who do you think really killed John F. Kennedy?

Question

I have my own theory involving Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover and some extreme right wing groups that could not stand to see an Irish-Catholic American as their president but I want to know what you think.
I can't help but think how things would be different if Kennedy was not murdered.
he would have ended the Vietnam dissaster and made peace with the Soviet Union and ended the cold war meaning that we would never have trained Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviets in Afganistan, we would never have armed Sadam Hussein to fight Iran, Nixon would have never made it to the presidency and Cuba would be a great ally of ours by now.

Answer 1

You have quite an imagination. But after 40+ years, I think any conspiracy theories would have been proven by now. Someone would have talked, or been found. Lee Harvey Oswald did it, and probably did it alone.

Answer 2

Oswald, which can be shown by the weapon -- the much-scorned Carcano. Secret shooters would have had to arm themselves with the same despised rifle and, to boot, be certain their bullets would shatter so the individual rifles could not be identified. Utterly absurd.

My own question is how he got back into the US, with a Russian wife at that, after formally renouncing his citizenship.

I am an admirer of JFK's, but your conclusions are shaky speculation. Though the open introduction of US troops began with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, the US had been supporting the French in Vietnam since 1946 and the South Vietnamese since 1954. Kennedy did drop a few hints about abandoning the place, but, given current cold war doctrine, I doubt he could have. Even if so, Europe was our principal concern. Soviet aggression in Europe began the cold war, and withdrawal would not have affected that at all. Remember that the Berlin Wall was a product of that era.

Answer 3

Your basic information is pretty well skewed. Starting with Lyndon B. Johnson who was one of the most liberal senators we had during that century and while he was still a practical man he was pretty far left. During his Presidency he started what he called the War on Poverty which begot most of the liberal social programs that we have today, from total welfare to affirmative action. He was not a right winger nor was he liked by J. Edgar Hoover who thought he was a commie and they were mortal enemies. Also, JFK started the Vietnam War. Flat out. JFK started the Vietnam War and escalated it and sent combat troops there and allowed US troops to be involved in combat and not just be advisers. He was involved in the overthrow of th South Vietnamese Government including the assassination of their President, and installed a military government in Saigon to allow the war to grow. When Johnson was President he still had most of JFK's cabinet heads including Robert F. McNamara who was JFK's secretary of defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. LBJ declined to run for a second term as President because he could not stop the war. That is just history. So your basic premise is wrong there. JFK is largely a myth in American history. His Presidency was fairly short but his major accomlishment was the Cuban Missile Crisis where he took us to the brink of nuclear war over the placement of Russian missiles in Cuba. JFK also fostered the Bay of Pigs fiasco where he had the CIA arm and train mercenaries and freedom fighters in Florida and financed their invasion of Cuba, however, at the last minute he decided to not allow the US Air Force to fly ground support for the invaders and they were decimated and imprisoned. There has often been speculation that Castro may have had something to do with his murder so its hard to accept that had he lived we would be great friends with Cuba today. He stabbed the freedom fighters in the back and left them to rot in prisons in Cuba. So your information on JFK and Cuba is simply backwards. During JFK's time he constantly baited the Soviet Union including his speech in West Germany. Relations with the USSR were at their worst during his short Presidency. Again, your basic information is simply, historically wrong.
I lived during the Kennedy era and I am Catholic. He won his nomination to be President in my state and as a kid we were all thrilled to see an Irish American and Catholic be elected. However, you are buying into a lot of political spin folklore about JFK and so much so that you believe just the opposite of some of the things he did and then propose that the world would be wonderful if he had lived. I don't know if it would be different or not but some of things he did, such as Vietnam, was a horrible thing. He helped to establish the US Army Special Forces so that they could be come the military arm of the CIA and do military incursions around the world. Its OK to like JFK, he was interesting, but he was not the things that you say. Some of the them are downright silly, like Vietnam. I am sorry but they are.

Answer 4

Everybody knows who killed JFK
The American Government.
It's like playing on a ball team...
You don't just single out the best players
and hand them the trophy. The whole
team gets it.
Those that did it, those that knew about it,
and those who did nothing about it.
That's who killed JFK.
They killed him because he told them
that he would play on their team. Instead,
he started making some major changes.
Changes that were taking big money out of
the pockets of the greedy rich. They were getting
quite fat off of the war. They wanted more war.
Without JFK, Well, now they have it. Lots of it.
It's a lot more complicated than just that issue.
People need to read all the facts, not just watch
movies. There are too many questions unanswered.
For the president to be shot to death in public....
that takes more cover up than the mind can imagine.
We're dealing with greedy people, not necessarily
stupid people. Don't you find it strange that all of the
most important witnesses are dead...were killed.
Including the guy they set up for the fall, and the guy
that took him out. Get a hold of the medical records
if you want some interesting reading. So many lies.
For those of you that think it doesn't mattert after
all these years..take a look at what has been, and is
happening to your freedoms in this country today.
Look out your windows to the streets ..nothing but
trouble and drugs and killings. Anyone feel safe.

Answer 5

With all the theories I've seen I haven't seen much to convince me otherwise. As for your other theories. Kennedy had a lot to do with Vietnam being such a disaster. LBJ didn't help the situation, but Kennedy could have ended it and showed no signs he would have. Peace with the USSR is some major speculation. It's a whole lot of "could have", but highly unlikely. Things could have been a whole lot worse too. He was no saint.

Answer 6

Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. There isn't a shred of supportable evidence that points to any other answer. There have been many theories, but none of them hold water.

Answer 7

Oswald of course.

Surely you don't believe the historical revisions you tacked on such as having US arming Saddam when it was USSR & France.

Answer 8

The Mafia.