Who  really  killed  President  Kennedy?  (Part 2)

The Conspiracy Theories

Immediately after the shooting, many people suspected that the assassination was part of a larger plot than just the actions of a lone, deranged shooter. Jack Ruby's shooting of Oswald days later compounded initial suspicions especially since Ruby had friends in the Mafia. Conspiracy authors assert (or strongly imply) that Ruby was part of a Kennedy assassination conspiracy and that he wanted to confess to that. Conspiracists have claimed that a polygraph test given to him by the Commission shows Ruby lying about knowing Oswald and him (Ruby) being part of a conspiracy. And indeed, a lot of his later statements showed he believed there was a conspiracy—just as millions of other Americans did. However, he later vehemently insisted that he wasn’t any part of a conspiracy to kill the president, right up to the time of his death-bed interview in the last days of his life.  

The Warren Commission (headed by Justice Warren who was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) that had the responsibility to find out who killed the president concluded (wrongly) that only Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer and no one else. That finding by the Commission was seriously flawed. It has been suggested that the Warren Commission received only information supplied to it by the FBI, and that its purpose was to rubber stamp the lone gunman theory. Richard Schweiker, United States senator and member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told author Anthony Summers in 1978, “I believe that the Warren Commission was set up at the time to feed pabulum to the American public for reasons not yet known, and that one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of our country occurred at that time.” The fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was to not use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence officials who may directed the perceived  cover-up.

The Commission also indicated that Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State; Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense; C. Douglas Dillon, the Secretary of the Treasury; Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General; J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI; John A. McCone, the Director of the CIA; and James J. Rowley, the Chief of the Secret Service, each independently reached the same conclusion on the basis of information available to them at that time. Despite their opinions, public opinion polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.

A 2003 Gallup poll reported that 75% of Americans do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. During that same year, an ABC News poll found that 70% of respondents suspected that the assassination involved more than one person. A 2004 Fox News poll found that 66% of Americans thought there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought there had been a cover-up.

In my previous article, I pointed out the evidence that there were three shooters who aimed their rifles at President Kennedy. Two of the shooters hit Kennedy and the third shooter inadvertently shot Governor Connally who was sitting directly in front of the president. 

Was Oswald the only man near the sixth floor window? Prior to the shots being fired, two women saw two men at the sixth story southwest corner window of the Dallas School Book Depository building and one of the two men had a rifle in his hands while he was manipulating the rifle scope. An inmate who was in the County Jail on Houston Street and could clearly see Dealy Plaza and the Dallas School Book Depository Building said he also saw two men at the sixth story window. Around that same time, a bystander in the area saw a man on the second floor with a rifle in his hand. Another  woman said that she saw a man exit a panel truck and walk up the grassy knoll with a rifle case in his hand and step behind a clump of bushes. Alas, no one has any idea who the second man on the sixth floor and the man on the second floor and the man behind the fence were. We only know that Oswald was on the sixth floor.

It has been submitted that it could have been the Cubans, the Mafia, the Soviet KGB or even the U.S. Military that brought about the death of the president. I am not sure that the truth will ever be determined, but I believe, as a great many other people have the same belief, that Oswald was not the only shooter in the Dealey Plaza that fateful day. I explained why I reached that conclusion in great deal in the previous article.

Here is evidence that there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. On November 9, 1963, the head of the intelligence  division of the Miami Police listened to a taped recording of a conversation between a police informant and a well-known right wing extremist. Part of the conversation went like this;

Informant:  Well how in the hell do you figure would be the best way to get him?” (He was speaking about Kennedy at that time)

Exrtremist: From an office building with a high-powered rifle.

Informant:  They are really going to kill him?

Extremist: Oh yeah. It is in the working.

The Miami police relayed this information to the Secret Service (which guards the president). They made some last-minute changes with respect to the president’s motorcade. Instead of exiting the airport and riding to Dallas. the president and his wife were placed on a helicopter and flown to their hotel in Dallas.

During the middle of the night of November 20th, Lt. Francis Frug of the Louisianna State Police interiewed a woman who said she overheard two men in the car she had been driven in, discussing the assassination of the president two days later.

