Who killed JFK?

[struggle4progress]

5 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	It takes more than guns to kill a man: JFK never died
	0 (0%)
	Lee Harvey Oswald and mebbe some accomplice
	0 (0%)
	A cabal of rich Texas oilmen like GHW Bush, with the help of rightwing Dallasites
	1 (20%)
	Since Tricky Dick, Jackie, and LBJ were all upset at him, I suspect they were behind it
	0 (0%)
	Mafia folk angry about RFK's crackdown, working with CIA operatives unhappy about the Bay of Pigs
	3 (60%)
	Mark Lane and Jim Garrison, so they could make money writing books
	0 (0%)
	Pretty sure Kruschev and Castro
	0 (0%)
	It was just a tragic accident, somebody firing their gun into the air or something
	1 (20%)
	Oh, wait! I know! Don't tell me! Um ... Jack Ruby ...?
	0 (0%)
	Sasquatch!
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[spin]

1. I really have no idea but there is no doubt that the mafia and the CIA had reason to wish ...

that JFK was dead.

[defacto7]

2. It's not answerable objectively.

2038.... maybe, maybe not.

[damnedifIknow]

3. Whoever killed him

may they rot in the deepest darkest hell possible.

[avaistheone1]

4. I strongly agree with that sentiment.

[Junkdrawer]

5. How about....

CIA unhappy about the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis, working with Mafia operatives angry about RFK's crackdown.

[longship]

6. Another rubbish, DU baiting poll.

Worthless.

[struggle4progress]

8. I must not have included your preferred option

[duffyduff]

7. Any vote other than Oswald as the lone gunman is just ignorant

It makes NO sense for there to be a conspiracy.

People start with possible motives instead of the evidence, all of which points to Oswald alone.

[Oakenshield]

9. Sasquatch!

Had to be. Probably jealous of JFK's many mistresses.

[Journeyman]

10. I heard, it was you and me. . .

I shouted out,
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me . . .

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game . . .

"Sympathy For The Devil"
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones

[Pretzel_Warrior]

11. why no option for JUST Lee Harvey Oswald?

I guess you can't stand Occam's Razor.

[struggle4progress]

14. I guess it's just not a very precise poll

I lived in Dallas for nearly decade, beginning right smack dab in the mid-60s, and I was always stunned by the continuing hatred for JFK: it tasted bad

So I thought a bit about all this long ago, before concluding about thirty years back that there will probably never be a credible alternative to the Warren Commission report

But sometimes I still remember that bad taste

Since that can't be the basis for any plausible theory, I frame none

But I still remember it sometimes, fresh and awful as when I first tasted it

[JHB]

12. John Dillinger...

...and many mooooorrrrrreeeeee.

[LuvNewcastle]

13. Are you asking who was behind it or who pulled the trigger? Or both?

Oswald might have pulled the trigger or he might have been one of the triggermen, but the bigger question is who put the triggerman up to the deed. JFK had many powerful enemies. I just want to know who drew the short straw and put the plan in motion to have it carried out.

Powerful New Orleans mobster Carlos Marcello used to brag that he'd had it done. He seems as good a suspect as any, and he had ties to the people in Dallas who were connected to the CIA. I think that's where I'd look first. I don't think the information that would lead to a conclusion about it all will ever be released, however. With the possible exception of a couple of very old people, that information was carried to grave.