Two on the Conspiracy Behind the Murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Who would think that Thomas Merton (the Catholic monk, writer, thinker) would be a major player in a book about JFK?" asks one Patrick Murray, quoted by one Tom Shea of Orbis Books' JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by one James Douglass who suggests that "Kennedy had a conversion experience" and "went from a Cold War warrior to a man of peace, who knew one reckless move could blow up the whole world" — Find Out Why JFK Died and Why It Matters.

"They took down the Catholic 'king,' very many believe, who it was thought, wrongly, they had sufficiently deprogrammed," begins Stephen Hand in a must-read, evidence-rich post — They Blew the Head Off Camelot...and then it began. Mr. Hand notes that the 35^th president "had bucked the powers, prepared to smash them, reconfigure things, was reportedly out to break up or reorganize the CIA, reverse the previous administration's course on Vietnam, bring home the 'advisors' and seek a reduction in tensions with Russia, defusing the Cold War." Most crucially, "He bucked the all powerful Federal Reserve" and "sought to dismantle their power, the power of the international bankers, the CIA, even the Secret Service."