Myths we live by to this hour. JFK was an anti-communist war hawk. Go look at his Senate voting record and his 1960 campaign to raise the military and nuclear arsenal, which he did. He was more hawkish than Ike and Ike was a General in WW 2. In May 1961, JFK authorized sending an additional 500 Special Forces troops and military advisors to assist the pro Western government of South Vietnam. By the end of 1962, there were approximately 11,000 military advisors in South Vietnam; that year, 53 military personnel had been killed.
Kennedy authorized a clandestine invasion of Cuba by a brigade of Cuban exiles. The brigade hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, but the operation collapsed in spectacular failure within 2 days. JFK increased intercontinental ballistic missile forces and added to the Air Force and Reserves and five new army divisions. He caused the Cuban missile crisis. He ordered the Cuban blockade which is an act of war and when Nikita called his bluff he in a secret deal with Nikita agreed not to invade Cuba and also agreed to takeout the intercontinental missiles in Turkey that he placed before the Soviets put their missiles in Cuba. The Soviets got what they wanted. JFK didn’t invade Cuba because he was a dove. if he invaded Cuba with Soviets advisers on the island then that would be an act of war and the Soviets would run over Germany and the NATO firewall would fall and put in jeopardy our military bases in Europe. JFK knew if he invaded Cuba, the Soviets would retaliate in Europe. That’s the reason he had to make a deal with Nikita in secret of taking out the missiles in Turkey and leave Cuba alone. Further he increased military spending compared to IKE. JFK increased American aid and U.S. military advisers to more than 16,000 in Vietnam.
I doubt any President is a white hat. Does not fit the personality profile.
All that you say is true, but the Bay of Pigs invasion was a CIA project, coordinated with VP Nixon, presuming his election. JFK discovered the intent to put Americans on the beach in an invasion, said "no" and sought to get rid of the covert arm of the CIA, fired Allen Dulles, and got assassinated for those efforts, as well as his negotiations with the USSR. JFK did not put nuclear missiles in Turkey. They were there, and redundant, once submarine ICBMs were in play. It had already been considered to get rid of them; some say it was the plan already, so it was an easy deal for JFK to make in one way, but contributed to his assassination as a "traitor" in another way, since the Pentagon saw it that way. JFK did intend to get the US "advisors" out of Vietnam when he was re-elected. This was also known in upper echelons, and was also against MIC plans.
He was habitually unfaithful to his wife, but considered the highest duty of the POTUS to be keeping the country out of war. He was as good of a human "white hat" as we ever got... Feet of clay included.
I got to study the JFK presidency in a college history class. It is the last presidency we got fairly-good records on, except for the last part...
These last few years, it almost does seem like an alternate reality when one spends time with kids (grandkids), dogs, nature, getting hands dirty in the garden etc. Makes it feel like the world is pure and wholesome and good.
"John Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago … I remember the morning clearly,"
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Yep, … I remember it too. Grade 5. Group of us kids, first thing before regular class commenced, we climbed onto classroom’s open window parapet. Talked about it at length.
We Poles were very much interested in American-USSR + Cuba politics at that junction in time. It was a daily topic around dinner tables. JFK’s assassination news was indeed a shock, … I remember it vividly, even for us kids, … just 12 years old each.
What made it - in particular - “very significant times" for us was the fact that we all lived in the city that was very much all port city (Szczecin), … and Americans just sunk one of our newest - locally constructed (1960) - merchant ships on its way to Cuba on the pretence that it was carrying military arms, … where in fact, the ship was simply carrying wheat from Ukraine. Fact!
Anyway, … bit more on all of that: Poland - Cuba relations those historical days were quite engaging. As I remember, literally thousands of Cuban young adults were brought to Poland to attend schools. Technical schools.
For example, my birthplace city was a port/shipyard city, so we had a very large ship building, ship operating/navigating schools. Every day - six day per week - at about 4:30 p.m., as our students were leaving schools, … Cuban students were descending to replace them and education in those schools continued to late, late hours of each night. True…
Similar processes were taking place in other cities. Difference was that other cities were providing education and training in specialties of their very own: … construction of roads, buildings, other infrastructures. Machinery and transportation vehicles. This process continued for view years, …
Aside: Poland was also very much engaged in pretty well identical programs for North Vietnamese young people, … but I digress.
