Very different situations. Government did all kinds of things during WWII using its war powers. If you were told by somebody in authority that the usual procedures had to be ignored because of the national emergency, you did it, and in those days you probably didn’t brood over whether it was right or wrong. Killing a president is something else all together.
“If you were told by somebody in authority that the usual procedures had to be ignored because of the national emergency, you did it, and in those days you probably didn’t brood over whether it was right or wrong. Killing a president is something else all together.”
For many folks at the time JFK’s presidency was a true “national emergency”. I know LBJ, the Mafia, and J. Edgar Hoover thought it was. I know the Israelis thought it was. I know the Cuban refugees thought it was. I know many folks in the CIA thought it was.
You need to put yourself in the shoes of those people at that time. Context is critical in understanding history.