The John F. Kennedy Conspiracy On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas to crowds of excited people lining the streets hoping to catch a glimpse of the president. As his motorcade proceeded down Elm Street, Governor Connally's wife said, "You can't say Dallas isn't friendly to you today, Mr. President." Then John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was assassinated. The United States mourned the death of its inspiring young president. Many years have passed since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and people are still uncertain about who was actually responsible for his assassination. Over the years, numerous theories have been formulated that the CIA and FBI were somehow connected to the assassination. While many would doubt that the president's own government conspired to assassinate him; there are several possible reasons for their potential participation in an assassination plot. The Bay of Pigs was the spark that ignited the devastating fire. 1,500 anti-Castro expatriates trained by the CIA were sent to conquer Cuba. At the last critical moment, President Kennedy canceled the air strikes that were supposed to knock out Castro's air force. More than 100 CIA men were killed as a result; the remaining officers surrendered. (Morrissey)Kennedy took full public responsibility for the Bay of Pigs disaster, even as he secretly blamed the CIA. Kennedy fired three of the top CIA men responsible for the operation: Director Allen Dulles, who later served as a member of the Warren Commission (Lifton 176), General Cabell, and Richard Bissel. (Morrissey) After the CIA wasted time, effort and people trying to protect Cuba, the CIA became hostile and wanted to get rid of Kennedy to prevent him from losing further ground, especially in Vietnam. Did Kennedy add to the fire? His secret commitments to withdraw from Vietnam and his threat to? Break the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds? (Belzer 79) There were three known attempts to take JFK's life in the fall of 1963. In late October, Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested by the Secret Service in Chicago just days before a scheduled visit by Kennedy. Vallee was found to have an M-1 rifle, a pistol and three thousand rounds of ammunition. Days later, the Secret Service received another threat: Kennedy would leave... half the paper... and they would all be fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. The Commission stated that there was no conspiracy, national or international, and that there was no connection between Jack Ruby and Oswald. However, through the twenty-six volumes and approximately thirteen thousand pages of testimonies and documentary documents it is not possible to find traces of testimony from Kennedy's doctors, Dallas doctors, eyewitnesses or civilian videos. Works Cited Belzar, Richard. Conspiracies about UFOs, JFK and Elvis that you don't have to be crazy to believe. New York: The Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999. Galeano, Eduardo. Memory of fire: third century of the wind. Part three of a trilogy, translated by Cedric Belfrage: Pantheon Books, 1988. Gest, Ted, al. “JFK The Untold Story of the Warren Commission.” U.S. News & World Report August 17, 1992: 28-42.JFK. Director Oliver Pietra. Warner Bros., 1991. Lifton, David S. Best Evidence. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, 1980. Peterson, Roger S. "Declassified." American History July/August 1996: 22-26, 54-57. The Bay of Pigs revisited. Ed. Michael D. Morrissey. May. 1993. May 3. 2000.