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SIX decades after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Americans still have questions about what led to the death of the country’s most powerful man and who was truly behind it.
The Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy.
However, that answer has failed to satisfy most people and in turn, Kennedy’s death has become the “mother of all conspiracies” by experts, with surveys showing that a majority of Americans believed there was some kind of conspiracy or cover-up surrounding the events of November 22, 1963.
But in recent years, the Kennedy assassination has become a hotbed of speculation from members of the far right conspiracy theory and political movement, QAnon, who believed the 35th president would reappear in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas where the fatal shooting took place.
Others were convinced that Kennedy’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr, who died in a plane crash in 1999, would also emerge alive and well in front of a crowd on November 2, 2021, to announce that Donald Trump would be reinstated as president with JFK Jr as his vice president.
Mike Rothschild, an author and conspiracy theory expert, gave insight as to why a fringe sect of QAnon remains obsessed with the belief that Kennedy – who would be 106 years old if alive today – and his son are hiding deep within a secret bunker.
Initial confusion arises when considering why Kennedy, a Democrat, would become a beacon of hope for a group like QAnon.
“It’s very strange,” Rothschild exclusively told The U.S. Sun. “But JFK is seen as the last president who ‘stood up’ to the powers that be, particularly since he had a rocky relationship with the CIA.
“The Kennedy fetish transcends party affiliation and is much more due to his being assassinated, especially when it’s linked to apocryphal quotes about him wanting to ‘splinter the CIA into 1,000 pieces.'”
While the quote of Kennedy’s desire to “splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds,” is often attributed to him, the source of the quote is rather dubious.
Rothschild added that Kennedy was also the last president before the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s.
“When JFK was president, the sexual revolution and the civil rights movement either hadn’t happened or were in their infancy.
“It was seen as a more wholesome and traditional time, something that a lot of Trump fans want to get back to.
“It’s a reinstatement of a time when the social order was less progressive and more dominated by white men.”
SKETCHY ORIGINS
QAnon’s curiosity about the idea of Kennedy and his son being alive originated from an early “Q drop” that “JFK Jr’s plane crash was somehow engineered by Hillary Clinton in order to get him out of the way so she could run for Senate,” said Rothschild.
“In reality, JFK Jr was only exploring a possible run and hadn’t decided,” said Rothschild. “But it was an easy way to pin a conspiracy theory on Clinton.”
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JFK Jr was a popular, albeit unlikely, contender for the 2000 Senate race, according to publications released at the time.
Meanwhile, Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have long remained targets of theories by QAnon members.
DECADES OF SPECULATION
For many Americans, the assassination of Presient Kennedy also marked the death of the the country’s view of security and stability.
There were questions on the validity of the information being presented, especially when much of the events on that fateful day don’t seem to add up.
“The idea that it was Oswald acting on his own is just not a satisfactory answer,” said Rothschild.
“Kennedy was a great man and Oswald was, at heart, a loser. It’s still hard to reconcile one taking down the other wihtout a lot of help or a conspiracy.
“Kennedy had powerful enemies, and we want those enemies to have had a hand in taking him down, not a disguntled communist who couldn’t even defect to the Soviet Union properly.
“It’s not grand enough.”
There’s no answer that will ever satisfy everyone, not even members of Kennedy’s own family as his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, claimed that his uncle’s death was part of a “60-year cover-up.”
“And most of the people in that investigation believe that it was the CIA that was behind it,” RFK Jr told Fox news, referring to the Warren Commission.
“Because the evidence was overwhelming to them.”
For Rothschild, the most logical answer remains that Oswald committed the assassination and acted alone, however, “it’s not the one many people want to be true.”
“I do think the conspiracy theories have become intertwined with [Kennedy’s] presidency, particularly that he was seen as the last president to stand up to the ‘real’ power in the west, the intelligence agencies, and military industrial complex.
“In reality, Kennedy was just as reliant on those powers as anyone else but he truly did seek to avoid conflict when possible.
“He relied on the CIA, spent big on defense, and of course, was not the paragono of moral virtue that many believe he was.”
