualified 100,000 Texan votes using his powers as governor of Texas. If this were to be true we would have a clear link to the Mafia and John Kennedy, fortunately there is no actual evidence, or no legal documentation of this ever occurring. Another link between John Kennedy and the mafia is through Joseph Kennedy (John’s father), Joe Kennedy made most of his money during the 1920’s during which time organised crime was rampant. It’s a well-known fact that almost all business men had to work through the mafia, therefore Joe Kennedy will almost certainly have worked with the mafia at one stage in his career. If this is true there could be any number of motives linking the Mafia to John Kennedy’s death. So now that we have two possible connections to the Mafia we can start looking at evidence placing the Mafia at the crime. There are a number of other very important facts linking the Mafia to John Kennedy’s assassination, the three main pieces of evidence are: Robert Kennedy, Jack Ruby and Mafia hitman James Files.
To begin with John’s little brother Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General during President Kennedy’s Office, one of Robert’s main goals was to bring down all organised crime in the United State of America. If it is true that the Kennedy’s success was due to the Mafia either introducing fake votes of contributing to their father’s fortune, then we can safely say that Robert Kennedy’s actions would be a clear motive for the Mafia to kill John Kennedy. It also makes sense to kill John Kennedy because, if the mafia killed Robert the power in the President’s hands to track down the killers of his brother is much more than if they killed John. This is because it was a well-known fact that Lyndon Johnson hated Robert and John so therefore Robert would lose his power to destroy organised crime altogether if Lyndon Johnson became President. Secondly Jack Ruby, before we use Jack ruby as evidence for a mafia conspiracy, we must first understand his back ground. Jack ruby had a clear history of contact with the mob, to begin with he owned two strip clubs in Dallas which were visited frequently by members of the Mafia and police force. Before Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution Jack visited frequently for gambling trips, one of his gambling friends had a clear connection to the leader of the mob at the time, and also worked in Cuba for the Mafia. The Strip clubs owned by Mr Ruby had alcohol, drugs and prostitutes provided by the Mafia. A few weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, the Strippers Union had a protest about wages, this matter had to be dealt with through the strippers Union which was Mafia run, and therefore there was obvious communication between Jack Ruby and the Mafia weeks before the assassination. As well as this countless investigations have discovered past phone records from Jack Ruby’s house to known Mafia organisations. If it was true that the Mafia killed President Kennedy was jack ruby their hit man to silence Lee Harvey Oswald before he spoke up about the conspiracy. Many historians and conspiracy advocates believe the Mafia ordered a hit on Lee Harvey Oswald which was carried out by none other than Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby claimed he wanted to be known as the man who killed the President’s killer, but later went on to make a very controversial statement that “the world will never know the true facts of what happened that day, my motives…” The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby was not part of a wider conspiracy to kill John Kennedy, but do you believe the evidence? The Third important piece of evidence showing a Mafia conspiracy to kill President Kennedy appears through a man known as James Files. James Files is an ex-Mafia hitman currently detained in an Illinois prison. In 1994 Mr Files stated that he shot President Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll. This would prove some conspiracies surrounding the death of John Kennedy, because a disputed fact is that all three shots were fired so close together at such precision accuracy, and it’s almost impossible to do so. Some believe there were more than one shooter, i.e. James Files and Lee Harvey Oswald. James Files story was once investigated in 1994 but has since been untouched as it is considered not to be credible. All these three pieces of evidence are only the main ones placing the Mafia as the killers of John Kennedy. This is a leading conspiracy not because it sounds cool, but because the evidence is there and it’s real. The CIA
