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He was not killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, and your question indicates that you don’t believe he did either. There are other reasons that journalists, scholars, and researchers have investigated and written about the case other than trying to make money off it, as many indicate. It’s because they didn’t have a forum in the National print and broadcast media to speak the full truth—that was subverted by the weight of influence that the CIA had across the media. Operation Mockingbird, created by the CIA in the 1950’s, recruited media contacts to write and broadcast pieces favorable to their interests and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It was all uncovered in the 1970’s by a congressional committe on government abuses. The CIA leaned hard on their media friends to quell dissent of the lone gunman theory. No news organization dare break ranks and pursue the real story for fear of retribution.Famed Washington Post columnist Carl Bernstein wrote an interesting article about it: The CIA and the Media by Carl Bernstein Rolling StoneHe was killed by the men that he was at war with. He was moving toward peace and they wanted war-with Cuba, the Soviets, and in Vietnam- led by the CIA and the associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence (ADDOCI), James Jesus Angleton and David Atlee Phillips. They were principally involved in creating the false legend of Lee Harvey Oswald, the communist loner, who actually was a CIA asset and was a member of the CIA False Defector program to the USSR. He came and went with ease, never even being interviewed on his way back into the States—during the Cold War! (Of course, at the time of the assassination they disavowed any knowledge of Oswald as an asset). They created a cover for him as a pro-Castro sympathizer, all the while he was involved in various aspects of anti-Castro exile activities to remove Castro.The murder was planned well in advance by powerful men with powerful alliances. When you have the weight of federal law enforcement agencies along with a well-documented corrupt Dallas PD, you can make many mistakes (which they did) and not worry. Witnesses could be intimidated and/or eliminated, evidence could he destroyed, forged, or classified. The cards were so heavily stacked against the American people finding the truth, it’s a marvel that brave men and women, almost from day 1 knew that something was very wrong.The “loner” who allegedly murdered the President was himself killed by another completely unrelated person two days later. This fact alone told most keen observers the obvious: Jack Ruby was sent to silence Oswald, because Oswald realized that he had been manipulated by his intelligence handlers and fingered as the patsy, as he declared on national TV. Police Chief Jesse Curry said later that they didn’t have any solid evidence connecting him to the crime (or the murder of the cop, JD Tippit).That’s what happened, has been investigated for 56 years by brave and courageous people and is available for scrutiny. I tried to believe the Warren Commission, the LBJ/Hoover panel of government officials that operated in secret, and relied on the very agencies for documents that should have been investigated by an independent congressional committee in public hearings. But, they weren’t, and the mistakes that the perpetrators made were exposed over and over again. Don’t look for it in Mainstream media, however, they were only consumed with JFK’s extramarital affairs—when it came to his murder, they bought it hook, line, and sinker.And now for the disclaimer: don’t ever take my word for it or any other respondent’s word for it on Quora. Read the Warren Report, then read the House Select Committee on Assassination from the late 70’s, the findings of the Assassination Review Records Board from 1998. Read Gerald Posner’s book “Case Closed” and any one of a number of books by Mark Lane (Rush To Judgement),Sylvia Meagher (Accessories After the Fact) or James Douglass’ “JFK and the Unspeakable.”Use your common sense about what we know of US government policies from 1964-present day. Did they stay the same as what John Kennedy was promoting? Use logic and reasoning to examine the primary evidence. The authorities could never agree on the gun(s) that were “found” in the Texas School Book Depository. More than half the eyewitnesses heard shots from the front, how did the president have a huge exit wound in the back of his head that all Parkland hospital personnel saw and testified to?When you do the work for yourself, you will be much closer to the truth than if you just let someone convince you. After all, the winners got away with it and you can see what their agenda was by looking at the Vietnam War and beyond.You asked the question-you’re curious. Now go find your truth. Because, there are certain details that may never be discovered, but there’s enough there that you will be satisfied you know the truth.I’m here as an American who has educated himself on the case and come to certain conclusions that I believe are way beyond any reasonable doubt. I feel it my duty to offset disinformation that is dishonest to history. I’m aware that the most powerful entities on the planet have a vested interest in maintaining the myth, but if this country is ever to heal from that unspeakable tragedy in 1963, it has to acknowledge that there was a Coup in America.

