re: 54 years ago today, JFK was murdered. RIP Mr. President.

Well, that, I guess and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

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Not completely accurate - JFK refused to provide the air cover that was critical mission success

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The invasion was a complete failure at that point, and sending in American air cover (which would have likely touched off a war between the USSR and U.S.) was totally pointless. The landing force had roughly the equivalent of a reinforced battalion. The major assertion of the CIA and Joint Chiefs that led them to tell Kennedy that Bay of Pigs would work was that the people were going to "rise up" and overthrow Castro. It did not happen, and the landing was a failure from that point. The fact the CIA failed to tell Kennedy was that Castro was FAR from unpopular in Cuba at that time. And the CIA completely botched the landing zone anyway. It was completely cut off from contact from the locals as it was in the middle of a swamp far away from any real population center. The Joint Chiefs had assured Kennedy that the landing was going to be a complete success, so he gave in and let them try it. The first inkling he had of its failure was soon after the landing, which was a total debacle. Kennedy then had a choice of possibly touching off a nuclear war with the Soviets or cutting his losses. Thankfully, he chose the more prudent course of action. The Bay of Pigs debacle is totally on the CIA. It was very poorly planned and executed and was based on very dubious intelligence and wishful thinking.

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There is evidence of a conspiracy.

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Some people also assert that there's evidence of UFO's. I don't believe that either.

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the CT'ers haven't come close to proving a conspiracy.

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They all write crazy shite but they string out nutty conspiracies from factual information that drives suspicion. If the mafia or a foreign entity were involved they would probably wouldn’t leave a whole lot to find. Plausible deniability, that doesn’t support either conclusion. I say that to demonstrate there isn’t any conclusion. Though the lone wolf is logically sound, based on evidence but let’s say the mafia did have him clipped, would that change those dynamics. Made guys in the 60s wouldn’t give the open and thorough accounts that oswald’s brother, wife and associates have given

There’s a ground between “lone wolf, slam dunk” and bat shite conspiracy theories.

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Some people also assert that there's evidence of UFO's. I don't believe that either.

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That's your right. That particular example is a false equivalence, though. You can believe, as I do, that Oswald was the lone gunman and acted in concert with or on behalf of others.

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He wasn’t the average democrat then.. Woodrow Wilson set up the federal reserve and JFK wanted to end it?

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He made the ultimate mistake of believing that the President has the power in this country.

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retired rightwing general Edwin Walker.

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Got caught soliciting a male undercover Dallas cop in 1976 at Robert E Lee Park (just down Turtle Creek from his house, site of recent statue fracas).