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Title: "JFK and the Unspeakable" is "Convincing Portrait" of Kennedy
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Reprinted from People’s World.
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/no_author/why-jfk-was-murdered/
Published: Jul 8, 2015
Author: Rick Nagin
Post Date: 2015-07-08 10:09:12 by Ada
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Views: 507
Comments: 25
There have been many books written about the assassination of President Kennedy, so many, generating so much bewildering debate, in fact, that many people have given up trying to understand the event and its significance. But despite all that, I want to recommend without reservation this book by a Catholic theologian and peace activist, which is unique in many respects and provides an education that all supporters of peace and progress need as we struggle to overcome the danger of right-wing extremism. This is the only book on the assassination recommended by the Kennedy family: “It has distilled all the best available research into a very well-documented and convincing portrait of president Kennedy’s transforming turn to peace, at the cost of his life…. I urge all Americans to read this book,” writes Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. It is also strongly endorsed by Daniel Ellsberg, Marcus Raskin, Oliver Stone, and Gaeton Fonzie, staff investigator for the U.S. House Committee on Assassinations, who stated it is “by far the most important book yet written on the subject.” Simply put, the book demonstrates beyond doubt that Kennedy was killed by the CIA with the help of right-wing Cuban emigrees and the support of extremist forces in the Pentagon, the State Department and possibly other elements of U.S. corporate power, who recognized that Kennedy was moving towards a radical break with the fundamental principles and policies of the Cold War. He was seen as a traitor, who had to be stopped before he could implement his plans. This book not only documents in fascinating detail how Kennedy was killed but, more importantly, it describes the historical and political context, the reasons why he was murdered. It is a devastating indictment of the Cold War and exposes the insane drive of its perpetrators in the CIA and the Pentagon for a first strike nuclear attack on Cuba and the USSR. The book also exposes the massive cover-up of the truth as the FBI, the corporate media, and various public officials promoted the official story of the Warren Commission that the President was killed by a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, allegedly motivated by Communist loyalties and possibly even abetted by Cuba and the Soviet Union. The Kennedy family never believed this tale and sent a letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev saying they recognized it was not Communists, but a right-wing conspiracy who were responsible. Douglass shows that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson also dismissed this story as a CIA fabrication, but nonetheless cooperated with the cover-up because they were deeply committed to continue the Cold War. For the millions subsequently slaughtered in Vietnam, Indonesia, and elsewhere, the militarist policies of the CIA and the Pentagon were anything but cold. Douglass shows how this orgy of mass murder was unleashed by the assassination and gives a sense for us today of the dangerous forces still embedded in the foreign policy establishment of U. S. imperialism, which is why this book is so important.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Zapruder should have put to rest the fact of at least two gunmen which, by definition, proves a conspiracy...but, given Zapruder, the Lone Gunman theory wants us to simply not believe our own eyes...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Oh boy, a "right wing conspiracy" again? This sounds like yet another round of serious smoke-blowing. The Veep did it, and even if he was burning with lust for war, no way in hell can you call that bastard right-wing!
...and Oswald was what he was...probably a shooter...but because of the enigma of his persona...definitely an easy patsy... All warfare is based upon deception...even if the acts are overt... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
That is so true, if you mean the film proves conspiracy/collaboration. The Z. film shows conspiracy but we missed it in plain sight for decades -- well, it was altered they say. There is SO much obviously suspicious about these assassinations. JFK was a moving target 265 feet from Oswald! I have to say it's really strange that Kennedy was so nonchalant. Why didn't he at least get his head down or tell the drive to floor it as soon as his bodyguards shrugged their responsibilities and walked off? He'd ignored warnings. It's almost as if he wanted to die. Maybe he was that sick of trying to juggle mafia, politics, race, his own personality cult, family and fillies.
There was a reason that the protective canopy was removed in Dallas, and there was a reason that LBJ wasn't riding with JFK that day...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
He was wearing a back brace...it held him upright...given that he was an executive target I am sure that was a *known* factor...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
I don't know that a back brace would have stopped him. He's not seen yelling stop to the driver or anything. Completely forgot his fizical problems in my list of his nagging troubles, though.
That reason being it is SS policy to not have the POTUS and VPOTUS next to each other out in the open and had been since FDR? --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Roy Kellerman, an SS Agent on duty in Dallas that day, claims that he heard JFK scream, "My God...I'm hit..." --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
No s***. They've also finally managed to decipher what Jackie's saying in the film through the wonders of 21st-century digital science.
Just curious where everyone was at the time... Was home from 1/2 day Kindergarten...had eaten lunch...egg salad on Town Talk and a glass of milk...I was in parent's bedroom where Mom was putting a sweater on me so I could go out to play when they broke in the Mike Douglas show with: --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
BTW, that *protective* canopy was *protective* against the elements only...it was not bulletproof...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Anything-proof reflects the idea that an object or device is certified by an expert to act or protect against a hazard. In order to provide a minimum degree of rigidity in a large canopy like the one in question, at least 3/8 inch Lexan or Plexiglas would be needed. Much more than that and the canopy is going to become too massive to be practical. That's far less mass than any expert would certify as "bullet proof." Nevertheless, as anyone who has fired various kinds of 30 cal at all sorts of stuff knows, a 1/4 to 3/8 inch plastic is plenty to deflect small arms fire from the intended target. Given the likelihood that an assassin has the opportunity of firing only a small handful of rounds at most, that bubble represents a significant obstacle--one that a pro would have wanted eliminated if at all possible. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
I get yer point...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
I get the sense from the review of this book that this is one of a large library of JFK books written to draw a "breadcrumb trail" leading to the doors of the usual suspects and stops short of fingering the motivating characters and interests behind the president's assassination.
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Now that's a *protective* bubble...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
VietNam brought the game of musical chairs between career military retiring in to the Defense industry to a whole new level... Ike saw it coming...what he left unspoken was being *lied* into a war...a lesson that we still have not learned... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
And JFK was about to bring the contention over the scale and the goals of the Israeli nuclear program to a whole new level as well.
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Let's face it -- he was a part-time big-time hero. His great acts were few, but it's utterly inconceivable for any top politician to even think them today.
That is an interesting characterization. I concur with you entirely. For all his faults, JFK was the last American president to stand up for the people of his nation and his nation alone. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Thanks for your feedback. I relish every morsel. He was the last president to risk his life for our well-being, wasn't he? Which isn't to say this isn't still one damning, JUICY read :-)
Compare:
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
And don't miss the Chimp's admission that comes after that video that bombs were used in the WTC! THEY ADMIT EVERYTHING. Wow, try POLITICIANS ADMIT in youtube, yawl!!
The Chimp vs O'Bummer. "My Muslim faith." . . . "Michael and I..." . . . "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and people and neither do we." "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
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...and there was a reason that LBJ wasn't riding with JFK that day...
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He's not seen yelling stop to the driver or anything.
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it was not bulletproof...
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he was a part-time big-time hero. His great acts were few, but it's utterly inconceivable for any top politician to even think them today.
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