The assassination of JFK was a part of a larger plan.
In a memorandum to JFK, 28 April 1961, LBJ writes: "Manned exploration of the moon, for example, is not only an achievement with great propaganda value, but it is essential as an objective..." -- From:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/apollo2.pdf
This was probably a lie, since scientists later told JFK:
Part of a transcript of a Presidential Meeting, 21 November 1962:
"President Kennedy: Look, I know all these other things and the satellite and the communications and weather and all, they’re all desirable, but they can wait.
James Webb: I’m not putting those….
I am talking now about the scientific program to understand the space environment within which you got to fly Apollo and make a landing on the Moon.
President Kennedy: Wait a minute—is that saying that the lunar program to land the man on the Moon is the top priority of the Agency, is it?
Unknown speaker:
And the science that goes with it….
Robert Seamans: Well, yes, if you add that,
the science that is necessary….
President Kennedy:
The science…. Going to the Moon is the top-priority project. Now, there are a lot of related scientific information and developments that will come from that which are important. But the whole thrust of the Agency, in my opinion, is the lunar program. The rest of it can wait six or nine months.
...
James Webb: All right, then let me say this: if I go out and say that this is the number-one priority and that everything else must give way to it, I’m going to lose an important element of support for your program and for your administration.
President Kennedy [interrupting]: By who? Who? What people? Who?
James Webb: By a large number of people.
President Kennedy: Who? Who?
James Webb: Well, particularly the brainy
people in industry and in the universities who are looking at a solid base."
From:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...+Jerome+Wiesner&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&lr=lang_en