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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