SYNOPSIS
The anatomy of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination has fuelled an increasing diversity of historical views, each theorizing different groups or individuals as conspirators in the plot to murder Kennedy, in accordance with their viable motives. Disputing what was deduced by the Warren Commission asserting that Harvey Lee Oswald, ex-U.S. and defector to the Soviet Union, as the lone assassin, prominent theories that have been devised include those which purport the C.I.A, the K.G.B or L.B.J as the perpetrators. The first viewpoint implicates the U.S Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) as culpable for Kennedy’s murder, with their motives aligned against Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs “fiasco” in 1961. The Soviet Union …show more content…
Johnson was the most palpable direct beneficiary of the assassination with his potential political gain. Politician, Roger Stone, who was the first J.F.K assassination author to have worked in the White House and among the few who is personally acquainted with selected J.F.K successors, provides an authoritative perspective that validates this theory. In his book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (2014), Stone alleges Johnson as the mastermind plotting the assassination, motivated by the fear that Kennedy was going to close the Vice President’s political career by dropping him from the ticket in 1964. Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of President Kennedy, is a proponent of this theory, opining that with a faction of associates and Texas businessmen, L.B.J orchestrated the plot culminating in the Kennedy assassination. Emulating researcher Barr McClellan’s book, Blood, Money, Power (2003), Stone alleges Johnson’s hit man, Malcolm Wallace as the holder of the fingerprint found on a box beside Oswald’s sniper’s nest on the book depository’s sixth floor. Working in the White House, Stone claims that Richard Nixon, L.B.J’s political rival and later President, had conveyed to him that both he and Johnson yearned for presidency but that, unlike Johnson, “I [Nixon] wasn’t willing to kill for it.” Madeleine Brown, who contended she was the mistress of Johnson, also implicated him in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. In the documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy (2003), Brown asserted that Johnson, along with Texas oil industrialist and Republican political activist, H. L. Hunt, had commenced planning Kennedy 's demise as early as 1960. At a social gathering held on the night preceding Kennedy’s assassination, Brown alleges that Johnson whispered to her that the "Kennedys will never embarrass me again—that 's no
The anatomy of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination has fuelled an increasing diversity of historical views, each theorizing different groups or individuals as conspirators in the plot to murder Kennedy, in accordance with their viable motives. Disputing what was deduced by the Warren Commission asserting that Harvey Lee Oswald, ex-U.S. and defector to the Soviet Union, as the lone assassin, prominent theories that have been devised include those which purport the C.I.A, the K.G.B or L.B.J as the perpetrators. The first viewpoint implicates the U.S Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) as culpable for Kennedy’s murder, with their motives aligned against Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs “fiasco” in 1961. The Soviet Union …show more content…
Johnson was the most palpable direct beneficiary of the assassination with his potential political gain. Politician, Roger Stone, who was the first J.F.K assassination author to have worked in the White House and among the few who is personally acquainted with selected J.F.K successors, provides an authoritative perspective that validates this theory. In his book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (2014), Stone alleges Johnson as the mastermind plotting the assassination, motivated by the fear that Kennedy was going to close the Vice President’s political career by dropping him from the ticket in 1964. Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of President Kennedy, is a proponent of this theory, opining that with a faction of associates and Texas businessmen, L.B.J orchestrated the plot culminating in the Kennedy assassination. Emulating researcher Barr McClellan’s book, Blood, Money, Power (2003), Stone alleges Johnson’s hit man, Malcolm Wallace as the holder of the fingerprint found on a box beside Oswald’s sniper’s nest on the book depository’s sixth floor. Working in the White House, Stone claims that Richard Nixon, L.B.J’s political rival and later President, had conveyed to him that both he and Johnson yearned for presidency but that, unlike Johnson, “I [Nixon] wasn’t willing to kill for it.” Madeleine Brown, who contended she was the mistress of Johnson, also implicated him in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. In the documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy (2003), Brown asserted that Johnson, along with Texas oil industrialist and Republican political activist, H. L. Hunt, had commenced planning Kennedy 's demise as early as 1960. At a social gathering held on the night preceding Kennedy’s assassination, Brown alleges that Johnson whispered to her that the "Kennedys will never embarrass me again—that 's no