Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and General George Patton both died under mysterious circumstances around the end of World War II: Kennedy before the war ended and Patton after. And they have a lot more in common than that, as I'll explain. But, they also have something that is diametrically opposite: foul play is strongly suspected in Patton's death; he is widely believed to have been assassinated; but, no one suspects that of Kennedy. No one, that is, except me. But, I can't tell you how happy I would be to find out that I am wrong about that; to find out that someone before me proposed that Kennedy was murdered.  But now, let's consider the other likenesses between Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and General George Patton.

1. Both came from famous families.

2. Both came from money; Kennedy from his father's wealth, and Patton mainly from his wife's wealth; the heiress Beatrice Ayer. 

3. Both were World War 2 war heroes

4  Both were leaving the Military to begin political careers. Patton planned to tour the country and "campaign" against the direction of U.S. post-war policy, and although he never declared an interest in the Presidency,  many feared that that's where it was heading.  Kennedy was going to run for Congress, and many feared that the route of Congressman, Senator, and then President- the exact route of his younger brother John- would have been Joe's course. 

5. Both took controversial positions and were vocal about it. For Kennedy, it was speeches he gave as a student at Harvard opposing war with Germany, even though he did enlist after Pearl Harbor. Patton's controversial positions involved criticisms of other generals, including Eisenhower and Bradley; objecting to the harsh treatment of Germans after the war, both civilian and military, and objecting to acquiesing to the Soviets over the taking of Berlin. Patton wanted to lead his Army into Berlin but was ordered not to. And he made some very inflammatory statements, including that we may have supported the wrong side in the war, and the US should consider going to war against the Soviet Union without delay. 

6. Both were accused of being anti-Semitic. In Kennedy's case, it was mainly due to his father Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. who was called an anti-Semite. But, the truth is that all JPK Sr. did was try to prevent World War II, which killed 65 million people. But, at the time, anyone who did NOT want to go to war against Hitler was considered an anti-Semite. To this day, JPK Sr. is trashed for trying to prevent World War 2. Because after all: WW2 was the "good war." Right?  In Patton's case, he kept a diary, and found in it and made public were some derogatory statements about Jews.  

7. Both their deaths involved accidents, and in both, there was a never an official investigation and a determination of the cause. In Kennedy's case, he was asked to get a plane strewn with explosives up in the sky. Then, he was to turn the controls of the plane over to remote operators and bail out. But, for some reason, they wouldn't let him deploy his parachute until he was over the English Channel, even though there was plenty of green, verdant, flat, spacious, wide-open and unobstructed English countryside to jump into. And to this day, we don't know what went wrong, and that's why there are so many glib, flippant theories: "They tripped a wire." "They tripped over a wire." "There was a short in the system." "The solenoid in the camera malfunctioned." Etc. Etc. Etc. 

In Patton's case, it was a freak auto accident in which the Cadillac in which he was riding was struck by a truck, injuring him and no one else. But, that's not what killed him. He was badly hurt, but improving. He died of a pulmonary embolism.  

But wait.  Who else died of a pulmonary embolism?  Jack Ruby did. And I have been telling you for years that he was innocent. He did NOT shoot Oswald. He wasn't in the garage at the time. That was somebody else; FBI Agent James Bookhout. And when Ruby won a new trial in October 1966, he was diagnosed with cancer in December and dead in January- of a pulmonary embolism. Do you know how easy it is to give a person an embolism with an intravenous needle? 

So, why why why have so many people opened their minds to Patton being assassinated but not Kennedy? And especially considering that Kennedy's brother got assassinated. And then his other brother got assassinated. Then his other other brother nearly got assassinated. And then his nephew got assassinated.