O'Donnell Did It!

[Pat Speer]

Tim, your comparing Dillon's friendship with Kennedy to O'Donnell's reeks of desperation. O'Donnell and Powers were professional buddies, friends of Kennedy's who were given jobs entirely on the basis of their loyalty to the man. They'd been close for years. Kind of like Meese and Deaver were to Reagan, and Baker, Rove, and Rice are to the Bush family. Their involvement in a conspiracy against their bread and butter is counter-intuitive. Dillon, on the other hand, had only recently become friendly with Kennedy. His political background was on the other side of the fence. His professional background was on Wall Street, which didn't exactly love JFK. As a result, his loyalties were clearly divided. I have said I think the man had no conscious involvement in the assassination. I have also said, however, that research into his financial holdings might help us decide whether or not he should be considered a suspect. If, for example, we were to find that Dillon held a large interest in Brown and Root, General Dynamics, Bell Heliocopter, a Casino, or any other entity likely to prosper from a build-up in Vietnam and Robert Kennedy's removal as A.G. then we might consider him a suspect. The same could be said if we were to find that O'Donnell had a summer home in Cuba. But I think people's time would be better spent looking into Dillon.