A Brief History
On October 26, 1979, Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the South Korean CIA, assassinated the country’s president, Park Chung Hee. The president died on the spot of gunshot wounds to the chest and head.
Digging Deeper
One pervasive conspiracy theory regarding the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy is that the American CIA was somehow involved. While such theories are usually treated as forays into fiction, the assassination of the South Korean president by his own CIA show that the idea might not be all that farfetched.
Director Kim used a Walther PPK to shoot his president, but the gun jammed, and the assassin then used a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver to finish the job. Kim and his supporters were later arrested and executed after being tortured.
Do you think the US CIA had anything to do with JFK’s assassination? If not, who was really responsible?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Ayton, Mel. The Kennedy Assassinations: JFK and Bobby Kennedy – Debunking The Conspiracy Theories. Frontline Books, 2022.
Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of Assassinations: More than 400 Infamous Attacks that Changed the Course of History. Skyhorse, 2013.
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