After Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up. Many of the facts about Oswald unavoidably pointed to a Cuban connection ... In a chilling parallel to their cover-up at Watergate, the CIA literally erased any connection between Kennedy’s assassination and the CIA. Bob Haldeman, The Ends of Power
President Kennedy stood for that touched the most profound feeling of young people around the world, it was the belief that idealism, high aspirations, and deep convictions are not incompatible with the most practical and efficient of programs – that there is no basic inconsistency between ideals and realistic possibilities, no separation between the deepest desires of heart and of mind and the rational application of human effort to human problems. Robert Kennedy
Kennedy was the only member of his administration who didn’t want to send in a massive ground force ... Kennedy was also making very friendly overtures to the Soviet Union and calling for a real detente in the Cold War, and was even reconsidering developing normal relationships with Cuba. Michael Parenti
The reason why Kennedy was assassinated was he wanted to end the Vietnam War, and he wanted to end the rule of the CIA. That begets two questions: Did Rome want the Vietnam War? And, Did Rome control the CIA? The answer is yes on both counts. We know, on its face, that the Vietnam War was called ‘Spelly’s War’ – Cardinal Spellman’s war. He went over to the warfront many times and he called the American soldiers the ‘soldiers of Christ’. The man who was the Commander of the American forces was a Roman Catholic, CFR member, possibly a Knight of Columbus, I don't know, but he was General William Westmoreland.
So, Westmoreland was Cardinal Spellman’s agent to make sure that war was prosecuted properly. And another overseer of Westmoreland was Cardinal Spellman’s boy, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a 33rd-degree Freemason. He was also part of the assassination, with J Edgar Hoover, another 33rd-degree Freemason ... Spellman wanted the Vietnam War, why? Spellman was controlled by the Jesuits of Fordham. Why did the Jesuit General want the Vietnam War? The people of Vietnam, the Buddhists, were unconvertible. They would not convert to Catholicism. They didn’t need Rome.
There had been a Jesuit presence in Vietnam for centuries, so it had been decided that about a million or so Buddhists would have to be ‘purged’. They would later continue this purge of Cambodia, with Pol Pot, and the purge is yet for Thailand. It was a purging of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam of all these Buddhists, just like they purged the Buddhists of China with Mao Zedong, because Mao Zedong was completely controlled by the Jesuits. So, they wanted the Vietnam War. Eric Jon Phelps
Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx. Ronald Reagan
[The] premise is that Kennedy was a very good president, and might have been a great one if he’d lived. Few serious historians take this view ... In reality, the kindest interpretation of Kennedy’s presidency is that he was a mediocrity whose death left his final grade as ‘incomplete’. The harsher view would deem him a near disaster – ineffective in domestic policy, evasive on civil rights and a serial blunderer in foreign policy, who barely avoided a nuclear war that his own brinkmanship had pushed us toward ... We confuse charisma with competence, rhetoric with results, celebrity with genuine achievement. Ross Douthat, The Enduring Cult of Kennedy
Mr Kennedy, the president has been shot. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Ed Westwick & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Edgar to Robert Kennedy
In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of president John F Kennedy the American government came to the conclusion that a lone gunman had changed the course of human history by killing the most powerful man in the world with three rifle shots fired from the elevated window of an office building. Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick ***** 2014
We now know that there were actually eight riflemen firing at the president that day. ibid.
A group of 20 men who had gathered together the night before at the home of Dallas oil millionaire Clint Murchison. ibid.
Richard Nixon: here being congratulated on his success by his new master Prescott Bush … In 1947 Nixon engaged the services of a Jewish gangster who was working for Sam Giancana called Jacob Rubenstein, a man who the world would one day come to know as Jack Ruby. ibid.
He [Kennedy] had played the Mafia at their own game, and played it better. ibid.
LBJ proved again and again he was every bit as unscrupulous as any Mob boss and willing to do absolutely anything for power. ibid.
