In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass has distilled all thebest available research into a very well-documented andconvincing portrait of President Kennedy's transformingturn to peace, at the cost of his life. Personally, it has made avery big impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was movedfor the first time to visit Dealey Plaza. I urge all American toread this book and come to their own conclusions about why hedied and whyafter fifty yearsit still maters.

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
Review of James Douglass' Book by Prof. Edward Curtin

This "unspeakable," this hypnotic "collectivedenial of the obvious," is sustained by a mass-media whoserepeated message is that the truth about such significant eventsis beyond our grasp, that we will have to drink the waters of uncertainty forever. As for those who don't, they arerelegated to the status of conspiracy nuts.
Fear and uncertainty block a true appraisal of theassassinationthat plus the thought that it no longermatters.
It matters. For we know that no president since JFK has dared tobuck the military-intelligence-industrial complex. We know a PaxAmericana has spread its tentacles across the globe with U.S. military in over 130 countries on 750 plus bases. We know that the amount of blood and money spent on wars and war preparationshas risen astronomically.
There is a great deal we knowand even more that we don't want to know, or at the very least, investigate.

Because John Kennedy chose peace on earth at the height of theCold War, he was executed. But because he turned toward peace, inspite of the consequences to himself, humanity is still alive andstruggling. That is hopeful. Especially if we understand what hewent through and what he has given to us as his vision.
At a certain point in his presidency, John Kennedy turned acorner and he didn't look back. I believe that decisiveturn toward his final purpose in life, resulting in his death,happened in the darkness of the Cuban Missile Crisis. AlthoughKennedy was already in conflict with his national securitymanagers, the missile crisis was the breaking point.
At that most critical moment for us all, he turned from anyremaining control that his security managers had over him towarda deeper ethic, a deeper vision in which the fate of the earthbecame his priority. Without losing sight of our own best hopesin this country, he began to home in, with his new partner,Nikita Khrushchev, on the hope of peace for everyone on thisearthRussians, Americans, Cubans, Vietnamese, Indonesians,everyone on this earthno exceptions. He made thatcommitment to life at the cost of his own. What a transformingstory that is.
And what a propaganda campaign has been waged to keep usAmericans from understanding that story, from telling it, andfrom re-telling it to our children and grandchildren. Becausethat's a story whose telling can transform a nation.
But when a nation is under the continuing domination of an idol,namely war, it is a story that will be covered up. When the storycan liberate us from our idolatry of war, then the worshippers of the idol are going to do everything they can to keep the story from being told.
>From the standpoint of a belief that war is the ultimate power,that's too dangerous a story. It's a subversivestory. It shows a different kind of security than always beingready to go to war.
It's unbelievableor we're supposed to think itisthat a president was murdered by our own governmentagencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relyingon nuclear weapons.
It's unspeakable. For the sake of a nation that must alwaysbe preparing for war, that story must not be told. If it were, wemight learn that peace is possible without making war. We mighteven learn there is a force more powerful than war. Howunthinkable! But how necessary if life on earth is to continue.
That is why it is so hopeful for us to confront the unspeakableand to tell the transforming story of a man of courage, PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. It is a story ultimately not of death but oflifeall our lives. In the end, it is not so much a storyof one man as it is a story of peacemaking when the chips aredown. That story is our story, a story of hope.

I believe it is a providential fact that the anniversary ofPresident Kennedy's assassination always falls aroundThanksgiving, and periodically on that very day. This year theanniversary of his death, two days from now, will beginThanksgiving week.
Thanksgiving is a beautiful time of year, with autumn leavesfalling to create new life. Creation is alive, as the seasonturns. The earth is alive. It is not a radioactive wasteland. Wecan give special thanks for that. The fact that we are stilllivingthat the human family is still alive with a fightingchance for survival, and for much more than thatis reason forgratitude for a peacemaking president, and to the unlikelyalliance he forged with his enemy.
So let us give thanks this Thanksgiving for John F. Kennedy, andfor his partner in peacemaking, Nikita Khrushchev.
Their story is our story, a story of the courage to turn towardthe truth. Remember what Gandhi said that turned theology on itshead. He said truth is God. That is the truth: Truth is God. Wecan discover the truth and live it out. There is nothing, nothingmore powerful than the truth. The truth will set us free.

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why they call it the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt

So we have to ask ourselves, "Who can murder the President,frame a CIA agent, and command this kind of cover?" I amnot going to reiterate what Vince Salandria has presented to you.As we knew at the time, Kennedy had begun a process of rapprochement with the USSR and had been making clear moves away from the Cold War.The very simple and obvious question is, Who had the means and motive to organize a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, frame in advance a CIA agent for the murder, use immediately all media channels to spill the frame-up of Oswald to the world, have the White House radioing Air Force One on the way back from Dallas that Oswald was it before the Dallas police had anything on him? Who can do all this and command a complete cover-up by all our society's institutions? Only one institution had the means and motive to accomplish all this, an element of the United States government that is so necessary to the "defense" of the nation that to expose it would be unthinkablethe answer is obvioushigh US military intelligence.

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