Yea yea i know this topic has been revisited numerous times. But seriously jokes aside did that megalomaniac kill both the Kennedys?
According to Oliver Stone's Nixon, Hoover only killed Bobby. In JFK he suggests Allen Dulles had Jack taken out.
Not too concerned about Stones assessment as his is somewhat tainted. hoover had dirt on both brothers. But like you say Dulles did have a possible motive. Although i'm not sure he was as powerful as Hoover. :think
So if Hoover, what would have been his motive? I'm guessing you've been reading up on this. I'm not going to pretend. I never have. I've just seen stuff on TV. With Dulles and his associates, their motive would have been revenge for getting fired and humiliated and wanting to restore the CIA to its rightful owners. With the actual killers on the ground, if CIA operatives, it would have been loyalty to their chiefs and blowback for the Bay of Pigs. The motive for killing Bobby could have been the same. The people who killed Jack knew that when Bobby got into the White House was going to go after them.
Could someone post a link to Hoover's workout routine pre-Kennedy? Looks like those were his prime years.
No, I don't think J.Edgar Hoover was involved. He may have known who did it and suppressed some clues after the fact but I don't think he ordered the killing. I think it was a few elements within the mob and the CIA who orchestrated the killing. Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante were probably in on it. There's as much circumstantial evidence pointing in that direction as there is on most of the killings in the history of the American mafia. LHO was a decoy, the 'patsy'. It's not the first time the mafia had put a 'lone nut' with extreme political views out there as the decoy in killing a politician. Check out the "accidental" killing of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, in the "attempted assassination of FDR" in 1933. It foreshadows the JFK assassination, and was believed by many to have been a clever mob hit, orchestrated by the Chicago Outfit down in Miami. The JFK conspiracy probably involved only a handful of people, many of whom died or were killed in the 1960s or 70s. Anti-conspiracy critics say "but the truth would have come out with more solid evidence" .. but that's not how contract killings work. Many of the most famous mob killings in history don't have anything other than hearsay or guesswork and circumstantial evidence.
