Sixty-one years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. A sad hermit and enraged Communist Lee Harvey Oswald fired three pictures at the president’s parade, according to the blue-ribbon commission that was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to look into the crime. JFK was suddenly killed when two of the guns struck him.
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Most Americans do n’t believe the “official” version. There are actually lots of different ideas, some of them plausible, some of them crazy, that try to make sense out of a foolish act.
I am one of the many Kennedy death enthusiasts who can disprove the most significant principles. But the truth remains that the Warren Commission, and all the ideas about the CIA, the Mafia, the CIA and the Mafia, the Russians, the Cubans and the homosexuals, fail the typical test of information. All the information is anecdotal.  ,
The assassination left behind a fundamental distrust of the government and American institutions in general, which was n’t present before the execution, which came to prominence in the days following the attack. America’s fundamental values have been eroded by JFK’s murder for 61 years, and the country has not embraced them.
Donald Trump made the promise during his presidential campaign that he would transfer all of the assassination’s government documents if elected.  ,
Only a few thousand of the millions of government records related to the assassination have been fully released so far, and those who have looked at them claim that the public should n’t be anticipating any declassified revelations.
” Anything waiting for a smoking gun that’s going to turn this situation upside down will be greatly frustrated”, said Gerald Posner, writer of Case Closed, which concludes that killer Lee Harvey Oswald acted only.
Oswald has been the subject of decades-long debates over whether the FBI and CIA may have stopped him if he had acted alone.
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That last observation is one of history’s great” What Ifs”. However, it does n’t offer any compelling reason to speculate. Contrast fictions are entertaining, but they are useless for tracing story.
The left continues to criticize Kennedy’s suicide as a missed opportunity for everything, including the Civil Rights Act’s first passage and peace in Vietnam.  ,
John Kennedy was the coldest of warm soldiers. There were  , 900 U. S. forces in South  , Vietnam on January 20, 1961. On November 22, 1963, there were 16, 300 U. S. workers in Nam. Kennedy is said to have wanted to leave the battle, according to one piece of evidence. The Joint Chiefs and Defense Department’s comments that American forces may be withdrawn somewhere in 1963 were approved in National Security Action Memorandum 263.
Earlier in Johnson’s administration, Johnson realized that that was a pipe dream. The remaining has n’t stopped them from citing that letter, which claims Kennedy was killed because he wished to leave Vietnam.
The Civil Rights Act would have been strengthened and passed through Congress more rapidly if Kennedy had lived, according to some on the left. Because Johnson slammed the “martyred” president’s storage into being bad for both parties, the Act was passed in 1964.
In truth, Kennedy viewed the Civil Rights Act as a social disaster as needed. With some northern Republican willing to wage war in its favor, his election campaign was dragged into the civil rights struggle, which he saw as a political fool in the South. Ultimately, he wanted to put the matter off until after the 1964 vote.  ,
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The beautiful, ill, womanizing, coldly calculating leader who almost threw the earth to pieces during the Cuban missile crisis and demanded that everyone go to the Moon before the decade was away is a far cry from the imagined Kennedy on the left.
All of that plays into the assassination’s legacy. If John Kennedy had lived, the myth that the world and the United States would have been much better places. In fact, nothing much would have changed if he had lived.
The myth lives on. ” When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”, says the old newspaper editor in” The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. That was much simpler to accomplish because of the assassination.