Two days before the assassination, the Dallas police observed two men behind the fence of the Grassy Knoll practing rifle shooting. The men got into a nearby car and drove away when they saw the police officers approaching them.

The day before Kennedy was killed, a Cuban told an San Antonio pharmascist that Kennedy would be killed in Dallas the next day. In the morning of the day of the assassination, a CIA source in Madrid, Spain said that he heard a former Cuban journalist say that Kennedy would be killed later that day.

In late September of that year, Sylvia and Anne Odio had two Cubans and an American visiting their apartment. A couple of days later, one of the Cubans telephone Sylvia and told her that the American was so loco. he feared that the Ameican might shoot the president. After the assassination of Kennedy, she saw Oswald being shown on TV as the man who shot the president. She nearly fainted. He was the man who was in her apartment with the two Cubans.

Late in the evening of the 22nd of November, Clare Boothe Luce eceived a telephone call from a friend who was a Cuban exile. He told her about Oswald’s boast that he was an excellent marksman (which he was) and that he could even kill the president. The Cuban friend also told her that there was a Cuban Communist assassination team and that Oswald was the team’s hired gun.

These six incidents alone raise the distinct possibility that there was a conspiracy to kill the president. It also raises the specter that Fidel Castro, the president of Cuba had ordered the hit. He certainly had a motive. He knew that there had been plans by the Americans to kill him and he was extremely upset that Kennedy had put a halt to the delivery of intercontinental rockets being sent to Cuba from Russia.

The conspirators, whoever they were, needed a scapegoat to cover their own tracks so they decided that Lee Harvey Oswald would be their candidate. He was known for advocating unpopular causes, was discharged from the Marines, defected to Russia and bragged about how good a marksman he was and publicly complained about American foreign and domestic policies.  They encouraged him to take on the responsibility of being the number one man of an assassination team that would kill President Kennedy. I don’t know for sure if this actually happened but there is a story that circulated that these people used a look-a-like to call attention to Oswald engaging in suspicious behaviour. There was a rumour that Oswald (or his look-a-like) was seen at a meeting with an anti-Castro group in Dallas.

Now that is interesting. If Oswald really was seen meeting with a Cuban anti-Castro group, then this removes doubt that the Cubans under Castro’s direction, had anything whatsoever to do with the assassination of President Kennedy.

Quite frankly, I seriously doubt that Castro had anything whatsoever to do with Kennedy being assassinated. If he suspected that the American government was absolutely satisfied that he orchestrated the assassination of Kennedy, he would have to forego making public speeches (which he loved doing) and hide from what he would expect would be an army of American or Cuban anti-Castro assassins going after him. He liked his freedom to wander about Cuba without the fear of being assassinated too much to be involved in any manner whatsoever in the assassination of Kennedy. He also knew that if he had been involved in the plot, the Americans would probably have invaded Cuba and captured him or alternatively, shot him like they did many years later when they shot Bin Laden.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Cuban government was not involved in the Kennedy assassination. There was at the time of the shooting of the president a relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and Cuba.

Which other entity would want Kennedy dead then?

Anthony Summers who is the author of The Kennedy Conspiracy, believed that Kennedy was killed by a group of anti-Castro activists, funded by Mafia mobsters that had been ousted from Cuba by Castro, Cuba’s president. Summers believes that some members of the CIA took part in this conspiracy.

G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel and staff director to the House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, published The Plot to Kill the President in 1981. In his book, Blakey argues that Lee Harvey Oswald was involved but believes that there was at least one gunman firing from the Grassy Knoll. Blakey came to the conclusion that the Mafia boss, Carlos Marcello, organized the assassination.

In his book, JFK: The Second Plot, Matthew Smith points out that Thomas H. Killam, a man who worked for Jack Ruby, (the man who shot Oswald to death) claimed that there was a link between Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Mafia. He told his brother, “I am a dead man, but I have run as far as I am running.” Killam was found dead in an alley with his throat cut in March, 1964. 

In October, 1991, Chauncey Holt confessed to John Craig, Phillip Rogers and Gary Shaw about his role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He claimed Peter Licavoli, a leading figure in the Mafia in Detroit, had organized the conspiracy and named Charlie Nicoletti, Charles Harrelson and Charles Rogers as the gunmen.

