Agreed with everything you just stated. As for the Mafia, even though Jack & Bobby Kennedy screwed over some of these guys, they would not be stupid enough to go after the President of the United States. This would have meant the end of the Mafia in the US.
The Mafia simply wants to make money. Nothing more! The last thing they needed was to have the entire country after them. Who would even think of doing business with them anywhere after they did something like that. Sorry, just does not make sense. Believe it or not, those guys in the Mafia are shrewd business man. They know how to make money in many different ways. Killing the leader of a country like the US would not be one of them.
Very, very true. Where the issue with the mob gets messy is that Joe Kennedy Sr was informally involved with the mob (specifically Chicago and Sam Giancana) as a bootlegger during prohibition. Originally Sr. approached the Giancana about getting Joe Jr. elected to office when he was released from the military, but before he was released Jr. was killed in action. So then Sr.'s ambitions moved on to Jack.
Joe Sr. continually over the years went to Giancana for favors in order to get Jack lined up for a future run at the presidency, particularly to handle all the women and pissed off husbands not to let the scandals go public.
The last favor came in form of asking Giancana to help get Jack elected to office. Giancana agreed in return for special favors when he got Jack into office wanting to get Hoover and the FBI off their backs so they could continue to do business. Joe Sr agreed saying Jack would fall into line in order to make this happen. Giancana then proceeded to bus young black voters all over the south to different districts to vote a number of times, sometimes as many as 20 times in different districts.
Once Jack was elected he then appointed his brother Bobby as Attorney General who went directly after the mob when he found out how indebted his father was and feared for his fathers life. RFK had a series of hearings going head to head with a number of the heads of families including Carlos Marcelo whom RKF had kidnapped from his house in his pajamas and deported in a military helicopter and dropped him off in a south American jungle.
Giancana was called to testify before the hearing and the night before he was to testify, he was shot and killed in his own kitchen.
With all of that it does scream motive as a reason to kill JFK to most people. But to those who really know how the mafia works, they would never kill anyone of that high of priority especially a president because it would bring WAY too much heat on them. But as with all conspiracies the public runs wild with it creating complete fanasties due to the ignorance and half facts which just further fuel others from things they "heard".
Anyone that believes Oswald did it alone has not looked into the murder at all. The official story makes no sense. Check out some of the stuff Jessy Ventura has done on the topic. Kenedy pissed off a LOT of people in his day, Wrighting laws to abolish the Federal Reserve, Printing the States own currency,going after the CIA etc,etc.....There has never been a free president since.
It makes perfect sense if you have done your due diligence and research. But if you are getting your information from Jesse Ventura's TV show there is really no point in discussing it with you. You are SO far behind on information it's ridiculous.
I've always been very intrigued by this. I don't believe conspiracy theories, but the whole Oswald thing has never added up. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but I think there is more to the story than what is told/known.
It's pretty straight forward on Oswalds side of the story. A social reject who was abused as a child who felt he was never given a fair shake and slighted by his own people then sought acceptance by others outside his peers. First he looked to Cuba, then Russia etc. Oswald was no different than Charles Whitman, Larry Phillips Jr and Emil Mătăsăreanu , Seung-Hui Cho, Adam Lanza, George Hennard , James Huberty, Nidal Hasan, or this kid who just shot up LAX a few days ago. The ONLY difference was the target Oswald chose who happened to be the most powerful person in the world who people PERCIEVED to be untouchable when in reality he was an easy target in comparison to todays presidents seeing that he was practically unprotected. It was a different time in history than it is today.
What complicates it all is everything JFK had going on at the time. It's just too much for a lot of people to grasp that someone so important like JFK could have been taken out by someone as simple minded as a social reject like Oswald with a mail order carbine rifle who just wanted to be known.
Sirhan Sirhan explained it best from an assassin's perspective -
"They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do."