With all of our knowledge today in science and the
medical world, we seem to trust people more and more. It appears to be that
John F. Kennedy was trusting doctors way before the 21st century.
Max Jacobson, also known as Dr. Feelgood to some, was a very educated man that
helped President Kennedy, and countless celebrities, with several health
problems by giving them injections. These injections where known to be
vitamins, probiotics and antibiotics that inquisitively became addictive
substances. With realizations, the injections were discovered to be variations
of methamphetamine, giving Jacobson’s clients a remarkable “high”, causing
people to be dependent of the drug. The conspiracy theory that is being
interrogated is the cause of President Kennedy’s death, and whether the
government had attempted, and succeeded, his murder. The reason the FBI was
interested in taking his life was the belief of our President formulating
irrational decisions, due to the amount and quality of drugs he was consuming.
Did the government authority indeed have something to do with the murder of
President John F. Kennedy?
Max
Jacobson was a crazy doctor that could easily classify as a drug dealer. He was
asked by an old Harvard collegiate buddy, Chuck Spalding, to keep the greatest
secret yet. This secret was to help President John F. Kennedy with his many
health problems. Kennedy was sick almost all of his life with Addison
disease, chronic back pain, and was awfully prone to infection. One example, in
June 1961, President Kennedy suffered a fever
that hit 105 degrees which called
for a cold sponge bath to cool him down in the middle of the shutdown with the
Soviet Union over Berlin (The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr.
Feelgood’). He did not want to release his medical documents to the public, so
he preferred to keep this issue confidential. There were a limited number of
people that knew of this incident.
The
FBI and CIA soon became very suspicious of President Kennedy due to some of his
whereabouts and why a doctor was entering into The White House so frequently.
JFK’s internal conflict of being dependent of the reduced pain and thrill of
the personal secret, caused trouble in the outside world. He was a very big
headed man with mass authority. Speaking about himself and his presidency,
Kennedy claimed, “Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it
better than I can” (John F. Kennedy). He always made bold decisions in his
serving time, however, were they rational decisions? As time passed, President
John F. Kennedy was easily provided with these drugs, as well as countless
other drugs. He claimed that “after one ‘treatment’ that instantly made him
feel stronger and very alert” (The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr.
Feelgood’).
The
doctor’s treatments seemed very odd, but who would question what a doctor does?
This doctor was different. Max Jacobson’s office
for practice was not much of a patient friendly atmosphere. There were papers
all over the floor, pills and syringes lying around, and random chemicals far
and wide. People say it looked more like
a mad scientist’s laboratory rather than an office to provide practice. Michael
Samek, his best friend, stated that Jacobson never set up an appropriate
billing system, he rarely received payments from his patients, and he saw his
practice as a mission rather than a job (Lertzman).
He
was
always known to be a bit of a crazy man, sporadic, some might say. Max
Jacobson was born in a small village inside the border of Poland, on the
banks
of the Vistula River. He studied medicine in Berlin then fled to Nazi
Germany
in 1936. Developing booster shots for healthy patients is what lead him
to
advance his name, first for European immigrants then he traveled to the
other
side of the world treating patients in Hollywood and Washington (The
Strange
Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr. Feelgood’). Jacobson was interested in
any
intravenous, or IV, fluids that were capable of being injected into the
human
bloodstream. These fluids ranged from amphetamines to tranquilizers. He
specifically utilized methamphetamine above any other drug, which he
referred
to as his “vitamin shot” (Lertzman). He also favored a drug used to
treat neuromuscular disease, created with “an individualized combination
of hormones
Vitamin B complex, certain enzymes, Vitamin A and E, Vitamin D, Vitamin
C, and
procaine, a local anesthetic injected intramuscular (also known under
its
brand name, Novocaine)…”(Lertzman). The
word soon spread amongst celebrities and other prominent figures in the era.
Soon he had hundreds of patients keeping, and addicted to, this secret. This
man was the definition of crazy. Max Jacobson was nothing more than a drug
dealer that went to medical school.
There
are many conspiracy theories assuming the assassination and the reasoning for
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Two main ideas are brought up
about this topic. One, the CIA wanted to get rid of him and execute him before
he got out of control. Secondly, the mafia was simply out to get him.
The
CIA
was already interested in his records with Max Jacobson, therefore,
they
knew something was wrong with him, that he was not in the best shape. We
still
are not sure if the CIA discovered that President John F. Kennedy was
indeed on methamphetamine at the time, or if they uncovered that later.
However, the CIA
was sure he was making irrational decisions. Also, the CIA was upset
about the
changes being made with the agency and how the Bay of Pigs invasion in
1961
failed. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was during the cold war, due to the
fact that
Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba, disapproved the approach that Americans
took to
their business interest in Cuba. With this, Kennedy was not happy, so he
wanted
to assassinate Fidel Castro. He had the idea from Eisenhower’s campaign
to
train and equip a guerrilla army of Cuban exiles, but something needed
to
change. He decided to conduct strike against Cuban airfields by painting
American bombers to appear as Cuban planes. Once he realized how foolish
his
idea was, it was too late to quit. The invasion was a disaster and
Americans
surrendered after less than one day of fighting (Bay of Pigs Invasion).
Then,
the CIA realized that Kennedy threw them into a death trap and grew
angry. This
brings us back to Kennedy’s appearance of making irrational decisions
and
getting many of his men killed.
The
second conspiracy theory is related to the Mafia, organized by Carlos Marcello,
Santos Trafficante, and Jimmy Hoffa (Simkin). There is one belief that the
anti-Castro group and the mafia were working to together to take down President
John F. Kennedy. This was because the mob was angry with efforts by the
President’s brother, Robert Kennedy, to demand the halt of organized crime. The
mob was out to get the Kennedy’s for quite some time. Some even believe that
the CIA was teaming up with the mafia.
There
are many, many different ideas of what could have happened due to the fact that
President John F. Kennedy was targeted by so many people. There is a slight
belief that both of this conspiracy theories are true and that there were
multiple shooters lined up to take the shot. It still comes down to, “Well, who
took the shot?”, but the problem is that the man was hated by so many. Of
course the citizens of America were unable to realize it at the time. However,
the CIA, Mafia, and Cubans were extremely interested in this man due to his
crazy and suspicious actions.
Although it seems everyone was out to get President John
F. Kennedy, the most likely scenario is that the first theory holds true. The
CIA needed to get rid of President Kennedy due to his lack of rational decision
making. Kennedy got many of his men killed in a suicide mission in the Bay of
Pigs Invasion, and they realized that. The CIA was very interested in Max
Jacobson and why he had relations with President Kennedy, however they were
unable to see what exactly was going on at the time since they were very careful
about the drugs and files (Lertzman). According to the poll conducted from
campus, 70% of people believe that the government was indeed involved in
Kennedy’s assassination. However, with the governmental protection of the CIA
and classifications, it would be almost impossible to prove that the CIA is responsible.
It
is understood by now that Kennedy was out of his right mind because of some
types of drugs that Dr. Max Jacobson provided. Some type of organized group
seems to be affiliated with President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Due
to his crazy doctor, and irrational decisions, President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1973. There are two main theories assuming the
assassination of Kennedy:
1. Was
the CIA willing to take extreme measures to execute The President before he
killed any more of their men?
2. Was
the mafia was simply out to get him?
The
mystery will forever remain unsolved. If the CIA did indeed assassinate
Kennedy, then all of the evidence and blame is covered up or completely
destroyed.
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