In 1992 the nephew of Sam Giancana published Double Cross: The Story of the Man Who Controlled America. The book attempted to establish that Giancana had rigged the 1960 Presidential election vote in Cook County on John Kennedy's behalf, which effectively gave Kennedy the election. It is argued that Kennedy reneged on the deal and therefore Giancana had Kennedy killed.

The next crime figure to confess to the crime was James Files. He claimed that two Mafia leaders, Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli organized the assassination. Charlie Nicoletti was identified as the other gunman. The story was eventually appeared in a video The Murder of JFK: Confession of an Assassin.

Now comes the allegation that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved to some degree with the assassination of Kennedy. Let me say from the start that I am not totally convinced that the CIA helped in the plot but some information about the CIA and the Mafia that has been published is worth noting.     

Richard Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior which was published in 1996 said in his book;

“The Mafia-connection aspect) did not originate with me and I had no desire to become personally involved in its implementation, mainly because I was not competent to handle relations with the Mafia. It is true, however, that, when the idea (the assassination of Kennedy) was presented to me, I supported it and as Deputy Director for Plans I was responsible for the necessary decisions. Sheffield Edwards, the director of the Agency's Office of Security and his deputy became the case officers for the Agency's relations with the Mafia. Edwards was frank with me about his efforts, and I authorized him to continue. I do not recall any specific contact with the Mafia, but Doris Mirage, my secretary at the time, does.”

Later in his book he says;

“I hoped the Mafia would achieve success. My philosophy during my last two or three years in the Agency was very definitely that the end justified the means and I was not going to be held back. Shortly after I left the CIA, however, I came to believe that it had been a mistake to involve the Mafia in an assassination attempt. This is partly a moral judgment, but I must admit it is also partly a pragmatic (realistic) judgment.”

Edward Reid interviewed Edward Becker for his book, The Grim Reaper which was published in 1969.

“It was then that Carlos Marcello's voice lost its softness, and his words were bitten off and spit out when mention was made of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was still on the trail of Marcello. “Livarsi na petra di la scarpa!” Carlos shrilled the cry of revenge: “Take the stone out of my shoe!" "Don't worry about that little Bobby, son of a bitch," he shouted. "He's going to be taken care of!”

Ever since Robert Kennedy had arranged for his deportation to Guatemala, Carlos had wanted revenge. But as the subsequent conversation, which was reported to two top Government investigators by one of the participants and later to this author, showed, he knew that to rid himself of Robert Kennedy he would first have to remove the President. Any killer of the Attorney General would be hunted down by his brother; the death of the President would seed the fate of his Attorney General.

Becker later said in the interview;

“No one at the meeting had any doubt about Marcello's intentions when he abruptly arose from the table. Marcello did not joke about such things. In any case, the matter had gone beyond mere ‘business’; it had become an affair of honor, a Sicilian vendetta. Moreover, the conversation at Churchill Farms also made clear that Marcello had begun to move. He had, for example, already thought of using ‘nut’ (Oswald) to do the job. Roughly one year later President Kennedy was shot Dallas two months after Attorney General Robert Kennedy had announced to the McClellan committee that he was going to expand his war on organized crime. And it is perhaps significant that privately Robert Kennedy had singled out James Hoffa, Sam Giancana, and Carlos Marcello as being among his chief targets.”

When Edward Becker was questioned by the House Select Committee on Assassinations  on the 8th November, 1978, he said;

“My account of the meeting and discussion with Marcello in 1962 is truthful. It was then and it is now. I was there. The FBI (their agents in Los Angeles) have tried to discredit me. They've done everything except investigate the information I gave Reid. They apparently have always said it was not the truth, but they've never investigated it to arrive at that judgment?”         

G. Robert Blakey said in his testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations on September, 1978;

“Becker stated that Marcello had made his remarks about the Kennedy brothers after Becker said something to the effect that “{Bobby Kennedy is really giving you a rough time.” He could not recall the exact words Marcello used in threatening President Kennedy, but believed the account in Reid's book “is basically correct.” Marcello was very angry and had clearly stated that he was going to arrange to have President Kennedy murdered in some way.

