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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Bill Kelly introduced new evidence - adding Air Force One tape recordings [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)Guy has a record as a disaffected shmo. Guy goes to work with a package. President shot outside place he works. Guy runs and is arrested at the movies with a gun. Guy says he's a patsy to reporters and asks to speak to a lawyer specializing in defending those in political conspiracies. Guy tries to make a phone call from jail to a US Army intelligence big wig in North Carolina. Guy gets shot dead in police custody. J Edgar Hoover tells new President about a "little incident" in Mexico City involving someone impersonating the guy.
A great chunk of the rest of the evidence shows the guy couldn't have done what he is accused of doing.
Who laid down the evidence, and why, are other matters. Personally, it looks like figures in the national security establishment. My reasons: JFK said "No" to them every time they wanted war.
JFK stood up to the War Party at least four times...
Even though they knew their invasion plans were compromised, the CIA and Pentagon tried to force Kennedy to make war over the Bay of Pigs.
While an attack on Soviet missile bases in Cuba and on ships at sea would escalate to nuclear war, the Pentagon and most of the Cabinet tried to force Kennedy to make war, nuclear if necessary -- the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Pentagon and the Hawks in Congress and his Cabinet recommended war in Vietnam and southeast Asia to stop the spread of Communism, Kennedy sent volunteers -- which he ordered out by the end of 1964 -- but said he would never commit U.S. draftees to fight in another country's civil war, Vietnam.
DUers -- especially Democrats -- should read for themselves what JFK faced from the Joint Chiefs and the Big Money, uh, supporters of the Military Industrial Complex when he proposed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. It's almost unbelievable, until one remembers the rest of the story.
Most troublesome to me, seeing how the Hawks lied America into invading Iraq twice in the last 22 years, DCI Allen Dulles and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Lyman Lemnitzer counseled Kennedy to order an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in Fall of 1963 -- the optimal time for a successful pre-emptive war.
PS: Thank you very much for the heads-up on Jerry Kroth. I have not read his work, but will check him and the video out more this weekend.