Who Killed JFK?......?

Sadly, we'll never know. Odds are that Oswald didn't act alone. Perhaps he had a commie friend. Mob connections are certainly possible. Union connections are certainly possible. Rogue CIA agents...LOL....come on, get serious. I certainly think the truth would have surfaced back then. And what surfaced is that Oswald acted alone...as do most assassins. Again, we'll never know for sure.

After reading dozens of books on this subject, I’m convinced that it was the Mafia that killed JFK. Their motive was to end Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s war on organized crime. In fact, RFK’s main priority his first few years was to go after the Mafia, just as he and John Kennedy had done while JFK was in the Senate. Many Mafia leaders felt betrayed by RFK’s policy, since Chicago boss Sam Giancana had helped in falsifying election returns in Chicago in the 1960 presidential election, enabling Kennedy to win Illinois and the election. Additionally, there is anecdotal evidence that Giancana and Kennedy actually shared a mistress, Judith Campbell, and in the minds of some Mafia leaders who knew about the connection between the president and the mobster, this took away Kennedy’s "off limits" status as president and, in their minds, turned him into just another man who had slept with one of their women. A number of the players in the assassination had Mafia ties. Jack Ruby was certainly a low level Dallas mobster; in the months before November 1963 the frequency of Ruby’s phone calls both placed to and received from known Mafia members increased dramatically. The night before the assassination, Ruby was seen at the Cabana Motel, which just happened to be the place where another man with Mob ties, Jim Braden was staying. Baden, who had a long criminal record involving violent crime, was actually detained the next day in Dealey Plaza, in one of the buildings whose rooftop and windows overlook the plaza. He provided the police with a fake ID and a fake excuse for being there and was released. It’s hard to minimize the depth of feeling against President Kennedy held by many Mafia leaders. In particular, New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello seemed to be a particular target of Attorney General Kennedy’s enforcement efforts. In 1961, the Justice Department deported Marcello to Guatemala (essentially dumping him in the middle of the jungle). When he returned to the U.S., he was enraged and determined to eliminate Robert Kennedy's continued threat to his interests. In 1962, Marcello explained to a private investigator the value of killing President Kennedy. He said that if a dog was biting you, and you cut off its tail (meaning RFK), the dog will still bite. But if you cut off its head (JFK) the dog will die. He further went on to say that JFK would be killed, and that a "lone nut" would be set up to take the fall. Interestingly, Lee Harvey Oswald's uncle, Dutz Murret, was also a low level operative in organized crime. Finally, what was one of the major results of the assassination of President Kennedy? Attorney General Kennedy and President Johnson hated each other. Kennedy lost his influence and status. Even the FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover (who had once famously claimed that there was no such thing as organized crime), felt comfortable defying his boss the Attorney General. Within a week after the assassination Hoover had removed the direct line between Kennedy's desk and his. And by September 1964 Kennedy had left the Cabinet, to pursue election to the Senate from New York.

There was an infamous mafia hit man, a real-life contract killer arrested in Dallas that day. He was found hiding in the rail yard behind the infamous grassy knoll, along with two other men. One of the other men, like the killer, was dressed in expensive leisure clothes, including brand-new shoes, yet the two were listed as 'hobos' by the Dallas police, and were released without being questioned. This murderer, who died in Federal prison for killing a judge and a witness, was linked to nearly two dozen other murders, including Kennedy's. He was, I'll always believe, the shooter on the grassy knoll. His name was Charles Harrelson, and his son is funnyman Woody Harrelson from "Cheers," "Wildcats," "Natural Born Killers," etc. http://cadeveo.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/stranger-than-holy-woody-pt-1-jfk-e-howard-hunt-charles-harrelson-and-six-to-eight-tramps/ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRIharrelson1.htm

