Some believe the president’s cabinet knew he would be shot, but kept quiet after growing tired of his management. Many fingers point to then Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson as the main antagonist. Those who believe this theory argue that Johnson had an undying lust for the presidency and would do anything to attain it. Roger Stone, the man who persuaded Donald Trump to release the JFK files, is a firm believer in this
supposition. In his 2013 book The Man Who Killed Kennedy:The case Against LBJ, he wrote that;
“I [realized] that delving into the world of assassination research and a belief in a conspiracy [would] lead some to brand me as an extremist or a nut, but the facts I have uncovered are so compelling that I must make the case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had John Fitzgerald Kennedy murdered in Dallas to become president himself and to avert the precipitous political and legal fall that was about to beset him” …show more content…
Mere weeks before the murder of Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald met with a Russian assassination agent named Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. In doing so, Oswald became a subject of interest to the FBI and CIA and the two agencies began documenting his contacts and phone calls. His frequent Russian communication was noted in the JFK documents, which were released by Donald Trump in 2017. A recent study found most Americans believe Oswald conspired with the Soviet Union to carry out his vendetta. The newly declassified documents only add to their