On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy as the thirty-fifth President of the United States was assassinated. To this day the American people are left with suspicious gaps toward the government explanation of his death and questions are still arise as to who was actually responsible for the assassination. A theory that has aroused is that the CIA and the FBI were linked to the assassination. Although it is a bit extreme to consider that the government would kill its own president, there are a considerable amount of reasons for their desire to organize an assassination plot. The Bay of Pigs is believed to be the central cause to plot against kennedy.
During this CIA and mafia plan and execute many plots of taking out Castro without JFK’s approval and none other than Santo, Carlos and Johnny were responsible. This is was a win-win situation as the US were getting closer in achieving their goal of removing communism from Cuba and the mafia were making money from the gambling and drugs. By July 1963 6 mob associates infiltrate the plan, and the CIA have no idea that their mafia collaborators are now players in the president’s plan. But the mafia realizes that it is in prime position for something that no one dared to consider before. Under the protection of the CIA in the shadows of a secret plan, a presidential assassination plot is born.
How damaging was the Bay of Pigs for Kennedy’s presidency? First of all one should know what the Bay of Pigs was. The Bay of Pigs was an action the United States took; they invaded Cuba willing to overthrow Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro and his government. The attack was made 3 months after Kennedy became President. Cuba defeated the US in 3 days, they knew that the US was going to invade them and they got ready for it.
CIA Beach Party: The Bay of Pigs By: Lee Mcginnis [pic] The United States Central Intelligence Agency spent its first two decades dealing with Communist incursions into western spheres of power in the same way: over throwing foreign governments from within. This response was the US golden standard until the CIA decided to try this against the great white whale of Communism in the western hemisphere: Castro’s Cuba. This doomed to fail from the start plan was executed in a series of errors that led several hundred Cuban exiles to slaughter against Cuba’s Military and bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and signal a falling out of favor of the CIA among American government for the next twenty years until the Soviet
He criticized the Spanish government and the way it controlled Cuba. Through yellow Journalism and anti-Spanish propaganda Hearst was able to upset the America public, and put the United States against Spain. Revolts against Spain had been occurring in Cuba for Some time. Then February 15th 1898 the USS Maine mysteriously sank in Havana harbor. This was all the America public needed.
John F. Kennedy was increasingly worried disclosures detailing his much-rumored womanizing. Almost everyone in the media dealing with un-relative things in relation with society. Prior to Kennedy’s election to the presidency, the Eisenhower Administration created a plan to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Central to such a plan, which was structured and detailed y the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with minimal input from the United States Department of State, was the arming of a counter-revolutionary insurgency composed of anti-Castro Cubans. U.S. trained Cuban insurgents were to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban people in hopes of removing Castro from power.
When president of Cuba Fidel Castro agreed to allow citizens to leave in response to a tough Cuban economy, many of them departed to the United States and landed in South Florida which increased the crime rate in the city of Miami. However Cuba wasn’t the only country that was responsible for the crimes in Miami during the 1980s. Colombia was also involved in the Cocaine business in Miami. Based on the movie Cocaine Cowboys, it shows how John Roberts, Mickey Munday, Rafa Cardona Salazar, Max Mermestein was importing drugs into Florida. Jon Roberts who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the '80s,was one of the drug trafficker and government informant who operated in the Miami area and was an associate of Medellín Cartel during the growth phase in cocaine trafficking.
Among the most popular were allegations that Oswald was not in fact a ‘lone gunman’ that he was merely a pawn in a sordid assassination plot, masterminded by FBI boss, J Edgar Hoover. Another conjecture, which gained traction at the time, cast Fidel Castro as the villain of the piece, accusing him of murdering Kennedy in revenge for a rumoured CIA-backed attempt on his life. However, while no definitive proof has ever emerged to support these hypotheses, neither have they been irrefutably disproven, despite various governmental inquiries into the assassination most notably the Warren Commission, established by President Johnson a few days after Kennedy’s funeral. Consequently much like the fascinating circumstances of his extraordinary life, the controversies surrounding John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s untimely death continue to fascinate even now, almost fifty years
Much of Frank Lucas’s childhood life explains his motivation for living a life of crime. When he was 12 years old he witnessed the death of his cousin by the KKK for looking at a Caucasian woman in Greensboro, North Carolina (American Gangster True Story). Being young he was committing petty crimes until he engaged in a fight with his employer. He fled to New York where he drifted through petty crimes and pool hustling until gangster Bumpy Johnson took him under his wing. After Johnson’s death, Lucas broke the monopoly that the Italian mafia held in New York.
Seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair. By the time of these indictments, many people had begun to suspect that Nixon was involved in Watergate. Some of Nixon’s aides testified before a grand jury about the president’s involvement in Watergate. They also testified that Nixon had secretly taped every conversation that took place in the Oval Office. Those tapes would prove President Nixon’s guilt.