Let's have a poll on JFK

[JackRiddler]

38. I don't think that he was doing that.

And I am familiar with the case for it.

It's not really necessary for a coup d'etat thesis. Kennedy needn't be a revolutionary, and he wasn't. It would be enough if he deviated sufficiently from the hard Cold War line to anger factions with a hegemony over the government who believed the anti-Communist struggle was a life-and-death matter for the nation. It could be as simple as not going to war over Cuba, or beginning a withdrawal from Vietnam. Even today it's very easy for right-wing maniacs to see "socialists" in totally system-reinforcing figures like Obama, and back then the right-wing maniacs were very much ensconced within the key agencies and on a permanent raging hunt for Communists among the "liberals," even when the latter were not particularly liberal.

A coup d'etat would still require direct control over the levers of the state and law enforcement apparatus. Thus involvement in the plot and more broadly in the cover-up by persons within CIA, Pentagon and FBI. This would be true even if banking figures were involved, which I very much doubt since they'd have to be really stupid and ideologically driven not to know that their interests weren't being challenged.