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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"