Did Castro Really Kill Kennedy? Last nite, on the PBS conversation program Charlie Rose, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., a long-time Washington insider, claimed that Lyndon Johnson said shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy that 'Kennedy tried to get Castro and instead Castro got Kennedy.' Is that the slightest credible?
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If Johnson believed that a Communist dictator murdered the President of the United States, why would he not express that view publicly, or at least to the Warren Commission? Fear of World War III, when the people flew into a rage and demanded war against Cuba, which was then defended by the Soviet Union? But Kennedy had already proved that the Soviet Union would not fight for Cuba with his successfully imposing a naval quarantine in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Wouldn't any President feel that to PERMIT a Communist dictator to kill one U.S. President would invite other Communist dictators to kill other U.S. Presidents - for instance, Johnson himself? I cannot for an instant believe that Lyndon Johnson (a) would consent to do nothing about Castro murdering Kennedy or (b) leave himself open to assassination by Castro, Ho Chi Minh (with whom we were then at war), or other Communists.
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Moreover, if Califano heard any such remark and didn't urge the President to tell the people of his suspicions or go publilc on his own to demand the matter be investigated, even if that required him to leave his job in the White House and 'betray a confidence', then he and Lyndon Johnson were both guilty of the most grievous treason.
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That was then. What of now? If Fidel Castro really did kill John Kennedy, then we must execute him. There is no statute of limitations on murder. So if Castro killed Kennedy, then it is a moral imperative that the United States destroy the Communist government of Fidel Castro by any means necessary, including one or more well-placed neutron or hydrogen bombs.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 9:45 PM