Marcello's statement had been made in a serious tone and sounded as if he had discussed it previously to some extent. Becker commented that Marcello had made some kind of reference to President Kennedy's being a dog and Attorney General Robert Kennedy the dog's tail, and had said "the dog will keep biting you (even if) you only cut off its tail," but if the dog's head were cut off, the dog would die.

Becker stated that Marcello also made some kind of reference to the way in which he allegedly wanted to arrange the President's murder. Marcello clearly indicated that his own lieutenants must not be identified as the assassins, and that there would thus necessity to have them use or manipulate someone else to carry out the actual crime.

Becker told the Committee that while he believed Marcello had been serious when he spoke of wanting to have the President assassinated, he did not believe the Mafia leader was capable of carrying it out or had the opportunity to do so. He emphasized that while he was disturbed by Marcello's remarks at the time; he had grown accustomed to hearing criminal figures make threats against adversaries.” unquote

Robert G. Blakey also told the  House Select Committee on Assassinations;

“The evidence shows that the FBI's failure to investigate the allegation that Marcello had discussed assassinating President Kennedy constituted a violation of the Director's promise to investigate all circumstances surrounding the President's murder even after the official Warren Commission investigation had ended in 1964. In his appearance before the Commission on May 6, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had personally affirmed that promise stating:

“I can assure you so far as the FBI is concerned the case will be continued in an open classification for all time. That is, any information coming to us or any report coming to us from any source will be thoroughly investigated, so that we will be able to either prove or disprove the allegation.” unquote

I should add that Hoover hated Robert Kennedy who was his immediate boss as the Attorney General of the United States.

The FBI's failure to take seriously the alleged Marcello threat was all the more disturbing given the time at which the Bureau learned of and discarded the allegation less than 2 months after the leadership of the Bureau had been faulted by President Johnson himself for not not pursuing another allegation by an underworld informant that Mafia figures and Cuban agents might secretly have been involved in President Kennedy's assassination.

It is not my intention to imply that Hoover had anything to do with the planning of the assassination or turning a blind eye to the possible assassination of the president but I am convinced that he was pleased with his death because it meant that his archrival Bobby Kennedy would soon no longer be the attorney General of the United States and as such, Hoover would maintain his powerful leadership of the FBI.

The Mafia had strong reasons for wanting President Kennedy dead. They had lost their huge gambling interests in Havana when Castro seized power, and had been standing on the touchline waiting for action by the Kennedy administration which would reverse the situation and give them their casinos back. It never happened of course. Instead they watched their government embrace a policy of détente towards Castro's Cuba with growing dismay and anger. Nor was this the only reason for their disenchantment with the president who had appointed his brother, Robert, as Attorney General, and Robert had opened up an all-out war against the Mafia.

Never before had such success been obtained by the forces of law against mobsters who, for years, had evaded prosecution. It had also a gathering momentum, for law enforcement agents in many cities in the United States were so impressed by Robert Kennedy's campaign; they began bringing charges against their local mobsters of which past experience of failures had made them reluctant to prosecute. The local success rate also increased, and the Mafia became extremely nervous. Their instincts were to kill Robert Kennedy, but they knew that this would only cause the President to increase the pressure, leaving them the alternative of killing the President instead of Bobby Kennedy.

If the President was removed, the Attorney General would be replaced, since the appointment of Bobby Kennedy was one of patronage. They were right of course, When Vice President Johnson became the new president, Bobby Kennedy was replaced. Ironically, when Bobby Kennedy was later running for the office of president, he too was assassinated.  

There was a story floating about that the president’s father, Joseph Kennedy had spoken to some Mafia leaders and he promised them that he would make sure that his son, John Kennedy would not go after the Mafia and the people Joseph Kennedy spoke to promised him that they would not be party to anyone who would harm his son if he became the president of the United States. Well as history was to show, Bobby Kennedy who later was the attorney general of the United States didn’t let up in his drive to go after Mafia leaders and for this reason, the Mafia decided to kill the president in retaliation.

