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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2021

      The real problem with the CIA-killed-JFK theory is that Kennedy was a hardline Cold Warrior who in fact let the military-industry-complex run wild. Why would they kill a guy like that?

      357 replies 80 retweets 1,192 likes
    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Mailer had the best take on this. CIA covered things up not because they were behind it but because they had their hands in so many things and with so many shady characters they couldn't be sure they weren't somehow behind it or tied to it.

      30 replies 14 retweets 450 likes
    3. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      My favorite theory is that they covered it up because he was pretty clearly a communist possibly a Soviet agent and they didn't want World War III!

      66 replies 8 retweets 154 likes
    4. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @chrislhayes @HeerJeet

      I think this theory also has much to say for it. If you think about it, the fact that LHO was a communist and had spent time living in the USSR and then came back and assassinated the President it's rather shocking it didn't cause a bigger US-USSR crisis.

      9 replies 2 retweets 169 likes
    5. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      YES! exactly. it's crazy. this was peak cold war and it very could have easily been "The commies murdered Kennedy!" and that was basically entirely absent from the discourse.

      22 replies 3 retweets 131 likes
    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @chrislhayes @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      Isn't it pretty clear that one of the Warren Commission's mandates was to quash the idea that Oswald's Communist sympathies had anything to do with the assassination?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2021
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @chrislhayes @joshtpm

      Isn't that something LBJ specifically told Warren? I seem to remember that from one of the biographies.

      12:57 PM - 12 Feb 2021
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        1. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 12 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @chrislhayes @joshtpm

          Yeah, he may well have - I can't remember if it was explicit, but the mandate was clear.

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