Kennedy wanted to end their most vital tax break – the Oil Completion Allowance. ibid.
This circle of thugs and pirates was completed by LBJ’s new door neighbour – J Edgar Hoover. ibid.
For their part, Jack Creighton and George Bush were trying to lay the groundwork at street level with the mayor Earl Cabell. ibid.
CIA agent E Howard Hunt who stayed almost an hour and paid [Frank] Sturgis with cash stuffed in a very large envelope. ibid.
Amongst these guests were J Edgar Hoover … the two Brown brother of Brown Brother Harriman … and the mayor of Dallas, Earl Cabell … Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello … Sam Giancana’s representatives Jack Ruby, Richard Nixon … Late in the evening Lyndon Baines Johnson turned up. ibid.
At the other end of the sixth floor Sturgis was the first to be spotted by Arnold Rowland. ibid.
He [driver] stopped the car completely … ibid.
He [rozzer] is looking down into the storm drain. ibid.
Eight separate snipers firing sixteen shots in four separate stages. ibid.
George Bush was in Dallas saying at the Sheratan on November 22nd. ibid.
They knew they had to forensically control the body. ibid.
‘The second wound was here in the throat right above the neck tie.’ ibid. junior doctor
Why did the life of J D Tippitt also have to end? … When he was at work his fellow officers always used to call him JFK. ibid.
The moment she [Jackie] was out of the way his [JFK’s] cadaver was stolen and placed aboard Airforce 2 next the cadaver of J D Tippit. ibid.
Surgery was done before post mortem, and that surgery could only have been performed aboard the aircraft. ibid.
‘It isn’t Jack,’ she [Jackie] declared. ‘That looks like something you would find at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum.’ ibid.
Who for that matter was Gordon Arnold, the old-age pensioner who appeared in The Men Who Killed Kennedy to claim that badge-man had kicked him and taken his camera? They were all professional actors. ibid.
The men who actually masterminded the plot were Allen Dulles and David Atlee Phillips with George Bush being the most important figure in the actual execution of the crime. ibid.
Oswald’s perch was much smaller, much tighter, than I imagined. JFK: The Smoking Gun, 2013
Critics argue that the bullet that hit Kennedy and Connally was too pristine to have ripped through two men. ibid.
Why would he [Oswald] use two different kinds of bullets? ibid.
[Howard] Donaghue writes to the Secret Service and asks for the names of the agents who rode in the follow-up car, what weapons they carry and what calibre they are. ibid.
There are ten witnesses that claimed to have smelt gunpowder at the time of the shooting at street level. ibid.
All of these witnesses see a rifle at the crime scene. Who is the agent? ibid.
He [Donaghue] found eleven witnesses that could put the AR15 in the hands of George Hickey. ibid.
Almost all of these X-Rays and photographs are never seen again. ibid.
The president has asked for the protective bubble-top of his limousine to be removed. Great Crimes & Trials: JFK
Tippit is shot dead on the street while talking to a man who then runs away … The Commission also concluded Oswald killed Tippit. ibid.
If this was so, why were the two motorcycle riders behind him covered in his blood? ibid.
A letter from Oswald had been destroyed after his death. ibid.
Exactly what and who are they protecting? [picture: George H W Bush] JFK Story and Cover Up: The Mob & CIA & the Hired 8 Assassins *****
A group of 20 men who had gathered together the night before at the home of Dallas oil millionaire Clint Murchison … They hired the 8 snipers and paid them … J Edgar Hoover … The 2 Brown brothers … Carlos Marcello … Jack Ruby, Richard Nixon … Lyndon Baines Johnson … ibid.
Police have let almost no-one into the would-be crime scene. ibid.
Richard Milhouse Nixon and George Herbert Walker Bush smiled from the sidewalk as they exchanged winks with Jack Crighton. ibid.
The driver … stopped the car completely … The storm drain: because that is where that shot at a stationary car came from. ibid.