Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman and Libertarian candidate for president, believes that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy amounted to a domestic coup and that the CIA was behind it, unleashing a sea change in American affairs that resonates to this day.

Perhaps best known as a critic of the Federal Reserve and champion of the Austrian school of economics, Paul made the remarks during an appearance on “TIMCAST IRL” [starting at 13:55] earlier this week:

“I’m arguing the case that we’re in the middle of it and moving right along, that the revolution has been fought, there’s been a coup, we don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a Republic, we don’t have honest money, we don’t have integrity.

“But I do believe there has been a coup, and it’s been taken over, and if I want to, and if I can I want to just put the date in my mind, and anybody could pick probably any date in the last 100 years, but I have picked November 22nd 1963,” Paul said. “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government, you know by the CIA.”

The 87-year-old medical doctor, and father of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), went on to say that he had been serving as as flight surgeon at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio when JFK stopped there the day before his death.

Paul went on to scoff at the idea that former CIA Director Allen Dulles — whom JFK fired in the wake of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion — was included on the Warren Commission investigating Kennedy’s death.

“But he was going to make sure they told the truth,” Paul said with a rueful laugh. “It was a big farce.”

(Of note: Tim Pool, 37, the show’s host and a former reporter for VICE, is known for a wide range of political views, praised and/or excoriated for being too far left or too far right. When Paul mentioned the assassination date, Pool and the group of interviewers didn’t initially appear to understand its significance.)

Paul made similar remarks a week earlier on his own show, The Ron Paul Liberty Report [starting at 8:40], while commenting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s entry into the 2024 presidential race.

Paul’s co-host noted that they had interviewed RFK Jr. previously and that “he really lit up” when the subject of CIA involvement in killing both JFK and his own father, Senator Robert Kennedy, came up.

“As time goes on there’s more and more proof of it happening,” Paul replied. “Of course, a lot of people — the ones who were close to what was going on in the 1960s — they knew the CIA was involved.”

Paul bemoaned what he perceives to be the current “So what?” attitude toward any revelation of CIA complicity in the political assassinations of the 1960s.

“It’s a big deal,” he emphasize, adding, “That’s where we lost control of our government.”