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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)You're mixing Katzenbach's memo with LBJ's statement to Earl Warren that millions could be killed in a nuclear war, which was pure LBJ hyperbole.
It also makes clear that top officials in the Justice Department, like officials in the Dallas Police Department and in the FBI, believed that Oswald was guilty.
"Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists."
Katzenbach is specifically talking about cutting off the kind of evidence-free speculation in which you're engaged.
You've stated previously that the Justice Department's participation in a cover-up was a "noble" thing. Do you still hold that view?