I am WAY behind on this JFK assassination stuff someone answer some...

[IranianDemocrat]

...questions I have.

Who do you think killed JFK?

Why would they want to kill JFK?

What is the main proof showing this was not a random act?

Why do you think Ruby killed Oswald?

Why did Ruby kill himself?

[Racenut20]

1. Ruby didn't kill himself

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Who killed JFK?

Who do you think killed JFK?
I don't think we'll ever know.
Why would they want to kill JFK?
Any powerful man has many people who would like to kill him. Without knowing who, we'll never know why.
What is the main proof showing this was not a random act?
The Warren Coverup, I mean Commission.
Why do you think Ruby killed Oswald?
To shut him up.
Why did Ruby kill himself?
Ruby died of cancer.


Sorry, I realize my answers are probably no more satisfying to you than they are to me.

[maveric]

3. 1. Several entities were involved..

CIA, FBI, Mob, RW industrialists, Anti-Castro Cubans for starters.

2.Kennedy was planning on "smashing the CIA into a thousand pieces", and the firing of its director Allen Dulles. Hoover of the FBI didnt want the civil rights issues that JFK was implementing and viewd him a a communist. The mob had bone to pick with JFK and RFK after Sam Giancana of the Chicago mob allegedly rigged the Illinois electorate to Kennedy, helping him win the prez. Bobby, the Attorney General was on an all-out war with organized crime investigating and prosecuting many top-level mob figures, mainly Carlos Marcello of New Orleans who Bobby had deported to central america a year earlier.
RW Industrialists wanted a war in Viet Nam and Jack was planning on removing troops/advisors and abandoning the war effort.
The Cuban were angry at JFK for not doing anything about Castro and a failed covert, CIa attempt to invade and overthrow that dictator.

3.Too many coincidences and enemies were involved. Google a few web sites and read up a bit. I'd have 3000 words to type here and my hands would tire.

4.Ruby was a mob guy from Dallas, which was controlled by the New Orleans mob(Carlos Marcello),and had ties to Oswald and several shady characters who were also know to be associated to Oswald. Ruby had terminal cancer and was given a job to do IMO.

5. Ruby died of cancer in the Dallas county jail, not a state prison while awaiting a death sentence.

[wuushew]

4. Why did the mob need to deliever Illinois?

Kennedy won by 50 electoral votes and IL was worth 27 in 1960, only the popular vote was contested. Mobsters need to learn how to do math.

[maveric]

5. Just for insurance.

Which totally kills the RW line that the Mafia got Kennedy elected. He would have won without Il.

[ForestsBeatBushes]

7. Your #5

There was a rumor he was injected with cancer cells.

What do you think?

[Maccagirl]

6. I used to think that while it was too late for justice

to prevail, it was not to late for the truth. Forty years hence I'm inclined to believe that we'll never learn the truth either. My best friend found out some things from an FBI agent 30 years ago (1973) that convinced me this was no random act by a "disaffected loner". The bottom line is JFK was a man in power who wasn't beholden to the usual military/industrial/intelligence cabal-thus he was a major threat to the power structure.

[ForestsBeatBushes]

8. My attempt.

I still don't know who I think killed JFK.

If I knew who did it, I might be able to answer as to why.

Regarding "random act"; google it. Supposedly, there were assassins everywhere. Shots did come from 'the grassy knoll', but they were waiting to come from other places as well. Please google it.

If I knew who did it, I might be able to answer as to why Ruby killed Oswald.

Ruby died of cancer; but there are rumors he was injected with cancer cells.

Remember this was not too long after the government was putting chemical agents into transit systems to see how people would react; that's not a theory, that happened in San Francisco and, I believe, elsewhere.

Different world, man.

[rasputin1952]

9. To try to answer your questions...

1. The only thing I do know, is that Oswald didn't shoot Kennedy. After that, it could be damn near anybody.

2. Simple, Coup d'etat

3. Far too much circumstantial and physical evidence. The Tippet murder is a prime example of trying to toss a red herring. The "Grassy Knoll" area, is an area of extreme contention. Ballistics don't match up, (i.e., "Magic Bullett" and all that surrounds it, lack of legitamate autopsy reports, confiscation of films, etc.)

4. To keep him quiet. He may not have been the assassin, but he was involved in several areas.

5. Ruby died of cancer. He kept saying, right to the end, that he had information, but he would not give it in Dallas. It seems ridiculaous that the gov't would not have followed up on the possibility of Ruby knowing more. This in itself, leads to a myriad of conspiracy theories.

Simplistic, but to the point. If I got into detail, the net would crash, there is simply so much speculation out there, it is extremely difficult to dig through it.

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