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Response to JFK


One of possible evidences is that many Texans were angry with JFK by the summer of 1963. He had scaled back the oil depletion tax credit, disciplined General Edwin Walker and was, rumor had it, considering dumping another Texan, Lyndon Johnson, from his 1964 ticket. The theory most popular among researchers is that the assassination was organized "off the reservation" by agents associated with Operation Mongoose. (The code-name for programs JFK set up in the Defense Department, CIA and State Department after the Bay of Pigs to coordinate anti-Castro activities - some of which were aimed at overthrowing him by political and economic means, others at assassinating him outright.) In order to cover up their own involvement, Mongoose set up Oswald as a patsy and planted false clues pointing to Cuba, the Soviet, and the Mafia. This scenario also provides a clear motive for assassination. Mongoose members-particularly those in Task Force W, a CIA portion of the team - were angry at JFK for his retreat from the Bay of Pigs and what they perceived as his concessions to Communism. As they saw it, LBJ's foreign policy would be a lot better. Lastly, as Warren Commission concluded, Lee H. Oswald might have been the only assassin and planned the assassination all by himself; his deep-rooted resentment of all authority which was expressed in a hostility toward every society in which he lived, His inability to enter into meaningful relationships with people, and a continuous pattern of rejecting his environment favor of new surrounding, His urge to try to find a place in history and despair at times over failures in his various undertakings, and His capacity for violence as evidenced by his attempt to kill General Walker all provide evidence of his unstable mental condition and motivation to assassinated the President John F. Kennedy.
             2. The Warren Commission drew the conclusion; the shots, which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally, were fired from the sixth floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository.


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