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[–] sumguy 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

That's one (of many) theories. Maybe the average person will know some day, but I'm thinking that 1984 (history being written by those in power with either outright lies or, more likely, partial truths that suggest a non-truth) is already here.

End result is that I don't think anyone not Directly involved with the assassination will ever Really know.

As an American, this circus is annoying. We're so far from a democratic process at this point that nothing short of civil war will make a whit of difference. Though the schism seems to widen every circus year (leap year, election year, whatever you want to call it), and I have to wonder how wide it can go before things just... break.

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[–] Ben77 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

He also threatened to 'splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds', and it could be argued that he brought the world to the brink of WWIII during the Cuban missile crisis (although personally, I'd say that one was on Khrushchev being alternately sneaky and deliberately provocative)

Kennedy made a shit ton of enemies which is one of the reasons his assassination is so 'murky'; there are just too many suspects with motives.

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[–] ShinyVoater 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

We were exactly one Soviet officer away from a nuclear torpedo being launched and, if things had dragged out much longer, the US plan was to invade Cuba, which would've been met with nuclear-armed forces authorized to use them. The world came within a hair's breadth of nuclear devastation and the US was the one pushing it there, regardless of whoever's responsible for setting it up.

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[–] Ben77 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Hence why I said "it could be argued"

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[–] the-gerbil-in-my-bum 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

it was because he tried to get us back on the gold standard

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[–] common_sense 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He wanted to abolish it completely.