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45 Years Later, JFK Theories Live On

New book on JFK assassination offers new ideas, little proof

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 23, 2008 3:20 PM CST

(Newser) – In the canon of great conspiracy theories, the JFK assassination remains unquestionably king. The enduring national mystery has given rise to some of the most complicated explanations, and the theory offered by a new book is one of the more pleasingly convoluted, reports Vanity Fair in a look at Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination. Though to be fair, it's hard to go wrong with the book's combination of mob bosses with an attack on Cuba.

Legacy has Louisiana don Carlos Marcello taking JFK out in retribution for Bobby Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. A super-secret CIA plan to remove Fidel Castro from office was supposed to go down a week after JFK's Dallas trip, according to Legacy's authors, and Marcello bet he could get away with the hit because J Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson would rather sweep the assassination under the rug than reveal the planned Cuban plot.

The view from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, from which Lee Harvey Oswald is thought to have assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
The view from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, from which Lee Harvey Oswald is thought to have assassinated President John F. Kennedy.   (Getty Images)
John F. Kennedy is struck by an assassin's bullet, 22nd November 1963. In the car next to him is his wife Jacqueline and in the front seat is Texas governor John Connally.
John F. Kennedy is struck by an assassin's bullet, 22nd November 1963. In the car next to him is his wife Jacqueline and in the front seat is Texas governor John Connally.   (Getty Images)
President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy ride with secret agents in an open car motorcade shortly before the president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.
President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy ride with secret agents in an open car motorcade shortly before the president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.   (Getty Images)
Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy, reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range on Nov. 24, 1963.
Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy, reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range on Nov. 24, 1963.   (AP Photo/Dallas Times-Herald, Bob Jackson)
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COMMENTS
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Guest
Dec 15, 2009 2:55 AM CST
Time for a reality check. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting along, shot and killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. No help, no nothing, just him by himself. And he also murdered Dallas police office J.D. Tippitt and tried to kill General Walker. LHO was a lonely, pathetic loser in life who never was anyone or anything.
Shannonals
Dec 3, 2008 2:08 AM CST
I for one would love to know who really did the shooting
Guest
Nov 23, 2008 9:55 PM CST
Oswald did not do it

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