A Plausible Conspiracy Theory about the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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After living in Dallas, Texas for 25 years from the mid-1970s until 2000, I was a frequent visitor to the Kennedy 6th Floor Museum in the former Book Depository Building, and stood on many occasions on the Grassy Knoll, as well as other locations around Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was shot. During those early years in Dallas, only a dozen or so years after Kennedy was assassinated, I frequently met people who had been at Dealey Plaza and witnessed the assassination, including some very reputable witnesses. They all swore that shots had been fired from the Grassy Knoll, as well as from the Book Depository Building. In the mid-1990s, I read a novel by Robert Tanenbaum who was deputy chief counsel on the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations and investigated the assassinations of JFK and MLK. The book I read was part of a fiction series he had written, but it came to the conclusion that a small group of rogue CIA agents had engineered the Kennedy assassination. These CIA agents had been trained to commit assassinations in foreign countries, including how to get local people to participate as a way to cover-up their actions. They had been sent to Cuba to assassinate Castro during the invasion of the Bay of Pigs. When Kennedy failed to send military support for the Bay of Pigs invaders, as they had been told to expect, they had to cancel their plans and escape hastily from the island. These agents resented that Kennedy had left them in such a precarious situation so, when Lee Harvey Oswald came to their attention, they thought he would be the perfect patsy for their plan to assassinate Kennedy in retaliation. They met with Oswald in Mexico City, helped him secure a job at the Book Depository Building, encouraged him to kill Kennedy and moved the process along. However, they did not rely on him to do it alone. They were on the Grassy Knoll and fired a couple of their own shots to make sure the deed was done. At the end of the book, Tanenbaum said that, although he had written it as a work of fiction, he had actually seen evidence which supported the incidents he described in the book. Considering that a number of documents regarding the Kennedy assassination have recently been released, but NOT ones which described what happened in Mexico City, nor any which answered the question of whether or not Oswald was working with the CIA, the Tanenbaum story seems even more likely. If you are interested in reading this novel about the Kennedy assassination yourself, here is more information about the book: "Corruption of Blood", by Robert K. Tanenbaum. 1995. "The author of 25 novels, Tanenbaum served in the late 1970s as deputy chief counsel on the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the assassinations of JFK and MLK (where he determined that JFK’s death was the result of a conspiracy). This more than qualifies him to speculate about Mob connections, Russian spies, and CIA agents in this edgy legal novel, the sixth in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series."