Was the Murder of JFK Castro’s Payback?Constant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 732, Segment 2
Nov 6, 2020 • 26m
The Bay of Pigs invasion was just one of the many ways John F. Kennedy tried to destabilize Fidel Castro’s regime, though the President’s other methods were more cloak-and-dagger, such as hiring mobsters to poison Castro, deploying saboteurs, and secretly organizing a coup. Despite Kennedy’s actions, and Lyndon Johnson’s reversal of these plots, the Warren Commission concluded that JFK’s assassination had nothing to do with his Cuba policy.
Guest: Jim Johnston, lawyer, lecturer, and author of "Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy"