[Peace-discuss] JFK murder---41st anniversary

[ndahlhei at uiuc.edu]

AWARE,
      Yesterday was November 22, 2004.  This date marked the 
41st anniversary of the murder of President Kennedy at 
Dealey Plaza in Dallas.  His assassination remains perhaps 
the greatest officially unsolved political crime of the 20th 
century.  Researchers such as UC-Berkely professor Peter 
Dale Scott and historian Dr. John Newman have demonstrated 
plausible links between the murder of JFK and elements of 
the CIA, Joint Chiefs, and the military-industrial complex 
who remained embittered over Kennedy’s independence and 
willingness to oppose their bureaucratic machinations.  From 
Cuba to Vietnam, President Kennedy didn’t play ball with key 
elements of the military and intelligence elite.  The murder 
of JFK meant that the last stronghold within the executive 
branch opposing a military solution to the Vietnam civil war 
had died, and that rapid escalation followed leading to 
58,000 U.S. casualties, 2-3 million Vietnamese deaths, and 
countless other Laotian and Cambodian casualties.  LBJ, a 
notorious deal-broker and schemer, signed onto NSAM 273 
authorizing the rapid buildup.  LBJ’s government, an 
illegitimate coup, used the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident as 
the lie upon which they hoodwinked this country into full-
blown military involvement in Vietnam as opposed to the 
previous 8 years where the U.S. had only given logistical 
support.  Clearly, JFK’s murder marked a turning point in 
American history and gave us that social and political 
disaster known as Vietnam.  As dutiful citizens, we should 
still press our government to give us information regarding 
the truth of the murder of JFK and the buildup to Vietnam.