Another rumour is that Joe Kennedy persuaded singer Frank Sinatra to ask his Mafia friends to use their influence to help his son, John win the primary. Sinatra approached his pal, Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana who then exerted pressure on the rank and file of the Teamsters and other unions to vote for Kennedy. This may have made the difference. John won the primary, Humphrey bowed out of the race, and John was assured the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Mobster Sam Giancana, Mayor Richard Daley, and other allegedly crooked politicians in the city of Chicago supposedly stuffed ballot boxes to ensure a Democratic victory. Even with their help, the difference was only about 100,000 votes. As a result, John Fitzgerald Kennedy later became president.

When Bobby Kennedy was appointed attorney general by his brother, he went after the Mafia in a big way. His two main targets were New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello and Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa. Bobby made it his mission to take on organized crime, unaware of the serious repercussions his actions may generate. Increasing the federal budget for Mafia busting, the Justice Department under Bobby Kennedy was gearing up for a major battle. In looking at the Mafia-did-it theory, the most popular motive is that the Mafia was not happy with the double cross its members felt they were getting from the Kennedys. The first casualty of Bobby's war on the mob was Carlos Marcello. Marcello had never bothered to become an American citizen. As a result he was subject to deportation. No doubt Bobby’s actions infuriated the leaders of the Mafia. 

Robert Kennedy also angered Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters president had ties with mobsters from all over the country. He shared a lawyer, Frank Ragano, with Santo Trafficante Jr. In the early 1990s Ragano came out with an unbelievable story. He maintained that he delivered messages from Hoffa to Marcello and Trafficante, setting in motion the plot to kill President Kennedy.

What is really interesting was Oswald's murder two days later in the Dallas Police headquarters by a local strip club owner and small-time hoodlum called  Jack Ruby. He burst out of the crowd and shot Oswald, thus ending the possibility of a trial in which potentially explosive information might have come to light. Ruby claimed his reason was the desire to spare first widow Jackie Kennedy the pain and suffering of a protracted trial, where she would have to relive the horrific event over and over. Did he really believe that no jury would convict the man who killed the president of the United States? If that was his hope, his hope was dashed by the jury that convicted him.

During his youth, Ruby was a runner for the Chicago Outfit. He sold horseracing sheets and was involved in bookmaking. There are some rumors that Ruby actually worked for Al Capone. While he was making the rounds on the street he became friendly with David Yaras and Lenny Patrick, two hoods that became high-level operatives in the Outfit. Ruby also became involved in the Teamsters Union, where he was suspected in the murder of a union rep.

There are a lot of interesting coincidences that tie Jack Ruby to organized crime figures. Chief among them was Santo Trafficante Jr. In 1959, Santo was the guest of Fidel Castro in one of the Cuban dictator's swank jails. According to an eyewitness, Trafficante was visited there by Jack Ruby. As improbable as that may sound, Ruby admitted that he was in Cuba around the same time. The idea that Jack Ruby may have allegedly visited Trafficante in a Cuban prison surprises many because there doesn't seem to be any outward connection between a Dallas nightclub owner and a Florida mob boss.

Ruby's connections to Trafficante start with his companion, Lewis McWillie on that 1959 Cuba trip. Also a Chicago native, McWillie worked in the Deauville casino for Trafficante and a few others owned by the Florida mob boss's associates. McWillie was close with two other Trafficante cronies, Russell D. Matthews and Norman Rothman. In addition to involvement in gambling, all the men, including Ruby, were involved with smuggling weapons to Castro prior to his victory in the civil unrest.

I am convinced that Jack Ruby shot Oswald to prevent him from stating that he was a patsy for the Mafia and he did so on the instructions of the Mafia.

I am also convinced that the Mafia was primarily instrumental in the assassination of President Kennedy. They had the means and the ability to do it. I am also convinced that Oswald definitely fired some of the shots but did not actually kill the president. That fatal shot was fired by the man behind the fence. Oswald later said before he was shot by Jack Ruby that he was just the patsy. (the pawn) He was right. It was in my opinion, the plan of the Mafia to make sure that everyone believed that he and he alone was the sole shooter. Their plan worked for a while.

Even though most members of the Warren Commission were convinced that there was only one shooter in Dealy Plaza and that it was Oswald, almost everyone else is convinced that there were others who fired the shots at the president even though we don’t know who the other two shooters were.

The Escape of the Shooters

The escape of the shooters was meticulously planned. There were three men behind the fence. One was seen running towards a car and getting into it and driving away. Another was seen climbing into a manhole at the junction of the fence and the overpass. The third one was seen carrying a rifle and running towards the railroad tracks and hopping into a slow-moving freight train heading south over the overpass. The shooter on the second floor escaped by going through the rear door of the building. Oswald simply walked out of the front entrance of the building and walked away.

When I was the producer and host of a TV talk show, I had an American guest on the show who had done some considerable research on the assassination of Kennedy. He said that a witness saw the shooter behind the fence run towards the nearby railroad tracks and hop into a box car of a slow moving freight train after throwing a rifle into the box car first. What is puzzling is that that particular freight train wasn’t officially scheduled to make that run that particular time of the day.

One of the more interesting theories associated with the JFK assassination is the idea that at least the shooter and presumably his weapon and spent cartridges vanished through an underground sewer system that leads to the Trinity River.

It has even been suggested that the man who shot Kennedy in the right side of his head did so from an opening to the draining system that was right next to the street.  We have all seen these openings. They are right at the curb and are approximately six inches deep and about one and a half feet wide.

I don’t believe that the fatal shot was fired from that location because the smoke from the rifle would have been spotted by the police on their motorcycles as they were riding along side of the president.  The two secret service men standing on the right side running board of the president’s vehicle would also have seen the smoke. The police then would have sealed off all entrances and exits of the draining system and trap the shooter in the system while they then searched the system for him. The first place they would have looked was the opening at Trinity River which was 1114 meters (3655 feet) west of that manhole.

As promised in my previous article, I will tell you exactly where the third shooter was standing. I based my conclusions on three undisputable facts.

The third shooter had to be in a position where he could easily see the president and at the same time, be unseen himself. Standing behind the fence was where he stood. But where behind the fence did he stand?

He obviously, he wanted to escape as quickly as he could from the scene and there were three convenient options available to him. The first one was to climb into the sewer system manhole that was right behind the fence and only three feet from the north end of the railroad overpass. The second option was to jump in a box car if a freight train was passing by about ten feet from where the shooter stood when he fired his shot.  The third one was to jump into a car that was in the parking lot right behind him.  

As it turned out, the shooter was seen running up to a slow-moving freight train heading south over the overpass and threw his rifle into an open box can and jumped into it right after. One of the puzzling questions that has been raised is why was that particular freight train moving in that area at that precise time? Ed Hoffman, a bystander said one guy behind the fence was dressed as a railroad worker. If he was the shooter, then he expected the freight train to come by right after he fired the shot. He would also be aware that the train was going to go slowly over the overpass.  If so, how did he know that?  Apparently, there was no record of that freight train moving southward over the overpass at that precise time.

Jumping into the manhole would have been too risky because right behind it was a parking lot and if anyone had seen anyone climbing into the manhole, the police would be waiting for him at the river. Nevertheless someone did climb into the manhole but it wasn’t the shooter.  Whoever jumped into that manhole didn’t go the opposite direction from the river because it ended at the county jail and was blocked by steel bars.

Further, one of the motorcycle cops turned on his radio and left it and during the shooting and sometime after the shooting. For this reason, no one could contact police headquarters by radio. MMmmm.  Very interesting, isn’t it. Further for some strange reason, no one in Dallas could reach Washington by radio for a while. That is interesting also. This leads me to believe that someone very powerful in the U.S. government had a hand in the assassination of the president. Who? I have no idea.

In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, eighteen material witnesses died.  Six were killed by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one had his throat slit, one from a karate chop to the neck, three from heart attacks and two from natural causes.

In the late 1970s, the House Select Committee on Assassinations felt compelled to look into the matter of those deaths. However the Committee was unable to come to any conclusion regarding that growing number of suspicious deaths. However, an objective look at both the number and the causes of those deaths raises some interesting theories—problems which will probably become part of the mystery that will never be solved.

I hope my readers after having read both of my articles have a better picture of what occurred on that fateful day when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. It is definitely hard to determine what really happened and who was actually involved but I believe my view (which is shared by many conspiracy theorists) is a fairly accurate picture of that incredible and unforgettable event in history.

UPDATE:  I have just learned that the wedding band that had been on Oswald's finger was sold at an auction for $108,000 dollars.