The Jfk Conspiracy

The JFK Conspiracy

On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas to a crowd of excited

people lining the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the President. As his motorcade proceeded

down Elm Street, Governor Connally's wife said, "You can't say that Dallas isn't friendly to you

today Mr. President." Upon that, John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States

was assassinated. The United States mourned the death of its young and inspiring President. It has been thirty-seven years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and many people are still uncertain as to who is actually responsible for his assassination. Through the years there have been numerous theories that the CIA and the FBI were somehow linked to the assassination.

Though many would doubt that the president’s own government would conspire to murder him; there are several possible reasons for their potential participation in an assassination plot. The Bay of Pigs was the spark that ignited the devastating fire. 1500 CIA trained anti-Castro expatriates were sent to seize Cuba. At the critical last moment President Kennedy cancelled the air strikes which were supposed to disable Castro’s air force. As a result more than 100 of the CIA’s men were killed; the remaining agents surrendered. (Morrissey)

Kennedy took full public responsibility for the Bay of Pigs disaster though secretly he blamed the CIA. Kennedy fired three of the CIA’s top men whom were responsible for the operation: Director Allen Dulles, who was later a member of the Warren Commission (Lifton 176), General Cabell, and Richard Bissel. (Morrissey) After the CIA lost time, effort,

and people in the attempt to secure Cuba, the CIA became hostile and wanted to get rid of Kennedy to prevent him from losing more ground, especially in Vietnam.Adding to the fire were Kennedy’s secret commitments to pulling out of Vietnam and his threat to“Smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them in the wind” (Belzer 79)

There were three known attempts on taking JFK’s life in the fall of 1963. In late October, Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested by the secret service in Chicago days before a scheduled visit by Kennedy. Vallee was discovered to have an M-1 rifle, a handgun, and three thousand rounds of ammunition. Days later, the Secret Service received another threat: Kennedy would be ambushed in Chicago by a Cuban hit squad. The Chicago trip was cancelled