Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resurgence of conspiracy theories is all the more remarkable because not a single fact linking Oswald with anyone else in a plot has become known in the eleven years since the Warren Commission issued its 888-page summary and 25 accompanying volumes of exhibits and testimony. Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission included Congressmen Gerald R. Ford and Hale Boggs, Senators Richard B. Russell and John Sherman Cooper, former CIA Director Allen W. Dulles and former Diplomat John J. McCloy. The mass of evidence was gathered over nine months and based on some 25,000 interviews conducted...
...probable that Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Oswald, was part of a plot...
...accept the conclusion that Oswald killed both Kennedy and Officer Tippit is not necessarily to believe that no one put him up to it. Yet no evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies...
Still, a much-bruited theory is that Cuba's Castro enticed Oswald into killing Kennedy to avenge CIA attempts against his own life. With no more hard evidence than anyone else, Lyndon Johnson thought that Kennedy had been a victim of a Communist plot. "When I took office," Johnson told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos in June 1971, "I discovered that we had been operating a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he was the one who pulled the trigger...
Allen Dulles, a former CIA director and member of the Warren Commission, was aware of the CIA attempts to kill Castro; but he never told the commission. Yet that possible motivation for a plot against Kennedy was something the commission was entitled to know...