At Long Last...JFK's Killer ID'd

Well, it's been only 573 months or so since JFK lost his head in the back seat of a convertible and all this time no one - other than the  guilty of course - knew who was responsible for the killing. Now the rest of us know, and it's not at all surprising.

Of course, for all this time there have been multiple theories and claims thrown against the wall of history with bits and pieces sticking but never enough of any one to satisfy the hunger for truth, justice and the pangs of morbid curiosity.

I've read several thousand books...okay, a few dozen; it just seems like thousands..on the assassination and over the years my conclusions about who was responsible fluctuated wildly depending on which book I had just read: Castro and the communists, the KGB, right wing extremists, the mafia, rogue elements in the CIA, Texas radicals...you name it, everyone but Elmer Fudd -who was off chasing Bugs Bunny- and Lee Harvey Oswald who was a patsy, to use his own words.

November 22, 1963. It was early afternoon and I was just home from school and dialing the radio for some music.  On each station an announcer was talking about shots being fired on the presidential motorcade. I assumed it was a South American leader. Halfway through my bologna sandwich the announcer said that President Kennedy was dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

Over the years, I was fascinated with the questions unanswered/raised by the official Warren Commission Report as well as the host of books purporting to explain what really happened. I was not a Kennedy supporter. I was too young to vote at the time anyway. But, like Humphry Bogart playing Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon http://www.filmsite.org/malt.html says, when your partner gets killed you have to do something about it. Doesn't matter what you thought about him. It's bad for business.
That's about the way I felt about JFK getting killed. I didn't much care for him, but knocking off the president and not solving the crime would be bad for America's business.

At any rate, I recently read the definitive account of the affair and heartily recommend the book.
It's titled Blood, Money, & Power by Barr McClellan. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/blood-money-power?store=book

So now I can relax. It's all settled and even though the perpertrators are beyond earthly punishment, there is a grim satisfaction nevertheless in knowing the truth.

What makes the revelation all the more conclusive is the soon to be released tapes of an interview Jackie Kennedy Onassis gave to the historian Arthur Schlesinger http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023418/Jackie-O-tapes-reveal-JFKs-affairs-believed-death.html#ixzz1UQxb7nEC wherein she claims that LBJ and business associates were responsible for the murder.