JFK at 100

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

This Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2017, is the 100th birthday of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.

JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, as he approached the end of his third year in office. Researchers who spent years studying the evidence have concluded that President Kennedy was assassinated by a conspiracy between the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service. (See, for example, JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglass)

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Kennedy entered office as a cold warrior, but he learned from his interaction with the CIA and Joint Chiefs that the military/security complex had an agenda that was self-interested and a danger to humanity. He began working to defuse tensions with the Soviet Union. His rejections of plans to invade Cuba, of the Northwoods project, of a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and his intention to withdraw from Vietnam after his reelection, together with some of his speeches signaling a new approach to foreign policy in the nuclear age (see for example, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BWC7I4C9QUmLG9J6I8oy8w.aspx ), convinced the military/security complex that he was a threat to their interests. Cold War conservatives regarded him as naive about the Soviet Threat and a liability to US national security. These were the reasons for his assassination. These views were set in stone when Kennedy announced on June 10, 1963, negotiations with the Soviets toward a nuclear test ban treaty and a halt to US atmospheric nuclear tests.

The Oswald coverup story never made any sense and was contradicted by all evidence including tourist films of the assassination. President Johnson had ro cover up the assassination, not because he was part of it or because he willfully wanted to deceive the American people, but because to give Americans the true story would have shaken their confidence in their government at a critical time in US-Soviet relations. To make the coverup succeed, Johnson needed the credibility of the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Earl Warren, to chair the commission that covered up the assassination. Warren understood the devastating impact the true story would have on the public and their confidence in the military and national security leadership and on America’s allies.

As I previously reported, Lance deHaven-Smith in his book, Conspiracy Theory in America, shows that the CIA introduced “conspiracy theory” into the political lexicon as a technique to discredit skepticism of the Warren Commission’s coverup report. He provides the CIA document that describes how the agency used its media friends to control the explanation.

The term “conspiracy theory” has been used ever since to validate false explanations by discrediting true explanations.

President Kennedy was also determined to require the Israel Lobby to register as a foreign agent and to block Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. His assassination removed the constraints on Israel’s illegal activities. http://www.voltairenet.org/article178401.html

Memorial Day is when Americans honor those in the armed services who died serving the country. JFK fell while serving the causes of peace and nuclear disarmament. In a 1961 address to the United Nations, President Kennedy said:

“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. It is therefore our intention to challenge the Soviet Union, not to an arms race, but to a peace race – to advance together step by step, stage by stage, until general and complete disarmament has been achieved.”

Kennedy’s address was well received at home and abroad and received a favorable and supportive response from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, but it caused consternation among the warhawks in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The US led in terms of the number of nuclear warheads and delivery systems, and this lead was the basis for US military plans for a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. http://prospect.org/article/did-us-military-plan-nuclear-first-strike-1963 Also, Many believed that nuclear disarmament would remove the obstacle to the Soviet Army overrunning Western Europe. Warhawks considered this a greater threat than nuclear armageddon. Many in high military circles regarded President Kennedy as weakening the US viv-a-vis the Soviet Union.

The assassination of President Kennedy was an enormous cost to the world. Kennedy and Khrushchev would have followed up their collaboration in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis by ending the Cold War long before the military/security complex achieved its iron grip on the US government. Israel would have been denied nuclear weapons, and the designation of the Israel Lobby as a foreign agent would have prevented Israel’s strong grip on the US government. In his second term, JFK would have broken the CIA into a thousand pieces, an intention he expressed to his brother, Robert, and the Deep State would have been terminated before it became more powerful than the President.

But the military/security complex struck first, and pulled off a coup that voided all these promises and terminated American democracy.

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Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

And that’s how we got to where we are today.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I wish the actual and whole truth about the Kennedy assassination were known.

Theories abound, some conflicting with each other, but no definitive proof that would likely be found in all the classified information about it. The only thing I’m convinced of it that the official story omits much of what took place at the very best and more probably covers up a lot of what really happened to make it a lie by omission.

But in truth, I doubt it (the whole truth) will ever be made known to the people.

Barney
Barney

No smoking gun necessary but inside job is all I need.
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known”
-Luke 12:2

parsonanonemouse
parsonanonemouse

Happy
Birthday
Mr president

Dutchman
Dutchman

I think Johnson had something to do with it.

