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00:00 A flash from Dallas. Two priests who were with President Kennedy say he is dead. A bullet wound.
00:08 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at increasingly weird theories that have swirled
00:14 around this elite family. Nothing was left to chance. He could not be allowed to escape alive.
00:20 Number 10. The Chicago Mob put JFK in the White House. I'm going to tell you this,
00:27 there's no question or doubt in my mind that this was a mob hit. Back in the day,
00:31 the organized mob in Chicago was known as the Outfit. Founded in 1910, they gained national
00:37 prominence with the rise of Al Capone. This is the time for what? For individual achievement.
00:45 Even after Capone, the Outfit had an iron fist around organized crime in the Windy City.
00:50 For decades, theorists have attempted to find connections between JFK's 1960 campaign and the
00:56 Outfit. Some authors believe that Kennedy's father, Joe, met with the head of the syndicate
01:01 to ensure John's victory in the key state of Illinois. Kennedy's victory, they say,
01:05 ensured a Justice Department without an eye on Chicago. When RFK reneged on the deal, they say,
01:11 the Outfit had both the brothers whacked. Low Kennedy turnout in Outfit-controlled
01:16 wards belies the theory. What is not in the JFK fine print is a Chicago mob smoking gun.
01:22 Number nine, the accidental shooter. President Kennedy was mixed and mingled. He didn't like
01:27 anybody to be come between he and the people. For years, theorists have debated the magic bullet.
01:33 A review of the wounds and trajectories makes a single bullet and shooter impossible, some say.
01:38 One author, Bonner Menninger, has an explanation. In his book, Mortal Error,
01:43 Menninger posits a theory. Lee Harvey Oswald did indeed fire at JFK and hit him. The Secret Service
01:49 agent in the vehicle with Kennedy, George Warren Hickey Jr., then prepared to return fire with his
01:55 AR-15. At that moment, the car braked suddenly, causing Hickey to accidentally discharge his
02:01 weapon into the president. It was just like a looped tape of the president's head exploding.
02:08 I could not shake it. There is, of course, no actual evidence to back it up. It doesn't jibe
02:14 with any of the eyewitness statements, and there were more than a few. The assassination shook the
02:19 nation and the Secret Service. Number eight, Jackie Kennedy was in a secret society. She was
02:25 the country's youngest first lady, 31 years old when JFK became president and arguably the most
02:31 captivating. This theory is way, way out on the ragged edge. While there has been talk among
02:36 theorists for years about the hidden hand of the Illuminati, this one is a new spin on an old
02:41 canard. The theory goes that Jackie was in one or more secret societies and was the power behind
02:47 the throne. Her folks were both wealthy New York City socialites, but they had far fewer international
02:52 connections than the Kennedys themselves. Could there have been some that were never made public?
02:57 Behind Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' signature sunglasses was a woman filled with secrets.
03:02 Anything is possible, and Jackie did have a facility for languages.
03:07 But is there any evidence that she was an agent of a secret society? Of course not.
03:19 Number seven, RFK had Marilyn Monroe murdered. Does this letter prove old rumors that Marilyn
03:26 Monroe was romantically involved with a Kennedy? John F. Kennedy's secret White House affair with
03:31 Marilyn Monroe has been floating around since her infamous birthday serenade. Some say that she had
03:44 another affair with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as well. When she died, people wondered
03:48 if somehow the Kennedys were trying to quietly clean up their mess. Since then, the theories
03:53 have been all over the place. When Hollywood's most famous actress closed her bedroom door
03:59 sometime around 8 p.m. on August 4th, 1962, was this really meant to be a final exit?
04:06 Some people say Joe DiMaggio killed Kennedy out of jealousy and a thirst for revenge. Even if he
04:12 didn't, they say, the baseball legend went to his grave blaming the Kennedys. People claim to have
04:17 seen documents proving two tumultuous affairs. Was the bombshell killed by Kennedy's assassins
04:22 rather than an overdose? No solid proof has ever really been provided.
04:27 Number six, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a Political Stunt. I am the Commander-in-Chief
04:32 of the United States, and I say when we go to war. Kennedy's early years were less than steady. The
04:37 Bay of Pigs, a failed CIA plot to depose Castro, was an immediate stain on his administration.
04:44 A year later, American recon flights discovered Soviet nuclear missile installations in Cuba.
04:49 Ironbark reports that the SS-4 can deliver a three-megaton nuclear weapon 1,000 miles.
04:56 The theorists believe that Kennedy purposely escalated the crisis to the edge of the abyss
05:01 to come out of the crisis a hero. A series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation
05:07 on that imprisoned island. The results are unquestioned. Even the State Department
05:12 acknowledges that Kennedy's handling of the crisis repaired the damage of the Bay of Pigs.
