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

[CAJUNLAWYER]

E Howard Hunt and the CIA denied Hunt was in Dallas during the assassination till after Hunt was busted for the Nixon Watergate burglary. Then the CIA said he went rogue and was in Dallas.

Hunt had balls and connections. Hunt was blackmailing Nixon saying he would go public abut Nixon’s involvement in the JFK assassination. The Nixon people were paying Hunt over a hundred thousand dollars to remain silent while in prison. Mrs Hunt during this time was to fly with a TV reporter about possibly spilling a few beans concerning Nixon, took out a $250 K flight insurance policy, and her plane crashed just short of the approach to the Chicago airport killing her and the reporter.

So Hunt knew things, but how honest was Hunt?

Hunt made a diagram for his son Saint for the linage of the JFK assassination.

LBJ, the ambitious vice president was at the top on the list. Next a line connected to Cord Meyers, a CIA agent that JFK was having an affair with his ex-wife, who was murdered shortly after the WCR came out, case never solved. The line continued to Bill Harvey, another CIA agent good at assassinations; also connected to Meyers was David Morales, CIA, black op specialist. A line continued from Morales to framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll." The French gunman presumably could be Corsican Mafia assassin Lucien Sarti, who has figured prominently in other assassination theories.

There wasn’t a Lee Harvey Oswald name on this diagram.
Found this on a blog by Jim Morrison (not THAT one!) and thought it interesting and would welcome coments from the conspiracy theorists on the forum.

 

[tlawler]

I’d comment, but I’m busy peeking through the drapes looking for black Suburbans.

 

[BigBoy99]

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.

 

[Onomea]

I heard it was actually suicide. JFK was distraught over the Bay of Pigs fiasco. John Connelly got it inadvertently because he was leaning over across the president, reaching for a Pepsi at the moment.

 

[lihpster]

I've heard so many theories put forth by so many people and I wonder what all that effort could have accomplished, if applied to something else. After all, in 50 years I'd bet half of high schoolers would agree with the statement: Jack Ruby assassinated President Oswald in Kennedy, Oklahoma.

 

[Bald1]

I’d comment, but I’m busy peeking through the drapes looking for black Suburbans.

Funny you say that. When the ATF agent came to interview me for my FFL I expected a black Suburban and a guy with black sunglasses and a windbreaker. Instead it was a guy in jeans driving a Ford Edge crossover with 200k mi on it. He was super nice and we shot the breeze a lot on off topic issues. We agreed that Hollywood created a federal agent image. He said with the amount of driving he does they need fuel efficient vehicles.

 

[moosedog]

If you want an educated discussion on the JFK assignation people should read several in depth analysis of the Warren Commission report and how it was conducted.
I was only pre-teen back then, but when the government locked away all the evidence until 2029, it doesn't take much to do the math and figure that anyone who might have been involved or had firsthand knowledge would be long dead. To this date numerous requests have been made by various presidents for the files release but only portions trickle out.

 

[ladder13]

I’m waiting on balloon forensics first.

 

[tomhenry]

Opinions welcome? My opinion is that threads such as these are silly.

 

[Piwo]

We will never, ever really know. My belief is that the people that have been coming out of the woodwork with the "real story" are doing it for their own aggrandizement. I'm sure that will continue for all time. Every few years it seems someone comes out with a new theory on the Lincoln assassination. They are all selling something. President Kennedy is dead, that is the one truth we have.

 

[Paul in Nevada]

Nixon is a polarizing figure. I guess the role he plays vis a vis the CIA depends on whether Nixon is the villain in that particular story or not. In other versions, it's Nixon who is trying to blackmail the CIA, while unaware that his "plumbers" were all CIA agents except for the one patsy, G. Gordon Liddy.

 

[rockquarry]

Opinions welcome? My opinion is that threads such as these are silly.

Yes. Endless theories and conjecture but never evidence.

 

[ace22]

President Kennedy is dead, that is the one truth we have.

false! he's living in a secret room with elvis and the other jim morrison.

 

[Countrycuz]

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.

Would the Secret Service even have a M16 in 1963?

 

[NYlakesider]

Would the Secret Service even have a M16 in 1963?

Possible but not probable!

In service: 1964–present
Designed: 1959

 

[dave1918a2]

In the words of Agent 'K'. " He's not dead, He just went home."

 

[Autonomous]

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.

 

[BSA1]

Would the Secret Service even have a M16 in 1963?

That is part of the coverup. It was a XM-16 being field tested by the CIA. Colt wanted a big military contract so they brought off Secretary of Defense McNamara to cover up that it was used and to blame the Italians instead.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Opinions welcome? My opinion is that threads such as these are silly.

Yea like bear gun threads

 

[rockquarry]

Yea like bear gun threads

That has to easily be among the top ten best. It's probably even a stretch ahead of Tyler T-grip / slow delivery threads.