E. Howard Hunt's take on JFK assination-Comments welcome

Autonomous said:
Whomever was behind the assassination of JFK was capable of putting out the smokescreen of endless theories and disinformation that have muddied the waters to this day. This suggests organization and resources.
Who benefitted from the deed? Some who benefitted could be patsies, just part of the distraction. The actual shooters could be manipulated patsies too.
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Good question. Who benefited? I wasn’t born till 69. I didn’t live through it. So who benefited????
 
BigBoy99 said:
I read recently that it was a Secret Service agent which had an accidental discharge of the M16 rifle which fired the fatal bullet. The agent was in the car following Kennedy and when the first shot by Oswald was fired, he grabbed the rifle and is so doing fired the fatal round. It seemed to be totally plausible to me.
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About 30 years ago, a book titled “Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed Kennedy” came out, proposing that theory. I read it back around that time, and it was not very convincing, more unfounded speculation than any concrete evidence.

Personally, I have always believed that The Cigarette Man did it.

Over 20 years ago I had a casual relationship, sort of a friend of a friend thing, with a former FBI Special Agent in the Dallas office at the time of the assassination. His name, Doyle Williams, was mentioned in the Warren Report in regard to the post-shooting altercation with the Secret Service at Parkland Hospital. He strongly hinted to me once that there was much more information known about what happened than was released to the public, but he would not divulge any details, even though by then he had been retired from the FBI for quite a long time. Doyle’s now-deceased son Jim, who I also knew, told me me much the same thing, that his father hinted of secret things but would never discuss details, even to him. See:
Deathbed confession? FBI Doyle Williams planted CE399-? - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum
 
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The largest benefactors from Kennedys death were the defense contractors. Since LBJ kept us in Vietnam they all prospered. I was watching a program on one of the cable networks about the Kennedy assassination. They played an audio recording of a meeting with LBJ and representatives from several of the larger defense contractors. The defense contractors were concerned about Kennedy getting us out of Vietnam, putting an end to their cash cow. LBJ was clearly heard telling them that if Kennedy was out of the way, he would guarantee that they would all get rich.
 
My comment is that the emergence of the various outlandish theories for the JFK and other assassinations show me that the American psyche is seriously disturbed by the idea of lone gunmen. Surely by now the various mass shootings we've had make it clear that they are out there and in considerable numbers.
 
357larry said:
The largest benefactors from Kennedys death were the defense contractors. Since LBJ kept us in Vietnam they all prospered. I was watching a program on one of the cable networks about the Kennedy assassination. They played an audio recording of a meeting with LBJ and representatives from several of the larger defense contractors. The defense contractors were concerned about Kennedy getting us out of Vietnam, putting an end to their cash cow. LBJ was clearly heard telling them that if Kennedy was out of the way, he would guarantee that they would all get rich.
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Do you think that these "High Rollers" with all their $$$$$
and investments and income, would just put all their money on

just one horse ??

You my friend are a poor, business man.
 
The one thing that will always stick with me is Oswald's choice of a rifle. That Carcano was junk and the scope belonged on a Daisy. It was purchased for less than $20. He was supposed to be a trained soldier, he could have gotten something decent, like a Swedish Mauser, excellent sniper rifle, for not much more.
 
I read that Hunt tried to pressure Nixon for leniency in sentencing, a pardon, etc. If Nixon was the criminal mastermind he has been, he could have Hunt sprung, invited him to the White House, and....or spread word among the inmates that Hunt was a snitch.
 
I doubt the truth will ever be known. Even if it is out there, who could pick it out among all the other conspiracy theories?
I know that I believe that it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald and that he certainly didn't act alone.
 
Oswald was a Marine, at the timer he was portrayed as this incredible crack shot, his actual records showed he always qualified as Sharpshooter-good but not great. I knew few gun guys in the Army, military service does not guarantee firearms expertise.
Conspiracy theories are good way to explain things, unfortunately the people who concoct and advocate refuse to put them to the test.
 
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Based on personal long-term acquaintances with two career CIA agents, I can say that if a CIA employee told me my own name I would check my driver's license. As my dad used to say, "They'll tell a lie when the truth will do."
 
For a period of time in the Army I was stationed in Danang, RVN. Again for a period of time while there I worked as a radio operator/dispatcher at the Harbormaster officer, we had a CW4 as our boss and were attached to Naval Security in an adjoining building. Over the time there I met some very interesting characters. At the time most of the container ships that were delivering supplies were operated by the Sealand Corporation. Along with the company my father in law was a Captain with American President Lines. One day our visitor was a guy in his forties that was a high up representative with Sealand. He was talking to the Chief and I was a fly on the wall. They were going on about how President Johnson's wife's family was heavily invested in Sealand and the old man came from poverty but was getting wealthy as long as the war continued, finally dying from heart problems but if one wanted to read between the lines this guy also speculated in a "secret" meeting that occurred if not at his ranch, nearby...which had about all of the dubious characters in attendance that would benefit from JFK's demise.
I also tend to agree that without direct proof everything is up for speculation, still when you hear stuff like this and the news media along with rumor and conspiracy theories its difficult to avoid falling down the rabbit hole. "Being ridicules will not kill you."
 
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As Ben Franklin said, later adopted by the Hell's Angels: "Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead". However, this was in the days before email, Facebook, snapchat and every other darned fool way of making a record that should not exist, so more is possible.
 
BLACKHAWKNJ said:
Oswald was a Marine, at the timer he was portrayed as this incredible crack shot, his actual records showed he always qualified as Sharpshooter-good but not great. I knew few gun guys in the Army, military service does not guarantee firearms expertise.
Conspiracy theories are good way to explain things, unfortunately the people who concoct and advocate refuse to put them to the test.
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Which brings to mind that whenever the subject comes up about someone knowing or being related to a guy that was in Vietnam it seems that the majority were described as "He was a Marine sniper." or he was "Marine Recon", or "Army Black Ops." My training when I arrived in Vietnam was "Harbor Craft Operator." There weren't very many of us but man were there a bunch of "Clerk Typists", etc. All of the guys that were Pogues stationed at the base, truck drivers, security, etc. None of those guys ever get mentioned like, "My brother was in Nam, he was a clerk typist."
True that during the conflict every Marine was a rifleman first, at least as far as many of us were lead to believe, but I am sure if the red alert went off at their base their rifle and web gear was not too far away. Whereas in the Army base I was stationed out of, most of the guys that worked in supply, typists, etc. all went into the bunker when the alert went off. There were guys assigned to security that scrambled for the "arms room", collected their gear and went to their assigned positions but most of the guys including those of us sent to the company area from our boats or jobs associated with boats went to the bunker outside your hooch.
Sorry for the thread drift...
 
The Kennedy assassination was either the most brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed (and CONCEALED) conspiracy in the history of the world...

Or it was a deranged nobody with an inexpensive mail order rifle, taking three tries to make a shot anyone's grandmother could have made.

John
 
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