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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)But any proof that GHWB was personally involved in the plot has been tenuous. I rank the GHWB involvement up there with the LBJ involvement - not plausible because both, as former POTUSes, have undergone extreme scrutiny since the event, and any proof offered has been, well, too weak to be definitive.
The narrative of a future POTUS knocking off the standing POTUS is delicious and worthy of a Hollywood thriller (which makes such theories popular), but all proof offered up since the event has been strained.
I believe the CIA was involved - E Howard Hunt's deathbed confession tells the tale, but GHWB ws more oilman than spook in 1963, and I just don't buy that he was any sort of high-level player in the plot. Did he wish JFK to be out of the picture? Maybe. Did he pull triggers or finance the op? Pretty doubtful.