John F. Kennedy

In the late 1950s Vice-President Richard Nixon and CIA director Allen Dulles were planning an invasion of Cuba by CIA backed Cuban exiles and an assassination of Fidel Castro. They believed that their planned Bay of Pigs invasion was going to lead to a revolt by the Cuban people and an overthrow of Castro’s Communist government.

(It is interesting to note that President George W. Bush used the exact same strategy for his invasion of Iraq. That is, he believed that his planned invasion of Iraq was going to lead to a revolt by the people of Iraq and an overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Corrupt government. Both strategies were complete failures.)

The CIA secret code name for the invasion of Cuba was Operation Zapata. George H.W. Bush, director of the CIA during the Ford administration and President from 1989 to 1993, owned Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company of Houston, TX. One of the two landing crafts for the invasion was named Barbara (Bush’s wife’s name) and the other Houston.

Those who planned the Bay of Pigs invasion believed that Nixon would win the presidential election and be the 35th president. When Kennedy won the election in November of 1960 and took over the presidency in January 1961, this threw a monkey wrench into their plans.

Kennedy would not support an invasion of Cuba with American air cover. The April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was a disaster. Kennedy fired Dulles as director of the CIA because of the lies he was told by Dulles concerning the invasion. Neither Nixon nor Dulles ever forgave Kennedy for that.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. After discovering that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba, President Kennedy demanded that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev remove these Russian offensive nuclear missiles from the island.

Kennedy also placed U.S. military forces around the world on alert and over 100,000 additional U.S. military troops were deployed to Florida for a possible invasion of the island, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Additionally, he deployed naval vessels to the Caribbean and put up a blockade around Cuba.

Finally, he ordered B-52s, loaded with nuclear weapons, to be in the air at all times during the thirteen days of the crisis.

Khrushchev wrote Kennedy a letter stating that the missiles would be removed if Kennedy assured him that Cuba would not be invaded by the United States. Kennedy gave him this promise and also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

Many of the top officers in the U.S. military never forgave Kennedy for promising to both Castro and Khrushchev a pledge that the U.S. would not invade Cuba; they believed that Kennedy was soft on Communism.

In 1963, President Kennedy had plans to install his brother, Robert, as the new director of the FBI soon after winning the 1964 Presidential election. The director at that time was J. Edgar Hoover, who Kennedy believed had become too powerful and arrogant toward directives given to him by the White House. His future removal as director of the FBI did not sit too well with J. Edgar Hoover. He too never forgave Kennedy.

Kennedy had plans to remove, or in the very least cut back, on the oil depletion allowance that was making millions of dollars for the oil companies at the tax payer’s expense. This did not sit too well with the Texan oil millionaires.

Kennedy also had plans to remove the first 1,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam before Christmas of 1963. In fact, the executive order (National Security Action memo #263) had already been written and signed by Kennedy.

One will remember that the U.S. initially got involved in the Vietnam War during the Eisenhower/Nixon administration and the war, one should also remember, was originally supported by the CIA and backed by troops in conjunction with CIA clandestine activities.

Kennedy’s order was countermanded by President Lyndon Johnson on the Monday after the assassination.

The motorcade route which Kennedy was supposed to take through the streets of Dallas was switched at the last minute. It was supposed to go straight through the triple underpass in Dealey Plaza. This route led away from the Texas School Book Depository building and the grassy knoll.

But after the switch the motorcade route then made two sweeping turns, right on Houston St. and then left on Elm St. This sweeping “S” turn besides being in violation of secret service regulations also caused the President’s car to slow down considerably as the motorcade proceeded on Elm St., right in front of the Texas School Book Depository building and the grassy knoll to its right front.

Another interesting fact is that the mayor of Dallas at that time was Earle Cabell, the brother of General Charles Cabell. Gen. Cabell was the deputy director of the CIA during the Eisenhower/Nixon administration. Both Gen. Cabell and Allen Dulles were fired by John Kennedy for the lies they told the White House about the Bay of Pigs invasion.

After the firing of Dulles, the CIA was loosing its influence on American Cold War foreign policy. That influence was shifting to the White House and detente under the Kennedy administration. Indeed, Kennedy had plans to dismantle the CIA and “break that organization into a thousand pieces.” This order was also rescinded by Johnson.

President Kennedy was genuinely seeking peace with the Soviet Union and Cuba and an end to the Cold War, while at the same time he was surrounded by many individuals in the CIA and in the military who were genuinely seeking to go to war. A dove surrounded by hawks.