Seems they are preparing for full take over now...
I always wonder whether the JFK assassination or the Biden Scamselection Fraud were the biggest shit going on in USA history...
Personally Operation Paperclip and Klaus Barbi Robert Gehlen & Erich Traub.
And we must not forget Kermit Rosevelt... IRAN.
To the Mars Video... I have the long standing prediction that when we go to Mars and other places we will find remnants of civilization's thousands of years older than us.
Dr. John -https://www.history.com/news/bay-of-pigs-mistakes-cuba-jfk-castro. When the plan, codenamed Operation Zapata, was presented to John F. Kennedy just weeks after he took the oath of office, the newly inaugurated president ultimately gave it his approval. Jim Rasenberger, author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, doesn’t believe that military planners pressured the new president into making a decision against his better judgment. “I think Kennedy knew very well what he was getting into, but he was in a tough place,” he says.
During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy had repeatedly called for American intervention in Cuba. “Incredibly, Kennedy got elected by outflanking Richard Nixon as an anti-communist hawk. He beat up the Eisenhower administration for allowing Castro to come to power and not doing anything about it. So he became president in large part because of his anti-communist rhetoric, and he didn’t want to look like a hypocrite or soft on communism.”
Myths we live by to this hour. JFK was an anti-communist war hawk. Go look at his Senate voting record and his 1960 campaign to raise the military and nuclear arsenal, which he did. He was more hawkish than Ike and Ike was a General in WW 2. In May 1961, JFK authorized sending an additional 500 Special Forces troops and military advisors to assist the pro Western government of South Vietnam. By the end of 1962, there were approximately 11,000 military advisors in South Vietnam; that year, 53 military personnel had been killed.
Kennedy authorized a clandestine invasion of Cuba by a brigade of Cuban exiles. The brigade hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, but the operation collapsed in spectacular failure within 2 days. JFK increased intercontinental ballistic missile forces and added to the Air Force and Reserves and five new army divisions. He caused the Cuban missile crisis. He ordered the Cuban blockade which is an act of war and when Nikita called his bluff he in a secret deal with Nikita agreed not to invade Cuba and also agreed to takeout the intercontinental missiles in Turkey that he placed before the Soviets put their missiles in Cuba. The Soviets got what they wanted. JFK didn’t invade Cuba because he was a dove. if he invaded Cuba with Soviets advisers on the island then that would be an act of war and the Soviets would run over Germany and the NATO firewall would fall and put in jeopardy our military bases in Europe. JFK knew if he invaded Cuba, the Soviets would retaliate in Europe. That’s the reason he had to make a deal with Nikita in secret of taking out the missiles in Turkey and leave Cuba alone. Further he increased military spending compared to IKE. JFK increased American aid and U.S. military advisers to more than 16,000 in Vietnam.
I doubt any President is a white hat. Does not fit the personality profile.
All that you say is true, but the Bay of Pigs invasion was a CIA project, coordinated with VP Nixon, presuming his election. JFK discovered the intent to put Americans on the beach in an invasion, said "no" and sought to get rid of the covert arm of the CIA, fired Allen Dulles, and got assassinated for those efforts, as well as his negotiations with the USSR. JFK did not put nuclear missiles in Turkey. They were there, and redundant, once submarine ICBMs were in play. It had already been considered to get rid of them; some say it was the plan already, so it was an easy deal for JFK to make in one way, but contributed to his assassination as a "traitor" in another way, since the Pentagon saw it that way. JFK did intend to get the US "advisors" out of Vietnam when he was re-elected. This was also known in upper echelons, and was also against MIC plans.
He was habitually unfaithful to his wife, but considered the highest duty of the POTUS to be keeping the country out of war. He was as good of a human "white hat" as we ever got... Feet of clay included.
