Allen Dulles.
CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.
JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn’t more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles’ restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK’s murder.
Very special bullet.
Because guns are so easy to acquire for mentally disturbed people in the USA it was simply a mad man with access to dangerous weapons.
Not the answer you wanted to hear, but the right one.
I think it pretty likely that guns killed him. Possibly multiple guns.
I suspect the involvement of the CIA or some of their rogue assets, either mobsters or gusanos. He was allegedly warming towards Cuba, and I think that may have been part of the motivation. Blowback Season 2 made a pretty convincing argument for that scenario.
Better than most, would be good for the people here making nervous jokes to have a listen
Other than an accomplished sniper, I don’t know. I’m more interested in who had him killed.
Fair point I’ve made a question update
I think Kennedy is a mole trap.
It’s the most well documented conspiracy ever, literally the textbook example of conspiracy theories. Every detailed has been looked at time and time again by every pair of braincells ever interested in conspiracy. There’s absolutely no chance that the government doesn’t have every single facet of it fully understood. Instead of giving it a case closed and a pretty bow, they leave it out there as a test. Any time some quack comes out with “secret insider information” and mentions Kennedy, they know they can write him off because anyone that really knows would know the Kennedy thing is a joke.
Every so often an agent has to go stir thr pot by asking this question so everyone still thinks it’s important.
We assassinated the president and covered it up so that we can more easily identify conspiracy theorists.
How is there any utility in being able to identify a few crackpots—only the ones who happen to crack their pot on this one particular event? How is Identifying crackpots of any use to the state?
Think of it like an expert playing dumb to catch someone lying about their specific field of study.
If I go out and say I’m a former government agent who had access to the must classified of classified documents, someone has to actually look into that on the off chance it’s real. If I follow by mentioning I know the truth about Kennedy, you can basically close the case there as there’s no “truth” to be known.
This isn’t my bailiwick, but I think Peter Dale Scott and Arron Good may have some of the best answers. I don’t pay much attention to the matter, but IIRC, James Angleton and the Dulles brothers very likely were involved. It helps to ask: who covered up what really happened?
Getting into crackpot territory here, but I think the assassination might very well have had some connection to MKULTRA. The CIA destroyed all the files related to this, and so unless they missed some, we’ll probably never know for certain.
By MKULTRA link, do you mean Dr. Jolyon West visiting the imprisoned Jack Ruby who shortly afterward was discovered to have been permanently rendered a gibbering lunatic talking about hearing and seeing Nanking Massacre-esque scenes all around him?
Wherever I see MKULTRA I immediately think ‘Mortal Kombat Ultra’
I liked the book “not in your lifetime” which strongly points towards local mafia having the means and motivation to pull this off successfully.
I met a guy named Sam Pate. He was a radio guy in Dallas in the 60s and was live on the air when it happened. He told me that the shooter escaped down the storm drain (they were much bigger then before the street was resurfaced), went through the tunnels under the city, and was on a plane to Chicago by the time Kennedy was pronounced dead. https://www.jfk.org/collections-archive/sam-pate-oral-history/
I did it. Elvis paid me to.
Ok, CIA.
you do know the CIA used this exact same tactic of associating legitimate theories with conspiracies right?
Like I don’t know the Epstein files.
But let me ask you this: in a case we know was an assassination that anyone involved would cover their tracks in a case with so much chicanery and blacked out information and contradictory information is it really so unbelievable that someone was helping or hired an assassination of the president? We know how invasive and omnipresent the surveillance is of our modern government, imagine how much more it would be during the height of the cold war or shortly after.
Are you sure it wasn’t a lizard man disguised as Elvis?
A guy he played Diplomacy with in college.
