The assassination of JFK has always intrigued me, so much so that I had the rare chance to sit on grassy Knob Hill one sunny afternoon and contemplate this fateful event, take some photos (and left my lens cap there!) visit the building the museum that documents the official version assassination. I recall as a boy hearing the news and receiving a letter from my penpal in Delaware describing the shock they faced. On an earlier visit I had spent a week in Key West and gazed over the horizon to the arch enemy of Cuba where the Bay of Pigs is located, knowing that we lived in tumultuous times and we had been on the brink of devastation some years earlier. Historical truth is essential to our understanding, but equally important is in the book James W. Douglass, “JFK and The Unspeakable, Why He Died and What It Matters” Douglass’ dissection of the actions of those in power during the 1950’s and ’60’s in both domestic and international politics. Kennedy, he posits, began as a Cold Warrior committed to Pax Americana secured through superior nuclear military might. But the near cataclysmic disaster of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the isolation Kennedy experienced from his own military advisers forced him to reach out for help both publicly and in secret back-channel memos to his greatest enemy: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy had what some leaders might call a conversion. He turned toward peace. When the enemy is seen as human, everything changes. This conversion locked Kennedy into a death spiral with the military industrial complex and the CIA. They now considered JFK a traitor because he reached out to Khrushchev in peace, and because the CIA and the military industrial complex were fanatically committed to what General Curtis E. LeMay described as, “Pax Atomica,” the annihilation of America’s enemies through nuclear war. Read more at secretsofthefed/why-was-jfk-murdered/#OTZvfCXUxTplbJhk.99
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:38:27 +0000
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