How the CIA would have got rid of JFK (if they wanted to)

[Steve M. Galbraith]

If one has a preconceived notion one way or the other then they can try to explain the motivation of either the CIA/Mob/Military Industrial Complex, or LHO. However, Gerry makes a good point. Why would the CIA choose to get rid of JFK by assassination versus another much easier and less risky way.

And my additional point is that we are talking about the same (highly efficient - NOT) CIA/Mob/Military that tried many times and ways to get rid of little ole Fidel Castro....

And the Castro attempts were simply to eliminate him. Not frame another person and then cover all of that up. And then have a fake investigation (two in fact) that also covered all of that up.

And then all of this kept silent - the people involved for the next half century remained silent.

Forget about whether they would do it or try to: just think about the logistics in planning it (nobody said no?), carrying it out, and keeping it all under wraps. It is impossible. But conspiracists see no limits in what "the government" can do. Literally none.

[Dan O'meara]

So why would the CIA/military industrial complex go to all the complex trouble of assassinating JFK and setting up a patsy (i.e Oswald) and altering this autopsy footage/x-rays rather than simply film JFK in bed with someone and then release that to the press?

The public execution of people like JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King etc. is for everybody.
It teaches people to think what they're told to think.
Setting them up with prostitutes doesn't.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

The public execution of people like JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King etc. is for everybody.
It teaches people to think what they're told to think.
Setting them up with prostitutes doesn't.

What did JFK "think" that needed to be silenced?

[Dan O'meara]

What did JFK "think" that needed to be silenced?

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[Richard Smith]

If the CIA was behind this, JFK probably would have lived.  They were never too great in the old assassination game.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

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You wrote: "It teaches people to think what they're told to think". Your argument is that JFK's public execution was a message to teach people what they should think. "It" being his public assassination.

What did JFK think or say or do so that he needed to be publicly silenced or kept from the "people" so that they wouldn't think differently? In other words, publicly killing JFK sent what message to the people about their thinking? They couldn't think what? What was JFK helping make them think?

And King was assassinated in 1968. It wasn't public; there's no film, very few people were around him when he was shot. And by 1968 his goals were met; it was too late to "undo" the civil rights revolution that he started. Killing him in 1968 was too late if he needed to be silenced for his "thinking" differently.

[Walt Cakebread]

If one has a preconceived notion one way or the other then they can try to explain the motivation of either the CIA/Mob/Military Industrial Complex, or LHO. However, Gerry makes a good point. Why would the CIA choose to get rid of JFK by assassination versus another much easier and less risky way.

And my additional point is that we are talking about the same (highly efficient - NOT) CIA/Mob/Military that tried many times and ways to get rid of little ole Fidel Castro....

Why would the CIA choose to get rid of JFK by assassination versus another much easier and less risky way.


"The CIA" as an organization did NOT murder JFK .....but bitter former operatives and agents whose careers were shattered and their bloated egos burst did plot the murder.   The BOP fiasco ruined the careers of powerful men like Dulles and Bisell, et al, and they hated JFK .  Their hatred and  their refusal to accept the fact that they had cut their own throats and ruined their careers by plotting the violent overthrow of Fidel Castro's regime. The Invasion of Cuba was a hair brained idea straight out of Nazi Germany.   It was doomed to failure as soon as JFK was sworn in as the new President.    The CIA plotters and their MOB buddies had planned for Richard Nixon to be in the White House and if he had won the election The BOP would probably have been successful , and it probably would have triggered a nuclear war.