I have read many books on this subject, but the most recent one I have read is the best. http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-History-Assassination-President-Kennedy/dp/0393045250/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5194276-5249667?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187110687&sr=8-1 Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Hardcover) by Vincent Bugliosi Price: $32.97 From Publishers Weekly Bugliosi, best known as Charles Manson's prosecutor, spent more than 20 years writing this defense of the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the slaying of President Kennedy, but his obsession has produced a massive tome that's likely to overwhelm most readers. At times, the author seems determined to present every detail his researches revealed, even if it doesn't add to the overall picture (like a footnote on Elvis sightings). Further, while Bugliosi says even serious conspiracy theorists don't claim the FBI or Secret Service were involved, he devotes chapters to each. The book's structure—it's organized by subject, such as theories about the role of the FBI, the KGB or anti-Castro Cubans—leads to needless repetition, and, for an author who excoriates conspiracy theorists, charging them with carelessness and making wild accusations, Bugliosi is not always temperate in his language; for example, twice he makes the nonsensical claim that some Warren Commission critics "were screaming the word conspiracy before the fatal bullet had come to rest." His decision to devote twice as many pages to critiquing Oliver Stone's movie JFK as to his chapter on organized crime (identified by the chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassination as the likely conspirators) is a curious one, as is the choice to open the book with a dramatic re-creation of events surrounding the assassination rather than a straightforward chronology of the relevant facts. Moreover, Bugliosi does not always probe whether individuals who are the sole source for certain facts (for example, Oswald's widow, Marina) had any motive to lie. Bugliosi's voluminous endnotes are on an accompanying CD. Gerald Posner's 1993 Case Closed made most of the same points in a much more concise way. 32 pages of illus. (May) and Case Closed is fantastic as well http://www.amazon.com/Case-Closed-Gerald-Posner/dp/1400034620/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5194276-5249667?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187110829&sr=1-1 Case Closed (Paperback) by Gerald Posner Price: $11.53 From Publishers Weekly Posner's sound and painstakingly thorough argument that Oswald was the sole culprit of JFK's murder was a PW bestseller. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal The majority of books written on the assassination of John F. Kennedy focus on the various conspiracy theories. This audiobook, based on a critically acclaimed book by a former Wall Street lawyer, uses hard evidence and interviews to show that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that none of the conspiracy theories hold any weight. Posner reads his own material, and his voice grates on the listener; however, as the story progresses, the listener has no choice but to forget the narrator and become wrapped up in the unfolding details. This recording should find a home in all public libraries where there is an interest in Kennedy and the assassination. - Danna C. Bell-Russel, Marymount Univ. Libs., Arlington, Va. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Posner's "Case Closed" reads like a brilliantly prepared prosecutor's summation of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald. Most conspiracy theorists treat Oswald as an irrelevant cypher. He was the one guy they're all sure didn't kill Kennedy, so they virtually ignore his past. Posner takes a long hard look at Oswald the person and finds a violent, egotistical loner, disliked by most who knew him, largely ignored by the American Communists with whom he tried desperately to ingratiate himself with. His defection to the Soviet Union was almost rejected by the Soviets, whose opinion of Oswald was no better than that of those who knew him in America. Posner creates a convincing portrait of a small, bitter, violent man who, by 11/22/1963, was a failure as a husband, father and as the revolutionary he saw himself to be. He had already failed to assassinate General Walker several months. The Kennedy motorcade gave Oswald one last chance to prove himself as a revolutionary, after having been rebuffed in his attempts to defect to Cuba. Posner also give us a vivid portrait of Jack Ruby as a small-time hustler, a glory-seeking braggart who was too much of a bigmouth to be a member of any conspiracy, much less one to kill a president. If any one of several circumstances, completely out of Ruby's control, had happened even slightly differently, he would have missed his chance to kill Oswald.

I have no idea, the theories are endless. But I will go to my grave convinced that the official line of the Warren Commission is total rubbish. I don't see Oswald as the killer. The whole thing could NOT be done from the Book Depository, and there were more people involved. I wonder if we'll ever know; but I'd truly like the answers.

A mentally retarded person.

I am sticking with Lee Harvey Oswald and that perhaps he had someone bigger behind him, but I would not like to guess at whom.