Which bits of all this are outright lies?

[David Andrews]

As Gerry Hemming mentioned in reporting his experiences, a lot of people threw down money toward an assassination of Kennedy, and toward a Castro assassination. Some backed a specific group or plot, some put their money into the hands of a person who inspired their trust.

In the end, everybody who donated for JFK's funeral earned bragging rights, whatever happened to their money. Some were probably conned afterward into thinking that they had actually bought the bullets - and kept from complaining in that way.

It's consistent with the way political bribery or lobbying can sometimes be organized, or claimed to be organized, so it would have been a familiar route for loose minds with loose mouths and looser money.

Edited March 3, 2010 by David Andrews