End of JFK's last speech, which he never got to deliver.

[MoonRiver]

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[Tomconroy]

1. He had a way with words.

[Bev54]

2. Please, someone send a copy to Manchin and Sinema n/t

[KS Toronado]

7. My thoughts exactly.

[bluestarone]

19. My first thoughts as well!

This has to hit them in their hearts. (If they have one)

[Chalco]

3. Miss him every day. nt

[hadEnuf]

4. But the fanatics had a different take on that idea.

And we are still fighting those fanatics today.

Bastards.

[Escurumbele]

6. I think he points out the danger of fanatics, a warning that applies to then, now, and the future.

Maybe I don't understand your statement.

[hadEnuf]

8. I changed my post to "the fanatics HAD a different idea".

JFK was killed by fanatics of some sort, even on the day he was saying we should resist fanaticism.

We are still fighting those same type fanatics today.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

13. +1... Bingo...

... that is exactly what I was going to point out; they got him because of that and the Dulles brothers.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yep, exactly what happened.

[DickKessler]

24. He was killed by one fanatic, a Communist wannabe asshole.

[hadEnuf]

27. Yes, that's what the Warren report says.

[DickKessler]

32. And it's true.

[hadEnuf]

33. And of course several other official reports say there was much more to it

than what the Warren Commission said.

[DickKessler]

34. By several you mean the one (HSCA) that was based on erroneous reading of evidence?

[hadEnuf]

35. Erroneous reading of evidence like the magic bullet theory?

Where did something erroneous like that occur in the HSCA?

[DickKessler]

36. You don't understand that "magic bullet" theory.

[hadEnuf]

37. But I think I understand you.

[DickKessler]

38. Occam's Razor re: the JFK assassination and other events.

[CloudWatcher]

5. source

And for those (like me) who never trust anything read on the internet without sources ... this was in a tweet from Michael Beschloss, Nov 7, 2013:

Link to tweet

And reported on by Huffpost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jfk-assassination_n_4233535

[EarnestPutz]

10. Kennedy's "New Frontier" was received by most people as an program of....

....big ideas that held a promise for a new and better future. It harked back to FDR’s “New Deal” and we were a lot less cynical back then.

[calimary]

21. We sure were a lot less cynical back then.

I think the JFK assassination was a BIG jolt. That may have been the beginning of the end of the idealism that America used to be about.

[EarnestPutz]

23. Yes, I had the same thought. Folks have said it marked a loss of innocence, but.....

.....more than that, I think, a loss of pride, hope, ambition and care that really got going when Reagan preached his gospel of selfishness.

[MasonDreams]

12. Wow, "our hopes for the future--and determined that this land we love shall lead mankind

Into new frontiers of peace and abundance".The very heart ❤️ of why those treasonous Govt goons murdered him. No Cuba coup, no Viet Nam war We are going to the MOON AND BEYOND!!! In service of all mankind.
This land we love is your land, this land is my land. Paranoid psychos took our President with the ☮️ Peace Corp, and a 🌟 Star Trekesque future. If we don't stop them they'll turn our whole planet into a burning hell. Oops, too late!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

14. +1...

...eom.

PS: See my post above.

[Justice matters.]

22. Nice, but let's not forget 'our' land was in fact stolen from the Native Americans

And most of the times, violently.

[Paladin]

9. I had schoolmates whose parents were going to attend that banquet.

The invitations became precious family heirlooms. Still hurts, after all these years.

[Pepsidog]

11. Kind of says it all.

[burrowowl]

16. Yup!

[Hamlette]

17. love this, thanks for posting.

[MoonRiver]

18. UR Welcome

[calimary]

20. Saving this quote.

I can use it in our Call to Action email, one of these weekends. Maybe I'll save it for "that" week coming up in November.

[DickKessler]

25. I have complicated feelings about JFK.

On the one hand, I have to hand it to him for inspiring so much public service and progressive politics, for his soaring and inspiring oratory, and for speaking out on civil rights and heading towards detente with the Soviets toward the end of his life/Presidency.

On the other hand, the guy was a pathological womanizer, a trust-funder, and hid all his sexual affairs and serious health problems from the public. Plus, he did escalate the Cold War initially with the operations against Castro (Mongoose) which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in the first place, as well as escalating in Vietnam even though it doesn’t seem like Kennedy would have wanted something like what LBJ did (but then again, neither did LBJ — but politically he felt as if he had no other choice).

A complicated and tragic figure, for sure.

[Mike Nelson]

26. Hmm...

... Biden should say this... it's not really "stealing," since JFK and most politicians took lines from others and had speechwriters.

[dlk]

28. Sadly, this was his undoing

It’s frightening to think how widespread & deeply entrenched American fascism truly is. Although it now has a much larger microphone than in the past and we are seeing it much more clearly, it has always been a part of the fabric of our country.

[DickKessler]

29. Oswald was a wannabe Communist revolutionary, not a fascist.

[dlk]

30. I think he probably had help

[DickKessler]

31. In the absence of any real evidence though, I doubt it.

In any event, I would recommend the book "Dallas 1963" by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. There was so how much vocal hate in Dallas for JFK, and for liberals in general. Most especially among the Far-Right, of course. They thought LBJ was a traitor to the state for being part of the Kennedy administration.

That doesn't mean that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a deranged wannabe Communist revolutionary and that he didn't act alone in killing President Kennedy. But it does put the context of JFK's fateful visit in a sobering light, and explains why so many people warned him not to go to Dallas specifically and why a lot of people think a domestic right-wing conspiracy was behind his assassination. Outside of Orange County, California, Dallas was the Bircher capital of the nation at that time. Lots of "crazies" there!