In its investigation of the events surrounding the Kennedy Assassination, the renowned book Saving Jackie K thoroughly examines the potential motives of various foreign leaders against JFK. Among these figures, significant attention is directed towards Fidel Castro, the entrenched dictator of Cuba. Could Castro have been the mastermind behind Kennedy’s assassination?
During the 1950s, Cuba was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, with support from the United States. However, in 1959, Fidel Castro, alongside his brother Raul Castro and comrade Che Guevara, successfully led a revolution that ousted Batista and established Castro’s communist regime.
Since the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy harbored ambitions of toppling Castro’s regime. Embracing the Domino Theory, Kennedy feared that the spread of communism in one country would inevitably lead to its expansion in neighboring nations. Additionally, Castro found solidarity with his communist ally, Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of Russia.
The tensions between Kennedy and Castro intensified, notably highlighted by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, where CIA-backed Cuban exiles attempted to overthrow Castro‘s government. Castro’s agreement to allow the Soviet Union to install nuclear launch pads in Cuba, uncovered during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, further strained relations. His condemnation of US-led intrusions into Cuban territory, coupled with Kennedy’s portrayal of Cuba as a pawn of Russia, only heightened animosity between the two leaders. Less than a week after Kennedy‘s address, he was tragically assassinated.
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