At least four separate government investigations have come to conflicting conclusions about what happened. ... Theorists have fingered suspects from the Mafia to the Cubans to the CIA to Lyndon Johnson and the Federal Reserve. ... He had very few, if any, close relationships with other people and he appeared to have great difficulty in finding a meaningful place in the world he seemed to prefer the Soviet Union and he spoke highly of Cuba- (Washington 180). ... Americans have tried to give a meaning to the assassination, generally in the form of conspiracy theories "involving Cuba, th...

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This technique required the smallest imaginable landing area, and a government agency that thrived on covert operation like the CIA would find such a skilled pilot quite an asset for contract missions. ... The goal was that such incidents, when later investigated, would lead our government and most American citizens to believe that Oswald's growing pro-Cuban sentiment motivated him to kill President Kennedy. ...

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