05:17 But the notion that the President tossed the dice on nuclear Armageddon to get a boost in the polls
05:22 is, frankly, nuts. Number five, the Umbrella Man. In all of Dallas, there appears to be
05:30 exactly one person standing under an open, black umbrella. The Umbrella Man has been at the centre
05:39 of JFK assassination theories ever since the general public first laid eyes on the Zapruder
05:45 film. November 22, 1963, was a sunny day in Dallas, Texas. So why, theorists ask, did Louis
05:52 Stephen Witt have an umbrella? Witt was awfully close to Kennedy's vehicle when the President was
05:57 shot. The only person under any umbrella in all of Dallas standing right at the location where all
06:03 the shots come into the limousine. Was it some kind of dart gun? Was he signaling Oswald and/or
06:09 other shooters? That's what filmmaker Oliver Stone seemed to imply in his film, JFK. Witt himself
06:15 claimed that it was a sign of protest related to Joe Kennedy's connection to Neville Chamberlain.
06:20 "I read that and I thought, this is just wacky enough. It has to be true." Theorists found that
06:26 excuse to be awfully thin. That being said, no proof has ever been provided to refute it.
06:32 4. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY WAS A SECRET NAZI SYMPATHIZER "He was pro-Nazi, or he was certainly
06:40 friendly towards the Nazi in undercutting various American efforts." Given the unpopularity of Joe
06:45 Kennedy's politics, it's a wonder that he founded a political dynasty. Kennedy was appointed to the
06:51 ambassadorship to the UK by FDR in 1938. While there, despite the politics of his boss, Kennedy
06:58 supported Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Germany. Kennedy was allegedly
07:04 both anti-Semitic and anti-Communist. He supposedly saw Hitler as a kindred spirit. To be fair,
07:10 there was fierce debate over this in the American body politic at the time. "He believed the only
07:16 way to stop the war was to make a deal with Hitler." But theorists take this further and claim
07:22 that he had secret dealings with the Nazis. There is no concrete evidence on that score. One has to
07:27 think that if Kennedy had conspired with Hitler somehow, his anti-Hitler superior would have fired
07:33 him on the spot. 3. THE CIA KILLED JFK "You would have felt an army presence in the streets that day.
07:41 None of this happened. It was a violation of the most basic protection codes we have."
07:46 One of the most prominent JFK assassination theories is that it was an inside job. To be
07:52 fair, by 1963, the CIA was just hitting their stride. They'd already orchestrated coups in the
07:58 Middle East and Latin America. They didn't bat an eye to regime change. Theorists believe that the
08:03 CIA saw President Kennedy as a threat to their international plots. There was some evidence that
08:09 Kennedy planned to scale back and end American presence in Vietnam. Did the CIA pave the way
08:15 for almost a decade of war? Was there a CIA-trained Oswald impersonator at the Soviet Embassy in
08:20 Mexico? Did the CIA join forces with the mob? The theory has never gotten more traction than rank
08:27 speculation and gets wilder with each retelling. "Nothing was left to chance. He could not be
08:33 allowed to escape alive." 2. JFK Jr. IS STILL ALIVE "Divers today found the bodies of John
08:40 Kennedy, his wife and her sister, in the wreckage of his plane at the bottom of the ocean off
08:45 Mother's Vineyard." Made famous by the images of a young boy at his father's funeral, John F.
08:50 Kennedy Jr. appeared to be forging a whole new Kennedy legacy. He was an assistant district
08:55 attorney in New York City and then started a successful political magazine, George. Then,
09:01 in July of 1999, John Jr. tragically died in a plane crash along with his wife. 20 years later,
09:08 John Jr. became central to many QAnon conspiracy theories. They believe that JFK Jr.,
09:14 foreseeing the dangerous future ahead for his country, faked his own death. He then bided his
09:20 time to emerge in time to fight the pedophile cultists at the heart of the deep state. "JFK Jr.
09:26 was going to reveal himself at the site where his father died to announce that not only was he not
09:32 dead himself, but he was re-entering public life just in time to become Donald Trump's running mate
09:38 in 2024." Many believe that Q promoter Juan O'Savin is secretly JFK Jr. in disguise. "He's
09:45 not some like random outlier. You've written about some of his high-profile supporters.
09:49 They include actors like Roseanne Barr and Jim Caviezel." Before we continue, be sure to subscribe
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10:04 settings and switch on your notifications. 1. The Illuminati Had JFK Killed
10:11 The fun thing about conspiracy theories is that there can be many concentric circles that overlap
10:26 with one another. For example, theories about the Illuminati controlling the world often overlap with
10:31 conspiracies about the Federal Reserve and other central banks. They have mixed with conspiracies
10:37 about JFK into a particularly batty stew. According to the theories, months before his death, JFK gave
10:44 his Treasury Department the ability to issue silver certificates. That created an alternative
10:50 centre of monetary power to the Illuminati stronghold of the Fed. The fact that it was a
10:55 temporary transition to eliminate them altogether and strengthen the Fed is conveniently ignored.
11:00 I'm confident as I look to the future that our chances for security, our chances for peace,
11:08 are better than they've been in the past. And the reason is because we're stronger.
11:12 Do these theories miss the mark? Let's get to the bottom of this mystery together.
11:16 Let us know your Kennedy conspiracy theories in the comments below.
11:20 And if we freeze on frame 138, we distinctly see a puff of blue hair coming from the grassy null.
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