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Who killed JFK? The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt

Rolling Stone article about Hunt and his son. Fascinating reading, if totally sensationalized.

"They sure don't make White House bad guys the way they used to. Today you've got flabby-faced half-men like Karl Rove, with weakling names like 'Scooter,' blandly hacking their way through the constraints of the U.S. Constitution, while back then, in addition to Hunt, you had out-and-out thugs like G. Gordon Liddy, his Watergate co-conspirator and Nixon's dirty-tricks chief, who would hold his own hand over an open flame to prove what a real tough guy he was. It all seems a little nutty now, but in 1972 it was serious business."

Very true. There were giants in those days; guys intoxicated with spying and their own power to affect world events. Hunt was one of the most intriguing, and there are no more stories like his in today's world. Valerie Plame? Yawn. Hunt was the real deal when it came to espionage and intrigue. He snuck around Latin America in disguise and overthrew governments. Six months after the Watergate break-in, Hunt's wife died in a plane crash with $10,000 cash in her purse.

While Matt Damon's role in The Good Shepherd was based more closely on James Jesus Angleton, it could just as easily have been Hunt with only the most minor changes. Hunt graduated from Brown in 1940, Angleton from Yale in 1941. Angleton went from WW2 military service to OSS to CIA. Hunt did the same, except through the navy. Angleton once started a poetry review. Hunt wrote romantic spy novels. Self-styled Renaissance men, they were truly cut from the same cloth.

Anyway, the bottom line of the story is that LBJ ordered the JFK assassination. I have never seriously advocated this theory, but I've joked about it many times. When you get right down to it, it is the only explanation that makes any sense because of the motive angle. If you consider the motivations of anyone else who has ever been implicated, you end up conceding that they really had nothing to gain from Kennedy's death. But one person had everything to gain.