To begin with the Leader of the CIA was one of the members of the committee who led the Warren Commission, so there was a complete conflict of interest. President Kennedy himself once said “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind.” Already the CIA conspiracy is coming together, there is a clear hatred between the CIA and President Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs campaign and there was involvement with the commission deciding the killer of John Kennedy and the Director of the CIA. The Bay of Pigs campaign was a failure on behalf of the CIA who underestimated the strength of Cuba’s military and people. The blame for America’s failure at the Bay of Pigs Campaign, fell onto President Kennedy who was outraged at the CIA. The leader of the CIA, Allen W. Dulles made it very clear that he hated the Kennedy’s and wanted them out of office as soon as possible. After Mr Dulles mistake with the Bay of Pigs he was fired by President Kennedy and replaced by John McCone. A little known fact is that during the Warren Commission CIA workers and leaders clearly withheld files from the commission which were “crucial factors for deciding information”. The final piece of the CIA puzzle is that the CIA actually had information about Lee Harvey Oswald and the agent in charge of following Oswald while they were in Dallas failed to do so. If the agent had not failed to do so would President Kennedy still be alive, or did he fail to do so on purpose? Some conspiracy advocates believe that the CIA purposely failed to protect President Kennedy by allowing Lee Harvey Oswald to kill him. This can be supported by Lee Harvey Oswald’s famous words in the Dallas police station “They framed me”. The CIA conspiracy is certainly one of the most popular conspiracies, but is that due to the American people being paranoid or is it truth? JFKtruth.com claims to know a witness to President Kennedy’s murder who saw Lyndon Johnson duck down 20-30 seconds before the first shots were fired. This would tell us that he knew the shots were coming. If Lyndon Johnson was to kill John Kennedy he would have a lot to gain, a commonly known enemy of President Kennedy from before they were running partners. Lyndon Johnson referred to John Kennedy as an upstart and a trouble maker, he intended to be the democratic nominee for the presidency and be the next president of the United States of America before John Kennedy came along, sounds all too familiar doesn’t it. Lyndon Johnson hated the Kennedy’s for stealing what he thought was his place as president. Lyndon Johnson also said to his mistress the night before the murder of President Kennedy “those sobs will never embarrass me again and that’s a promise.” The facts are there pointing at Lyndon Johnson as the killer of John Kennedy although he was not in a position to shoot the President he most certainly could’ve hired Lee Harvey Oswald or the Mafia to kill John Kennedy as well as getting the CIA to turn the other cheek as the President was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson had all the political power he needed to kill John Kennedy, records show he could’ve possibly ordered hits on many other people before John Kennedy according to the JFKtruth.com website which would show he would easily be able to organise a hit on the 35th President of the United Sates. On top of all this Lyndon Johnson also had the most powerful cover up of all time, he made the Warren Commission to investigate his murder which allowed him to pick and choose his most loyal supporter to decide who the killer was.
Lyndon Johnson had the power, motive and backing to kill President Kennedy. This conspiracy is one of the many that scares most Americans as the killer could’ve been under their noses the whole time. There is one main piece of evidence that props up the Communist conspiracy, and that is Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald left the United States as a defector to the Soviet Union, at first he was denied entry but later lived in the Soviet Union for years under laborious jobs and intensive work which slowly depressed him. He found himself a wife named Marina who moved back to the United States with him. Upon arrival to the United States in June 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald was outraged at the lack of publicity he received for returning to America. He expected cameras to be waiting, and to be known as the prodigal son returning to America. Lee Harvey Oswald frequently sent letters to the Russian embassy to be accepted back into Russia but was frequently denied. After being denied multiple times he visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico to organise moving to Cuba, but was yet again denied as he was not trusted due to his previous military background. With knowledge of his life in Russia and his visits to the Russian and Cuban embassy’s he is interviewed by the FBI multiple times under suspicion of espionage, he is never charged. He began work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in May of 1963 month before President Kennedy’s assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald’s background is the most key piece of evidence surrounding the communist conspiracy. This is because he has the most obvious connection to the communists you can have, he is one! Mr Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union only strengths the possibility of the Communists hiring the man to kill John Kennedy. Fidel Castro indirectly stated that John Kennedy would be taken care of a few weeks before the assassination, in a speech to the nation. Upon arrival to the embassies of Russia and Cuba was Lee Harvey Oswald receiving orders to kill John Kennedy?
