Who killed JFK? List of suspects made by secretary of assassinated President goes up for auction

[The Straight Story]

Who killed JFK? List of suspects made by secretary of assassinated President goes up for auction

The former secretary of President John F. Kennedy made a list of suspects she believed were behind his assassination immediately after he was gunned down in Texas.

As she flew home on Air Force One Evelyn Lincoln jotted down the names of those she suspected were behind the killing.

They included Richard Nixon and the country's vice president Lyndon Johnson.

She also named the Klu Klux Klan, the CIA and Communists as she mulled over who could have ordered the assassination.

Her thoughts were scribbled down on a single sheet of paper.

The never-before-seen note is now up for sale and is expected to go for more


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[T Wolf]

1. I doubt that we will EVER know who really killed JFK. Those that did have too much

(the entire country) at stake to let the truth out.

Not that it matters. We should look forward and not harp on what might or might not have happened in the past?

Besides, whoever did it did it for the good of the country, right? Who are we to question them?

[Peregrine Took]

2. Supposedly even Bobby Kennedy couldn't find out and he tried.

He hired private investigators to check on the FBI, CIA, Mafia - all the typical suspects. The report came back inconclusive with a supposition that it was a renegade group of CIA with Mafia association.

[jdlh8894]

3. "Supposedly "

PI's to check the FBI,CIA,etc.???? WTF!!! Bobby was the AG of the USA for crying out loud. Why would he need PI's!

[Octafish]

5. FBI obstructed justice, including the destruction of evidence in the case.

Here's one important example:

The destruction of the Oswald Note

In 1975, the allegation surfaced that the FBI had destroyed a note delivered to it by Lee Harvey Oswald, just one or two weeks prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. An internal FBI investigation failed to find any records relating to this, but interviews of Dallas Field Office personnel established that an Oswald visit and note dropoff had occurred.

The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from several relevant witnesses, as did the contemporaneous Church Committee. The results of this were:

* Oswald definitely did visit the Dallas Field Office a week to two weeks prior to the assassination, looking for Agent Hosty, who had recently visited his wife Marina.
* When told that Hosty was not in, Oswald left a note in an envelope which was unsealed.
* The note contained some sort of threat, but accounts varied widely as to whether Oswald threatened to "blow up the FBI" or merely "report this to higher authorities."
* Within hours after Oswald's murder on 24 Nov 1963, Hosty destroyed the note and a memorandum which Special-Agent-in-Charge Gordon Shanklin had ordered written on November 22.

Hosty maintained that Shanklin, the head of hte Dallas Field Office, had ordered him to destroy the note. Shanklin denied ever having heard of the note until 1975, though Assistant Director William Sullivan did recall the incident. The House Select Committee on Assassinations reviewed the incident and did not find Shanklin's denial credible.

The movie JFK added a new twist based on rumors which have never been substantiated. In the film, New Orleans DA Jim Garrison wonders why the FBI would destroy a note which would tend to confirm Oswald's violent character, and presents his staff with an alternative: "This is just speculation, people, but what if the note was describing the assassination attempt on JFK?"

SOURCE: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Destruction_of_the_Oswald_Note

The note was destroyed minutes after Oswald was killed while in police custody.

If I were advising Bobby Kennedy, I'd have told him to hire others rather than count on Hoover's FBI.

[jdlh8894]

7. How does that prove that Bobby hired PI's?

Sounds like an "if", as in "
If I were advising Bobby Kennedy, I'd have told him to hire others rather than count on Hoover's FBI."

[H2O Man]

15. That's not quite accurate.

RFK, as head of the Kennedy family, did not "hire" private investigators. (Nor did the DoJ play any role, because they had no jurisdiction at that time -- unless there was solid proof of a conspiracy to counter the "official" conclusion, which rendered the investigation a Texas matter.)

RFK did task several of the people in his family's employment, which included several former investigators, to look into events in Dallas. The individual in charge of the investigation was not an employee, but was a family friend, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan coordinated his work with a European intelligence group, which had concerns about the possibility of future assasinations in other countries -- and other attempts, of course, had been made in that time period.

It is not accurate to say that the investigation was unable to "solve" what took place.

[jaksavage]

4. GWB nt

[Rageneau]

6. Interesting that JFK's secretary would suspect LBJ and Nixon...

Back in those days, it was all but unthinkable for any American to speculate that men of their prominence -- one the sitting president -- could ever condone murder.

But then, Mrs Lincoln was closer to such people than we and knew them much better.

[Lucian]

8. It was the Cigarette Smoking Man.

We saw it in the episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man." Duh. :eyes:

:silly:

[jdlh8894]

9. Cigarette Smoking Man

Sorry,wasn't me. I was 10 and only owned a .22 weapon!

[Lucian]

10. No. Smoking Man from "The X-Files."

[jdlh8894]

12. Sorry, Old Farts don't relate! My bad! n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. No way.

It was the Comedian.

[sarcasmo]

13. IMHO Bush 41 has an idea.

[MilesColtrane]

14. Red Dwarf Theory:

JFK assassinated himself in order to restore an altered timeline in which he had been impeached and imprisoned for sharing a mistress with mob boss Sam Giancana. This resulted in J. Edgar Hoover becoming the President.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6naJ08Tskk

[glitch]

16. Smart lady. nt

[mdmc]

17. ..

[apocalypsehow]

18. And it turned out to be one pitiful loser named Lee Harvey Oswald. n/t.