In 1947, Jack Rubenstein (A.K.A. Jack Ruby) received a subpoena from Congress to testify about his knowledge of organized crime. Rubenstein got his lawyer to talk to Congressman Richard Nixon and the subpoena was squashed.

On the evening before the assassination, Nixon was in Dallas meeting with Murchinson and some other Dallas rightwing Kennedy haters. Also at this meeting was J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon claimed that he was meeting with some cola businessmen but they have not supported this claim. Nixon did not leave Dallas until the next morning. He left from Love Field. The same airport Kennedy arrived at about an hour or so later.

Also, in Dealy Plaza that afternoon was E. Howard Hunt of Watergate fame. He denied this and claimed that he was with his family. But even his children do not know where he was that day. Mark Lane proved this in his book Plausible Denial.

Lane also proved that Hunt was at a meeting Thursday night with Jack Ruby in Dallas and that at this meeting money was clandestinely exchanged with Frank Sturgis, also of Watergate fame.

In November 1963, an FBI memo stated that George H.W. Bush of the CIA was briefed about potential problems related to the assassination; Bush was involved in the containment of information after the assassination.

Finally, at the height of the Watergate investigations, H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, revealed that the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate break-in of 1972 were all intricately connected with each other.

After the Watergate break-in, Nixon knew that his administration was going down because of the burglary. He knew that it was only a matter of time before he was going to get impeached for all his criminal activities. (Everything he did, from the time of the original break-in up to the time of his actual resignation, was aimed at saving himself and his corrupt administration.)

Nixon also knew that if he did not get the right person to replace him when he got impeached, someone who would keep a lid on all the lies and conspiracies, someone who he could control, then the whole affair might blow wide open. Thus, he selected Gerald R. Ford to be the Vice-President following the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.

(Another uncanny coincidence was that the authorities found out about Agnew’s bribery just in time for Nixon to replace him.)

Gerald Ford, one will remember, was one of the key members of the Warren Commission. The other key figure of the Warren Commission was Allen Dulles. In fact, Dulles was primarily responsible for shaping the Warren Commission’s approach to all matters related to CIA.

On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency because of his illegal activities related to Watergate, becoming the first president to resign. Gerald Ford became the new president. He later pardoned Nixon of all offenses and then claimed that there was no deal between himself and Nixon. But his pardoning of Nixon stopped all the investigations into the Watergate affair and related affairs which is exactly what Nixon wanted.

All the above are known facts. But none of this proves that Nixon, Hoover, Dulles, Murchinson and the military high command conspired to kill President Kennedy. Indeed, I doubt that it is even enough evidence to get an indictment of these men. But I do believe that it is enough evidence to warrant an investigation into the possibility that the Bay of Pigs, ALL the assassinations of the 1960s, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and Watergate are all intricately connected.

If it were not Nixon and his cronies, then who else had the ability, influence and motive to accomplish the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, President Kennedy’s brother Robert and several other prominent Americans not discussed here and then get away with it? (Is it just a coincidence that all these assassinations helped Nixon win the 1968 presidential election?)

The Warren Commission and other investigations all said that they were all killed by lone assassins. But what did the Warren Commission, for example, rely upon in its investigation? It relied on unfounded and uncollaborated testimony; it relied upon manufactured and reconstructed evidence; and it relied upon heresy testimony and hypothetical information.

But most importantly it relied upon irrelevant evidence — such as Jack Ruby’s mother’s 1938 dental records (CE XXII p.395).

A proper investigation would answer the differences between the Parkland and Bethesda descriptions of the wounds to President Kennedy, the decoy ambulances, the sutured surgery of the head area, namely, in the top of the skull and many other discrepancies surrounding the autopsy of President Kennedy.

In the investigations of the assassinations of both Dr. King and Robert Kennedy similar discrepancies, overlooked evidence and destruction of evidence prevail.

A proper investigation would have answered questions concerning Cesar’s involvement — if any — in the assassination of Robert Kennedy. A proper investigation would have answered questions concerning Ray’s lawyer’s involvement — if any — in the assassination.

A proper investigation would answer questions concerning the number and direction from which shots came in all three assassinations; how the alleged assassinators just happened to be in the right place at the right time in order to commit their foul deeds and numerous other unanswered questions in all three assassinations that are not discussed here but raised by those who have investigated these murders.

It is my belief that continued investigation into the Watergate burglary would have proven (or disprove) any connections between the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, Dealy Plaza and all the assassinations of the 1960s.

It’s too bad that proper investigations which relied upon the facts were not done in 1963, 1968 and 1974, maybe we would have a better, more peaceful world today if such had been done.

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy