The Trump Administration recently declassified and released some 60,000 government documents relating to the JFK Assassination, provoking a great deal of discussion on social media and the rest of the Internet.
This prompted Mike Whitney to interview me on that subject, providing me an excellent opportunity to draw together and summarize the many articles I had published from 2018 onwards on that infamous historical event.
As I explained at length, there seemed strong, even overwhelming evidence that Israel and its Mossad had played a central role in the death of our president and also the killing of his younger brother Robert a few years later.
President Kennedy had been embroiled in a bitter political battle with Israel over the latter’s illegal nuclear weapons development program, a program that he had sworn to eliminate. He was also determined to break the growing power of the Israel Lobby in the U.S. These two issues provided the obvious motives for his killing.
Meanwhile, the younger Kennedy was struck down just after his victory in the winner-take-all California primary seemed to assure him of the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. He had told his circle of friends and advisors that if he reached the White House, he would track down and bring to justice those who had been responsible for the death of his older brother.
This persuasive framework was first worked out almost exactly thirty years ago by the late journalist Michael Collins Piper. But the exceptionally explosive nature of the Piper Hypothesis has ensured that it has been almost totally ignored, never mentioned either by the mainstream media, nor by more than a tiny sliver of the multitude of JFK Assassination researchers.
My analysis also pointed to the other key figures very likely involved in the plot. These included Vice President Lyndon Johnson, whom the Kennedys were on the verge of dropping from the reelection ticket, destroying politically, and sending to prison, and James Angleton, the CIA’s long-time counter-intelligence chief.
For decades Johnson had been regarded as one of America’s most pro-Israel political figures, while Angleton was considered so close to the Israeli Mossad that he was widely suspected of having become an outright asset of that foreign intelligence service.
Therefore, both these individuals would have naturally cooperated with Israel on the assassination, with Johnson playing an especially important role in orchestrating the subsequent cover-up.
My lengthy article presenting all this important material has quickly become one of my most popular pieces of the last twelve months:
- How Israel Killed the Kennedys Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words
As mentioned, one of the main motives for JFK’s killing was his effort to sharply curtail the growing political power of the Israel Lobby, and his death immediately reversed that project. During the sixty-odd years that followed, AIPAC and its allies have grown so enormously powerful that they currently control all but a handful of the members of Congress.
For example, in an interview last year with Tucker Carlson, Rep. Thomas Massie revealed that nearly all of members of the House and the Senate currently have their personal AIPAC handlers, who direct their votes on related issues.
The same situation seems the case with the Trump Administration. It recently launched an absolutely unprecedented political crackdown on America’s most elite academic institutions, forcing them to eliminate any criticism of Israel or its policies in their curriculum or by their students.
In a particularly shocking development, masked federal agents have been deployed to arrest students merely for criticizing Israel in campus op-eds or public demonstrations, either seizing them by raiding their dorms or abducting them from the streets of their cities.
This is an absolutely unprecedented violation of our Bill of Rights and academic freedom, fully reminiscent of authoritarian dictatorships.
I argued that these policies will result in the destruction of the international credibility of our leading institutions of higher education, which for decades have constituted some of the most important elements of America’s global soft power.
- The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 31, 2025 • 7,300 Words
Although many of my articles over the years have been widely read, they often addressed ultra-controversial topics that have deterred all but a tiny handful of podcasters from interviewing me. Given that many individuals prefer absorbing their content in video rather than written form, this has considerably restricted the reach of my analysis,
However, these recent articles drew the strong interest of a couple of small podcasters, who provided me an opportunity to present my analysis of the JFK Assassination analysis and related matters. The several hours of resulting video interviews seemed to come out quite well, allowing me to effectively summarize my factual information in that format.
One of the tiny handful of other individuals who has been willing to discuss the crucial role of the Israeli Mossad in the Kennedy assassinations has been longtime French conspiracy-researcher Laurent Guyénot.
I would strongly recommend his 2019 work The Unspoken Kennedy Truth as the best book presenting the Israel/Mossad case for the JFK Assassination. Although I might not necessarily endorse every single element, this paperback summarizes all the important information and is short enough that it can easily be read in just a day or two.
Guyénot also presented this same controversial material in the form of a 2022 documentary available on YouTube. Although perhaps a little too hagiographic, it constitutes the best video documentary on that subject.
And although it is somewhat disorganized, I would also recommend Ryan Dawson’s complementary 2023 video documentary, which focuses very heavily upon Israel’s nuclear weapons development program:
POSTSCRIPT:
On Friday Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson were on Napolitano’s show, and near the end they came closer to fingering Israel in the Kennedy assassinations than any other reasonably mainstream individuals that come to my mind:
McGovern spent 27 years as a CIA analyst, including serving as the morning Intelligence Briefer to a half-dozen American presidents.
He also mentioned that early in his career, there had been a rule that any intelligence report mentioning Israel in any way had to be sent to Angleton for his personal approval.
Several days later, Johnson made that position explicit, publishing a post containing the following concluding paragraph:
The failure to do a proper forensic analysis of the entry and exit wounds is another bit of circumstantial evidence that Kennedy’s murder was planned and orchestrated. Yes, it was a conspiracy. I think Michael Collins Piper’s book, Final Judgment, provides the best explanation of the conspiracy.
He has now become the first mainstream public figure to declare support for the Piper Hypothesis that Israel and its Mossad played a central role in the JFK Assassination.
I think that after sixty-odd years—and thirty years after the publication of Final Judgment—the dam may finally be breaking.
By Ron Unz
Published by Unz.com
Republished by The 21st Century
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