06-04-2015, 02:46 PM
Jim, I don't think you can discount the puritanical hypocrites on the Right in this country, and the role their phony morality could play in enlisting extra help in an assassination plot (MLK is another example) - once the decision has already been made to remove them on "national security" grounds. The scandal sheets that circulated on the Far Right in the 1960s were full of gossip about the personal lives of the Kennedys and MLK (including stories about a previous marriage before Jackie). Even if the stories were not true, the point is that these people believed them (like the people today who think Obama is a gay Marxist Muslim from Kenya).
I grew up around a lot of far-right Christians. To some of these folks, promiscuity is the greatest crime they can think of, and should be punished severely. They may forgive it among their own kind, but if a person is a Leftist, then they want the wrath of God to come down on them. The security-stripping that happened to both JFK and MLK might have happened this way - otherwise "decent" Americans might think it necessary to remove "moral degenerates" from positions of power.
I think the good thing about Kennedy Must Be Killed is that it depicts a highly compartmentalized operation, so that even the Grassy Knoll shooter isn't sure who the top plotters were.
Many "patriotic" people were enlisted in the plot by giving them phony reasons to participate - JFK/MLK are "endangering the country, they are communist dupes, promiscuous liars, etc." They weren't going to be told, "We need to kill them because they want a more peaceful world, and we want war."
I grew up around a lot of far-right Christians. To some of these folks, promiscuity is the greatest crime they can think of, and should be punished severely. They may forgive it among their own kind, but if a person is a Leftist, then they want the wrath of God to come down on them. The security-stripping that happened to both JFK and MLK might have happened this way - otherwise "decent" Americans might think it necessary to remove "moral degenerates" from positions of power.
I think the good thing about Kennedy Must Be Killed is that it depicts a highly compartmentalized operation, so that even the Grassy Knoll shooter isn't sure who the top plotters were.
Many "patriotic" people were enlisted in the plot by giving them phony reasons to participate - JFK/MLK are "endangering the country, they are communist dupes, promiscuous liars, etc." They weren't going to be told, "We need to kill them because they want a more peaceful world, and we want war."