46 years ago today...

Well first off I obviously wasn't there. I have seen countless documentaries about the assassination and it is still interesting to talk to my mom and dad about that day because it truly is one of those things where you will always remember where you were when you first heard the news about it. The only events that are similar to that that have happened recently are the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11. The one thing that is interesting about the JFK assassination though is how many people believed (and still believe) that there was some conspiracy behind it. Unlike the 9/11 truth nutters there is some validity to this. JFK had A LOT of enemies. Castro for one, who he authorized to have killed multiple times (you don't hear that a lot in the history books, funny...) and of course the horribly botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The entire Soviet Union hated him because they were handed a major embaressment to their pride after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The CIA supposedly hated his guts and this is the favorite of some conspiracy theorists that the CIA offed him but I just don't buy that. If some rouge element in the CIA did this, someone, somewhere at sometime would have come forward by now because lord knows no one can keep a secret. Well, maybe one group; and thats where I put my chips on for a conspiracy theory. That would be the Mafia. Joe Kennedy had massive ties to organized crime because he was a bootlegger during prohibition and thats how the Kennedy fortune was amassed (once again, you don't hear much about that) and it has almost been accepted fact that there are still a bunch of Nixon votes (and sprobably some Nixon poll-watchers) at the bottom of Lake Michigan. People forget that the only reason Kennedy won in 1960 was because Illnois was pretty much thrown his way by the Mafia. So what does he do when he gets in office? He appoints his little brother, Bobby, as AG (nepotism at its finest) who decides to do a full-court press against organized crime. Apparently he didn't get the memo. Obviously the mob doesn't like this so they most likely hire Oswald as a fall guy and have Ruby take him out before he can talk to the press and police. Ruby dies in jail and we will never know exactly what happened that day but I think my theory will be proven right one of these days. Me and my dad have a saying that sums up our opinion of the JFK assassination, "The Mafia put Kennedy into office and the Mafia took Kennedy out of office."