Fidel Castro

JFK Assassination Suspects – Fidel Castro

During the 1950s, the Caribbean island nation of Cuba was run by US-backed military dictator and president, Fulgencio Batista. In 1959, rebel leader Fidel Castro banded together with his brother Raul Castro and friend Che Guevera to stage a revolution. Castro successfully overthrew Batista, and began his decades-long communist rule over the former Spanish colony.

From the outset of his presidency, Kennedy yearned for Castro to be removed from power. JFK subscribed to the Domino Theory, which argued that if a country fell to communism, its neighbors would follow. And, Castro capitulated to the whims of his communist ally, Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of Russia.

Kennedy began sparring with Castro in April of 1961 by executing the Bay of Pigs Invasion. CIA-backed Cuban exiles were sent in to overthrow Castro’s regime. However, he reneged on promised US Air Force support, and the operation failed.

Castro enacted a form of retaliation a year and a half later, when he allowed the Soviet Union to build nuclear launch pads on his country’s soil, within range of the continental US. When American Air Force reconnaissance planes discovered the sites, The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the adversaries to the brink of an all-out nuclear conflict. Kennedy ordered a Naval blockade, preventing weapons and supplies from being shipped to Cuba from Russia. He successfully avoided disaster by a narrow margin.

In September of 1963, Castro denounced US-prompted raids on Cuban soil: “We are prepared to fight them and answer in kind. The United States leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”

In November, Kennedy countered in a speech delivered to the Inter-American Press Association in Miami, where he called Cuba a pawn of Russia: “It is the fact that a small band of conspirators has stripped the Cuban people of their freedom and handed over the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban nation to forces beyond the hemisphere.” And went on to offer support if the Cuban people revolted, “For once Cuban sovereignty has been restored, we will extend the hand of friendship and assistance to a Cuba whose political and economic institutions have been shaped by the will of the Cuban people.”

      Less than a week later, Kennedy was dead.

Enter Saving Jackie K, an upside-down world where Soviet henchmen botched their mission to eliminate John F. Kennedy fifty years ago, slaying his wife Jackie instead. The unthinkable crime incites Americans and triggers an unending war with Russia . . .

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