The motive would be that despite the mafia’s major role in Kennedy getting elected, the president had Marcello deported just after he entered into office. Marcello then threaten JFK to get a “nut” to kill him. Despite this the mafia wouldn’t have used someone as inexperienced as Lee Harvey Oswald to do the job. Also the mafia couldn’t have gotten away with the job by itself so this theory doesn’t explain why the government covered it up. Possibly theory’s to the cover up have been: that the mafia black-mailed the government or in exchange for the cover up they would kill Castro.
There is a lot of evidence supporting the Mafia’s involvement. In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined that JF Kennedy’s murder was probably the result of a conspiracy. They locked the record away for 50 years and then the release date was changed to 2017 as a result of the JKF act of 1992. Validity of Claims: The web page contains a lot of specific details some of which are supported with sources and others which aren’t. Strengths and Weaknesses: Web page has a lot of information.
All three of these organizations have “valid” reasons for wanted the president dead. The CIA, for one, was frustrated with JFK and possibly took it upon themselves to take care of the problem. * * The CIA was a very secretive organization in the 1960s and very little was known about their operations. However, during that time period, the CIA was widely believed to have carried out many high-profile political assassinations. Seven percent of conspiracy-loving Americans blame the Central Intelligence Agency for Kennedy's death.
One key reason other than Stalin’s personal paranoia for the Purges was to cleanse the party of careerists, yet dissidents and doubters were also at risk. The purges have their origins in the situation in the communist party immediately after collectivisation. Many party members and leaders were critical of the violence and mass murders of the peasants during the collectivisation, and of Stalin’s leadership and brutal methods. Some believed that Sergei Kirov, party boss of
Institutions Over the past few years, the nation has been temporarily outraged by many different government scandals such as the leak of a CIA agent’s cover by their own government; the firing of United States Attorneys who weren’t blindly loyal to the administration; the suspension of habeas corpus rights, the friendly-fire death and subsequent cover-up of soldier Pat Tillman; the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. That last scandal is in the news again, because the President managed to have the laws changed retroactively, so his once-illegal surveillance program is now the law of the land. The military has covered up many things that have happened in the past to prevent from ruining their reputation and to discourage people from
Was it a simple conspiracy or a grand conspiracy? Numerous other Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories exist. Two of the most interesting, albeit incredible, involve Andrew Johnson and the papacy. Members of Congress tried to implicate Andrew Johnson in the assassination. They even called a special committee to investigate in 1867.
Just a few months earlier he had said a speech announcing the death of MLK. This shocked many people as he was assassinated. He was supposed to become president. But after he died, the country had gotten Nixon as president. If Kennedy would not have died things would be different because he and Nixon had different ways of doing things and had different views on things.
The evidence available does show signs of a conspiracy but those responsible will never admit it, so it would be almost impossible to point the figure at any one party or person as long as they deny it and the US government continues to with hold evidence from the public. Personally, despite the Oswald “lone assassin” story, I believe that the US government was ultimately responsible for the Presidents assassination and Oswald was just a patsy. Word Count: 300 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I:
The findings of the study were sensationalized by the world press and are the bases of the murder theory. Scholars also suggested that Tutankhamen may have been a victim of a murder plot by high officials in the royal court, because he was the son or nephew of Amenhotep IV, also known as Akhenaten. Akhenaten shocked Egypt by changing its religion from worship of many gods to one God: he desecrated temples of other gods and in doing so, made enemies in the process (Sayre, 2001, p. 86). However,
Another act of terrorism was the ‘Klu Klux Klan’ who were a group of white people who did not agree with the slave trade being abolished so they would commit crimes (like burning down buildings and rioting) and would harm people who agreed with slaves being freed. This group of terrorists were a bit closer to home for America because they were formed in South America. And although they didn’t kill as many people, commit such high crimes as other terrorist groups (like Al-Qaeda, PLO and IRA) and were positioned in the same country as were they committed their crimes they were still classed as terrorists. In the 1990s there were other acts of terrorism in the US but these were from the Middle East this time; In 1995 there was the Oklahoma truck bombing(NEEDS FINISHING) another one was anthrax, and what they would do is stick anthrax in a letter and put it in a secret code form and then post it to ‘high profile’ people like senators and eventually it would kill them without them even realising what had happened. In 1993 Al-Qaeda planned to kill the UN senator.