John F. Kennedy (JFK) Assassination Case, And The NSA

We have all experienced it: being lied to, but what if the one who is lying is the government? Who can you trust? What can you trust? Growing up, my parents would preach the message to “Never lie,” however, it seems as if that rule does not apply to politicians, whether that is for better or for worse. Two relevant examples are the John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination case, and the NSA’s use of the Patriot Act. The JFK case has kept people speculating for over fifty years about what really happened on the day of Friday, November 22nd, 1963. It was not until recently that the government decided to release some of the truth behind the assassination. The Patriot Act, on the other hand, was a legal action to tap into people’s personal records, for

The first red flag concerns the role of the CIA. The CIA had one primary goal in the early 1960s: to kill Fidel Castro. Proposals were brought up to JFK such as hiring mafia to sneak poison into his food, or to plant explosive seashells near his frequent diving area. The information to be concerned about is the plans intended for Miami, Florida. Within the JFK assassination files, the CIA planned to stage multiple bombings in Miami and other cities (Thomas). The terror attacks would be set up in a way to make it seem as if cuban refugees were the ones to blame. Doing so would help turn public support for a war in Cuba. This included plane hijackings and bombs going off in government buildings, the sinking of U.S. boats, and various planned terror attacks against civilians (Bousquet). JFK shot all of these ideas down which feeds into the conspiracy that the CIA was behind the assassination because JFK was against all of their plans (Bousquet). Putting the lives of U.S. citizens in danger, for any reason, should not be tolerated. The Constitution was set in place as rules to protect the people. Even the first three words of the Constitution state “We the People”, which affirms that the government was created by the people for the people, not against. If the government had decided to release this information to the public back in the ‘60s, riots would have erupted, and change would

This, however, was disproved according to the recently released files. People were shocked in Russia when they heard Kennedy was assassinated and were sad because in general many Russian officials claimed to like JFK because he was trying to help Russian-US relations. Many officials believed a coup was happening in the US and were afraid that the US was going to send retaliation missile strikes and start a war against Russia (Neuman). The files show that it is highly unlikely that Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s convicted assassin, was a KGB agent and that it was unlikely that Russia had immense involvement in the assassination of Kennedy. The KGB also claimed that Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ) was behind the assassination of Kennedy, but those files were not yet released (Li). Why would Johnson want Kennedy assassinated? Primarily for political gain. At first sight, this theory seems far-stretched, but at a closer look, things begin to make sense. Kennedy was killed on LBJ’s home ground, Texas. It might seem like an odd coincidence, but the fact that the route for the parade was changed last minute is not. The new route passed in front of the Texas textbook depository, the location where Oswald was found. Initially, the motorcade was not supposed to drive into Dealey plaza, the location of the assassination. Johnson also had multiple associates in the oil industry who had ties to the mafia,