In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to the material interests of lobby groups. I don’t know if the program still exists. If it does, the idealism that was its purpose is long gone.
President John F. Kennedy was a classy president. In my lifetime there has not been another like him. Indeed, today he would be impossible.
Conservatives and Republicans did not like him because he was thoughtful. Their favorite weapon against him was their account of his love life, which according to them involved Mafia molls and Marilyn Monroe. They must have worked themselves into fits of envy over Marilyn Monroe, the hottest woman of her time.
Unlike most presidents, Kennedy was able to break with the conventional thinking of the time. From his experience with the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Joint Chiefs’ “Operaton Northwoods,” Kennedy concluded that CIA Director Allen Dulles and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Lemnitzer were both crazed by anti-communism and were a danger to Americans and the world.
Kennedy removed Dulles as CIA director, and he removed Lemnitzer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, thus setting in motion his own assassination. The CIA, the Joint Chiefs, and the Secret Service concluded that JFK was “soft on communism.” So did the Bill Buckley conservatives.
JFK was assassinated because of anti-communist hysteria in the military and security agencies. The Warren Commission was well aware of this. The cover-up was necessary because America was locked into a Cold War with the Soviet Union. To put US military, CIA, and Secret Service personnel on trial for murdering the President of the United States would have shaken the confidence of the American people in their own government.
Oswald had nothing whatsoever to do with JFK’s assassination. That is why Oswald was himself assassinated inside the Dallas jail before he could be questioned.
For those of you too young to have experienced John Kennedy and those of you who have forgot his greatness, do yourselves a favor and listen to this 5 minute, 23 second speech. Try to imagine anyone among the current dolts giving a speech like this. Look how much is said so well in less than 5 and one-half minutes.
Kennedy intended to pull the US out of Vietnam once he was reelected. He intended to break up the CIA “into one thousand pieces” and curtail the military-security complex that was exploiting the US budget.
And that is why he was murdered. The evil that resides in Washington does not only kill foreign leaders who try to do the right thing, but also its own.
Copyright © 2016 Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
Proof of the involvement of the highest levels of the MIC in the assassination of President Kennedy are the several professional press photos showing “policemen” escorting three “tramps” that had been “captured” in the railroad yard behind the grassy knoll. One of the tramps was Howard Hunt, once the CIA station chief for the Caribbean, an organizer of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and one of the “plumbers” of Watergate fame. Another was Charles Harrelson, a Texas Mafia gunman who died in a federal prison a few years ago serving a life sentence for the paid assassination of a Federal judge. Significantly, one of the photos shows Gen. Edward Lansdale passing by the procession, the father of American Special Forces and the CIA man who was largely responsible for “regime change” in the Philippines in 1957. They were marched to the Sheriff’s office and never heard of again. Go to YouTube and search “Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza” to hear Col. Fletcher Prouty, former coordinator for Air Force support to the CIA, interpret the the photos and events.
The empire continues and utilises those who can do the best job at that time. In the 60s a Bush would’ve not made it, not dealt with the zeitgeist. An Empire puts up those who best help the continuation of power. Kennedy was put forward as a person best able to address the thinking mass at that time. It got out of hand, and so he was removed. Our time can be seen as a polar opposite to what existed then.
We must never over look the historical fact, “money is the root of all evil.” The press nor Washington ever get around to discussing why Kennedy was visiting State Governors and Mayors of our nations largest cities. On Kennedy’s desk was and executive order to abolish the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation and replace it with a lawful bank that issues lawful constitutional coins and currency backed by substance such as silver. This would not only drive England off of our shores once again, it would deprive the military industrial complex of a endless supply of paper money to finance wars around the world which of course they and the World Bank in England would benefit greatly. Kennedy and Jackson in my opinion were our nations greatest presidents, not because of their personal lives but their leadership as president. Jackson on his death bed wanted to be remembered as the president who stopped the bank. Kennedy would have been the president remembered for driving the world bank back across the Atlantic to England where it belongs.
THe Vietnam war had a major negative influence on our culture. The cold war was real. We did not have a wining plan for the war. I blame Robert McNamara for this.