JFK/Assassination/Perpetrators

In his 2013 essay, Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State, Mark Gorton identifies:

• Lyndon Johnson, chied organiser
• Allan Dulles and the CIA
• J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
• Clint Murchison Sr., H.L. Hunt and D.H. Byrd 'right wing Texas oil executives'
• the East Coast business establishment centered around Rockefeller interests and the Council on Foreign Relations
• Curtis Le May (chairman of the joint chief of staff)
• George H.W. Bush
• Prescott Bush
• other right wing leaders of the military & elements of military intelligence
• New Orleans mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello
• E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent whose deathbed confession named LBJ as the chief instigator of the plot
• Lucian Sarti, grassy knoll gunman
• 'Many members' of Operation 40: Ted Shackley, David Sanchez Morales, Edward Lansdale, William Harvey, and Tracy Barnes

Gorton states that "the clearest evidence of the military involvement in the Coup can be seen in handling of the autopsy... [which] was conducted at Bethesda Naval hospital outside of Washington, DC under control of the top military brass. The lead agency in the cover up was the FBI. The FBI was pushing the “Oswald did it”, “case closed” party line within 2 hours of JFK’s death."