I got to study the JFK presidency in a college history class. It is the last presidency we got fairly-good records on, except for the last part...
These last few years, it almost does seem like an alternate reality when one spends time with kids (grandkids), dogs, nature, getting hands dirty in the garden etc. Makes it feel like the world is pure and wholesome and good.
"John Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago … I remember the morning clearly,"
————————
Yep, … I remember it too. Grade 5. Group of us kids, first thing before regular class commenced, we climbed onto classroom’s open window parapet. Talked about it at length.
We Poles were very much interested in American-USSR + Cuba politics at that junction in time. It was a daily topic around dinner tables. JFK’s assassination news was indeed a shock, … I remember it vividly, even for us kids, … just 12 years old each.
What made it - in particular - “very significant times" for us was the fact that we all lived in the city that was very much all port city (Szczecin), … and Americans just sunk one of our newest - locally constructed (1960) - merchant ships on its way to Cuba on the pretence that it was carrying military arms, … where in fact, the ship was simply carrying wheat from Ukraine. Fact!
Thanks for that view, FS.
No trouble, Dr. Day, I was just reminiscing.
Anyway, … bit more on all of that: Poland - Cuba relations those historical days were quite engaging. As I remember, literally thousands of Cuban young adults were brought to Poland to attend schools. Technical schools.
For example, my birthplace city was a port/shipyard city, so we had a very large ship building, ship operating/navigating schools. Every day - six day per week - at about 4:30 p.m., as our students were leaving schools, … Cuban students were descending to replace them and education in those schools continued to late, late hours of each night. True…
Similar processes were taking place in other cities. Difference was that other cities were providing education and training in specialties of their very own: … construction of roads, buildings, other infrastructures. Machinery and transportation vehicles. This process continued for view years, …
Aside: Poland was also very much engaged in pretty well identical programs for North Vietnamese young people, … but I digress.
F.S., ( … glancing back into the past)
A Friend just told me Ratio Bradbornius https://startlemag.substack.com/
That they removed the Murals in Denver Airport...
Seems they are preparing for full take over now...
I always wonder whether the JFK assassination or the Biden Scamselection Fraud were the biggest shit going on in USA history...
Personally Operation Paperclip and Klaus Barbi Robert Gehlen & Erich Traub.
And we must not forget Kermit Rosevelt... IRAN.
To the Mars Video... I have the long standing prediction that when we go to Mars and other places we will find remnants of civilization's thousands of years older than us.
And I bet my arse on this.
Love the smile on your faces!!!
Dr. John -https://www.history.com/news/bay-of-pigs-mistakes-cuba-jfk-castro. When the plan, codenamed Operation Zapata, was presented to John F. Kennedy just weeks after he took the oath of office, the newly inaugurated president ultimately gave it his approval. Jim Rasenberger, author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, doesn’t believe that military planners pressured the new president into making a decision against his better judgment. “I think Kennedy knew very well what he was getting into, but he was in a tough place,” he says.
During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy had repeatedly called for American intervention in Cuba. “Incredibly, Kennedy got elected by outflanking Richard Nixon as an anti-communist hawk. He beat up the Eisenhower administration for allowing Castro to come to power and not doing anything about it. So he became president in large part because of his anti-communist rhetoric, and he didn’t want to look like a hypocrite or soft on communism.”
Yeah, it was weird that Kennedy had to try to run to the right of Nixon, but he figured out the Bay of Pigs escalation plot when trap-door opened.
He had to search his soul, and he said "no", which was widely admired by the career-military in the US, just not the Pentagon.
Thank you, Brother John!!!
Thank You for the thoughtful essay again, Sister Tessa.
Hi John.. I am happy you have included the book, LIMITS TO GROWTH.
However late, to american society, the book is considered up there, more useful
than say Darwin's Theory Of Evolution.
I learned about it in high school in Yokohama, Japan, almost 50 years ago. It seemed pretty sensible to me then, and still tracks pretty well.
This: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/was-sam-altman-sacking-openais-board-over-q-star-breakthrough-seen-threat-humanity