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and military-industrial complex. The vast array of suspects resembled those of Jim
Garrison:
A consensus of powerful men in the leadership of U.S. military, banking,
government, intelligence, and organized-crime circles ordered their
faithful agents to manipulate Mafia-Cuban-Agency pawns to kill the chief.
President Kennedy was killed in a military-style ambush orchestrated by
organized crime with the active assistance of elements within the federal
government of the United States. Pressure from the top thwarted any
truthful investigation. 605
At the top of the list, Marrs included LBJ and Hoover. Hoover faced retirement if
Kennedy stayed in office, while LBJ might have been dropped from the ticket in 1964
because he was embroiled in scandals centered on his protégé Bobby Baker. Therefore,
in Marrs’ theory, they had the most to gain through Kennedy’s death, and the most to lose
if he lived. Marrs concluded his book by wring that “One can almost hear the sad spirit
of John F. Kennedy whispering from Dealey Plaza: Et tu, Lyndon?” 606
Marrs book, along with those of Robert Sam Anson, Robert Groden and Harrison
Livingstone, and Anthony Summers, is a mainstream conspiracy book in its rendering of
the alleged plot and its portrayal of Oswald. All of these works of synthesis were mass-
market books that claimed Oswald worked for U.S. intelligence. However, unfortunately
for Marrs’ credibility, he has gone on to write dubious conspiracy tomes on The Alien
Agenda regarding UFO’s, Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the
Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids, and The Terror
Conspiracy: Provocation, Deception and 9/11. Many of the critics of conspiracy theories
605 Marrs, 588.
606 Marrs, 590.
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