Peter never got to hear Rough and Rowdy Ways, but these were his thoughts on JFK and the Kennedy saga. I imagine his response to Murder Most Foul would’ve been an email simply saying: Holy fuck!
I find nothing wrong with figuring out who killed JFK. I’ve read a lot of books on it, not all, there’s still one I want to get and I can’t even remember the name right now. Buried in Tarantula is some line about how the Warren Commission wasn’t up to snuff or something like that. I think Oswald was involved, but he might’ve been what he said he was. I know this. If you or I were in the army and defected to the Soviet Union, and then changed our minds, we wouldn’t get our passports back in 24 hours.
The naysayers, the ones who say no conspiracy, fuck them and the ones who use computer graphics to make their case, fuck them too. The people who controlled things wanted the Kennedys out of the picture. I am convinced that was the turning point in this country, when things started to get weird to what we have now.
Some people like to point their finger at LBJ, I don’t think so. He wasn’t enamored of the Kennedys, but that wasn’t his style. And I think the same people who killed JFK killed his brother. Sometime in the past 20 years, maybe 30, but I think more like 20, I decided Teddy was set up.
I’m a very big fan of The Godfather. I have the saga set where it’s in chronological order. I’ve watched it more than any other movie. So you know the scene in II where they frame the Senator? One night I was watching it, and I went holy fuck, Teddy!
Teddy was never really able to explain what the hell happened. So it wasn’t too hard really, they kidnap him, they kidnap her, he wakes up, his car is in the creek with her in it, he makes up a story. It would have been too weird to kill him too, so they made it so he could never be president.
It’s not that I think the Kennedys were anything great ’cause I don’t and they weren’t. They acted on civil rights because they were forced to, not because they wanted to. RFK worked for Joe McCarthy and did other horrible shit. Who knows if JFK was really gonna pull out of Vietnam? We’ll never know. It wasn’t about Vietnam anyway, the assassination was about Cuba.
That said, I do think RFK underwent some kind of change, and I do think he would have won the nomination and the election. He couldn’t say anything of course, and none of the Kennedys said anything for years, but I suspect RFK knew something wasn’t on the up and up about his brother’s death. He was attorney general, a powerful man.
When Oliver Stone’s film came out and the media all combined to attack it, particularly people like Cronkite. Well, I always thought it was pretty much what the film said. It might not have been the guy Garrison went after in New Orleans, but it was some combination of mob/military/cia probably backed by oil money.
John Carvill
Agree 100%. Anybody who spends any time even casually looking into the JFK assassination comes away knowing one central fact: JFK was not killed by Oswald acting alone. There was a conspiracy. The only question is who was involved. People who argue otherwise are either stupid, insane, or have an agenda. JFK was no saint, but the people who killed him, they are so extreme Right wing and evil that they regarded him as a threat so he had to go. Those people, they are still around today, in the shadows; maybe not the very same specific people – a lot of them will be dead by now – but the same sort of people, the people who are really in control of the so-called ‘democratic’ United States. They let people have the charade of democracy, most of the time, but if things get out of hand they will act. Always.
harry briscoe
“Some people like to point their finger at LBJ, I don’t think so. He wasn’t enamored of the Kennedys, but that wasn’t his style. ”
This ignores the fact that LBJ was involved in several murders including that of his sister and her lover and agriculture agent henry marshall, who was investigating billy sol estes (and lbj). lbj’s hitman of choice was malcolm “mac” wallace.
It’s not that I think the Kennedys were anything great ’cause I don’t and they weren’t.
read some history and find out what kennedy’s program really was. he was great. our last real president
Who knows if JFK was really gonna pull out of Vietnam? We’ll never know.
kennedy’s orders to pull out 1,000 troops out by the end of December 1963 (all out by the end of 1965.)
were still in effect when he was killed. they were countermanded several days after the killing. 125 spots were rotated home before things changed
read some history and find out what kennedy’s program really was. he was great. our last real president.
That said, I do think RFK underwent some kind of change, and I do think he would have won the nomination and the election.
part of that change involved LSD-25
He couldn’t say anything of course, and none of the Kennedys said anything for years, but I suspect RFK knew something wasn’t on the up and up about his brother’s death.
several days before his death rfk said “only the powers of the presidency will r veal the secrets of my brother’s death.
And I think the same people who killed JFK killed his brother.
and you can see some of them film in the ambassador hotel ball room before rfk’s last speech.
He was attorney general, a powerful man.
not once his brother was killed was he. jimmy hoffa said bobby kennedy is just another lawyer now.”