I am glad to see there is still an interest in this. I am basing my interest in
this upcoming series on what they have done with "Hunting Hitler". They
completely blew away everything we were ever taught about it. Bob Baer said, "I
don't believe in conspiracies. This is not a conspiracy. It is a coverup."
Hunting Hitler has been fascinating to watch.
Bruce
On Apr 23, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Claudia Ayers <claudia.ayers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Bruce and Others,
I posted what follows on Facebook earlier this month. This is not really new
info, nor do I think the History Channel has a very good grip on the
information. The book I reference (see below)discusses all the Oswald and
"Oswald double" meetings in Mexico City with the Russian Embassy and the
Cuban Embassy, of which there were several and some of which were in time
conflicts with other events that Oswald has been documented as attending.
What is still not common knowledge is that Oswald was first a Marine( who
served honorably), then was employed as a CIA agent (including the time he
was in Russia; he thought he was serving his government, but in the end he
was set up and used as a patsy in the assassination of a President he deeply
respected, but whom the CIA leadership and rank-and-file deeply despised),
and he had other "jobs" as cover for his work with the CIA (as most
under-cover agents do).
Here's my tribute to JKF and to the amazing book by James Douglass’ "JFK and
the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters"
Next month we will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy. Fittingly, this will occur on Memorial Day.
Today about 15% of Americans are sixty-five years or older. Since Kennedy was
assassinated in 1963 at age forty-six, more than fifty-three years ago, only
about 1 in 7 people alive today are old enough to have personally experienced
the emotional impact of his tragic death on that horrible day. My high school
class mates (’67) were among the youngest to have viscerally encountered this
pivotal event in American History.
We remember JFK’s brother, Robert, being one of his anchors as they forged
ahead with compassionate views on desegregation, civil rights, people with
disabilities, economic policy, and especially, international relations in the
age of nuclear weapons. Many of us were reading a daily newspaper and were
fairly aware of the Bay of Pigs upset in Cuba. A year later, nearly all of us
were aware, with heightened alarm, that we were living in a world where the
Cold War had the potential to go very hot during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Three days before handing the government over to the youngest-ever head of
state, President Eisenhower warned the American people: "In the councils of
government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist." Even
so, the extent to which the CIA manipulated policy on behalf of the arms
dealers was shocking to JFK. After the CIA attempted to entrap him into a hot
war with Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, he told RFK that he “want[ed] to splinter
the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
JFK leaned heavily on RFK because few of the advisors, decision-makers, or
other actors in the councils of government could adequately distance
themselves from the influences of the military-industrial complex; many
discussions in the governmental “back-rooms” of those days involved promoting
the use of the nuclear option in Cuba, in the USSR, and in Viet Nam. Despite
his flaws (i.e. unfaithful husband), JFK was rather profoundly attached to
his faith; he was inspired and influenced by the peace-making goals of Pope
John and the writings of Thomas Merton; and, he was determined to lead his
country away from mutually destructive armaments to a world of peace. He did
not take the bait to invade Cuba, which infuriated the CIA’s leadership and
rank-and-file. In the meantime, Nikita Khrushchev (whose image as a
“ham-handed goof” our press instilled, yet was actually a pretty sharp
country boy that did well) had initiated a private (secret) letter writing
correspondence with JFK which continued for over two years in which they
discovered they both were hard-pressed by their cold-warrior advisors to make
much public headway for disarmament and peace. But, they persevered!
Similarly, JFK forged communication with Castro using trusted surrogates, and
told his closest advisors he would be pulling the “military advisors” out of
Viet Nam immediately after re-election, if not before, as he was also
discovering the growing citizen peace movement which was backing his own
peace efforts with far more enthusiasm than anyone had expected.
I recommend to everyone the June 10th, 1963 speech JFK delivered at American
University commencement. This “Peace Speech” was intended to signal JFKs
goals at home and abroad. The 4th Estate did not adequately cover or provide
analysis of this remarkable talk, as the “powers that be” in public
broadcasting are all too often the same powers that guide the aforementioned
military-industrial complex, which took offense to it. Khrushchev and Castro
heard it clearly; both were distraught a few months later on November 22nd,
when their hopes for improving their relationships with the US were crushed
by JFK’s assassination.
I also recommend a book that I now cherish as much as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s
Team of Rivals, namely James Douglass’ "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died
and Why it Matters." Douglass covers JKF’s conversion from Cold Warrior to
Peace Maker, citing references and interviews that take 100 pages to document
in citations and took 12 years to gather. It is extremely moving; very sad
and yet it inspires hopefulness. In the nearly 400 pages of the narrative, we
encounter at least 100 people, most of whom were household names in the early
60’s (RFK, McNamera, Rusk, Dulles and his CIA operatives, Merton, Khrushchev,
Castro, assorted military advisors, Henry Cabot Lodge, Warren and his fellow
Commissioners, Salinger, Johnson, Connally, Hoover and his FBIers, mafia
figures, Congressional Hawks and Doves, Executive and Legislative staffers by
the dozens, and, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald). We also encounter quite a few
witnesses to the assassination whose stories are completely or relatively
new, particularly since most of them have come to light well after the events
of 1963. Only the very brave have been willing to advance a point a view at
odds with the one the CIA/FBI/Warren Commission presents as factual.
As also may be true for many of my friends here on Facebook (Acalanes
Classmates), I sat in Cal’s memorial stadium on March 23, 1962 (the day
before I became a teenager) and took in the optimistic vision of my President
speaking at Cal’s 94th Charter Day. He promoted a vision of a world where
knowledge is pursued and intellectual collaboration is promoted on the road
to reducing human conflicts everywhere. Acceptance of national diversity and
promotion of international partnerships were the themes that morning, all so
beautifully espoused by our attractive and motivational President.
Having just finished Jim Douglass' book about JFK’s peace initiatives and
mourned over it, I stand in much greater awe of the bravery and sacrifice
JFK devoted to his peace journey. Just at Martin Luther King, Jr., told us
more publicly, he was not afraid of death (for he had “been to the mountain
top”), JFK had told his family and closest confidants he knew he was risking
his life, and that he could accept his fate. His secretary, Evelyn Lincoln,
came upon a slip of paper in a file with a couple of lines scrawled in his
hand-writing. She did not realize at the time that he had jotted these lines
from memory and was, in fact, quoting the of words by Abraham Lincoln.
Surely, however, Kennedy was aware of the consequences of his transformation
from warrior to peace-maker in a war-driven world as he printed this
inspiration to himself:
I know there is a God – and I see a storm coming.
If He has a place for me, I believe I am ready.
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Hull <bhull777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald
History Channel Tue Apr 25 at 10/9c
http://www.history.com/shows/jfk-declassified-tracking-oswald
More than two million declassified government files offer new evidence about
Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in the weeks, months and years before the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy with the last remaining documents
scheduled for release later this year. HISTORY’s new six-part nonfiction
series “JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald” follows former CIA agent, Bob
Baer and former LAPD police lieutenant, Adam Bercovici, on their independent
global investigation into Oswald, and the murder of JFK, asking the
questions: did he have accomplices, and if so, who helped him assassinate
the President?
Sincerely,
Bruce Hull
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