[lbo-talk] Why not Paul

Carl G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Tue Nov 29 08:27:03 PST 2011


Or was it a case of "chickens coming home to roost," as was said at the time?

Kennedy's world-wide program of assassination, death squads, & Green Berets prompted an American member of the Fair Play for Cuba committee to employ the talents taught him by the US Marines.

On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
>
>> On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:08 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
>>
>>> Re. Lee Harvey Oswald: is it so unbelievable that Oswald was
>>> sincere in his wish to shoot Kennedy?
>>
>> Yes. Totally unbelievable. If he had had such a "wish" (more than
>> dubious!) he would have done what anyone who is proud of
>> accomplishing a great wish does. He would have bragged about it,
>> instead of reducing his own role to the shameful one of a mere patsy.
>
> So which is it? JFK was shot because:
>
> 1) The old Havana mob was looking for revenge.
> 2) He had lost his anti-communist spine and was about to withdraw
> from Vietnam.
> 3) He was doing too much acid with Cord Meyer's wife in the White
> House.
> 4) All that French food and high culture in the WH was making
> America go soft.
> 5) LBJ wanted to be president.
> 6) Other.
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