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Was John F. Kennedy's Assassination​ Planned by Lyndon B. Johnson?

Was this an inside job?

By Sarah LeePublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Moments before the tragedy

John F. Kennedy was killed on the 22nd November 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.

But was he the only one involved on that fateful day or was their another power involved?

Lyndon B. Johnson was the 37th Vice President and was then inaugurated as the 36th President when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who was on the Texas School Book Depository when he fired three shots.

But that is a story for another time, what I'm going to write about is that if the assassination of Kennedy had Lyndon B. Johnson involved.

Firstly, Kennedy was really outspoken about the problems in his own government and promised to solve all those problems, this could've sparked some controversy within the office.

Perhaps there could've been an argument between the president and the vice president about his outspokenness, something that Kennedy didn't agree with it.

Afterall, he was the first president to try to speak the truth and tried to right the wrongs in his own country before the world.

Around the time Kennedy was inaugurated as president, America was going through quite a crisis with the communism of Soviet Union, the Cuban Missile Crisis which was handled a poor way and Vietnam War.

Kennedy wasn't going to use excessive violence against Cuba but Lyndon B. Johnson was suggesting that they should, that violence was the answer to all the problem.

Perhaps, Lyndon B. Johnson didn't like the way or the method used by Kennedy to handle an international crisis and wanted to do something about it, did he reach a limit of temptation and had to try some desperate measures.

Or was the entire government in on it to kill one of the most influential presidents of all time? The whole American government must've wanted to use force because they didn't like the directions the president was taking.

The pride and morale of the country were at stake, so they hired Lee Harvey Oswald, who was defected to the Soviet Union after being released from Marine Corp, he was asked to take pictures with rifles and other guns, which he excused was doctored and fake.

I don't think JFK was killed by Oswald alone, the only video that had recorded the assassination seemed like he was shot from behind, where Harvey was on the Book Depository, which led to him grabbing his throat.

Another shot was fired from the Depository, which probably hit the Mayor sitting in front of Kennedy, shooting him at the back.

Then, unless my eyes are tricking me, there was another bullet coming from upfront, from another building and a different direction where a definitely experienced sniper took over and finished the job and fired the shot that pierced through Kennedy.

After that, Jackie Kennedy was shocked and decided to leave the car.

When Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated, he escalated American's involvement in the Vietnam War when the Congress passed the Gulf Of Tonkin Revolution which allowed using military forces in Southeast Asia without declaring a war.

The Domino Effect or also known as Domino Theory proposed that when a specific area goes into communism control, then the other countries surrounding that area goes into communist control because of fear.

Lyndon B. Johnson subscribed to that theory and wanted to have a containment before any communist expansion into the West, he could've gone to any length to stop that from happening.

Was containing the expansion of Communism in Asia really that important for Johnson that he and the rest of the government planned and plotted the assassination of President JFK?

HEY HEY LBJ HOW MAY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY.

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