With the 50th anniversary, and grateful to internet access to obscure data and the work of expert researchers, Kennedy's assassination must now be studied in an international / ideological context. We need to move beyond the myopia of Cuba and Viet Nam and how our government dealt with those hotspots. We need to recognize the threat that Kennedy and others who were equally committed to global democracy posed to international aristocracy and colonial/capitalist expansion. In effect, we Americans need to grow up and get beyond our national narcissism.
Puzzle pieces possibly relevant to Clay Shaw, the OAS, and the attempts on deGaulle (one of at least a dozen attempted assassinations and fulfilled assassinations of the period that should be studied in the context of the murder of John Kennedy and of critical importance, vice versa):
OAS-related Jean Soutre, (Roux, Mertz), expelled from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area immediately after the assassination of Kennedy
OAS vigorously opposed to deGaulle's position on Algeria (Senator John Kennedy's insistence that Algerians deserved independence)
French Intelligence (SDECE) officer Pierre T. deVosjoli's relationship with the CIA's Jesse J. Angleton
deVosjoli's conviction that the deGaulle government had been infiltrated by the Soviets
deVosjoli's friend and confidant Frank "Brandy" Brandstetter since 1959, Havana
Brandstetter's reports to the Pentagon/Kennedy Administration relating to deV's concerns about deGaulle
Kennedy Administration advising Brandstetter to stand down on the issue
Brandstetter's insistence that he did not serve President Kennedy, he served the cause of anti-communism (paraphrasing)
Brandstetter's heritage as descendant of nobleman of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Ferenc Negy, Prime Minster of Hungary and chairman of Permindex
Permindex as it related to Clay Shaw and the Garrison investigation and related to global international trade marts; Kennedy's final destination, The Dallas Trade Mart, developed by Trammell Crow, business partner of Clint Murchison, Angus Wynne (ref. Marina Oswald post assassination).
The Clay Shaw list of lower nobility connected to the United Kingdom and Europe similar to Brandstetter-Hubicki's baronial status, all steeped in the esoteric.
Brandstetter's role with the Pentagon and Jack Crichton's Dallas-based 488th Military Intel unit
Brandstetter's residence in Dallas, ten blocks from the obscure office of Continental Leasing owned by his colleague
Scott Walker, with connections in New Mexico; Walker moved the operation to Shreveport, LA (Maj. Edwin Walker - alleged victim of an assassination attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald - was in Shreveport speaking to a segregationist group on November 22, 1963)
Brandstetter's role with Henry Crown's Hilton International and by implication General Dynamics; Crown and Hilton established the Waldorf Astoria in New York as the NY White House for international powerbrokers; the Waldorf Towers was home to Retired General John D. MacArthur
Frank Pace, CEO of Crown's General Dynamics was former Sec. of Army, board member of CBS, Time, Inc. and DC-based Nationwide Securities with fired CIA Director Allen Dulles and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Nathan Twining
Hilton International's board member Richard Cunningham Patterson who was Ambassador to Guatamala in the lead up to the CIA's overthrow of Arbenz; Patterson was also investor/director in Burrus Mills of Amarillo, home to LANL (Los Alamos National Labs and Paperclip's Walter Dornberger - whose papers were bequeathed to Frank Brandstetter) support operation PanTex and Bell Helicopter as well as Jack Crichton's Dorchester Gas on whose board was school depository building owner, DH Byrd. Crichton was an executive of Empire Trust whose directors included John McCloy's brother in law, LD Douglas (both of whom were related by marriage to post World War II Germany's Konrad Adenaur), and Edgar Bronfman, Seagrams CEO and future employer of Brandy Brandstetter in Mexico
Brandstetter's role with Crown's Havana Hilton, and his/their invitation to Fidel Castro on the eve of the revolution to house the revolutionary regime in the hotel (play all sides when considering exploitative investments); Manuel Ray, engineer for the Hilton, would later be central to counter-revolutionary Cuba; confusion, disruption.
Brandstetter's role in the development of Las Brisas in Acapulco
Brandstetter's role in the foundation of David Atlee Phillips' AFIO (Association of Former Intelligence Officers)
Brandstetter's relationship with the rich and influential, including the diPortanova's of Houston
diPortanova's christening of their Las Brisas mansion, Arabesque, centered on the presence of Henry Kissinger
Ricky diPortanova's grandfather, Roy Cullen, Houston oil man
Jack Porter represented both Roy Cullen and Sid Richardson in oil deals before their deaths prior to 1960
Jack Porter, campaign manager for Ike Eisenhower and the fledgling Republican party in Texas
Republican Party candidate Jack Crichton, future executive with (Douglas, McCloy - United Fruit - Bronfman) Empire Trust whose investments were deep into Cuba via United Fruit
Jack Porter's contact with Robert Ray McKeown regarding an introduction to Fidel Castro
Jack Porter's insistence that McKeown meet him in the Mellon-funded Gulf Oil Building in downtown Houston
Robert Ray McKeown's familiarity with Dallas oil man Clint Murchison, partner with Sid Richardson (ref. Jack Porter's association with Richardson and Cullen) in numerous oil ventures
Robert Ray McKeown's (alleged) interaction with Lee Harvey Oswald relating to the purchase of Savage Arms rifles
Robert Ray McKeown's (alleged) interaction with Jack Ruby
If Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald knew one another, that is prima facia evidence that there was a conspiracy.
From this point, we should consider Lumumba's assassination, Congo tin, Bolivian tin, Joannides' handler Tilton of the CIA in LaPaz at the time of Guevarra's murder, and from there, all assassinations designed to destabilize democracy in Latin America before or since.
Were any and or all of the above mentioned (only a tip of the ice berg) part of a compartmentalized international milieu surrounding the assassination of Kennedy, whether directly involved in the planning and execution, economically or ideologically invested in the outcome, or responsible for the cover-up of the assassination?