21-09-2013, 04:05 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Dawn Meredith Wrote:In that it was only three days after JFK began as President I tend to believe he had no clue about this near- fatal event.
Dawn
Dawn - actually, I would assume that JFK did know.
Eric Schlosser, who conducted the original research, states in the Democracy Now piece above: "I interviewed former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who had just literally entered the administration, and was terrified when he was told the news of this accident when it occurred."
If McNamara knew....
I agree Jan, within a few days, if not the same day McNamara knew, JFK knew...and both would have almost shit in their pants over this. This might well have been one of the important 'lessons' JFK learned 'the hard way', that eventually set him on a path diametrically opposed to those that either killed him or had wished him dead. This may well have been his first 'wake up call'....of the many to follow, we have long known about...and I'll bet others we do not know about.
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