You know there's so many theories of things that are certainly possible.
Was Oswald a lone gunman nut? Possible.
But I tend to lean toward it being a CIA black op. A Coup D'Etat, like Jim Garrison said in the movie JFK.
We were a year removed from the Cuban Missile Crisis and two years removed from the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The military was pissed at JFK for not being allowed to invade Cuba during the missile crisis, and for not being allowed to support the Cuban Exile fighters with air cover during the Bay of Pigs.
The Cuban Exiles were pissed for having their wangs left swinging in the air in the Bay of Pigs and blamed Kennedy, although the operation was all planned during IKE's administration.
The Mafia hated the Kennedys (especially Bobby) because of his anti-racketeering crusade as attorney general.
LBJ hated the Kennedys because he wanted to be the presidential nomination in 1960. JFK asked him on the ticket because without winning Texas, he loses the election to Nixon. He won by 1/4 of 1% in 1960, and without LBJ, he loses for sure. The Kennedy brothers treated LBJ like a lap dog, and he resented that. He thought Kennedy was a lousy senator, and basically belittled JFK to anyone who would listen prior to 1960.
Also, LBJ was facing an investigation into his personal finances. He had made millions of dollars on gaining broadcasting rights to radio and TV stations in Texas, peddling influence. Lots of the money was paid to Lady Bird, but LBJ was behind it. Also, he was getting kickbacks from a former Senate staffer who was caught falsifying records in propane sales across Texas, and making money from propane tanks that didn't exist and were never delivered. Once JFK was shot, the investigation on both counts went away.
Whoever the conspiracy was, they had a fear that if people found out Oswald had been in Russia, that the masses may have thought Oswald was a trained Russian assassin, and it could ignite WWIII.
So there was a lot of heavy shit flying around at the time.
Also, Nixon was in Dallas the morning of the assassination. He had been at a function the night before. LBJ went to Cliff Murchison's Dallas Mansion, and had dinner with a bunch of Texas Oilmen (that included Lamar Hunt's dad HL Hunt). There's even a picture of somebody who looks extremely similar to George HW Bush standing in front of the TSBD right after the shooting. Bush was in the CIA when this all went down. Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission. LBJ put John Foster Dulles on the Warren Commission. Dulles HATED JFK because he fired him as head of the CIA.
So, there's a LOT of crazy leads and nutty possibilities here.
Not to mention the botched autopsy, the magic bullet, the disappearance of witnesses, Oswald's assassination, etc etc etc.
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