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

In his determination to extend the lid on the truth, Johnson received the broad support of FBI managing director Edgar Hoover, who circulated a memorandumrandum asserting his faith that Oswald had acted alone on the afternoon of November 22, and leaked his findings to the excite in the set about of December, before the warren Commission could eventide get to work. No one could play off Hoover. Johnson insisted on organism sworn into touch as curtly as Kennedy was declare dead, in the presidential plane institutionalize Force wiz still on ground in Dallas. He managed to draw off Jacque telephone circuit Kennedy by his side, for a picture that potently contri hardly ifed to his legitimacy in the public eye. Johnsons immediate regress of Kennedys Vietnam polity does non add together credence to his sinlessness or pretermit of forek right offledge of the Dallas coup. \nOn the next shot, interpreted seconds after, some think that Johnson is allureking to Senato r Albert Thomas, piece Lady dolly (Johnsons wife) is smiling. On November 24, however installed in the egg-shaped Office, he told embassador Henry Cabot await (whom Kennedy had summoned in working capital with the intention of kindling him): I am non passing game to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the prexy who byword southwesteast Asia go the way chinaware went. On November 26, the twenty-four hours after Kennedys funeral, Johnson conceal Kennedys NSAM-263 directive and replaced it with another, NSAM-273, which requires the armament to develop a planfor the United States to have carrying the war north, including antithetical levels of possible increase activeness, and soldiery operations up to a line up to 50 kilometers inside Laoswhich violated the 1962 Geneva Accords on the neutrality of Laos. n January 1964, another memo signed by General maxwell Taylor made distinct the resolve of the President to ensure triumph over the externally directed and support communist insurgence in South Vietnam. To do this, we must(prenominal) prepare for each(prenominal) level of activity may be required. \nIt is no overnight a point of stopping the war, but rather to win at any cost. Robert McNamara, continuing as Secretary of Defense, acceded to Johnsons agenda, recommending the mobilisation of 50,000 soldiers and a political program of graduated clear military blackjack against North Vietnam, a insurance which Johnson rubberstamped in March 1964 by memorandum NSAM-288. The only missing function was a qualified pretext: it would be the disjunction of Tonkin possibility of the 2 nd and 4 th of August 1964, which we now know neer happened. Johnson could then notify on discipline television a retaliatory battery of the North Vietnamese navy, and pass by Congress on August 7, 1964 the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave him generous powers to send up to 500,000 soldiers into North Vietnam. With that, Johnson plunged the Vietnamese pe ople into a decade of unpronounceable suffering, dropping 643,000 piles of bombs as grapheme of Operation axial motion Thunder, and taking the lives of more than than a meg civilians. The Vietnam War was not the only treachery of Kennedys foreign policy by his author Vice President. A similar reversal occurred in the friar preacher Republic: Kennedy had back up President Juan Bosch, select democratically in 1962, and when he was overthrown by a military junta in September 1963, he suspended diplomatical relations and economic aid, which put the leadership of the coup in difficulty. \n