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  •  The Mob (none / 0)

    Robert Blakely, who was counsel to the House Assasination Committee in the late 70s, also concluded that it was the mob who was behind it.

    A proud member of the "far left."

    by Paleo on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 12:16:15 PM PDT

    •  The Mafia is a Strawman (none / 0)

      I don't buy it. Castro involving himself in something like that less than a year after the biggest crisis of the cold war resulted in a negotiated guarantee of the island's saftey? and the hawks in JFK's administration don't use the discovery of this plot as an excuse to invade Cuba like they wanted to in '61 and '62?

      its a red herring.

      by Seeds on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 01:11:46 PM PDT

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      •  I agree.... (none / 0)

        If there was a conspiracy it was Big Steel or Big Oil or Big Something...or some combination.

        If there was a conspiracy, the anwer is right under our noses, and we can't see it. We can't see it because nobody wants to see it.

        The rest, as you say, is a red herring.

        I am not sold on conspiracy, though.

        by Big Nit Attack on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 06:52:47 PM PDT

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        •  I believe there was one... (none / 1)

          and I believe that is as bad as most people speculate it was. I think a philosophical cabal not unlike our present day neocons feared the re-election of JFK and revolted. the specifics of how that happened are probably impossible to know. they may or may not have acted in conjunction with other power centers in the country and through some bit players who left intriguing traces behind, but the specifics themselves can't be gleaned from this.

          there is so much to be skeptical about. for me it begins with Oswald's death on TV and in a police station. if it happened anywhere else in the world, we'd laugh at the suggestion of an innocent explation. couple that with the fact that you could not reconstruct the evidence of the government's own case if you wanted to today because so much of it has been lost or destroyed.

          i think its one of those things that anyone close enough to know the truth also knows not to ask.

          by Seeds on Wed Nov 23, 2005 at 09:20:20 AM PDT

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    •  Johnny Roselli (none / 0)

      Bill Bonanno, in his book Bound By Honor and other places, definitely has Johnny Roselli as the main trigger man.  Read here:

      One day while I was sitting in the yard, with a number of other inmates, Johnny Roselli, out of Chicago, was very upset, infuriated in fact, about the treatment that he was being given by his people in Chicago. One of this group had made a remark about Jack Ruby, and Johnny made the statement that "Jack was a lot more loyal than that (expletive) Sam." Whether or not it actually happened the way it was related to me, I don't know I do know this: That Johnny Roselli told me that he was the shooter in the sewer below the grassy knoll. And that there were others that were backups behind the wall of the grassy knoll. They were Frenchmen. I've been asked many times whether I believe him, and I irrevocably believe him, because I have known Johnny for a long time. I know the type of person he was, and there would not be any purpose of him saying it if it were not true. Because he knew the people that he was talking with that day in the Yard. It was not a long gunman. In reality, Lee Harvey Oswald was the fall guy.

      Don't know for sure, but I did read the book a few years back, and it's a good read.  The Roselli stuff is right near the end.

      by MN camera on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 03:16:50 PM PDT

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