Castro Killed Kennedy?

[NATO AIR]

What do you think?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-1_18_06_CM.html
January 18, 2006
New Film Resurrects Castro Connection
By Carlos Alberto Montaner

I despise conspiracy theories, but sometimes one has to surrender to the evidence. With abundant proof at hand, German documentary filmmaker Wilfried Huismann has attributed to Fidel Castro the responsibility for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
Shown for the first time on German public TV, the documentary, Rendezvous with Death: Castro and Kennedy, contributes several documents and some testimony that are newsworthy. But its most convincing element is a report from Mexican intelligence that states that in September 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald received in Mexico $6,500 from the Cuban secret services to help him carry out the planned crime.

Oscar Marino -- a former officer in Cuba's state security apparatus, now elderly and in exile -- corroborated the research done by the German filmmaker: ''He offered to kill Kennedy, and we used him,'' he told Huismann.

This is not the first time that this theory is put forward. Jackie Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, two of the people closest to the late president, believed it firmly but withheld their certainty to avoid provoking another incident with the Soviet Union. Had they revealed their well-founded suspicions at that time, and given the indignation that filled U.S. society, an invasion of Cuba to punish the guilty would have been inevitable. But the shaken White House did not wish another dangerous confrontation with the Kremlin similar to the one in October 1962 that brought the planet to the brink of nuclear war.

Bobby Kennedy, then U.S. attorney general, surely shared the same suspicion, but it wasn't to his advantage to accuse Castro. In the end, it seems that the Cuban dictator -- as he told the Brazilian ambassador in Havana a few days before the crime -- was responding in that manner to the assassination attempts organized by the president's brother, with the help of the Mafia.

Beyond this reprehensible concealment of information from the American people, strategies were developed in Washington and Havana to manipulate public opinion. In Washington, FBI investigators were braked and diverted from the right leads, especially those from Mexican sources; and the Warren Commission was created to persuade the world that president's death had been the isolated and solitary work of a peculiar, out-of-control madman.

In Havana, Fabián Escalante, the intelligence officer who traveled to Dallas on the day of Kennedy's assassination (to monitor the operation?) and today is a general and former chief of intelligence, elaborated the theory -- to cover his own tracks -- that other gunmen fired at Kennedy.

Escalante blamed Herminio Díaz, an exile with a record of violence and a former comrade of Castro in the Insurrectional Cuban Union in the late 1940s. Díaz was allegedly aided in the assassination by Eladio del Valle, another exile with troubling antecedents.

Naturally, by the time Escalante's alibi came to light, both Díaz and del Valle had been conveniently liquidated by the Cuban security services, so they couldn't defend themselves.

Left untied, however, is the string that leads to Jack Ruby, Oswald's murderer. Why would a person with the moral turpitude of Ruby, who was neither a fanatic nor a patriot but appeared to be a disciplined Mafioso, sacrifice himself and execute Oswald on national television?

To answer that, we must pose the classic police question: Who benefited directly from Oswald's death? Undoubtedly, the Mafiosi, Bobby Kennedy and Castro -- people who would have run into serious problems if their dark machinations had become public.

In any case, what's extraordinarily shameful is that:

• The Bush administration, in view of the new evidence brought forth by the Germans, has not reopened the investigation to give U.S. society the definitive truth -- something that has been covered up for so many years.

• Sen. Ted Kennedy and the rest of that powerful family haven't told everything they know, believe or suspect about the death of John, the most illustrious member of the family and the most admired U.S. president of the late 20th century.

©2006 Firmas Press

 

[Stephanie]

I think it was the mafia. Ole Joe Kennedy bought and paid for that election with the help from the mafia, and then the Kennedys turned around and started screwing them.

#2 I think it was Johnson, he wanted the presidency that bad.

#3 Cuba?

 

[liberalogic]

I think it was the mafia. Ole Joe Kennedy bought and paid for that election with the help from the mafia, and then the Kennedys turned around and started screwing them.

#2 I think it was Johnson, he wanted the presidency that bad.

#3 Cuba?

Here's my theory on the Kennedy assassination:

Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone with either support from the mob, Castro, or both. The mob wanted to get Kennedy back after cracking down on them despite the campaign contributions. And Castro probably wanted payback for the Bay of Pigs (directly ordered by Kennedy).

 

[Avatar4321]

Of course there is also the theory that Johnson had him taken out because he thought Kennedy was screwing up and going to lose reelection and it was the only way he could become President.

Not sure how viable this choice is but ive heard it before.

