It Did Not Start with JFK
The Decades of Events That Led to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
About the Two-Volume Debut from Author Walter Herbst
“Herbst gives an overview and breakdown too plausible to ignore.” - Author / Screenwriter Tammy Ruggles
Why have historians treated the assassination of JFK as if it occurred in a vacuum?
Almost from the moment Communist dictator Fidel Castro took over Cuba in January, 1959, the U.S. military, the CIA, and American right-wing business leaders all wanted him removed. By the time of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, plans were in the works for a massive U.S. military invasion of Cuba in December, 1963.
After Oswald’s arrest, the nation was falsely led to believe he was a Communist and supporter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. It was a golden opportunity to invade Cuba and get rid of Castro once and for all, yet nothing was done. What did U.S. intelligence know about Oswald that made them sit idly by and do nothing?
Four months before JFK’s assassination, Oswald told attendees at the Jesuit House of Studies at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, “Americans are apt to scoff at the idea that a military coup in the U.S., as so often happens in Latin American countries, could ever replace our government, but that is an idea that has grounds for consideration.”
Why was this ignored?
Within twenty-six months of his murder, there were fifteen attempted assassinations and government overthrows of leftist leaders and regimes throughout the world.
All were perpetrated by right-wing anti-Communists.
In almost every case, either the CIA or the U.S. military provided support.
Was this just a coincidence?
Following his arrest, Lee Harvey Oswald asked for only one person to represent him: attorney John Abt, at the time the only lawyer in the United States who had ever represented someone for violating the Smith Act, which made it “…a criminal offense to advocate the violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member of any group devoted to such advocacy.”
Oswald was part of a group looking to overthrow the U.S. government, and JFK’s assassination was to be the catalyst to initiate this.
Why have authorities and assassination researchers misrepresented Oswald’s motive for choosing Abt?
In It Did Not Start With JFK, author and researcher Walter Herbst provides the context necessary to find the answers to these questions, all found in the years before John F. Kennedy became President.
