Several years after she orchestrated John's funeral, she was filled with fear for herself and her children, John and Caroline. In June 1968, when her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, she came to fear for her life and that of her children, saying "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets...I want to get out of this country." On October 20, 1968, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who provided her both privacy and security. Jacqueline Onassis and her children moved to Onassis' private Island in the Ionian Sea.
So we question what motivated Oswald to shoot the president? He had ties to Cuba, and to Russia, but politicians often (as in Watergate, e.g.) use dirt-level agents with foreign connections to do their bidding. When caught, the foreign ties tie in with motivation.
Was Ruby a hired assassin, brought in to prevent the man who shot the president from revealing information? Was jealousy a motive, involving an affair between the president and the most famous Marilyn Monroe?
Many have been blamed, but the controversy remains unsolved.
Article comments
1 - peter petterson
Of course Oswald was the tip of the iceberg, a patsy for organised crime and other shadowy figures. Kennedy and his brother were out to target rascism, and organised crime. The kennedy boys were not chips off the Joseph kennedy Snr figurehead.
JFK was as much loved Down Under as in America. We know he was contracted out of existence. Dallas was a hotbed of rascism too - Texans were and still are rascist from the blacks to latinos now.
2 - John Lake
Texas might have been more racist than some cities, back in the 20th century.
I hope that your native New Zealand is doing well in ending notorious discrimination toward the indigenous M?ori and non-M?ori Polynesians.
3 - pablo
What a load of crap this article is. Particularly in lieu of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)who over 35 years ago ruled that the assassination of JFK was more than likely the result of a conspiracy.
The author talks about the Texas Theater where Oswald was apprehended but makes no mention of another man that was taken by the police there.
No mention is made by John Lake of Oswald's numerous connections to both the FBI and the CIA, or the fact that during the height of the cold war, a so called defector from the USA could come back home and not be debriefed (bullied) by the FBI.
Nor does the author of this absurd article mention anything other than the official debunked Warren Commission pablum, or the fact that over 80% of the American people do no believe the official story to this day.
The one link that the author does provide in this article is to the Warren Report!
You should be ashamed of yourself Mr. Lake to write such obvious BULLSHIT 50 years later, when those of us that have taken the time to look deeply into this case know that the Warren Commission was a coverup. Hey I got an idea! Lets appoint to the Warren Commission Allen Dulles who was just fired by JFK! Give me a fucking break Lake.
4 - John Lake
Pablo you occasionally skim over an article and vent your wrath. You have not absorbed the material, and I do take interest in your suggestion of a connection of Oswald (did you mean Ruby?) to the FBI and CIA. In either case, that's news to me.
For your convenience, here is a copy of the Report of the Warren Commission.
THE ASSASSINATION of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence...
5 - Igor
I remember the JFK assassination well. Even as a republican I was concerned that JFK went to Dallas because it was a hotbed of JFK hatred. He went to the lions den, so when he was shot I left work immediately to avoid the riot I expected to erupt. I discovered that my employer was anti-JFK when he refused to honor the day of mourning that followed.
Tempers were running very high in those days. No less vicious attacks than what we see today.
Most of us were glad when Oswald was fingered. If it had been a rightist there would have been an open revolution in America.
We knew that the Warren commission would issue a whitewash to pacify the populace. We fervently hoped for it.
Everyone had a conspiracy theory. My own conspiracy theory was quite simple: JFK was shot by American patriots (possibly the FBI and CIA) who were afraid that JFKs close ties with the Mafia made the USA susceptible to takeover by criminals. At that time he was deeply involved with Sam Giancanas playgirl empire, especially Judith Exner (Campbell?).
Probably not a good theory: nobody else ventured it. That's just the first thing that occurred to me. FWIW.
6 - John Lake
Thank you Igor. It seems that an impeachment in that situation would have been more reasonable than a murdering gunshot.
You do provide considerable insight. As it happens, I remember Sam Giancana.
7 - Igor
Impeachment seemed like a forbidden move at that time. We had impeached few presidents but assassinated several, so assassination seemed more likely. And JFK was openly threatened with violence, ala the "second amendment remedies" talked about today.
And the idea was re-enforced as gunshots rang out across the political arena in the 60's.
We were very bloodthirsty then. I remember the account of a young Kent state co-ed who protested to her Dad after the shootings: "But dad, it could have been me". And he replied "and you would have deserved it!".