 

[Stephanie]

Of course there is also the theory that Johnson had him taken out because he thought Kennedy was screwing up and going to lose reelection and it was the only way he could become President.

Not sure how viable this choice is but ive heard it before.

I've heard this before Avatar, if you see my second choice is Johnson. I belive Johnson was one crooked power hungry sonofgun. The three choices I picked are so hard to come too a conclusion, because all three make sense. But I chose the mafia, because as my thoughts are as stated above, Joe Kennedy bought a lot of help from the mafia, to win this election,(joe was as big a crook as the rest of um), and I belive the Kennedy boy's then turned around and betrayed them. I have to wonder if the Kennedy boys knew papa was involved with them? Thats my conspriracy thoughts.

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

Like the author of the article, I'm generally not much on conspiracy theories. Most of them can easily be proven wrong, but the Kennedy assassination is certainly not one of them. Every possible answer to every question opens a slew of other questions.

I've looked pretty deep into the Kennedy assassination, reading testimony from police officers and eye witnesses, looking at time lines, looking into Oswalds past. I've even been to the old Texas Schoolbook Depository and walked around on the Grassy Knoll. While there was probably a lone gun man, I don't believe for a second that it was a random act of violence from a single demented man. One of the few things we do know for sure is that it was Oswalds gun, but I'm not even convinced Oswald was the one firing it that day.

I've got my theories, but it would take a long time to go into all of it. Maybe Cuba was involved in some way. Frankly, it would make some sense. One thing I do believe is that someone involved was able to infiltrate either the Dallas city government, the Dallas Police Department, or possibly both. There are far too many little things that fell into place, and part of it would match up with a pre-determined plan to plant a theory of multiple gunmen, such as Fabián Escalante talked about. According to a man I talked to in Dallas that worked in the area at the time, the fence that is by the infamous Grassy Knoll was put up just three days before Kennedy's visit. A brand new fence with boards missing. Pretty interesting.

Another interesting bit I came across was about J.D. Tippitt, the police officer that Oswald was accused of killing a short time after the Kennedy assassination. Tippitt was buried less than 24 hours after his death. Seems like someone was in a hurry to get the guy in the ground for some reason.

A lot of odd things surrounding that day. We may never be able to answer all the questions.

 

[Nienna]

I heard, on a documentary about Jackie, that she had intelligence about who dunnit. It is sealed and to be released to the public after the death of the last Kennedy kid (that would be Caroline, right?)

My only opinion about JFK's murder is: I definitely do not think LHO acted alone. No idea otherwise. A president is such a large public figure that a lot of people could have wanted to take him out.

 

[Said1]

Like the author of the article, I'm generally not much on conspiracy theories. Most of them can easily be proven wrong, but the Kennedy assassination is certainly not one of them. Every possible answer to every question opens a slew of other questions.

I've looked pretty deep into the Kennedy assassination, reading testimony from police officers and eye witnesses, looking at time lines, looking into Oswalds past. I've even been to the old Texas Schoolbook Depository and walked around on the Grassy Knoll. While there was probably a lone gun man, I don't believe for a second that it was a random act of violence from a single demented man. One of the few things we do know for sure is that it was Oswalds gun, but I'm not even convinced Oswald was the one firing it that day.

I've got my theories, but it would take a long time to go into all of it. Maybe Cuba was involved in some way. Frankly, it would make some sense. One thing I do believe is that someone involved was able to infiltrate either the Dallas city government, the Dallas Police Department, or possibly both. There are far too many little things that fell into place, and part of it would match up with a pre-determined plan to plant a theory of multiple gunmen, such as Fabián Escalante talked about. According to a man I talked to in Dallas that worked in the area at the time, the fence that is by the infamous Grassy Knoll was put up just three days before Kennedy's visit. A brand new fence with boards missing. Pretty interesting.

Another interesting bit I came across was about J.D. Tippitt, the police officer that Oswald was accused of killing a short time after the Kennedy assassination. Tippitt was buried less than 24 hours after his death. Seems like someone was in a hurry to get the guy in the ground for some reason.

A lot of odd things surrounding that day. We may never be able to answer all the questions.

I wish Ruby hadn't shot Oswald.....so soon anyway. I believe him when he said he was a patsy, be interesting to hear what else he had to say.

 

[archangel]

Johnson ordered it as he had the 'Hots' for Jackie............

 

[KarlMarx]

Castro had something to do with it. And Bobby Kennedy. Both were involved with the Bay of Pigs invasion.

If we ever liberate Cuba or if Cuba ever becomes a free country, then we'll know for certain.