10-08-2011, 11:04 PM
Gary Severson Wrote:After reading through this whole thread I notice there was no discussion of the fact that a Quaker, Ted Sorensen, wrote JFK's April 27,61 speech. Sorensen was haunted until his recent death that the internet "secret society" crowd was going to result in his being remembered for JFK getting assassinated by a "secret society". Even if that is the case, i.e. that the Birchers or Illuminati believed the speech was a threat to them, Sorensen knew that what he wrote had nothing to do them. He was desperate to stop the BS that was proliferating about his complicity in the assassination. I know this because I had a conversation with him on Nov 25th, 09 where he made this clear to me. He said as we stood toe to toe, "I am not going to take the blame for JFK's death to the grave with me".
The real question here is, Which speech do you believe Sorensen was talking about -- if he were talking about a speech at all.
I think it's clear that if, in his conversation with you, Sorensen was referencing a speech that he wrote which, in its transcendent message, sealed JFK's fate, he no doubt was thinking of the June 10, 1963 speech delivered at American University.
It may be argued convincingly that JFK's remarks that day stand as the most enlightened and courageous speech ever delivered by a political leader.
JFK's "secret societies" speech was about communism, pure and simple. To argue that JFK somehow anticipated contemporary conspiracy theory is at best nobly wrong-headed and at worst an attempt to enlist JFK himself in efforts to misdirect our inquiries.