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Editor says, what if Richard Nixon was shot in Dallas? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1963, at the conclusion of a business trip to Dallas, ex-Vice President Richard M. Nixon was shot and killed as he prepared to board a private jet at Love Field Airport; his sharp-shooting assassin was former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald.
Nixon shot in DallasAfter representing two American companies, Studebaker and Pepsi Cola he had unwisely agreed to meet with a cabal of right-wing businessmen who urged him to run for President. Judging that the incumbent President was unbeatable, he dismissed the offer of campaign funds even though it was suggested that Kennedy would not be running in 1964 after all.
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The unwelcome reminder of Nixon's unpredictability combined with his haughty attitude panicked the conspirators into cancelling the hit on Kennedy and silencing Nixon instead.
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~ Good shift.
~ If we are taking conspiracy theories for Dallas the most likely ones are:
1. Mafia - either double cross over Cuba or double cross over the Teamsters
2. Cubans - both pro and anti-Fidel types wanted his hide
3. Hoffa/senior teamsters - again the double cross on election help in return for dropping Federal prosecutions
4. the ousted Diem regime [Madame Nhu] in alliance with elements in the CIA and the RC church
a cabal of rightwing businessmen is absurd. JFK had been a domestic failure and his one success was a massive set of tax cuts.
~ Real conspirators wouldn't have used that dingaling Oswald, end-of-sentence, full-stop. He was exactly the sort of person that no sane conspiracy would ever recruit.
~ It makes more sense for Nixon, as ex-veep, to be targeted by Oswald simply for his h
~ It makes more sense for Nixon to be hit simply as a target of opportunity. Oswald was rumored after the assassination to have been considering going after others rather than JFK, including right-wing hero Gen. Edwin Walker, so why notTricky Dick?
And as for it being "absurd" for Kennedy to have been targeted by right-wing businessmen, it isn't. Whether he was or not in "our" history, even in our timeline he was deeply, deeply resented by the business community, tax cut or no.
Finally, the image of "dingaling Oswald" was crafted after the fact. If he were that much of a ditz, he'd have been an unlikely pick for the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he worked in the Eisenhower years before defecting to Russia (onl;y to be allowed to re-defect to the U.S., no questions asked, eighteen months later, complete with Russian wife). Whether or not Oswald was the lone gunman of the Warren Report, his career was bizarre and doesn't really fit the picture of him as a complete dork.
~ This would really shake up the '70s. How would 'Nam go? Relations with China? And what would Hunter Thompson use instead of the phrase "Age of Nixon"?
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