Flashman

Yeah. I thought he let Johnson off the hook. I was 13 when JFK was murdered and you’ll never convince me LBJ wasn’t a key player in setting it up. He was a meglomaniacal sociopath who felt Kennedy stole the Dem. nomination from him in 1960. Like the Clintons, he was surrounded by dead bodies, one of them his own sister. He enjoyed humiliating his subordinates by making them conduct daily affairs with him while taking a shit. Johnson was a monster.

fear & loathing

who had most to gain? who grew wealthier along with oil king pins? who hated rfk/jfk? who was a scum bag of the highest order? who needed vietnam to fill the coffers? who took FDR’s mew deal to the next level? who thought guns and butter was benefited anyone other than world bank, soon to be his defense sec domain? who had a ladybird and a lindabird?

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

“…devastating impact the true story would have on the public and their confidence in the military and national security leadership and on America’s allies.”

Absolute BS, BS, BS

TPTB used a similar reasoning for not sending: Banksters to jail for the Great Recession, and Banksters to jail for money laundering with Drug Cartels.

Citizens of the world would have clapped their hands raw if Banksters were rounded up and put behind bars.

Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren

Let us not forget the initiation of silver backed currency (issued by the treasury department) to compete with the federal reserve note. You are allowed to object to all the peripheral issues, but don’t mess with the bankers and their hired guns (MIC)

One thing that always killed me about the cold war and communist expansion (and it kind of applies today to the alleged Muslim threat) is that if the so called conservatives really believed in the truth of their free market approach, communism really did not need an external deterrent. It’s very nature (i.e. coercive and inefficient economics) would ensure its doom. And any expansion it undertook would simply hasten this inevitable demise (as it would add overhead). Why risk nuclear war to prevent something that is bound to implode by its very nature? This shows me two things: the conservatives are fully of shit (i.e. they don’t believe in the free market) & the cold war was more about a self perpetuating bureaucracy — rather than an ideological struggle.

Crimson Avenger

Interesting to note that the rest of the JFK files will be released this October unless Trump intervenes. What he decides will tell us a lot about him.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/27/will-trump-release-the-missing-jfk-files-215079

rhs jr
rhs jr

After JFK, MLK, and Waco, the public would not calmly accept any murder of another President, Republican or Democrat.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Half the population would joyously accept the assassination of Trump with many of them currently calling for it.

Aquapura
Aquapura

Kennedy was before my time but being a student of history his story fascinates me. Overall what I’ve learned about the man I’d probably say he was the last good man with a “D or R” next to his name to sit in the Oval Office. I’m sure there are parts (or all) of the official narrative that are false. Growing up my father always said that LBJ was behind it. He did have the most to gain on paper. That being said, going back a little bit more I think there was corruption used just to get JFK to the White House in the first place. Should Nixon have won in ’60 would history have been any different? And also there was no guarantee JFK would’ve won in ’64. Sure he was popular at the time but there was another year to hold that. No telling what the propaganda machine could’ve done to him in that time. We are also speculating a lot of what he would’ve done had he lived. I think Kennedy does get some benefit of doubt due to the fact that he was assassinated AND those that have come after him have been worse to terrible. Still makes for great discussion of what could’ve been had Kennedy been around for 2 full terms. He surely didn’t deserve the fate he received.

fear & loathing

aqua, i was around in those days and not big fan of jfk, yet his stance on the fed gets my admiration. you are correct in my view that getting shot raised his standing in history, yet his old man spent a wad insuring his election, along with lots of tricks. corruption is not new, old joe head of SEC before going to london also shorted the Dow in 29. classic bootlegger turned respected member of society. much of what we read on burning platform is a review of history with clear eyes, not the veil of history i learned in my youth. a southerner required to memorize the gettysburg address, give me a break. the guy honest abe anything but. his job was to get the railroad west and all the gains that paid his benefactors. celebrated for killing far more than 600.ooo souls, my greatgrandmother dispised sherman with her dying breath, in the way of his march to the sea. all the ills of this country come from the northeast, always have.

Scott
Scott

That tragic event 11/22 changed America forever and the hope of the American dream. How different and better we all would be had him and his brother not been murdered. Vietnam would have never happened, all our proxy wars around the globe, the bankers powers would have been put in check. Such a goddamn tragedy for all of us.

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