Emergency Help Needed: Re JFK and Vietnam

[Jan Klimkowski]

Nathaniel - I can't help much, but I do recall comments of John Judge about his mother, which can be found transcribed from the press conference at the url below. NB I am not the source of any of this information, nor the transcription.:

Mother worked for 25 years in the Personnel Office of the U.S. Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, directly under the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Her job was to project overall national draft figures for five years in advance for the national selective service call, to within one hundred people in accuracy. Before Kennedy's death, she knew from those figures and projections that the Pentagon was planning on troop withdrawal from Vietnam. In late November, she knew Kennedy was pulling out of Vietnam based on her projected figures. I asked her, after she had been retired, when did they tell her that they would escalate in Vietnam? The Pentagon told her in late November of 1963, the Monday following the [JFK] assassination. She couldn't believe the figures. She took them back to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for query—what must have been the first civilian protest of the war. She said, "This couldn't be right." The Joint Chiefs said to "use those figures!" The figures on November 25, 1963, were that the war would last for ten years, and the casualties would be about 57,000, and "to figure that in."

February 1992, American University, Washington, DC. To write to get confirmation on the above claim: Foreign Relations of the U.S. Policy, 1962-63, Vietnam Series; Volume 4, Aug.-Dec. 1963; Security Memorandum of Kennedy's plan. This was also backed up by Arthur Schlesinger. (This short transcript is not guaranteed as to exactitude, although I have viewed the video several times and attempted to transcribe it accurately.)

http://home.pacbell.net/butlerc/Conspira...iracy.html