JFK Conference: James DiEugenio made clear how Foreign Policy changed after November 22, 1963

[Bolo Boffin]

209. "dozens of right wing gun nuts turned out to a restaurant in Dallas" - wasn't that incredible?

If there was ever a time you wish you could open a trapdoor and disappear people, those gun zealots would have been primary targets.

So what this comes down to is that we agree on an awful lot of stuff.

I did a response to Octafish somewhere on these JFK threads just recently where I talked about the non-investigation of Oswald's contacts. The Johnson administration were the first JFK conspiracy theorists, I like to say, and they really screwed up by not chasing those down. They were afraid of what they might find (Oswald support from Cuba) even though they would not have found that. And they had their own reasons for not wanting a close look at Mongoose - could anyone have believed Cuba didn't whack President Kennedy if it was revealed we were trying to do precisely that to Castro? But that doesn't mean the HSCA thought the right wing intel members had participated in the JFK assassination. They just didn't go down certain roads knowing what they would find, and that wasn't about who shot JFK, it was about who was trying to kill Castro.

When Lee Oswald shot Kennedy, he moved an awfully big rock and a lot of things went scurrying. It doesn't mean they were part of the assassination and that doesn't excuse what evil they were in the middle of doing in the name of the American people. And we don't have to convict them of the JFK assassination plot in order to properly condemn them. Restraint in accusations is a wiser policy, I think.