Dear bill
I follow your blog and enjoy it very much. Like
you I was young when the president was killed and it has never left
me. For all these years I’ve waited for someone to rise up and seek
justice in this case, which you also call for.
We want them to recognize what is patently obvious to people
like us, that JFK was assassinated by a conspiracy involving high levels of the
government. But that’s not ever going to happen, and here is why
I’ve come to believe this.
First, you have to go back and remember what it was like in
the early 60’s. We were in a cold war with the communists that began on
the heels of the Second World War.
There is a scene in the movie “Patton” where, after the
German surrender, General Patton suggests to Beetle Smith that he could start a
fight with the Russians while we still had the army on hand to do it. “In
ten days I'll have a war on with those communist bastards, and I'll make it
look like THEIR fault.” The movie makes it seem like Patton was the crazy
exception, but it was really the other way around. The desire to fight the
communists was pervasive amongst many in the top command.
After Hiroshima
and Nagasaki , the American military
began developing detailed plans to annihilate the Soviet Union . In
fact, just 6 weeks after the Japanese surrender, unbeknownst to the American
public, the military was targeting Russia
city by city. The military believed that we were going to have to fight
them eventually, so we may as well do it while we have the
advantage. Anyone who didn’t agree with them was either a communist
sympathizer or a coward.
During the Korean War, MacArthur urged Truman to use atomic
weapons against the North, and China
too if necessary. In the early 50’s the military wanted Eisenhower
to launch a preemptive war against the Soviet Union . Throughout
that decade, SAC flew spy overflights of Russia
on a regular basis, and its commander actually hoped to provoke a war. Imagine
how we would have responded if they were flying over the United
States . When Eisenhower kept them in
check, they accused their former commander of going ‘soft.’
So in 1960, along comes JFK, who they thought they could
push around. They advised him to invade Cuba ,
send troops to Laos
and Vietnam ,
and confront the Soviets in Berlin . They
recommended using nuclear weapons at nearly every turn. In the midst
of the Berlin Crisis, the military’s ‘Net Evaluation Subcommittee’ met with the
President to let him know that there was a window of opportunity where they could
launch a preemptive attack on the Soviet Union and
win. Since that window would begin to close by 1964, their
recommendation was to launch “a surprise attack in late 1963, preceded by a
period of heightened tensions.” Kennedy left the meeting disgustedly
commenting, “…and we call ourselves the human race.”
Whenever JFK didn’t go along with their plans, he was
accused of appeasement. Kennedy was particularly keen to appeasement
accusations, because his father, when US
Ambassador to Great Brittan, was a supporter of Neville Chamberlin’s
appeasement policy towards Germany . Joseph
P Kennedy was dismissed because of it. After the failed Bay of Pigs
invasion, Curtis LeMay told a Washington reporter
‘off-the-record’ that Kennedy’ s actions during the crisis were
cowardly and suggested to his staff that he should be removed from office.The
appeasement rhetoric amongst our generals in Germany came loudly when Kennedy
did not go in and demolish the Berlin Wall. So much so that Berlin
University students sent the
President a large black umbrella, the trademark symbol of Neville Chamberlin,
the founding father of appeasement.
But the real problem came with the Cuban Missile
Crisis. The military thought they had him this time; to them there was no
choice but to invade Cuba
and take the Soviet Missiles out. When Kennedy was considering the
alternate plan of a blockade, LeMay tried to get his
goat: “This blockade and political action I see leading us straight to
war. I don’t see any other solution for it. It will lead right
into war. This is almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich .”
At the time, the official version of the settlement was that
the Soviets agreed to take out the missiles in exchange for a no-invasion
pledge from JFK, but it wasn’t until years later that we were told that Kennedy
had secretly agreed to take out our Jupiter missiles in Turkey
in exchange. Kennedy knew that these missiles were junk, and he had tried
to get them out before this crisis. However, the military was incensed
that he did not order an invasion of Cuba ,
the communist malignancy in the western hemisphere. LeMay
exploded, “This is the worst defeat in our history!” And they soon
became aware of the secret deal which to them this was treason. To their
point of view JFK had caved in to what they saw as a Russian ultimatum to
remove our missiles under nuclear threat.
This is why, I believe, Kennedy was assassinated, they shot
him for what they perceived as treason. And by blaming his murder on a
pro-Castro communist, they might finally get to invade Cuba
and possibly start a war with the Russians. It was late 1963 and blaming a
communist would give them the ‘period of heightened tensions’ they needed.
They did leave a cryptic fingerprint in Dealey
Plaza . As the President’s
motorcade proceeded down Elm Street there was a ‘Dark Complected Man’ on the
curb with his arm high in the air, standing next to a man holding an open large
black umbrella on a perfectly sunny day. Many researchers say that the man
waving was an anti-Castro Cuban who JFK would recognize, and he certainly
recognized the symbol of the umbrella. So one of the last things
John Kennedy saw before he was shot was the message “Appeasement-Cuba.”
This is why the government is never going to seek justice in
this case. They believe that they carried out justice in executing a
‘traitor.’ And they will spout the Lee-Harvey-Oswald-three-shots-from-behind fiction
until everyone who was alive on November 22, 1963 is gone. After that, the
Warren Commission report will be the undisputed story, and anybody who ever
believed otherwise were the lunatic fringe.
Yours truly
Jim Magee (a Philly boy)
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