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Originally Posted by miked10270
Hi BentNotTwisted,
Interesting point on the Jackie Bouvier / Ari Onassis thing.
Maybe we've all been looking at too big a picture with the Mafia, the Russians, J.Edgar Hoover, Etc...
Who gains most imediately on JKF's death?
Here's a scenario...
Jackie Bouvier, high class WASP marries JFK, High class WASP & he becomes president. A happy faithful marriage ensues, except we all know that JFK was anything BUT faithful. Jackie is alone, ignored and trapped in her marriage. She can't divorce him & he's ignoring her & shagging anything with a skirt & a pulse. She meets Onassis, who's attentive and rich & would marry her if she were free.
The words "'Til Death do you part" starts to loom large.
They argue in the car & she shoots him (The loving wife of the president wouldn't be searched). Initially the only thing the Secret Service are aware of is shots fired & dead President so the car takes off.
Once the dust settles can Jackie be prosecuted? No. The trial would blow apart both the presidency AND the upper reaches of American Society.
Jackie disappears into obscurity, marries her millionaire and the rest, as they say, is history.
Just a thought,
Mike.
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Good ideas a couple of holes.... one Jackie and JFK were not WASP's (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), they were Catholic and Jackie was French and from a dying rich family.
Secondly, she didn't just run off and marry Ari, it was actually AFTER Bobby's assassination in '68. She did so and said she would never return to the States because they were killing Kennedys here.
I think what happened was described above a rich Texas family and LBJ developed a plan hired a hitman and did the job. Then LBJ and his pal J. Edgar and the government machine let out some rumors and innuendoes and allowed it to blow up into what it is today. I think it was quite possibly one of the greatest conspiracies ever because few people knew, disinformation made everyone look a different way and the people responsible got away with it and got all they wanted.
Except LBJ who became a very disliked and hated president in his time.