Who do you think killed John F Kennedy ?
2026-03-11 23:21 UTC
Replies (21)
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@Today@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 00:11
I met a guy named Sam Pate. He was a radio guy in Dallas in the 60s and was live on the air when it happened. He told me that the shooter escaped down the storm drain (they were much bigger then before the street was resurfaced), went through the tunnels under the city, and was on a plane to Chicago by the time Kennedy was pronounced dead. www.jfk.org/…/sam-pate-oral-history/
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@Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 02:25
I think Kennedy is a mole trap. It’s the most well documented conspiracy ever, literally the textbook example of conspiracy theories. Every detailed has been looked at time and time again by every pair of braincells ever interested in conspiracy. There’s absolutely no chance that the government doesn’t have every single facet of it fully understood. Instead of giving it a case closed and a pretty bow, they leave it out there as a test. Any time some quack comes out with “secret insider information” and mentions Kennedy, they know they can write him off because anyone that really knows would know the Kennedy thing is a joke. Every so often an agent has to go stir thr pot by asking this question so everyone still thinks it’s important.
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@notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 04:27
I liked the book “not in your lifetime” which strongly points towards local mafia having the means and motivation to pull this off successfully.
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2026-03-11 23:27
Other than an accomplished sniper, I don’t know. I’m more interested in who had him killed.
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 13:19
CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA. JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn't more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles' restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK's murder.
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@TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 00:58
I suspect the involvement of the CIA or some of their rogue assets, either mobsters or gusanos. He was allegedly warming towards Cuba, and I think that may have been part of the motivation. Blowback Season 2 made a pretty convincing argument for that scenario.
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@QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 13:34
The CIA (but mostly Allen Dulles and his cronies)
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@Count042@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 13:22
Allen Dulles.
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@Objection@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 07:31
\> Fires the guy whose job was assassinating heads of state \> Gets assassinated \> Guy who got fired gets on the investigative comittee which fucks up the investigation Who could it be 🤔
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 00:14
This isn’t my bailiwick, but I think [Peter Dale Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dale_Scott) and [Arron Good](https://americanexception.com/author/aaron_good/) may have some of the best answers. I don’t pay much attention to the matter, but IIRC, James Angleton and the Dulles brothers very likely were involved. It helps to ask: who covered up what really happened?
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@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 00:05
Getting into crackpot territory here, but I think the assassination might very well have had some connection to [MKULTRA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra). The CIA destroyed all the files related to this, and so unless they missed some, we'll probably never know for certain.
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@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 05:00
[Another thing is that Oswald wasn't just some random hick . . .](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI4PqtIyE0)
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@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 07:08
I must say that from the Zapruder film, it really does *look* like he was shot from the front the second (?) time. Somewhere down the JFK assassination documentary rabbit hole, I remember one commentator saying something like "we're trying to determine the reality of an event from a series of two-dimensional moving images," or something along those lines. Anyway, noodling about this probably isn't the best use of my time . . .
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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 08:50
Very special bullet.
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@whiskers165@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 04:01
I love the theory that the second shooter was a secret service agent accidentally shooting their gun and hitting Kennedy while surprised reacting to the first shot, jumpy twitchy trigger finger. Explains the weird trajectory discrepancies Idk if I believe it but I like it lol
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@spittingimage@lemmy.world 2026-03-11 23:53
I did it. Elvis paid me to.
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@Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2026-03-14 03:38
It was the one armed man!
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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-13 14:33
Harry Coin
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@theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 00:58
A guy he played Diplomacy with in college.
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@dwt@feddit.org 2026-03-12 08:00
I think it pretty likely that guns killed him. Possibly multiple guns.
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@mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2026-03-12 07:28
Because guns are so easy to acquire for mentally disturbed people in the USA it was simply a mad man with access to dangerous weapons. Not the answer you wanted to hear, but the right one.