JFK's murder. Was it a conspiracy by:

[Deja Q]

Watching a report on ABC and they're giving lots of time in terms of Lee Harvey Oswald's history and beliefs. So, naturally, this poll instantly came to mind.

(You know what I think, it's a conservative/repuke conspiracy. We've had to many murders of liberals/left-wingers over the last 40 years that it's not a bunch of happy-go-lucky coincidences. No !@^%ing way.)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. my mom says LBJ

and, well, if it was going to be a conspiracy, he stood to benefit the most - at least directly - from kennedy's death.

[flamingyouth]

4. My mom says the Hunt family

as in the tomato sauce/ketchup group. We were never allowed to have their products in our home. I don't know where she got that, except that they were big Texas conservatives. I always thought it was a little out there as a theory, but hey, that's my mom!

[CanuckAmok]

11. I've heard "American Millinary Manufaturers Association"...

because JFK made hats unfashionable for men to wear.

There's a conspiracy for everyone, I guess.

[kskiska]

13. I worked for the Hat Corporation of America

in Connecticut in the early 60s typing orders from all the big department stores and haberdasherys all over the country. They moved to Tennessee after that, and pretty much breathed their last breath shortly after. JFK did wear a top hat to his inauguration, though.

[everythingsxen]

2. The military-industiral complex

I doubt you will get many votes for Cuba or Russia or Oswald.

[Deja Q]

3. I mentioned the two countries

as the dude on ABC had mentioned their names in reference to how people were thinking at the time. Knee-jerk reaction, if we had Russia as an official enemy on the morning of 9/11, we'd have thought of blaming them too.

Oswald could have done it on his own, looking for glory - or it was a repuke conspiracy. Works either way, but somehow the conspiracy belief makes more sense. Like all the others murdered, JFK was a threat to conservative belief and had a loud enough voice to sway even the most fickle, undecided, or simply dim.

[Darranar]

8. There's a problem with the conservative conspiracy theory...

why did they have the idea that Johnson would be much better?

Johnson was way left - basically socialistic compared to many Dems today - when it came to economic policies and he helped make the Dems the civil rights party. The only place where he was conservative was foreign policy, and that was forced by political concerns, as was kennedy's staunch anti-communism.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that Johnson didn't want to go into Vietnam. He did anyway, once again because of political concerns. No politician who became president would sacrifice it over principles, and Kennedy was no softy on communism, anyway (Bay of Pigs, anyone?).

In essence, therefore, what did they accomplish by killing Kennedy? What did they think they were going to accomplish?

I do not know whether or not it was a conspriacy. However, if it was the question remains who was behind this conspiracy, and why.

[Fenris]

12. That is an excellent point, Darranar

Probably the most reasoned analysis of the conspiracy theory argument. You're assessment of Johnson is very apt - his far left political identity would make him a less desirable replacement for the conservatives. Civil Rights, Medicare, the Great Society - the man was as non-conservative in his domestic policies as one could get. The notion that a conspiracy to assasinate Kennedy was carried out by conservatives would suggest a very poorly planned operation at best.

I grew up on "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" and have read several books on the assasination. As much as I was convinced then that Kennedy was assasinated by a shadowy cabal, I am convinced now that Oswald was a pitiful loser who wanted to make a name for himself. That's where the evidence has pointed me. I might be wrong, but I am unwilling to accept at this time any conclusion other than Oswald acted alone. Call that naive, but it's my assessment of the situation.

[sasquatch]

14. Eisonhower warned him about that too

I guess he didn't underestimated how evil they are:cry: So we lost a great man and leader:cry:

[Terwilliger]

5. there was no conspiracy...didn't they tell you?

it's all a figment of our imagination

[theorist]

6. DU is going to get to the bottom of this once and for all!

This is how we should settle EVERYTHING! (I guess MagicRat can come along.)

[LeftistGorilla]

7. It was Ace...

Ventura....

he even admitted it...

[NightTrain]

9. The important question isn't "Who killed Kennedy," but rather....

"Where are they now?"

And I think we all know the answer to that one. They (and their beneficiaries) have hijacked our country!

[FDRrocks]

10. Anyone who believes Oswald was doing it alone...

SEEMS intellectually lazy to me. I don't know who the fuck did it. It wasn't just Oswald. Not at all. The system cannot tolerate peace.... so they blow his head up. I'm young... but when I see JFK's head blow up on that video... I get tears in my eyes.