President John F. Kennedy
On November 22 1963, an event occurred which would change the course of American history forever. The event was the assassination of a young idealistic President named John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Kennedy was swept up in the events of the 60's. During his 3 years as President of the United States, he worked for peace, equality, and economic prosperity for all
Official history reads that Kennedy was shot by a lone gunmen,
The presidency, assassination, and after math of Kennedy's assassination should be studied and analyzed because this will lead to the answer to the question of why he was killed. The question of why will lead to the answer of who. Other facts like Oswalds previous life, the names of the trigger men, and the minor events of November 22 1963, are only the background for the truth. The why is what needs to be asked. Why was Kennedy sentenced to this public execution, and who benefited the most from it?
In November 1960, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President over Vice President Richard Nixon in one of the closes elections ever. On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation, had this warning.
"Now this conjuncture of an immense military establishment and large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence economic, political, even spiritual is felt in every city, every statehouse, and every office of the federal government. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberty and democratic processes."
Eisenhower's statement about the military industrial complex
When Kennedy was elected president In 1960 this new era in American government had been going on for two decades, ever since World War II. From the beginning Kennedy seemed to be committed to peace and change.
"My presidency will be committed to peace and equality for everyone around the world."
Kennedy was faced with the new war against communism. Southeast Asia was one of the front lines for this secret war. Throughout the fifties the CIA had been raging a secret nonstop deceptive war in Vietnam and Laos. By 1961 American troops were being stationed in South Vietnam. The Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff were looking to turn it into a real war. At the same time the CIA was waging a secret war against Cuba and it's communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Just three months into his presidency, Kennedy was scorned for the disastrous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The assualt on Cuba was planned and executed by the CIA and anti-communist Cuban exiles trained in CIA camps. The invasion was called off because Kennedy refused to provide air support for the invading revolutionaries. Kennedy took public responsibility for the failure, but claimed the CIA lied and tried to Manipulate him. In the wake of this disaster, Allen Dulles who was the CIA Director and many top level CIA staff officials were fired by Kennedy. The President vowed that he was going to split the CIA into a 1000 pieces. This was the first offensive step to do so. It is important to establish the fact that some very powerful and elite people were not happy with their President and his actions for peace.
Along with these firings came National Security Action Memo #55 which was another blow to the CIA. This memo, written by Kennedy, limited the clandestine activities of the CIA . Clandestine activities include the rigging elections, assassinations, instigating rebellions and coups around the world. Kennedy wanted to end this secret war.
As time went on he seemed to be true to his word of peace. At the United Nations he made a proposition to Soviets. Kennedy would call off the moon race for a cooperative space program so the world could reach the moon as one. In July 1963, just three months before his death, Kennedy outlined his vision for a new peaceful world in a speech at American University in Washington.
"What kind of peace do I mean, and what kind of peace do we seek. Not a pax americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. We must reexamine our attitudes toward the Soviet Union, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal."
He truly wanted to change the world for the better. He wanted to make a difference. These simple statements made many cold war veterans look at him as a communist and dangerous to America's place in the world order. Now, he was truly the enemy of the military industrial complex.
On October 2nd, 1963, seven weeks before the assassination, Kennedy issued National Security Action Memo #263. This policy effectively ended American military involvement in Southeast Asia. This document stated that all American military forces were to be out of Vietnam by the end of 1965. The first 1000 would be home by Christmas 1963. This policy was never enacted because of the events of November 22.
After the assassination on November 22, 1963, Vice President, Lydon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the new President of the United States of America. On November 26, 1963, four days after the assassination, President Johnson issued National Security Action Memo #273 which was the first step in reversing Kennedy's earlier policy. It reaffirmed the United States's commitment to defeating the Vietcong. In March of 1964 National Security Action Memo #288 successfully reversed everything the Kennedy plan stood for. In that document lay the beginning of the of the Vietnam War. American troops were shipped to Southeast Asia by the thousands to fight and to die, because of this document. As stated before, the murder of President Kennedy was not just the death of a young idealistic President, but also the death of tens of thousands of American soldiers who would later die in the Vietnam War.
"The organizing principal of any society is for the possibility of war. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in it's war powers."
By Saturday November 23, The Dallas Police apprehended the man suspected of assassinating the President and killing a police officer.
"I am just a patsy!"
The next day on November 24, Oswald was being transported from the Dallas police station through a basement parking garage. With the world watching on TV, a man walked up, yelled "Oswald", stuck a revolver in Oswald's chest, and pulled the trigger. Oswald fell to the ground dead as the police wrestled a man by the name of Jack Ruby to the ground. He claimed that he was a patriot who wanted to spare Jackie Kennedy from having to go through a traumatic trial.
One week after the assassination, on November 29 the new President Lydon Johnson formed a commission to probe the assassination of Kennedy. It became known as the Warren Commission, named after Chief Justice Earl Warren. Allen Dulles, the former CIA director, that Kennedy fired was named to the commission. Other members of the commission included General Norstad, Gerald Ford (later to become President), and three other congressmen. Why would Johnson name Allen Dulles to the commission, the man Kennedy had fired.
