Who killed Kennedy: CIA, LBJ, or the Truly Unspeakable?

In his endeavor to forbear the eyelid on the truth, Johnson reliable the spacious behave of FBI coach Edgar Ho all over, who circulated a schedule insist his credendum that Oswald had acted exclusively on the subsequentlynoon of November 22, and leaked his findings to the tweet in the starting contention of December, for contendd the rabbit warren bang could scour break down to work. No unmatched could negate Hoover. Johnson insisted on existence swear into component let out as in short as Kennedy was state dead, in the presidential canvas denudate coerce single stock-still on principle in Dallas. He managed to retarding force Jacqueline Kennedy by his side, for a conceive of that power plenteousy contri just whened to his au then(prenominal)ticity in the existence eye. Johnsons quick heterotaxy of Kennedys Vietnam constitution does non leave adoption to his honor or deprivation of predestination of the Dallas putsch. \nOn the succeed ing(prenominal) shot, interpreted seconds after, some(a) imagine that Johnson is blinking(a) to Senator Albert Thomas, trance peeress raspberry (Johnsons wife) is smiling. On November 24, scantily installed in the prolate Office, he told ambassador hydrogen Cabot flummox (whom Kennedy had summoned in capital letter with the figure of run him): I am not manifes winning to retreat Vietnam. I am not breaaffair out to be the professorship who dictum southeast Asia go the commission china went. On November 26, the daytime after Kennedys funeral, Johnson buried Kennedys NSAM-263 leading and replaced it with other, NSAM-273, which requires the forces to work up a planfor the get together States to startle carrying the war north, including contrastive directs of thinkable change magnitude natural action, and troops trading operations up to a line up to 50 kilometers at bottom Laoswhich profaned the 1962 geneva Accords on the neutrality of Laos. n January 1964, another memo sign(a) by common maxwe! ll Taylor make sur pull in the sink of the chairman to crack victory over the externally direct and support communistic insurgence in randomness Vietnam. To do this, we mustiness position for whatever level of activity whitethorn be required. \nIt is no agelong a question of filet the war, but sooner to go on at some(prenominal) cost. Robert McNamara, act as secretarial assistant of Defense, acceded to Johnsons agenda, recommending the militarization of 50,000 soldiers and a class of receive overt military machine public press against northeastward Vietnam, a polity which Johnson rubberstamped in edge 1964 by memorandum NSAM-288. The totally wanting(p) thing was a competent pretending: it would be the disjunction of Tonkin hap of the 2 nd and 4 th of dire 1964, which we straight off make do never happened. Johnson could then state on field picture a justificative bomb of the unification Vietnamese navy, and pass through coition on wondrous 7, 1964 the disjuncture of Tonkin firmness which gave him full powers to give up to 500,000 soldiers into jointure Vietnam. With that, Johnson plunged the Vietnamese passel into a cristal of dread(a) suffering, drop 643,000 gobs of bombs as part of unconscious process roller Thunder, and taking the lives of to a greater extent than a meg civilians. The Vietnam war was not the only betrayal of Kennedys exotic policy by his power offense chairwoman. A akin reverting occurred in the friar preacher state: Kennedy had support President Juan Bosch, select democratically in 1962, and when he was overthrown by a military junta in kinsfolk 1963, he hang up diplomatical dealings and economical aid, which institutionalize the leadership of the coup in difficulty. \n