Sixty years ago on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy went to American University in Washington, D.C. to give the Commencement Address. This was seven months after the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was successfully resolved by Kennedy and the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, and five months twelve days before Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, Texas, on November 22 in a regime change coup orchestrated by the CIA. Kennedy’s speech on June 10 was the tipping point in his struggle with the National Security Establishment over how to wind down the Cold War against Soviet Communism that had hurtled towards the precipice of a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis seven months earlier. In his speech at the American University, Kennedy reached out to Khrushchev describing his administration’s goal of ending the nuclear arms race between the two military superpowers and the Cold War. By going public in boldly stating his resolve to work for peace by beginning a campaign for nuclear disarmament, Kennedy put himself in an irreconcilable opposition to the military-industrial complex about which his predecessor President Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans in his farewell address on leaving the White House in January 1961. According to James W. Douglass in
The military industrial complex know no bounds or mercy. RFK Jr. is a breath of Classical Liberal fresh air, and if history is any indication, possibly not long for this earth.
Excellent essay, Salim. I have come to appreciate RF Kennedy Jr, he has many remarkable stories about his uncle, as well as his dad, on his podcast, about their quest for peace that . I think I had been influenced by the main stream media who desired to taint the history and memory of John and Robert, probably at the bequest of the Military Industrial Complex and the CIA.
The military industrial complex know no bounds or mercy. RFK Jr. is a breath of Classical Liberal fresh air, and if history is any indication, possibly not long for this earth.
Brilliant synopsis Salim.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Yes, I am fearful for RFK Jr, as I remain for DJT.
Excellent essay, Salim. I have come to appreciate RF Kennedy Jr, he has many remarkable stories about his uncle, as well as his dad, on his podcast, about their quest for peace that . I think I had been influenced by the main stream media who desired to taint the history and memory of John and Robert, probably at the bequest of the Military Industrial Complex and the CIA.