Reply #58: I don't think we can assume that just because they had a lot of stuff hanging over JFK that

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that meant that he agreed to go along. They may have thought that they bought him off, but if they did, he didn't stay bought off. We know of at least three incidents where the military tried very hard to get him to invade Cuba (when the Cuban exile invasion at the Bay of Pigs failed, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Operation Northwoods). He also had plans to withdraw from Vietnam when he was killed. His military and CIA was terribly upset with him. I believe that assassination was the only way they could stop him. Not everyone can be bought.