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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)What I don't understand is your belief that the Justice Department abdicating any role in this case (with or without RFK's direct involvement) was a noble action, especially when coupled with your insistence that the Warren Commission didn't do a thorough investigation. You want a thorough investigation but you're fine with the Justice Department taking its ball and going home?
The WC did what Katzenbach had proposed, reviewing the evidence and drawing conclusions, and in fact did more than that. The Justice Department, as the HSCA rightly noted, did very little. To the detriment of the case.
"The Big Lie Begins." That's JFK Lancer's title for the Katzenbach memo. Mary Ferrell calls it "the blueprint for the cover-up which followed." If there truly was a conspiracy, that one little memo from the Justice Department is one of the main reasons you can't find solid evidence to back up the claim of conspiracy.
And you think that, fifty years later, the government is going to just turn around and show you the evidence that, yes, we deliberately covered up the murder of a president for national security reasons? Think about Watergate. If Nixon had been able to keep those tapes secret, do you think any of us would have ever heard them? The cover-up artists in this case just let the evidence sit in a file somewhere?
Counter-theory: There actually wasn't a conspiracy.