
"One of the issues has always been in the JFK assassination researcher community is that people view the assassination through a particular prism."
Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with political strategist and commentator Roger Stone on Wednesday, during which the two discussed the recently released 80,000 pages of files related to the JFK assassination.
Roger Stone believes that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as part of a conspiracy involving Lyndon B. Johnson, the CIA, and other government insiders. In his book The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, Stone argues that Johnson played a key role in orchestrating the assassination to gain power. He also claims that the CIA, FBI, and organized crime were involved in covering up the truth. Stone dismisses the lone gunman theory and insists that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy.
Posobiec asked, "How should we look at the new files that have come out? Is there anything, to you, that rises to your level of saying, ‘that changes how I thought about a certain aspect of the situation?’"
Stone responded: "One of the issues has always been in the JFK assassination researcher community is that people view the assassination through a particular prism. The House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s focused almost solely on the role of organized crime, and you have an official finding by the House committee that organized crime was indeed involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. None of that, of course, is reflected in the documents that were released yesterday. I have long stuck to the theory that I published in my 2013 book The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ that it was Vice President Lyndon Johnson that was at the helm of a plot that involved the CIA, organized crime, and Big Texas Oil, all of whom had their individual reasons to want to replace Jack Kennedy."
Stone continued: "Johnson made a great show of being sworn in on Air Force One. Why? By law, he is automatically president the moment that John Kennedy is declared dead… No swearing in is required. This is a public relations exercise and he insists that Jackie Kennedy stand next to him in her blood-splattered dress. We know, by the way, that at this point she is pretty heavily sedated.
"We know from the memoirs of several Johnson aides that Johnson’s greatest fear was that Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, would suspect foul play and Johnson’s involvement in that foul play."
According to Stone, Johnson knew he would be indicted on unrelated matters and dropped from the coming presidential ticket.
"His motive is keen… The CIA believes that Kennedy has botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, they blame him for that, he blames them for that. In fact, those men who were storming the beaches in Cuba were supposed to be afforded air cover from 29 Panamanian bombers piloted by Cuban pilots. That is in your original Bay of Pigs invasion plan that was born under President Eisenhower in a task force headed by Richard Nixon and later approved by John Kennedy. Why the CIA cancels the air cover for the storming of beaches, that hasn’t been revealed in any of the documents we’ve seen so far. And then of course, there is organized crime. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy got a $1 million contribution in 1959—that’s a lot of money," Stone explained, before the segment was forced to break for commercial.
Around 80,000 pages of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released by the Trump administration, fulfilling a promise Trump made at several points.
When he announced the release on Monday, Trump said that those looking at the files will have "a lot of reading" to do as he visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He also stated that he did not think anything in the files would be redacted. The files are available at the National Archives, with 1,123 new entries, many containing multiple pages.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) was appointed by Trump to lead a task force on declassifying a trove of different files on the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr assassination as well files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, and she has said that she believes there were "two shooters" in the JFK assassination.
In February she told reporters, "Based on what I've seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was faulty ... I believe there were two shooters." Luna added at the time that she did not believe the "single bullet theory."
Over the weekend, Trump said in an interview that the administration was moving quickly to release the files and that the documents on the JFK assassination were the most requested out of all the different files that Luna's task force had been assigned to.
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