02-03-2013, 04:39 PM
Don Jeffries Wrote:I'm one of the few who believe that Cuba was a smokescreen, a fallback option similar to the "Mafia did it" theme. However you look at it, from the moment JFK was pronounced dead in Dallas, Cuba ceased to be an American political issue. There was no attempt at a second Bay of Pigs, and the CIA apparently stopped trying to kill Castro.
So if those who conspired to kill JFK were motivated by a desire to see Castro removed from power, what happened? Flush off their success in Dallas, with a more sympathetic figure in the White House, why did they not even try to adopt a more hard-line approach towards Cuba? Why did they even stop talking about Castro?
And remember, the whole "Cuba" thing has been used over the years to try to indirectly smear RFK for his own brother's assassination, from LBJ's "Castro got Kennedy first" to the insinuations of Evan Thomas and others that Bobby felt "guilty" about the efforts to kill Castro, which they inaccurately claim he approved of, and was reluctant to deal with his brother's death because he felt his "own" efforts to "get Castro" had blown up in his face. And if "Cuba" was the impetus for JFK's death, why did they kill RFK five years later? Was he secretly still "obsessed" with Castro?
Imho, the whole "Cuban" aspect of the assassination distracts attention away from the idea that Kennedy was killed because he threatened the most powerful forces in our society, not because of his policy towards Cuba. There are far more obvious, and significant, motives behind the assassination of JFK.
Don and I find ourselves in ... gulp ... full agreement on this.
The following paragraph from your argument above is worth re-posting insofar as it is first cousin to the question I initially posed as the theme of this thread:
So if those who conspired to kill JFK were motivated by a desire to see Castro removed from power, what happened? Flush off their success in Dallas, with a more sympathetic figure in the White House, why did they not even try to adopt a more hard-line approach towards Cuba? Why did they even stop talking about Castro?
My educated guess is that the most rabidly ideological anti-Castro Cubans were bought off, scared off, or just plain offed.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene