Final_Judgment

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I would be inclined to think that Hoover probably had advance
knowledge that there was a plot or plots against JFK—perhaps even the one
that ultimately succeeded—if only because of his wide-ranging intelligence
network that had connections to the very conspirators who were intimately
involved in the actual planning of the assassination. I would add that he
probably allowed the assassination to take place and did nothing to interfere
with the conspiracy's progress. It wouldn't have been in Hoover's interests
to stop the assassination. I find it highly unlikely that Hoover had any part
in planning the assassination and no one has ever been able to find any
evidence that he did. Hoover's actual participation was not, of course,
critical to actually carrying out the deed.
Frankly, it would have been better (from the standpoint of the
conspirators) that Hoover not have any advance knowledge or actually be
given any such knowledge. That would have only given Hoover more
leverage and the less people who were in the know, the better.
I've heard that Hoover was supposedly at a party in Dallas at the ranch
of his good friend Clint Murchison, the Texas oil baron, the night before the
assassination, reveling in the company of LBJ and even reportedly Richard
Nixon but this appears to me to be just another one of those exciting rumors
that take on a life of their own.
People love stories such as this, but even if Hoover was in Dallas that
day before the assassination (and I've never really seen it confirmed that he
was, and frankly I doubt it), it doesn't mean he had anything to do with the
assassination.
The question of whether Hoover was involved in the cover-up is
another story, inasmuch as it was the FBI that was providing information to
the Warren Commission's investigation. So in that sense Hoover was
involved in the cover-up. Hoover is an outstanding villain but his sole crime
vis-à-vis the JFK assassination, I suppose, is that he was J. Edgar Hoover.
What about Richard Nixon and George Bush? Do you think that
either of them had anything at all to do with any aspect of the
assassination conspiracy? There have been stories about this floating
around for years.
Richard Nixon has become another bogeyman among JFK
assassination theorists, but there's no more evidence to link Nixon to the
assassination any more than there is any evidence to link Hoover. It's an
exciting theory, but that's all it is and let's keep that in mind.
George Bush's name is also linked time and again to the assassination
and in Final Judgment I explored this in some detail, but again, it seems
highly unlikely that Bush was part of any assassination planning, but
apparently as part of his work for the CIA—although he denies he was
working for the CIA in 1963—Bush did have ties to the anti-Castro Cuban
exiles and it's likely that Bush, at one time or another, may have crossed
paths with people who may have had some direct hand in manipulating a
portion of the overall conspiracy.