Carl Doerner’s guest column about the Kennedy assassination (“Recalling another traumatic November,” Nov. 22) confidently stated many theories about the event as though they were established facts. But these theories have been in serious dispute over the last 60 years. And what is the probability that in a government-wide conspiracy of the “military industrial complex” no one would have talked in all that time?
There is a much more plausible conspiracy theory involving people who know how to take secrets to their grave. There is no dispute that Kennedy was reckless in his affairs with women, one of whom was the girl friend of Sam Giancana, a well-known organized crime figure. There is no dispute that Kennedy’s brother was using his position as attorney general to aggressively pursue organized crime figures. The probable suspect in the assassination was murdered by Jack Ruby, a terminally ill man with ties to organized crime, to keep him from talking.
I don’t think historians will ever discover what really happened.
Joseph Blumenthal
Northampton