A little over a week ago, was the 57th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy and that tragic and somber moment was duly noted by many. But then no mention of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States can ever be complete, without the conspiracy theories. So here are some of our favorites.
LBJ did it with help from the CIA, the FBI and the real assassin on the Grassy Knoll. In this theory LBJ is a power-hungry man who wants, needs, no, has to be President! So, he orchestrates the assassination and ascends to the Presidency. For a while he’s on top of the world. He’s elected the next year in a major landslide but then he gets lost in the quagmire of Viet Nam. Demonstrations and riots erupt across the country. LBJ becomes the object of hatred and scorn. Protestors chant. “Hey, hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today!” When he runs for re-election even though he wins the New Hampshire Primary, he is so beat and disillusioned by the war that he quits the race. In an angry, hurtful television address to the nation, he says. “I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
This would make a great movie. Think ‘All About Eve’ here where a young Anne Baxter schemes lies and sleeps her way to the top of Broadway only to find it all empty and meaningless. We see Kevin Costner as LBJ. Angelina Jolie as Jackie Kennedy and Tom Hardy as JFK. J.K Simmons is the shadowy figure on the Grassy Knoll.
Then there is the Mafia did it. Sam Giancana and Carlos Marcello had the President whacked. There are some facts to play with here. Fact 1, Joseph P. Kennedy the father of JFK was mobbed up. He was a bootlegger during prohibition and the Mob were his partners. Fact 2, the Mob helped JFK get elected helping turn out the vote for him in Chicago and Louisiana. Fact 3, the Kennedys try to get the Mob to whack Fidel Castro. Fact 4, Jack Ruby was definitely mobbed up. You can fill in the blanks to Lee Harvey Oswald. This would make another great movie with DeNiro playing Sam Giancana and Joe Pesci playing Marcello. Lorraine Bracco is Jackie Kennedy, Ray Liotta is Lee Harvey Oswald and Paul Sorvino is Jack Ruby. Think of this as The Goodfellas go to Washington.
Of course, our favorite conspiracy theory comes from our own Financial and Real Estate expert Carmine. Carmine contends that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the many illegitimate kids of Joseph P. Kennedy. The favored son JFK gets to live the charmed life, hob knobbing with celebrities, sleeping with movie stars, marrying Jackie not to mention all the money and the Presidency. While poor ole Lee Harvey makes a buck and change an hour working in a book depository. When the favored son comes to Dallas, poor ole Lee just can’t take it anymore. He buys a gun and well, the rest is history. This wouldn’t make much of a movie. It’s just too sad.
Those are our favorites, what’s yours?
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