The death of the priapic JFK has spawned more conspiracy theories than you can shake a stick at, but here’s another: Kennedy was killed by NASA. I’m about half way through a book called Dark Side of the Moon, subtitled “The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest” and written by one Gerard DeGroot. Kennedy started to go soft on NASA after he’d won his election posing as a space nut but he was confronted by the enormous burden which the space programme would put on the American economy.
Kennedy could see that the US space programme in the 1960s was all about out-doing the Russians even if it screwed the American people into the ground. But with so much of the military-industrial Mafia behind the space race, he quickly went back to being a space buff, but he made his vice-president, LBJ, the man in charge of space so that Johnson would collect the flak if it all went horribly wrong.
It makes a sort of sense that the generals and industrialists would take out the potential road block of JFK to put their man LBJ in charge. And it also explains why LBJ didn’t run for president when his term ran out and he was quite happy to leave Nixon as the hostage to fortune of the NASA/military/industrial Mafia.
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