As I have written for many years--and which soon-to-be-declassified files shall reveal--JFK was assassinated by a rogue element of the CIA in revenge for the Bay of Pigs, and to cover themselves CIA used the Mob for much of the heavy lifting. It's still a very ballsy thing to do, so I think that JFK's time spent in Cuba smoozing and the fact that he was banging Marilyn Monroe and the entire press pool knew about it and said nothing, etc., is partly why both the CIA and the Mob felt emboldened (CIA and the Mob are one and the same; in a number of the ways we might even consider the Mob "honorable" in certain circles, with all the "our thing" talk and whatnot. CIA is far more dangerous, however. And additionally, JFK was upending too many things, too quickly, and he was too young, so this CIA element must have been acting from something of a cultural perspective too, for they were "old school"). Indeed, who does this remind one of, and twice? (Trump...