(1)
Lee Harvey Oswald
The
Warren
Commission
came to the conclusion that John
F. Kennedy
was assassinated by a lone gunman,
Lee
Harvey Oswald. This theory
has been supported by several other investigators including Arlen
Specter, Walter
Cronkite,
Dan
Rather, Hugh
Aynesworth,
Gerald
Posner, John
McAdams
and Kenneth
A. Rahn.
(2)
The Mafia
David
E. Scheim has
published two books claiming that the Mafia were responsible for the
assassination of Kennedy. He believes that it was organized by Carlos
Marcello,
Santos
Trafficante and
Jimmy
Hoffa.
This theory is based on the idea that the Mafia were angry with both
John
F. Kennedy
and Robert
Kennedy
for their attempts to destroy the Mafia.
Scheim's theory was supported by Trafficante's lawyer, Frank
Ragano, who published the book Mob
Lawyer,
in 1994. The theory
is also supported by the investigative journalist, Jack
Anderson.
G.
Robert Blakey,
chief counsel and staff director to the House
Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, published
The Plot to Kill the President
in 1981. In the book Blakey argues that Lee
Harvey Oswald was
involved but believes that there was at least one gunman firing from
the Grassy Knoll. Blakey came to the
conclusion that the Mafia boss, Carlos
Marcello,
organized the assassination.
(3)
The Soviet Union
James
Angleton believed
that Nikita Khrushchev sought revenge
after he had been humiliated by Kennedy during the Cuban
Missile Crisis. In his book, Khrushchev
Killed Kennedy (1975), Michael
Eddowes argued
that Kennedy
was
killed by a Soviet agent
impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald. In
Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald
(1978), Edward Jay Epstein argues that
Oswald was a KGB
agent.
(4)
Right-Wing Activists in New Orleans
Jim
Garrison,
the district attorney of New Orleans, believed that a
group of right-wing activists, including Guy
Bannister, David Ferrie, Carlos
Bringuier and Clay Shaw were involved
in a conspiracy with the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) to kill Kennedy.
(5)
Antoine Guerini and the Marseilles Mafia
Stephen
Rivele
argued in the 1988
television documentary, The Men Who Killed
Kennedy that the Kennedy's
assassination had been organized by Antoine
Guerini, the Corsican crime boss in Marseilles. He also claimed
that Lucien Sarti had been one of the gunmen.
(6)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Texas Oil Millionaires.
Madeleine
Brown
claims that she was Johnson's mistress. In her autobiography, Texas
in the Morning (1997) Brown claims
that the conspiracy
to kill Kennedy involved Lyndon
B. Johnson
and several Texas oil men including Clint
Murchison, Haroldson
L. Hunt and J.
Edgar Hoover.
Joachim
Joesten, an investigative journalist, believes that Johnson's
secretary, Bobby Baker was involved in
this plot. This theory was supported by Craig Zirbel in his book The
Texas Connection: The Assassination
of President John F. Kennedy (1991).
(7)
David Atlee Phillips and the CIA
Gaeton
Fonzi
was a
staff investigator for
the House
Select Committee on Assassinations. In his book, The
Last Investigation, Fonzi takes the view that the assassination
was organized by David Atlee Phillips,
head of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division.
(8)
Rogue Members of the CIA
David
Atlee Phillips, head of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division,
told Kevin Walsh, a former investigator with the House
Select Committee on Assassinations: that Kennedy had been "done
in by a conspiracy, likely including rogue American intelligence people."
(9)
Jack Ruby and the Mafia
The journalist, Dorothy
Kilgallen, believed that the assassination of Kennedy had involved
Jack
Ruby
and the Mafia. She also suggested that J.
D. Tippet and
Bernard Weismann were
involved in the conspiracy.
(10)
E. Howard Hunt and the CIA
In his book, Plausible
Denial (1991), Mark
Lane argues
that CIA agents killed Kennedy. He claims that the conspiracy involved
E.Howard Hunt and Frank
Sturgis.
(11)
The Mafia, Anti-Castro Activists and the CIA
Anthony
Summers is the
author of The Kennedy Conspiracy.
He believes that Kennedy was killed by a group of anti-Castro activists,
funded by Mafia mobsters that had been ousted from Cuba. Summers believes
that some members of the CIA took part in this conspiracy. Summers
speculated that the following people were involved in this conspiracy:
Johnny Roselli, Carlos
Marcello,
Santos
Trafficante,
Sam Giancana, David
Ferrie, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Guy
Bannister and E.Howard Hunt. Sylvia
Meagher in her book, Accessories After
the Fact, also supported the theory that Kennedy had been
killed by Anti-Castro exiles.
(12)
CIA and Executive Action
Executive
Action,
was a CIA secret plan
to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power.
In his book The
Secret Team (1973) Leroy
Fletcher Prouty claimed
that elements of the CIA were worked on behalf of the interests of
a "high cabal" of industrialists and bankers. He also claimed
that the Executive Action unit
could have been used to kill Kennedy.
Prouty named CIA operative, Edward Lansdale,
as the leader of the operation.
(13)
Secret Service Conspiracy
In
his book, Best Evidence, David
Lifton claims
that members of the Secret Service agents were involved in the killing
of Kennedy. This included providing the assassins with a good opportunity
to kill Kennedy. Lifton was highly critical of the behaviour of William
Greer,
Roy
Kellerman
and Winston
G. Lawson
during the
assassination. Lifton believes that after the assassination of Kennedy
they
hijacked the body in order to alter the corpse. In the book, Mortal
Error, Bonar Menninger,
claims that SS agent George Hickey killed
Kennedy by accident.
(14)
J. Edgar Hoover
J.
Edgar Hoover
was concerned
that Kennedy would force him into retirement when he reached the age
of 70. Mark North (Act of Treason)
and George O'Toole (The Assassination Tapes)
both believe that Hoover either knew of plans to kill Kennedy and
did nothing to stop them, or he helped to organize the assassination.
In his book, Deep
Politics and the Death of JFK (1993) Peter
Dale Scott
provides information
that Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
helped to cover-up the real identity of the people who assassinated
John
F. Kennedy.
(15)
John Birch Society
Harry
Dean
was an undercover agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
In 1962 he infiltrated the John
Birch Society.
He later reported that the society hired two gunman, Eladio
del Valle and Loran Hall, to kill President
John
F. Kennedy.
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