Book the Plot to Kill the President by G. Robert Blakey

¶ … Plot to Kill the President by George Robert Blakey. The paper attempts to define the weak and strong points of the book as well as define the theory that the author believes pertains to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the 1960's. There was one source used to complete this paper. The last four decades have been filled with discussions and theories about the assassination of American president John F. Kennedy.

While some believe it was a plot planned and carried out by the government's own CIA others hold steadfast to the belief that the president was indeed killed by a lone gunman on the knoll that day. While these two theories are well-known and often discussed on talk shows as well as dinner parties there is another theory that is not as well-known but every bit as intriguing.

The book by George Robert Blakey and Richard Billings titled "The Plot to Kill The President" presents a new and intriguing possibility about who and what was behind the presidential assassination. The book about the plot to kill the president brings to light a theory that many may have thought about in a passing moment but it is not a theory that is often discussed in casual settings.

Blakey and Billings set out in the book to present the possible theory that the death of the president was actually brought on through a mob hit (Blakey, 1981). It has only been in recent years that the media and public have begun to uncover the extent of mob ties in American politics as well as the entertainment field. Until recently it was something that may have been believed but was seldom explored (Blakey, 1981).

This book provides a believable if not mind numbing account of how the mob could have been behind the killing of the president of the most powerful nation on earth (Blakey, 1981). The book contains solid writing and a flair for making even the most mundane discussions about the event seem exciting and new. For years Blakey believed that the original investigators made the investigation to broad. They cast a very large net and hoped to pull in any conspiracy that may have occurred (Blakey, 1981).

Part of this may have been because the CIA was one such conspiracy and that was a very large area to cover. Blakey has never believed it was a large conspiracy and instead focused his efforts and writing on a smaller group. According to Blakey there were only five or six people involved in the murder of Kennedy (Blakey, 1981).

Many experts and critics believe that the five or six people theory is to hard to prove but Blakey uses the book to outline in chronological as well as event detail how it could have happened. It did not have to take an army of people to plot to kill the president according to the authors and they set out to show the reader how it could have been handled.

The book is strong in its theory proof bringing to light many things about organized crime that the average public might not know. The book brings the mob tactics and ideas to light in a way that the reader can begin to understand how the president's death may have benefited some of its members (Blakey, 1981). Blakey does not argue the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger that killed the president. He agrees with that much of the theory and believes that the trigger man did die that day.

However that is where is agreement with the official version ends and his theory begins. Blakey feels that Oswald was recruited and used as the weak minded fall guy who wanted to belong to the big mob but really had very little to offer. The investigation following Oswald's death proved him to be a rather simple minded man who was a small time punk.

Blakey does an excellent job of illustrating how he could have easily become the fall guy for the plot to kill the president in his desire to be accepted as a key mobster. The book also mentions that fact that there were many Oswald sightings within the Dallas area in the days and weeks leading up to the shooting. Blakey leaves the popular route at this point and deviates from the commonly accepted theory of a single man plot.

He then begins to build the case for a mob hit based on the desire and plot of five or sic mob members who used Oswald as the trigger man and nothing more. Oswald acting rude while buying ammo the days before the killing and being seen at a target practice range further convinced Blakey and consequently his readers of the fact that Oswald was set up as a fall guy because he was to slow to understand what a low profile was about (Blakey, 1981).

In his desire to make a mark on the world he played right in to the mob hands according to the book. The book provided a strong and believable theory behind the mob's decision to murder the president though it allows itself to become weak during some key information areas in the story. The book also explains why the mob wanted Kennedy gone. It was no secret that the president and his brother were going after the organized crime groups with a vengeance and they had no.