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9 People Who Killed John further injuring JFK.
Hickey did acknowledge the accusation.
F. Kennedy, According to He sued Menninger after the book was released,

but St. Martin’s Press, the publisher of the book,
Conspiracy Theorists settled.
6. The Central Intelligence Agency
BY Meredith Danko
According to author Patrick Nolan, who wrote
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, a
group of rogue CIA agents killed JFK. Nolan
According to a 2013 Gallup poll, 61 percent of
names James Angleton, Richard Helms, E.
Americans believe John F. Kennedy’s
Howard Hunt, and David Phillips as members of
assassination was the result of a conspiracy.
the responsible group. He cites disagreement
Among those who don't think Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone, the same names keep with Kennedy’s approach to Cuba as the group’s
popping up. On the 55th anniversary of JFK's motive.
assassination, here are nine people and groups As for evidence, the most compelling is
E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession to his
who've been blamed for killing the 35th
family. Hunt, who was also involved in the
President of the United States.
Watergate Hotel break-in, allegedly revealed
that the group of CIA rogues invited him to have
1. Lyndon B. Johnson
a role in the assassination, which was originally
supposed to take place in Miami before it was
A big contributor to this theory is Roger Stone,
moved to Dallas. His son, Howard St. John
who wrote The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The
Hunt, relayed his father's message to the Los
Case Against LBJ. But Stone, a longtime
Angeles Times, “He told me in no uncertain
Washington insider, is better known for having
terms about a plot originating in Miami, to take
worked for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan,
place in Miami.”
George H. W. Bush and, most recently (and pamphlets for the New Orleans Fair Play for
controversially), Donald Trump. Cuba Committee. The other primary basis for
Stone believes that Lyndon Johnson this theory is Oswald’s trip to the Cuban 7. Carlos Marcello
hired hitman Malcolm Wallace to do the dirty Embassy, around two months before the
work, which explains an allegation that Johnson assassination, where he allegedly had a Lamar Waldron has written multiple books
ducked before any shots were fired. Stone also meltdown because he wasn’t granted a visa. accusing the mafia of killing JFK. He also
believes that Johnson confessed to the crime: believes the CIA had a role in covering up the
assassination. In his theory, mafia boss Carlos
“Johnson’s mistress of 21 years, Madeleine In 1963, Castro—Cuba's longtime Prime
Duncan Brown, who bore him an illegitimate Minister-turned-President, who passed away in Marcello hired hitmen to assassinate Kennedy
son, said that Lyndon Johnson told her on the 2016—was questioned about JFK’s because the president and his brother, Attorney
eve of the assassination, ‘After tomorrow I assassination, but the U.S. government General Robert F. Kennedy, were too tough on
won’t have to deal with those Kennedy SOBs no determined he was not involved. mob-related crimes. In 1985, Marcello allegedly
more.’” admitted to the murder, reportedly telling a
fellow prisoner, “Yeah, I had the son of a bitch
4. Woody Harrelson's Dad
2. The KGB killed. I’m glad I did. I’m sorry I couldn’t have
done it myself.”
In 1980, Charles Harrelson was convicted of
Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was a general for the shooting federal judge John H. Wood, Jr. He was
secret police of Communist Romania, blames arrested in September of that year after a six- 8. Joe DiMaggio
the KGB for orchestrating the assassination in hour standoff with police on the side of a
his book, Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey highway. During the saga, Harrelson confessed Even baseball legend Joe DiMaggio has been
Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in blamed for JFK's assassination. According to
Assassination. As for how the Soviet security addition to Judge Wood. He later stated he had this theory, DiMaggio was sure that a member of
agency got connected with Lee Harvey Oswald, nothing to do with the JFK assassination, the Kennedy family had had Marilyn Monroe
theorists cite Oswald’s residency in the Soviet claiming he only confessed to the crime to killed. DiMaggio’s lawyer Morris Engelberg
Union from 1959 to 1962. During this time, ensure that he would live longer. wrote that the Hall of Famer refused to go to
Oswald also met and married his Russian wife, events if there would be members of the
Marina. Before the Kennedy assassination, 5. Secret Service Agent George Hickey Kennedy family there. DiMaggio apparently
Oswald wrote a letter to his wife that contained told Engelberg, “It’s in their blood, and what
the assertion, “I believe that the Embassy will they did to me will never be forgotten. They
In 1992, Bonar Menninger released his murdered the one person I loved.” Even as crazy
come quickly.” Pacepa believes this note is a
assassination theory in the book Mortal Error: conspiracy theories go, this one's a little flimsy.
piece of evidence that the KGB told Oswald
The Shot That Killed JFK. The book details a
they would take care of his family.
claim that one of Kennedy’s Secret Service
In another theory, the KGB is 9. Alien Researchers
agents, who was riding in the car behind the
responsible for the assassination, but Oswald is
president, shot Kennedy by accident. Menninger
not. According to JFK assassination expert William Lester’s book, A Celebration of
worked with Baltimore ballistics expert Howard
Bryan Ghent, these theorists suspect that Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier, contains a
Donahue to compile the evidence.
Oswald “was replaced by a Russian agent who letter from Kennedy to the CIA dated 10 days
“It is a ballistically unshakable fact that
looked like him in order to assassinate our before the assassination. In the letter, Kennedy
the fatal shot came from a position behind and to
president.” requested a “classification review of all UFO
the left of the president," Donahue told The
intelligence files affecting National Security.”
Sunday Sun Magazine in 1977. The two
3. Fidel Castro theorists concluded that the shooter was agent Conspiracy theorists see a connection between
this letter and Kennedy’s murder, blaming either
George Hickey, who reacted to Lee Harvey
Theories about Oswald’s connection to Cuba Oswald’s first shot by shooting his own gun and a CIA cover-up or another alien research
vary in extremity, and some of these theories organization.
claim Fidel Castro was directly involved in The ‘X’ Zone TV Channel on SimulTV Lester maintains that the CIA gave him
JFK’s death. As for evidence, Oswald was is NOW Available on the letter, but government insiders believe the
arrested in 1963 for passing out pro-Castro ROKU! letter is a fake. []