The communist conspiracy began almost moments after President Kennedy was shot, mainly due to the ongoing cold war, but also because of Lee Harvey Oswald’s clear connection to the Communists. During John Kennedy’s presidency many kill orders were placed on Fidel Castro, was this Mr Castro’s way of returning the favour? JFKmurdersolved.com is a website attempting to solve the assassination, the website puts forward the idea that George Bush Sr. killed John Kennedy. The site claims that George Bush will not say where he was when John Kennedy was shot, not because he can’t remember but because he was in Dallas, Texas. George Bush was a high ranking CIA agent in 1963 (the year of the assassination) and fails to admit this in all interviews, why? No one knows. George Bush has been linked to releasing many CIA prisoners who later went on to kill hundreds of people through terrorist organisations, they were also present in Dallas that day. The Bush family has always been influential in politics even in Dwight Eisenhower’s day, Scott Bush was Richard Nixon’s advisors during his campaign against President Kennedy. After a loss to John Kennedy Scott Bush planned his next move for his descendants, by allowing his nephew George to assassinate or at least frame Lee Harvey Oswald with the killing of John Kennedy. The Bush family was aware of what the death of John Kennedy would mean as the future leader Lyndon Johnson would shatter the Democratic party’s hopes of being re-elected, thus allowing Richard Nixon to step in and show the seeds for the likes of Ronald Reagan, George bush senior and George Bush junior.
The George Bush fringe conspiracy is a relatively unknown one but would seem to make a little sense. Whatever you choose to believe, this conspiracy is a fringe conspiracy for a reason. This conspiracy is thanks to the emergence of the Zapruder film, and the angle at which we see Jackie and John in the car as the bullet is fired. The main piece of evidence put forward by the Jackiekilledjfk.com website is that we can see the bullet shooting towards the sky as if fired from Jackie, exploding the President’s head. As we see in the photo below the film shows a white line shooting towards the sky which has been claimed as the bullet that shot the president. The exit wound of a bullet shot from the side of the left of the head around the ear is constant with the spray and explosion of the head, as seen in the Zapruder film. Another piece of evidence found in the Zapruder film is the fact that Jackie appears to hide something very quickly, as soon as the bullet is fired. This occurs in frames #326-#327. The website also claims that many frames have been removed from the film in order to show that lee Harvey Oswald was the killer, but in fact is was Jackie Kennedy. The most important story put forward from this conspiracy is that two shots from Jackie Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were fired that day. One bullet was simultaneous from both shooters (which was the fatal head wound) and the shot from Lee Harvey Oswald’s is the neck wound received by President Kennedy. The website continues on to explain the motive which is very big and simple, John Kennedy’s in discretions. Jackie Kennedy had, had enough of her husband’s gallivanting with other women and wanted her turn, she took the opportunity to kill President Kennedy her husband, to allow herself revenge. An unknown fact is that the Kennedy’s did not share the same hotel room earlier that day in Fort Knox. Another vital piece of information is Jackie’s future husband Aristotle Onassis, she used to visit Aristotle frequently whilst still married to President Kennedy. Both Mr and Mrs Kennedy would in turn part ways to be with different lovers.
Did Jackie Kennedy want revenge against her husband’s neglect all these years, or was she convinced by her lover to kill her husband? The question still stands but these are the facts. This theory explains all three different shots from the assassination as well as explaining President Kennedy’s head jolting backward as if he’s been shot from the front. The conspiracy is that three different sets of shooters, Lee Harvey Oswald who fired the neck wound shot and injured Governor Connolly, The Grassy Knoll which could’ve fired the shot that missed all targets perhaps they were aiming for Mrs Kennedy? And the storm drain shooter which fired from the road curb up at President Kennedy delivering the fatal shot. The conspiracy places all three working together, this works as both the grassy knoll and storm drain shooter could have escaped together down the drain away from daily plaza as there is a drain located on the grassy knoll. As well as Lee Harvey Oswald who was located in the school book depository directly behind the president, who didn’t have such an easy escape and was captured whilst attempting to flee. The theory doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on besides that fact that it explains why President Kennedy’s head jerks backwards as if being shot from the front. This conspiracy is not realistic but is very interesting to think about and very imaginative.
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