PCV Speaker Series: Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy
Our speaker, Jim Johnston, is a lawyer, writer and lecturer who resides in Potomac.
Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running "a damned Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean," giving Castro reason to retaliate.
Jim Johnston's presentation is based on his book: Murder, Inc., which tells the story of the CIA's assassination operations under Kennedy up to his own assassination and beyond. Jim Johnston was a lawyer for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975, which investigated and first reported on the Castro assassination plots and their relation to Kennedy's murder.
Johnston will discuss how the CIA steered the Warren Commission and later investigations away from connecting its own assassination operations to Kennedy's murder. He also looks at the effect this strategy had on the Warren Commission's conclusions that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was no foreign conspiracy.
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