7 Unanswered Questions That Still Haunt the JFK Assassination

3. Why was Kennedy assassinated?

The reasoning for the killing of JFK has always, officially anyway, asserted that he was murdered by Oswald due to him either being an agent of the Soviet Union or working for one of the local political groups which held anti-Kennedy sentiments and were not in agreement with the president’s stands on Cuba, organized crime or civil rights. Jack Ruby would end any hopes of Ozwald providing a satisfying explanation.

Although that seems reason enough for a crazed madman, many have come forward claiming alternative reasons to kill the sitting President of the United States, two of them being the aforementioned ex-CIA spooks E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. They claimed that Kennedy had been eliminated in retaliation for his actions, or lack there of, in The Bay of Pigs incident, the plan to invade Cuba and remove then kill Fidel Castro.

Another supposed answer to the question why came from Kennedy’s father alleged involvement with the Mafia in a book called Double Cross. The story goes that notorious mob boss Sam Giancana, whose brother Chuck penned this revelation, had used his considerable influence to help get fellow bootlegger Joe Kennedy’s son elected to office by rigging votes.

The debt would be repaid once JFK took office with Giancana expecting to have a president in his pocket. However, when the newly appointed president did sit behind his desk in the Oval Office he would go after the Mafia in a big way by appointing his brother Robert as the 64th United States Attorney General.

The last theory put forward would involve Kennedy’s then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his apparent ruthless lust for power. This accusation would be made by LBJ’s then mistress, the late Madeleine Brown, who wrote of being at a “social” in honor of J Edgar Hoover at the home of Texas oil millionaire, and long time backer of LBJ, Clint Murchison, on Nov 21, 1963, the evening before the JFK assassination.

According to Brown, Johnson had a meeting with several men, including J Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, another Texas oil millionaire H. L. Hunt, entrepreneur George Brown and former presidential advisor John McCloy. After the meeting he told her: “After tomorrow, those goddamn Kennedy’s will never embarrass me again. That’s no threat. That’s a promise.”

Former insurance investigator David Perry would roundly debunk Browns claim by pointed to evidence placing key figures in her story outside of Dallas on the evening of November 21, 1963, including Johnson (with Kennedy in Houston and in Fort Worth), Murchison (in East Texas), and Hoover (in Washington, D.C.). He said that while Nixon was in Dallas at that time, a writer for The Dallas Morning News had placed him at a bottlers convention in the downtown area.