Peter on the Kennedys and the Murder Most Foul
Peter never got to hear 'Rough And Rowdy Ways', but these were his thoughts on JFK and the Kennedy saga. I imagine his response to 'Murder Most Foul' would’ve been an email simply saying: Holy fuck!
I find nothing wrong with figuring out who killed JFK. I’ve read a lot of books on it, not all, there’s still one I want to get and I can’t even remember the name right now. Buried in Tarantula is some line about how the Warren Commission wasn’t up to snuff or something like that. I think Oswald was involved, but he might’ve been what he said he was, a patsy. I know this. If you or I were in the army and defected to the Soviet Union, and then changed our minds, we wouldn’t get our passports back in 24 hours.
The naysayers, the ones who say no conspiracy, fuck them and the ones who use computer graphics to make their case, fuck them too. The people who controlled things wanted the Kennedys out of the picture.
The CIA did it, or people working for them. It wasn't a “lone nut”. They had lots of reasons to kill him and did in a way that was quite effective and followed it up by killing one way or another every person who knew anything. I am convinced that was the turning point in this country, when things started to get weird to what we have now. The defining moment in the beginning of the decline of the U.S. That day was the day evil took over in this country and it's been fucked ever since. Yeah sure, they'll throw out a bone every now and then to placate and distract the masses but meanwhile they're doing totally evil shit while pretending not to. And it's not that JFK was great. He wasn't. He dealt with Civil Rights only when he was forced to. RFK worked for Joe McCarthy and did other horrible shit. Who knows if JFK was really gonna pull out of Vietnam? We’ll never know. It wasn’t about Vietnam anyway, the assassination was about Cuba.
But I am starting to think that JFK saw something in the joint chiefs of staff and something in the CIA that totally scared him, that they were totally willing to blow up everything to achieve their goals. And I think he may have been at the beginning of some kind of change, but of course we'll never know. And I think RFK also went through some kind of change as well, probably because of his brother's assassination and I do think he would have won the nomination and the election. He couldn’t say anything of course, and none of the Kennedys said anything for years, but I suspect RFK knew something wasn’t on the up and up about his brother’s death. He was attorney general, a powerful man.
I think the Mob was involved as well and the CIA and the Mob have worked together before going back to whatever the CIA was called during WWII [the OSS], and the Jack Ruby connection points to the Mob. Oswald who was pretty much of a patsy I suspect just like he said he was had to be involved with CIA. Some people like to point their finger at LBJ, I don’t think so. He wasn’t enamored of the Kennedys, but that wasn’t his style. And I think the same people who killed JFK killed his brother.
For years the Kennedys publicly had little to say about the assasination(s). But to me, it was for obvious reasons. Only now we're starting to find out what they really thought.
It occurred to me that what we're in now is the age old struggle between rich and poor and of course power. What makes it worse now is that the big THEY are so much more powerful now. It also has occurred to me that being a boomers, I grew up in the period of the great middle class. And that meant things were attainable. I don't think there was any other period in history quite like that period in terms of people having enough money to survive and things were relatively cheap. You could buy a brand new VW for less than two grand. But my parents who grew up in, and remembered, the Depression were quite cautious. And I grew up having to wait a really long time for things I wanted.
But the '60s, probably because of that sense of economic prosperity, also fostered a lot of rebellion, revolt and experimentation. And quite clearly the big THEY didn't like that at all. And they had to, and found a way to, put a stop to it. The only saving grace is that a lot of people got a lot smarter, though never enough. And of course a lot of people of my generation went for cocaine and they went for the money and forsook everything else, though I always felt most of the people of my generation were basically full of shit to begin with and only in the ride for the quick high. I've long had an idea to rewrite "My Generation" to reflect this. So, very sadly in my view our generation fucked up on its promise big time.
The JFK thing fits into what was the turning point in America.
Sometime in the past 20 years, maybe 30, but I think more like 20, I decided Teddy was set up. I’m a very big fan of The Godfather. I have the saga set where it’s in chronological order. I’ve watched it more than any other movie. So the scene in Godfather II where they frame the Senator, one night I was watching it, and I went “holy fuck, Teddy!”
Teddy was never really able to explain what the hell happened. So it wasn’t too hard really, they kidnap him, they kidnap her, he wakes up, his car is in the creek with her in it, he makes up a story. It would have been too weird to kill him too, so they made it so he could never be president.
When Oliver Stone’s film came out and the media all combined to attack it, particularly people like Cronkite, well, I always thought it was pretty much what the film said. It might not have been the guy Garrison went after in New Orleans, but it was some combination of mob/military/CIA probably backed by oil money.
Peter on the Kennedys and the Murder Most Foul
The majority of my childhood & life has been spent living on Cape Cod in West Hyannisport AKA: Kennedy country.
Took me a lot of time & brain development to realize the many book reports I completed in my youth was nothing more than fairly tale laced fiction. ... Yet still, can't deny they're somehow apart of who I am.
Remember standing outside with my fellow neighbors in '09 as they wheeled Teddy's body away. Just as I remember my elementary school friend's mom telling me how he pinched her ass at the bar connected to Baxter's Fish & Chips, and one hungover stoned teenage morning seeing him alone at the Hyannis bus station behind the Sunny Side breakfast restaurant with my friend and us yelling "F you Tedster" as he politely waved & gave us a chuckle.
Also happen to be a huge Dylan fan. ... Song invokes many different emotions & thoughts ... Funny ones like George Costanza yelling, "worlds colliding," angry ones as if someone in my own family was murdered, all the way to somber ones leaving me with tears rolling down my cheeks. .... Guessing it does much the same for a lot of others as well. ... Mark of a great song.
Thanks much for the article. Truly enjoyed it. LoL, been a little while since the Tedster crossed my mind.
Be well & enjoy yourself.
- OldHenryLee
AKA: Kevin