More fun with Operation Northwoods

[LR Trotter]

Just discovered this free e-book (hat tip to the the JFKFacts website) about the history of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It goes into quite a bit of detail about JFK's problems with the Pentagon:

http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Docum...of-war.pdf

I believe the date was 9/12/62, while a 10th grade student attending HS just 2 blocks from the approximate mid-way point of a JFK Motorcade along Houston's Main Street that was about 6 miles from Rice University Stadium to the Rice Hotel at 909 Texas Avenue at Main Street, I had the good fortune to see US President John F Kennedy. What I remember most, besides his "tan", was a small airplane circling overhead pulling a banner that read, "Enforce The Monroe Doctrine". As we all know, October 1962 was just a few weeks away.
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"Enforce The Monroe Doctrine" very interesting you say this.

Although almost 52 years, it just doesn't seem that long ago. The N/E corner of Main @ Holman, I stood on a single raised step on a church side door, possibly an after service exit, porch area. It was like all of a sudden the limousine approached, and setting above the back seat on the trunk area was JFK. I don't recall any other passengers, aside from front seat SS Agents, but there may have been. That church single doorway and porch/landing was still there the last time I rode the Metro-Rail that passes by there now. And, a familiar sight in those days were small planes pulling advertising banners, except this one was political. "Enforce The Monroe Doctrine", yes that is what it read.

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