18-06-2013, 07:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-06-2013, 06:59 PM by Adele Edisen.)
Was President Kennedy elected to be assassunated?
Although I believe that the plot to assassinate John Kennedy was in the works (maybe) even before he was elected, it is difficult to reason that he was elected to be assassinated.
The two-term President Eisenhower and his Vice-President Nixon had not provided much progress for civil rights movements, women's rights, economic growth, education,
labor unions were underr attack (Taft-Hartley law), freedom of speech and thought was being curtailed, and efforts for international peace were struggles. American war veterans
were demonstrating for democratic changes for which they thought they had fought the war. The American electorate appeared to be ready for a change.
John Kennedy offered that change, and his presidency involved major changes in policies and in international relations. His policies on civil rights were opposed by many of the
Republicans and by the Democrats from the Southern States in Congress. The proposed legislation lingered on in committees without action by Representatives and Senators until
President Lyndon Johnson made it his priority to achieve passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Previous attempts in 1957 and in 1960 to pass such legislation had failed under
the Republican administration, the "party of Lincoln."
Because of the great popularity of President Franklin Roosevelt, who had been elected four times, the Republicans sought to limit presidential terms to two 4-year terms. People
still remembered Roosevelt's efforts for democracy and despite the Republican strategy of Nixon, a Dermocratic president was elected. The plotters who planned the assassination
were strongly opposed to civil rights for African-Americans, and Kennedy's policies toward business corporations (Dr. Donald Gibson's study of Kennedy's presidency was titled
BATTLING WALL STREET). The financial capitalists and the private banking system, falsely named the FEDERAL RESERVE, also were on the list of Kennedy's enemies. Kennedy's
strategy for world peace, especially his anti-nuclear prolifeation and other similar policies, leading toward friendlier relations with the USSR and Cuba, frightened his domestic enemies.
They believed Kennedy was a Socilaist/Communist out to destroy their wonderful capitalist system, as they had also thought of President Roosevelt doing the same. They could
not control Kennedy and they could not allow him to win a second term in office. They also wanted to perform the murder in a public and dramatic way to let every subsequent president
know that they had that power and could get away with it by intimidating and manipulating Lyndon Johnson. Johnson knew he would be allowed to live as long as he did their major
biddiong by giving them a highly profitable war in Vietnam.
As James Douglas shows in his book, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE, elements of the intelligence services were involved. One month to the day after Kennedy's assassination,
former President Truman's letter published in the Washington Post newspaper, apologized to the American people for signing the National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA.
It was a subtle message to the publis about who he suspected of the assassination. President Eisenhower had warned us of the Miliutary-Industrial Complex which would push for
war and profit and which would unite to oppose the young visionary president.
Adele
Although I believe that the plot to assassinate John Kennedy was in the works (maybe) even before he was elected, it is difficult to reason that he was elected to be assassinated.
The two-term President Eisenhower and his Vice-President Nixon had not provided much progress for civil rights movements, women's rights, economic growth, education,
labor unions were underr attack (Taft-Hartley law), freedom of speech and thought was being curtailed, and efforts for international peace were struggles. American war veterans
were demonstrating for democratic changes for which they thought they had fought the war. The American electorate appeared to be ready for a change.
John Kennedy offered that change, and his presidency involved major changes in policies and in international relations. His policies on civil rights were opposed by many of the
Republicans and by the Democrats from the Southern States in Congress. The proposed legislation lingered on in committees without action by Representatives and Senators until
President Lyndon Johnson made it his priority to achieve passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Previous attempts in 1957 and in 1960 to pass such legislation had failed under
the Republican administration, the "party of Lincoln."
Because of the great popularity of President Franklin Roosevelt, who had been elected four times, the Republicans sought to limit presidential terms to two 4-year terms. People
still remembered Roosevelt's efforts for democracy and despite the Republican strategy of Nixon, a Dermocratic president was elected. The plotters who planned the assassination
were strongly opposed to civil rights for African-Americans, and Kennedy's policies toward business corporations (Dr. Donald Gibson's study of Kennedy's presidency was titled
BATTLING WALL STREET). The financial capitalists and the private banking system, falsely named the FEDERAL RESERVE, also were on the list of Kennedy's enemies. Kennedy's
strategy for world peace, especially his anti-nuclear prolifeation and other similar policies, leading toward friendlier relations with the USSR and Cuba, frightened his domestic enemies.
They believed Kennedy was a Socilaist/Communist out to destroy their wonderful capitalist system, as they had also thought of President Roosevelt doing the same. They could
not control Kennedy and they could not allow him to win a second term in office. They also wanted to perform the murder in a public and dramatic way to let every subsequent president
know that they had that power and could get away with it by intimidating and manipulating Lyndon Johnson. Johnson knew he would be allowed to live as long as he did their major
biddiong by giving them a highly profitable war in Vietnam.
As James Douglas shows in his book, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE, elements of the intelligence services were involved. One month to the day after Kennedy's assassination,
former President Truman's letter published in the Washington Post newspaper, apologized to the American people for signing the National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA.
It was a subtle message to the publis about who he suspected of the assassination. President Eisenhower had warned us of the Miliutary-Industrial Complex which would push for
war and profit and which would unite to oppose the young visionary president.
Adele