JFK was assassinated 55 years ago

JFK was a born leader. Both he and Bobby became socially conscious in office. But Bobby hated Johnson (JFKs VP, an ambitious, ruthless political animal) and they ridiculed him as a Texas country bumpkin. In their haste to get rid of him with an exposé article, it leaked, and Johnson took a chance before they could strike.
JFK wanted to end Vietnam abruptly, and leave the middle east (with all that oil) to itself. You're talking trillions of USD profit in today's dollars. That was a different time. Johnson's defense allies and texas oil friends would have killed 10 Kennedy's for that kind of money.
Throw in Cuba, the mafia, the bay of pigs, the Ngô brothers, Hoover's tenure, Pinchot-Meyer etc. etc. It was just too many powerful enemies to have at the same time. Johnson (and many others) feared their father, but Joe mysteriously got a stroke in 1961. Johnson knew every Kennedy enemy personally, and he simply gathered them all at the same table and said: 'Here you go, including your war, if you make me president'
-RG

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