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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)umbrage at the continued harassment of Castro's Cuba by JFK's administration, even following the Bay of Pigs debacle and the Cuban Missile Crisis. LHO was not simply a publicity whore, by which I mean there was an explicitly political motive behind his assassination of JFK.
On edit: Clay Shaw, the only person ever charged with and prosecuted for the murder of JFK and indisputably innocent of the charge, had this to say: "People believe in a conspiracy because when death comes to the figure of a prince, as it did to Kennedy, struck down in his prime, it should come under a panoply of great tragedy with all the resulting high court intrigue -= almost something out of Shakespeare -- not from some poor little psychotic loser crouched iwth a mail-order rifle behind a stack of cardboard boxes in a warehouse." (Cited in Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History, p. 1348n.)