Let's have a poll on JFK

[Xithras]

194. Not really

This is really one of those things that could go either way.

I find it implausible that a communist who believed in the cause SO MUCH that he left the country and moved to the Soviet Union would return after less than two years, citing a "lack of places to spend money, party, and go bowling" as an excuse. There was clearly something else going on there. There's also the fact that his "handler", the guy assigned to monitor him, befriend him, and teach him Russian, was Stanislau Shushkevich, who'who's career literally exploded after the assassination of Kennedy, was heavily educated at the states expense and became a top Soviet researcher, before becoming a prominent politician in the USSR, and even later became the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in Belarus...basically the nations first "president" after they became independent from the USSR. It's incredible that a lowly radio factory worker managed ALL of that after working with Oswald...the man was clearly being rewarded for SOMETHING.

I find it more plausible that Shushkevich convinced him to return to the U.S. as an agent, where he infiltrated the White Russian and anti-Castro groups to keep tabs on them for the Soviets. Again, there is NO QUESTION that the Soviets used spies this way, and a large number of them were identified after the fall of the USSR.

I agree with you that neither of those countries had anything to gain from killing Kennedy. Based on his past and the stories about his ego and temper, I'm more inclined to believe that he devised the plan on his own in his role as an agent. In fact, I think that if Oswald had made it to the Soviet embassy, they probably would have told him NOT to go through with it, and Kennedy would have survived. I think he went rogue after he was turned away from Cuba.

I don't believe that the CIA or any other agency of our government killed Kennedy. But I also don't believe the governments story that he was just a lone nut. There's also little evidence to suggest that there was any serious desire to start a nuclear war over Cuba...in fact, most documents suggest an overarching desire to AVOID nuclear war on the part of the U.S. government. While many factions DID want a war with Cuba, the objective evidence suggests that they were looking for something more along the lines of a Vietnam style conflict rather than a full nuclear exchange.

A foreign nation being responsible for the death of a U.S. President would have been a scenario far worse than anything proposed in Operation Northwoods, Mongoose, or any of the other U.S. plots to "liberate" Cuba. There is no real question that it would have led to a full scale nuclear exchange between the two nations. Facing a future like that, it's entirely plausible that the pro-war hawks were smacked down and the truth covered up.

Of course, we're just playing "dueling conspiracy theories" here. Neither you or I have any evidence to definitively prove the other wrong.