On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was a coup d'etat orchestrated by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. But LBJ covered up the conspiracy. He and his co-conspirators set up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy to take the blame. Then they had Jack Ruby kill Oswald. Roger Stone and Mike Colapietro describe and explain the conspiracy in their book THE MAN WHO KILLED KENNEDY: THE CASE AGAINST LBJ.

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Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) November 9, 2013: On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

His assassination was a coup d'etat orchestrated by then Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who automatically became President of the United States when President Kennedy died.

President Kennedy was assassinated at a time when the Cold War was going strong. Fortunately, LBJ and his co-conspirators did not try to attribute JFK's assassination to the (now former) Soviet Union or to Fidel Castro. Instead, they elaborately framed Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy. Then they had Jack Ruby kill Oswald.

However, even though the Cold War is now over, many Americans prefer to believe the myth about Oswald supposedly being the lone gunman. To believe this myth about Oswald, you have to believe that he somehow fired a magic bullet that first penetrated President Kennedy's body and then exited and wounded Governor John Connally, who was seated in front of Kennedy on the jump seat in the limousine. Nevertheless, many Americans to this day prefer to believe this improbable myth about Oswald.

James W. Douglass's meticulous 525-page book JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE: WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS (2008) did not have an impact in countering this improbable myth about JFK's assassination.

Nor did Peter Janney's 550-page book MARY'S MOSAIC: THE CIA CONSPIRACY TO MURDER JOHN F. KENNEDY, MARY PINCHOT MEYER, AND THEIR VISION OF WORLD PEACE (2012).

Will Roger Stone and Mike Colapietro's new 425-page book THE MAN WHO KILLED KENNEDY: THE CASE AGAINST LBJ have the breakthrough impact that these earlier books did not have? I hope it does.

Roger Stone is a well known Republican. He weaves memories and information about a number of Republicans into the book. For example, he reveals that when Richard M. Nixon watched the television broadcast on November 24, 1963, about Jack Ruby killing Oswald, Nixon recognized Ruby as a "Johnson man." Nixon knew Ruby as a paid informant in the 1940s for the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Mike Colapietro is an investigative journalist. This book is far more readable than the other three books I've mentioned. However, the first printing of this book was not carefully proofread; it contains a lot of proofreading oversights.

On page 392, Stone and Colapietro quotes the following statement made by Noam Chomsky in Budapest when he was asked about the energy that has gone into investigating Kennedy's assassination:

""Who knows and who cares,' he replied. "Plenty of people get killed all the time. Why does it matter that one of them happened to be John F. Kennedy? If there was some reason to believe there was a high level conspiracy, it might be interesting, but the evidence against that is overwhelming. And after that, it's just a matter of if it happened to be a jealous husband or the Mafia or someone else, what difference does it make? It's just taking energy away from serious issues to the ones that don't matter.'"

Stone and Colapietro use Chomsky's dismissive statement as a springboard to set forth their own reply to him on pages 392-393:

"Why care about a murder that happened fifty years ago? The Kennedy assassination goes hand-in-hand with the popular distrust of the government that sprung up in the late 1960s. The assassination of Kennedy dug the foundation of distrust; the lies that landed us in [the] Vietnam War and the Watergate break-in commented it.

"In order to win back the trust of the people, it is the government's responsibility to come clean."

In theory, I agree that the government should come clean about President Kennedy's assassination. However, I do not expect to see this happen.

Why not? Let me explain why not.

The dark forces that LBJ conspired with to assassinate President Kennedy (Big Oil, the CIA, the Mafia, the Cuban exiles) are forces that are still around in this nation. Those dark forces, especially the CIA, would work might hard to prevent the government from coming clean about President Kennedy's assassination.

Moreover, the dark forces would be aided and abetted by the news-media establishment, which has diligently served as the gatekeeper of the myth about Oswald being the lone shooter. The news-media establishment has a vested interest in maintaining the myth that they have worked so diligently to maintain for decades now.

Nevertheless, I hope that Stone and Colapietro's readable book will have a big impact on the American reading public. Adult Americans need to be disabused of the myth about Oswald supposedly being the lone assassin of President Kennedy.

Authors Website: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tfarrell

Authors Bio:

Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book WALTER ONG'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL STUDIES: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE WORD AND I-THOU COMMUNICATION (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000; 2nd ed. 2009, forthcoming). The first edition won the 2001 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology conferred by the Media Ecology Association. For further information about his education and his publications, see his UMD homepage: Click here to visit Dr. Farrell's homepage.

On September 10 and 22, 2009, he discussed Walter Ong's work on the blog radio talk show "Ethics Talk" that is hosted by Hope May in philosophy at Central Michigan University. Each hour-long show has been archived and is available for people who missed the live broadcast to listen to. Here are the website addresses for the two archived shows:

Click here to listen the Technologizing of the Word Interview

Click here to listen the Ramus, Method & The Decay of Dialogue Interview