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Fidel Castro died four years ago on November 25, 2016 and John F. Kennedy was killed 57 years ago when the Cuban dictator got him first
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died four years ago on November 25, 2016 at age 90. U.S. President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. These two deaths are separated by 53 years, but some believe they are connected. The Cuban Studies Institute's Pedro Roig published a compelling outline that points to Fidel Castro's involvement in John F. Kennedy's death with a title that quotes the 35th President's successor: President Johnson: “Fidel Castro Got Kennedy First".
Fifty seven years ago on November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated. At 12:30pm Central Standard Time the Kennedys in their convertible limousine turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. As they were passing the Texas School Book Depository, President John F. Kennedy was shot twice and slumped over toward First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The governor of Texas was also hit. At 1:00pm President Kennedy was pronounced dead.
On the 57th anniversary of this political assassination the spin doctors and agents of influence continue to cloud the circumstances leading up to the murder of America's 35th president. However, the question that needs to be asked looking back to that fateful day: who benefited most from his death? Cui bono?
Following the Bay of Pigs debacle in April of 1961 the Kennedy brothers initiated Operation Mongoose. President Kennedy's brother and Attorney General of the United States, Robert Kennedy, headed up the sustained effort to topple the Castro regime and this included the assassination of Fidel Castro.
The Kennedy Administration remained committed to regime change in Cuba by whatever means necessary short of a U.S. military intervention that would arouse a response from the Soviets.
Ten days prior to President Kennedy's assassination on November 12, 1963, in a White House memorandum, the continued commitment of the Kennedy Administration to pursue an aggressive policy to overthrow the Castro regime is clear:
Support of Autonomous Anti-Castro Groups. The question was asked from where would the autonomous groups operate. Mr. FitzGerald replied that they would operate from outside U.S. territory. He mentioned two bases of the Artime group, one in Costa Rica and the other in Nicaragua. Also it was hoped that the autonomous group under Manolo Ray would soon get itself established in a working base, possibly Costa Rica. Mr. FitzGerald said that much could be accomplished by these autonomous groups once they become operational. A question was asked as to what decisions remain to be made. Mr. FitzGerald replied that we were looking for a reaffirmation of the program as presented, including sabotage and harassment. When asked what was planned in sabotage for the immediate future, he said that destruction operations should be carried out against a large oil refinery and storage facilities, a large electric plant, sugar refineries, railroad bridges, harbor facilities, and underwater demolition of docks and ships. The question was also raised as to whether an air strike would be effective on some of these principal targets. The consensus was that CIA should proceed with its planning for this type of activity looking toward January.
Following the President's assassination within a year these operations were scrapped and Fidel Castro would remain in power until 2006, then replaced by his brother Raul in a dynastic succession following a health crisis. General Raul Castro remains the maximum authority in Cuba today as head of the Cuban Communist Party. Fidel Castro died of old age after causing much suffering in Cuba and around the world in places such as Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Pedro Roig is not alone in presenting this thesis, and providing documentation. German journalist and documentary filmmaker Wilfried Huismann described the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the subsequent cover up by the Johnson White House with the tacit approval of Robert Kennedy in his 2006 documentary Rendezvous with Death. The film was not screened in the United States, but is available online today. It is required viewing for anyone who wants to learn what happened in the days leading up to and following the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
It is doubtful that if President Kennedy had lived and Attorney General Robert Kennedy had continued Operation Mongoose that Fidel Castro would have died of old age in 2016 on a Black Friday following Thanksgiving.
What would have happened if Kennedy had gotten Castro first?
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