I have found some information about Joe McCarthy's reign of terror. McCarthy had presidential ambitions and a problem with doing balanced research with an eye on the truth. Instead he smeared people and ruined reputations in his drive for political capital. Conservatives are being disingenuous in saying he was right. He probably had access to the Venona papers which is intercepted Soviet transmissions that helped expose some dangerous spies but what is being swept under the rug is how McCarthy, an unstable heavy drinker, derailed a worthwhile investigation.I do not know why conservatives have decided to rehabilitate McCarthy unless they're trying to whitewash one of their biggest embarrassments. He did reveal the inner workings of the more insane end of the conservative spectrum.Certainly there were soviet spies in Washington but his irresponsible accusations and methods discredited legitimate attempts to find them. To say he was right is to ignore the fact he turned an important fact finding inquiry into a witch-hunt that led reasonable people to dismiss the entire investigation.Maybe he was a communist plot. While I'm kidding it would explain a lot. His actions ended up protecting the real communist plants.The House of Unamerican Activities investigation, appropriately named, resulted in giving the entire era a bad small with their well meant but irresponsible actions."New information from Russian and American archives does not vindicate McCarthy. He remains a demagogue, whose wild charges actually made the fight against communism more difficult."Like Gresham’s Law, McCarthy’s allegations marginalized the accurate claims. Because his facts were so often wrong, real spies were able to hide behind the cover of being one of his victims and even persuade well-meaning but naïve people that the whole anti-communist cause was based on inaccuracies and hysteria.""People like Ann Coulter and M. Stanton Evans have taken to declaring that McCarthy was right without acknowledging that the bulk of his accusations were false, and that this was true of many other red-hunters too."The Jon Utley article is representative of what conservatives are saying:Jon Utley, a former foreign correspondent in Latin America and a longtime commentator for the Voice of America, is the Robert A. Taft Fellow for Constitutional and International Studies at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.WASHINGTON — Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information — including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations — are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations.“With Joe McCarthy it was the losers who’ve written the history which condemns him,” said Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in Academia’s recent national conference on McCarthy, broadcast by C-SPAN.Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts — FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 — the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.The conference, a gathering of old McCarthyites and younger scholars, commemorated the senator’s first speech, in Wheeling, W. Va., 50 years ago, when he first held up a list of names of employees of the State Department whom, he said, were major security risks. McCarthy questioned how, in six short years after America’s winning of World War II, the communist world was triumphant and had expanded to include 800 million people.Of the lists, a key one consisted of 108 names from a House Appropriations Committee report, of persons declared as “security risks” in the State Department — the Lee List. The House committee chairman had complained that State wasn’t bothering to do anything about the suspects. Details of the list and its accusations were presented at the conference.Speakers detailed many of the cover-ups used to smear McCarthy. Veteran journalist and teacher Stan Evans, director of National Journalism Center, told of the Tydings Committee, which had investigated McCarthy’s charges of communists in government. Its report had exonerated everybody. Among the accused it stated categorically that there was no evidence against Owen Lattimore, a man McCarthy said was a major figure in the communist conspiracy. Lattimore had been Roosevelt’s key advisor on China policy. Yet Evans showed evidence from 5,000 pages of FBI files on him — files released only a few years ago to the public, although the White House had access to them.However, evidence before the committee showed that Lattimore had supported Soviet policy at every turn, even declaring that the Stalin purge trials in Russia, “sound like democracy to me.” With then-Vice President Henry Wallace in Russia, Lattimore compared concentration camps to the Tennessee Valley Authority, and later urged Washington to abandon China to communism and to withdraw from Japan and Korea. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who had fed information to McCarthy, broke with him afterwards, fearing McCarthy would prejudice FBI sources of information for its criminal prosecutions.Although most of McCarthy’s cases involved actual spies and “security risks,” the really important issue was that of communist influence over American foreign policy, argued Evans. Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt’s closest advisor who lived in the White House, had regular contacts with Soviet intelligence. He helped bring about the disastrous Yalta and Pottsdam agreements. The Morganthau Plan, to prevent German reconstruction and starve the Germans to make them desperate enough to go communist, was the product of Laughlin Currie and Harry Dexter White at the Treasury Department. The abandonment of Chiang Kai-shek by denying military support was the product of “China Hands” led by John Stewart Service, John Patton Davies, and Lattimore. Evans described other major spy networks — in England, the Burgess Maclean group which infiltrated Washington as well as London.Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, told how he himself had been a leftist in his early career. He had been against McCarthy, but McCarthy’s speeches had made him think and start to read “evidence that I had avoided.” He described how all during his military career as a Marine officer and later in Japan with the U.S. occupation he had never hidden his leftist views and later had even been offered a job at the CIA. Irvine argued that real communists were only in the hundreds, but that thousands of leftists, such as he, all feared McCarthy and had wanted him discredited.Pulling all the latest evidence together was luncheon speaker Professor Arthur Herman. His new book, “Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator,” and featured in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, shows the vindication of most of McCarthy’s charges. Herman, who is also coordinator of the Smithsonian’s Western Heritage Program, said that the accuracy of McCarthy’s charges “was no longer a matter of debate,” that they are “now accepted as fact.” However, the term “McCarthyism” still remains in the language.Asked whether McCarthy had understood all the forces arrayed against him, Herman said no, that McCarthy hadn’t realized he’d be fighting against much of the Washington establishment. President Truman was fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat officials, he said, and big media and the academic world were very leftist, a heritage of the Depression and World War II. High government officials also feared investigations of their past appointments and associations with people who turned out to be communists or sympathizers.That was the reason McCarthy was so demonized, he said.Joe McCarthy had been a Marine air gunner, an amateur boxer, a county judge and towards his end, under constant attack, he began to drink heavily. Herman said he certainly was over his head and his fall came about after sweeping attacks on General Marshall and the Army. Senator Taft and other key supporters began to draw away from him.If Robert Kennedy, his competent and well-connected co-counsel, had stayed on, McCarthy might have behaved more carefully, said Herman. An argument with other co-counsel Roy Cohn left Cohn in charge, but Cohn and staffer David Schine were disastrous for McCarthy. Still, McCarthy’s original charges helped bring about Eisenhower’s electoral victory and the defeat of the Democrats and key leftist Democratic senators such as Tydings of Maryland. Four years after his original charges, Joe McCarthy was censured by the Senate and died shortly thereafter.There is more evidence to come. Herb Romerstein, another speaker, who started out with the old House Un-American Activities Committee, is writing a book about the Venona FBI intercepts and their links to other evidence from his comprehensive study in Russia of Soviet archives, made available to Westerners since the fall of communism. His book, The Venona Secrets, will be released by Regnery Gateway this fall.The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in America (Cold War Classics): Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel: 9781621572954: Amazon.com: BooksVenona project - WikipediaThe Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's TraitorsJoseph McCarthy - Cold War - HISTORY.comArmy hearingsJoseph McCarthyMurrow vs McCarthyThe House of Unamerican Activities Committee

McCarthy had presidential ambitions and a problem with doing balanced research with an eye on the truth. Instead he smeared people and ruined reputations in his drive for political capital. Conservatives are being disingenuous in saying he was right. He probably had access to the Venona papers which is intercepted Soviet transmissions that helped expose some dangerous spies but what is being swept under the rug is how McCarthy, an unstable heavy drinker, derailed a worthwhile investigation.Some conservatives have decided to rehabilitate McCarthy. Perhaps they're trying to whitewash one of their biggest embarrassments. He did reveal the inner workings of the more insane end of the conservative spectrum.Certainly there were soviet spies in Washington but his irresponsible accusations and methods discredited legitimate attempts to find them. To say he was right is to ignore the fact he turned an important fact finding inquiry into a witch-hunt that led reasonable people to dismiss the entire investigation.Maybe he was a communist plot. While I'm kidding it would explain a lot. His actions ended up protecting the real communist plants.The House of Un-American Activities investigation, appropriately named, resulted in giving the entire era a bad smell with their well meant but irresponsible actions."New information from Russian and American archives does not vindicate McCarthy. He remains a demagogue, whose wild charges actually made the fight against communism more difficult."Like Gresham’s Law, McCarthy’s allegations marginalized the accurate claims. Because his facts were so often wrong, real spies were able to hide behind the cover of being one of his victims and even persuade well-meaning but naïve people that the whole anti-communist cause was based on inaccuracies and hysteria.""People like Ann Coulter and M. Stanton Evans have taken to declaring that McCarthy was right without acknowledging that the bulk of his accusations were false, and that this was true of many other red-hunters too."The Jon Utley article is representative of what conservatives are saying:Jon Utley, a former foreign correspondent in Latin America and a longtime commentator for the Voice of America, is the Robert A. Taft Fellow for Constitutional and International Studies at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.WASHINGTON — Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information — including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations — are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations.“With Joe McCarthy it was the losers who’ve written the history which condemns him,” said Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in Academia’s recent national conference on McCarthy, broadcast by C-SPAN.Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts — FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 — the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.The conference, a gathering of old McCarthyites and younger scholars, commemorated the senator’s first speech, in Wheeling, W. Va., 50 years ago, when he first held up a list of names of employees of the State Department whom, he said, were major security risks. McCarthy questioned how, in six short years after America’s winning of World War II, the communist world was triumphant and had expanded to include 800 million people.Of the lists, a key one consisted of 108 names from a House Appropriations Committee report, of persons declared as “security risks” in the State Department — the Lee List. The House committee chairman had complained that State wasn’t bothering to do anything about the suspects. Details of the list and its accusations were presented at the conference.Speakers detailed many of the cover-ups used to smear McCarthy. Veteran journalist and teacher Stan Evans, director of National Journalism Center, told of the Tydings Committee, which had investigated McCarthy’s charges of communists in government. Its report had exonerated everybody. Among the accused it stated categorically that there was no evidence against Owen Lattimore, a man McCarthy said was a major figure in the communist conspiracy. Lattimore had been Roosevelt’s key advisor on China policy. Yet Evans showed evidence from 5,000 pages of FBI files on him — files released only a few years ago to the public, although the White House had access to them.However, evidence before the committee showed that Lattimore had supported Soviet policy at every turn, even declaring that the Stalin purge trials in Russia, “sound like democracy to me.” With then-Vice President Henry Wallace in Russia, Lattimore compared concentration camps to the Tennessee Valley Authority, and later urged Washington to abandon China to communism and to withdraw from Japan and Korea. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who had fed information to McCarthy, broke with him afterwards, fearing McCarthy would prejudice FBI sources of information for its criminal prosecutions.Although most of McCarthy’s cases involved actual spies and “security risks,” the really important issue was that of communist influence over American foreign policy, argued Evans. Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt’s closest advisor who lived in the White House, had regular contacts with Soviet intelligence. He helped bring about the disastrous Yalta and Potsdam agreements. The Morgenthau Plan, to prevent German reconstruction and starve the Germans to make them desperate enough to go communist, was the product of Laughlin Currie and Harry Dexter White at the Treasury Department. The abandonment of Chiang Kai-shek by denying military support was the product of “China Hands” led by John Stewart Service, John Patton Davies, and Lattimore. Evans described other major spy networks — in England, the Burgess Maclean group which infiltrated Washington as well as London.Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, told how he himself had been a leftist in his early career. He had been against McCarthy, but McCarthy’s speeches had made him think and start to read “evidence that I had avoided.” He described how all during his military career as a Marine officer and later in Japan with the U.S. occupation he had never hidden his leftist views and later had even been offered a job at the CIA. Irvine argued that real communists were only in the hundreds, but that thousands of leftists, such as he, all feared McCarthy and had wanted him discredited.Pulling all the latest evidence together was luncheon speaker Professor Arthur Herman. His new book, “Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator,” and featured in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, shows the vindication of most of McCarthy’s charges. Herman, who is also coordinator of the Smithsonian’s Western Heritage Program, said that the accuracy of McCarthy’s charges “was no longer a matter of debate,” that they are “now accepted as fact.” However, the term “McCarthyism” still remains in the language.Asked whether McCarthy had understood all the forces arrayed against him, Herman said no, that McCarthy hadn’t realized he’d be fighting against much of the Washington establishment. President Truman was fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat officials, he said, and big media and the academic world were very leftist, a heritage of the Depression and World War II. High government officials also feared investigations of their past appointments and associations with people who turned out to be communists or sympathizers.That was the reason McCarthy was so demonized, he said.Joe McCarthy had been a Marine air gunner, an amateur boxer, a county judge and towards his end, under constant attack, he began to drink heavily. Herman said he certainly was over his head and his fall came about after sweeping attacks on General Marshall and the Army. Senator Taft and other key supporters began to draw away from him.If Robert Kennedy, his competent and well-connected co-counsel, had stayed on, McCarthy might have behaved more carefully, said Herman. An argument with other co-counsel Roy Cohn left Cohn in charge, but Cohn and staffer David Schine were disastrous for McCarthy. Still, McCarthy’s original charges helped bring about Eisenhower’s electoral victory and the defeat of the Democrats and key leftist Democratic senators such as Tydings of Maryland. Four years after his original charges, Joe McCarthy was censured by the Senate and died shortly thereafter.There is more evidence to come. Herb Romerstein, another speaker, who started out with the old House Un-American Activities Committee, is writing a book about the Venona FBI intercepts and their links to other evidence from his comprehensive study in Russia of Soviet archives, made available to Westerners since the fall of communism. His book, The Venona Secrets, will be released by Regnery Gateway this fall.The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in America (Cold War Classics): Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel: 9781621572954: Amazon.com: BooksVenona project - Wikipediahttps://www.amazon.com/Venona-Secrets-Definitive-Espionage-Classics/dp/1621572951/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=%3E*The+Venona+Secrets*&qid=1603955189&sr=8-1The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's TraitorsJoseph McCarthy - Cold War - HISTORY.comArmy hearingsJoseph McCarthyMurrow vs McCarthyThe House of Un-American Activities Committee