Who Killed JFK

The Twenty-sixth Amendment was ratified on July 1, 1971, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. The State of Texas had voted for President Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956; however, Texas would not have its first Republican Governor until 1979 with Governor Clements. Governor John Connally, a Democrat, would later become a Republican.

As a senior in high school in 1960, I remember taking Civics and being involved with keeping up with the political issues of the day and the candidates. I would not be able to vote until the 1964 election, but I had already begun developing my political beliefs. I was worried about the national Democratic party’s ideas and preferred Republican leadership for the country.

When I heard about the deals made during the Democratic Convention to select Lyndon Johnson as Vice President to help JFK win Texas, I had serious concerns, but held out hope for Nixon. Johnson was the most powerful man in Texas and in the country. He had something on everyone in politics, and he was not afraid to go after anyone. No one got the better of LBJ, or at least not for long. Here were JFK and LBJ, two opposites running as a team. How would LBJ remain in the shadow of JFK from Massachusetts? LBJ had built his power, and JFK came from family wealth. The 1960 election was very close, with JFK winning just 50.5%, and many said it was because Richard Nixon did not look as good as John Kennedy on TV during the debate.

I remember being at work in the Gulf Building on that Thursday, November 21, 1963, when the JFK motorcade was driven from the airport to the Rice Hotel. The downtown workers were on the sidewalks watching as they drove by. The following day, while driving back from Port Arthur, I heard on the radio about JFK’s assassination in Dallas. Then, only two days later, Jack Ruby was able to take a pistol into the police station building and kill the suspected killer of JFK.

80,000 pages of new information have been released after sixty years, with many sections still redacted. The CIA was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald and withheld information from the investigation. We will never know how JFK would have led the nation or how much more America would have gotten involved in Vietnam. It has been my belief from that date in 1963 to this date, LBJ was behind the killing of JFK. I have not seen any information to lead me to believe otherwise.

There are strange parallels to the attempts on President Trump’s life, with the lack of information provided and the destruction of the body so quickly. Federal agencies, especially intelligence agencies, need to eliminate corruption and be rebuilt with honest individuals to improve America’s safety and prosperity.