16-10-2016, 02:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-10-2016, 07:22 PM by John Knoble.)
If I was to write a historical fiction novel about the Kennedy assassination, inventing the most feasible plot within the "inside job" subset of theories, it would be along the lines that a highly placed group of insiders became convinced that JFK was a British agent of influence, with the catalyzing event being the lack of support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Their suspicions would have been predicated on the family connections to the British Commonwealth, from the money made during the rum running days, the subsequent successful investing, the ambassadorship in London and so forth. They thought it fit the classic pattern of an agent of influence.
I'd have people unconnected to the intellectual CIA types from Harvard and Yale (who liked the British better than the unwashed military types anyway) doing the dirty work. I'd do it in Texas to suggest Johnson supporters were involved, and work in people connected with Cuba and the Soviet Union. I'd have a Jew knock off the assassin just to insert that angle. I'd make up a scandalous alternative narrative to prevent his Georgetown CIA friends from publicly asking questions, such as that JFK went too far with his sexual appetites, an angry father, jealous husband or cuckolded mob figure did him in and that it was being hushed up for the good of the family and the nation.
I'd work "American royalty" into the plot as an oblique reference by spooks who had a tongue in cheek sense of humor. I'd work the lack of public disclosure into the plot as protecting the alliance. I'd work uncertainty into the plot, with the possibility that hard-ass military types from the South and Midwest imagined things that didn't exist because of their contempt and suspicion for the intellectual Northeastern elite (think Alger Hiss) and their ties across the Atlantic. I'd work the misfortunes of other Kennedys over the years into the plot as dirty tricks to keep them glorified but remote from the levers of power. One hand lifts them up, while the other one keeps them marginalized.
It could be a great book if I had the talent to write it and could find a publisher!
I'd have people unconnected to the intellectual CIA types from Harvard and Yale (who liked the British better than the unwashed military types anyway) doing the dirty work. I'd do it in Texas to suggest Johnson supporters were involved, and work in people connected with Cuba and the Soviet Union. I'd have a Jew knock off the assassin just to insert that angle. I'd make up a scandalous alternative narrative to prevent his Georgetown CIA friends from publicly asking questions, such as that JFK went too far with his sexual appetites, an angry father, jealous husband or cuckolded mob figure did him in and that it was being hushed up for the good of the family and the nation.
I'd work "American royalty" into the plot as an oblique reference by spooks who had a tongue in cheek sense of humor. I'd work the lack of public disclosure into the plot as protecting the alliance. I'd work uncertainty into the plot, with the possibility that hard-ass military types from the South and Midwest imagined things that didn't exist because of their contempt and suspicion for the intellectual Northeastern elite (think Alger Hiss) and their ties across the Atlantic. I'd work the misfortunes of other Kennedys over the years into the plot as dirty tricks to keep them glorified but remote from the levers of power. One hand lifts them up, while the other one keeps them marginalized.
It could be a great book if I had the talent to write it and could find a publisher!