Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

[snopes]

John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan's exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into Kennedy's assassination, a legacy of secrecy that would impact American politics and foreign policy for the next 45 years. It also allowed two men who confessed their roles in JFK's murder to be involved in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, in 1968. Exclusive interviews and newly declassified files from the National Archives document in chilling detail how three mob bosses were able to prevent the truth from coming to light – until now.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy.../dp/1582434220

[Ali Infree]

Really? Another permutation of the JFK assassination stations of the cross goes thus:

The Bay of Pigs invasion had been planned by Nixon as VP under Eisenhower, and Kennedy was convinced to see it through. However, he did not provide air cover, so the invasion failed.

After being seen as a Cuban hero, greeting the repatriated Bay of Pigs prisoners, he decided to shut down Cuban invasions for quiet assassination attempts which go nowhere (perhaps because of a CIA mole or pro-Castro sources in Florida).

He is assassinated by anti-Castro gunmen trained to kill Castro. They are enraged by Kennedy's betrayal of their cause and aided by rogue CIA agents.
Kennedy already had the blood from the Vietnamese coup on his hands the month he died. I doubt that a re-invasion of Cuba was in the works.

Or the Cigarette Smoking Man did it--I saw it on The X-Files.

Ali "or the Venusian women..." Infree

[boogers]

Mick Jagger already informed me that I did it. Though he admits he helped.

[E. Q. Taft]

This month will mark the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedy's military aide on the Dallas trip, sheds new light on the critical hours after the shooting. McHugh makes startling claims about Lyndon Johnson's behavior in the wake of the assassination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven..._b_339026.html

[lord_feldon]

Let's see. He was tens of feet from the President, heard the shots fired, and quite possibly saw the end result of those shots, and then at the end of it he was being sworn in as President of the United States. His reaction to that is "startling"?

But yeah, let's hinge a conspiracy theory (or even bolster it) on the basis of LBJ being a little emotional and irrational just after that happened.