After reviewing the evidence and interviewing many witnesses the commission released it's findings. They said Lee Harvy Oswald killed Kennedy with three shots fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
There are many different problems with the Warren Commissions official findings. The main one and most crucial is the 3 bullet theory. There are two shots accounted for. One which completely missed it's target and hit the pavement, leaving a sizeable crack in the concrete. A fragment from this bullet hit a bystander who was standing by the triple underpass. He is clearly seen in news footage with blood dripping off his cheek. The second shot is the final fatal head shot that blew off the back of the President's head. This leaves one bullet to account for seven wounds in both the President and Governor Connally. The path of this bullet proposed by the Warren Commission is so crazy and weird that it became known as the magic bullet theory.
This bullet according to the Warren commission first hit Kennedy in the back ricochet off a bone and exited Kennedy's throat. However, according to the autopsy doctors, they never found a bullet track from the back to the throat. Despite the evidence the Warren report said the bullet then entered Governor Connally's body near his armpit, and continued in a 25 degree angle through the Governors chest shattering a rib. The bullet then exited the governors chest from the front, and headed downward and struck Connally's right wrist, shatering it. Yet he is seen still griping his white Stetson hat when this supposely happened. The bullet wasn't seen until it turned up in a stretcher at Parkland Hospital. The odd thing about this bullet is that it was in almost perfect condition. This new looking bullet made seven wounds in two people, and shattered two bones. How?
This is probably the single most important piece of evidence for a conspiracy. If you conclude that the magic bullet theory is false, which it is, then you must conclude that there were more than three shots. If there were more than three shots, then there was a second gunman because Oswald only had time for three shots. If you conclude that there was a second gun then, by definition, there was a conspiracy. With the sloppy investigation, the handling of Oswald, the botched autopsy, and the Warren Commission acceptance of the magic bullet theory, it is not hard to conclude that there was a cover up. If there was a cover up then the government was involved.
Also, in recent years many witness's and people connected with the assassination were found dead of so called natural causes. For example, Lee Bowers, a railroad employee, saw two men behind a stockade fence, saw smoke and a commotion when shots were heard. Bowers testified to this before the Warren Commission. Two years after the assassination he was found dead in a freak one car accident.
A women who worked for Jack Ruby, who claimed Ruby had known Oswald before the assassination, was found dead in a hit and run accident. Even the death of Jack Ruby was mysterious. Ruby claimed he knew more but would not tell unless he was taken to Washington D.C. This request was denied and soon after he died of cancer. Without a documented interview, this information died with Ruby.
Also, David Ferrie and Clay Shaw, who were both key players in the Jim Garrison case, died. Ferrie apparently committed suicide from a drug overdose. What is strange about that is that he was working adamantly to find a cure for the cancer that he had. He was conducting experiments with lab rats in his apartment. Why would a man trying to find a cure for cancer to save his life suddenly decide to commit suicide?
Clay Shaw, the man on trial by Garrison, also died of cancer in 1974. NO autopsy was allowed. It should be noted that Garrison's case hinged on the fact that Shaw had worked for the CIA. Shaw adamantly denied this and it was considered crazy by the public. In 1979, Richard Helms, Director of Covert Operations in 1963, admitted under oath that Clay Shaw had indeed worked for the CIA.
It should also be noted that under Texas law there is suppose to be a trial convened in the murder of John F Kennedy, Oswald or no Oswald. Also, under Texas law there is suppose be an autopsy in Texas. Instead the military illegally moved the body to Washington's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was performed by military doctors, who had little experience with autopsies and pathology.
For some people it's hard to accept that the government could murder it's own Commander and Chief. A recent story broke in the news about healthy black soldiers in World War II who were intentionally infected with syphilis by the military to study the long term effects of the disease. If a military or government could infect their own soldiers and citizens with syphilis, why wouldn't they find a reason to kill their own President to stop his actions promoting peace. Kennedy was committed to change which made him dangerous to men committed to war. After Kennedy's death the real Vietnam War began. On the home front, youth rebelled against the Vietnam War and society in general. They had lost faith since Kennedy's death.
In later years other men committed to change would be gunned down. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader, was gunned down in Memphis in 1968, from a nearby building by a lone drifter named James Earl Ray. In 1969 Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a lone Iranian gunman in a hotel kitchen, just after winning the crucial California Primary in his bid for the presidency. It's the same scenario that was forced on President Kennedy's assassination, the lone nut theory.
After Robert Kennedy's assassination, America became a different place. People felt powerless. The bad guys had won and the good guys had lost. The people did not control their government anymore. The United States was no longer a government of the people by the people and for the people. A coups d'etat occurred.The likes of which we are still feeling the effects of today.
If President Kennedy had not been assassinated, this country would be a very different place, a better place. If he was not killed, there would have never been a Vietnam War. There would have never been 25 more years of nuclear hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. We would have never spent the billions of dollars of taxpayer money on programs such as Star Wars and the stealth fighter. These weapons of destruction would not have served a purpose in the Kennedy world. The money would have been used on social programs which would have helped the people and furthered the nation as a whole. People would not hate their government, they would trust it. This nation would be a very different place. A better place, even today. The death of Kennedy was probably the single most tragic event in the history of our nation. President Kennedy's assassination was not mirely the death of a great president but rather the death of tens of thousands of American soldiers that died in Vietnam. If Kennedy had lived those 80,000 names on that wall would not be there.
In 1979 a House Select committee on assassinations concluded that President Kennedy and Martin Luther King were probably the victims of conspiracies. The files and evidence from that committee are sealed until the year 2039 .
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