Chapter I	Tragedy at Mayerling
	Chapter II	Death of a Princess
	Chapter III	Malediction
	Chapter IV	The First Casualty of War
	Chapter V	Credibility of Foreign Informants
	Chapter VI	Confabulations of Nurse Nayirah
	Chapter VII	Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
	Chapter VIII	Origins of the First World War
	Chapter IX	Ritual Slaughter
	Chapter X	Search for Implausible Narratives

Malediction

Edward Klein (2003, p.34) in his book The Kennedy Curse observes that

After John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, it was no longer possible to believe

that all this has been a matter of chance.

and maintains that the series of murders in the President John F. Kenney family is due to the curse Rabbi Jacobson put on his father, 'damning him and all his male offspring to tragic fates.' He buttresses his claim by using the ad populum logical fallacy: 'Millions of people of the world over believe in the supernatural power of curses. About 14 million of Americans are willing to admit that they have prayed for harm to come to others. The actual prevalence of using prayer to hurt others is undoubtedly much greater.'

Guy Debord's (1996) in his Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle maintains that

as to the rising number of assassinations (Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Olaf Palme), all have remained unsolved. The serial character of these murders shows a common hallmark: the blatant lies of official statements. The result is that under the rule of the integrated spectacle, we live and die at the confluence of innumerable mysteries.

I don't really know what to tell them ...

I don't know what to tell them ... Debord's observation that 'we live and die at the confluence of innumerable mysteries' was well illustrated by Kris Axtman (Christian Science Monitor, November 21, 2003) who wrote:

'Seventh-graders Samantha and Julia have written poems on their feelings about the day that shook their hometown and the nation 40 years ago; they've even interviewed people who were alive when Kennedy was killed. As Dallas's youngest generations learn about the events of November 22, 1963, they are fascinated by the day and its details. For Samantha and Julia and the rest of their class, as for older Americans, the question remains the same: Why would someone want to kill the president?'

Samantha and Julia's teacher, says

President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963

Assassination of President Kennedy  President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Few hours after the assassination, the official version of the event is broadcast, asserting that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed John Kennedy. Oswald strenuously denies these charges (to Capt. Will Fritz on Nov. 24, 11:15 A.M.,)

however several minutes later (11:21 A.M.) is assassinated by Jack Ruby, a terminally ill Orthodox Jew who dies 37 months later. Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) maintains that he had murdered Oswald

However, to his defense lawyer William M. Kunstler he confided that he killed Oswald "for the Jews." On each of the occasion Kunstler talked to him, Jack Ruby repeated that (Kunstler, My Life as a Radical Lawyer, 1994, p. 158)

and during Kunstler's last visit handed him a note in which he reiterated that his motive was to

Jack Ruby had a long-standing relationship with the major crime syndicates. On his prison death bed, when a friend asked him to tell the truth before he dies, Ruby said:

Who, then, made Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald? The most likely suspect is Meyer Lansky.

Mayer Lansky According to the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (March 5, 1999)

Meyer Lansky saw life entirely through a Jewish filter. During Prohibition, Lansky got his start in bootlegging and reached the height of prosperity and influence during the 1940s and 1950s, when he transformed illegal gambling from a neighborhood racket into an interstate enterprise. He pulled the strings of a national crime syndicate that, according to some, made more money than General Motors. In his own eyes, he was an American and Jewish patriot. In the legends and studies of Jewish gangsterdom, there are two Meyer Lanskys. The older version has him as the criminal mastermind, the brain behind the mob. The more recent version sees Lansky as an entrepreneur catering to necessary, if illicit, human needs, as an embattled Jew, with the Cossacks hard on his heels. When battling investigating U.S. senators, Lansky voices his conviction that he's facing a bunch of anti-Semites.

Assassination of Robert Kennedy  On June 5th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President Kennedy and the likely Democratic candidate for President, having just won the California primary, was shot in  the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian born in Jerusalem. Sirhan was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.

Shortly before his assassination in June '68, Bobby Kennedy told his press secretary, Frank Mankiewitz, that if he wins the election, he'll reopen the inquiry into the assassination of his brother. Professor Philip Melanson  at the University of Massachusetts which hosts the RFK Assassination Archives, maintains that the archives contain evidence that more bullets were fired than could fit into the magazine of Sirhan's gun. In the 1994 interview with Paul Nellen Professor Melanson says that

'My theory about Sirhan's involvement is that he was definitely firing a gun and therefore should have been convicted of some kind of attempted murder if in fact they couldn't prove diminished responsibility. But I see Sirhan basically as a pawn. My view is that while he was there shooting he didn't mastermind a plot to kill RFK.'

Death of Carolyn and John Kennedy  On July 16, 1999 the son of President Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jr. his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette were killed in an airplane accident. John Kennedy, Jr. was the only Kennedy to ever acknowledge a conspiracy in his father's death; not only to acknowledge it, but was taking concrete steps to disclose it. Just days prior to his death, the NBC Dateline announced that he was considering entry into politics. After the crash of John F. Kennedy Jr's airplane, his friends (In Memory of JFK Jr., AngelFire.com) commented that

Israel's prominent journalist Barry Chamish says that

Barry Chamish continues that

Baa Baa Black Sheep  After the third Camelot death the suspicions of the foul play began to mount and media started to promote the notion that the Kennedy family is cursed.

Rep. Paul Findley

Congressman  The first public personality to think the unthinkable was the Illinois Representative Paul Findley, who in March, 1992, said in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,

His remark was dismissed as anti-Semitic and the conspiracy it implied was simply added to the plethora of other mutually contradicting, often self-contradictory and mostly implausible conspiracy theories advanced in the wake of the President Kennedy murder.

Governor Three months after the death of John Kenney, Jr., in October 1999, the Governor of Minnesota called the national attention to the unexplained events surrounding the murder of President John F. Kennedy and a series of violent deaths of the other members of the Kennedy's family and expressed an opinion, shared by many, that the official explanation of the murder of President Kennedy, the

Walter Cronkite   Walter Cronkite's comment was that

Rector of the Glasgow University Mordechai Vanunu

Rector   In the July 26, 2004 interview, Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist previously associated with the Israel's Dimona Nuclear Project said that assassination of President Kennedy was due to

In December, 2004 Mordechai Vanunu was elected rector of the Glasgow University (Guardian, December 17, 2004), but was arrested on December 24, 2004 when attempting to exit Israel.

Avner Cohen's Archival Research  Mordechai Vanunu's claim is supported by Avner Cohen's (1998) book Israel and the Bomb. His book is based on archival research during which he discovered President Kennedy's letter, located in the Israel State Archive in Jerusalem, which the American ambassador delivered to Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol on July 5, 1963. In this letter President Kennedy requests that

'... these visits should be in accord with international standards, thereby

resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project.'

Avner Cohen  describes this letter as

'unprecedented American ultimatum to Israel,'

demanding dismantling of Israel's nuclear development program.

The date President Kennedy set for commencement of inspections of the Dimona nuclear facilities (November, 1963), coincides with the date of his assassination (November 22, 1963). Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnston who succeeded JFK as the President of the United States, did not insist on the inspections of the Dimona nuclear facilities.

References

Cohen, A. (1998) Israel and the bomb.New York: Columbia University Press.

Debord, G. (1996) Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. Paris: Gallimard.

Klein, E. (2003) The Kennedy curse. New York: St. Martin Press.

Kunstler, W. M. (1994) My life as a radical law