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Source: Global Research
JFK, MLK, RFK, More than 50 Years of Suppressed History: New Evidence on Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.
Failures to Confront the Unspeakable, and The Way Ahead. Part I
By Elizabeth Woodworth | Global Research | November 20, 2023
On November 22, 2023, we commemorate the passing of JFK. November 22, 1963, the assassination of JFK in Dallas, Texas. Sixty years ago.
First published by GR ten years ago on November 15, 2013 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963).
April 4, 2023 is the 55th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's Passing. (April 4, 1968)
June 6, 2023 is the 55th Anniversary of the Passing of Robert F. Kennedy (June 5, 1968)
Their Legacy will live forever.
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In the last 50 years there have been two major threats to life on our planet.
The first, the nuclear arms race and its near disaster of 1962, was narrowly averted by President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, who then set a course for peace.
The second, the ticking climate bomb on its short "business as usual" fuse, has no solution in sight. (PART II of this essay forthcoming)
In both cases unseen forces have blocked a survival response to incalculable danger. We will examine these forces and suggest a way forward, modeled partially on action taken by JFK to avert nuclear war.
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,And Man is Mind, and evermore he takesThe tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: —He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:Environment is but his looking-glass.James Allen, 1902
I. Introduction
Most people under 60 will not remember the harrowing Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war. With the US leading the long-range missile race, short-range Soviet missiles had been quietly installed in Cuba. Tension ignited when a US reconnaissance pilot was shot down over Cuba and killed. Kennedy, opposed to a war with Cuba, feared that his generals would overthrow him and escalate the crisis to a nuclear war that they believed to be winnable.
In desperation Kennedy turned to urgent, secret negotiations with his Cold War enemy, Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Disaster was narrowly averted through the vital historical meeting of October 27.[1]
Horrified by the event and under pressure from senior advisors to pursue a first-strike capability,[2] Kennedy made a decisive turn towards peace. He began urging the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and withdrawal from Viet Nam.
In June, 1963 he made an impassioned plea at the American University to make peace with the Soviets: "If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal."[3]
But he would not be long for this world, for he had bitterly alienated the hawks who placed "winning the Cold War" above the life of a President.
Image: 03 June 1961 Kennedy meets Khrushchev, Vienna.
JFK's November, 1963 assassination unleashed nuclear roulette[4] to swagger and bluff its way into the eighties, obstructing his vision for peace while the planet hung in the balance.
Now, 50 years later, we again face a global precipice that cries out for decisive action. A radical transition to green energy must begin immediately to avert an unstoppable slow-motion disaster.
Again hidden forces have been obstructing a response. Since the Rio Summit in 1992, CO2 levels have spiked towards disaster while the media have remained fixated on pipeline and tanker routes.
Where is the human outcry for earth's life-support? Why have we failed to seize control of our survival?
Trappist monk Thomas Merton figured it out in the sixties. He coined the term "the unspeakable" during the nuclear madness of the Cold War, to describe a vacuum that can be utterly void of compassion and responsibility.[5]
This systemic moral abyss covertly carries out CIA assassinations and the overthrow of foreign governments while protecting senior officials from knowing too much, under the doctrine of "plausible deniability."
In failing to acknowledge and confront the under-side of the state we have allowed the abyss to grow, as it did in Hitler's Germany.
Following JFK's murder came the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, neither of whom, we now know, were murdered by lone gunmen.
Each of these men looked into the void and confronted the unspeakable in the name of peace and justice. Each paid the final price.
To learn from history, and to be worthy of their sacrifices, we need to "go there" too.
President John F. Kennedy
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Widespread suspicion that JFK was killed by elements within his own government, most particularly the CIA, has long been fostered by films such as Oliver Stone's 1991 JFK.
In 2009, Stone reviewed the extraordinary book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters:[6] "It is the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance. It is a book that deserves the attention of all Americans; it is one of those rare books that, by helping us understand our history, has the power to change it."[7]
On January 11, 2013, Robert Kennedy Jr. told Charlie Rose in front of a large Dallas audience that his father, Robert F. Kennedy (brother to JFK), privately believed the Warren Commission was "a shoddy piece of craftsmanship," and that "the evidence at this point I think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman."[8]
Kennedy said his father had "asked Justice Department investigators to informally look into allegations that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had received aid from the Mafia, the CIA or other organizations. He said the staff members found phone lists linking Jack Ruby, Oswald's assassin, to organized crime figures with ties to the CIA, convincing the elder Kennedy that there was something to the allegations."[9] Kennedy also praised the scholarship of JFK and the Unspeakable.
The Rose interview was taped but not broadcast by the media, which evidently does not "go there."
Please go to Global Research to continue reading.
Most people under 60 will not remember the harrowing Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war. With the US leading the long-range missile race, short-range Soviet missiles had been quietly installed in Cuba. Tension ignited when a US reconnaissance pilot was shot down over Cuba and killed. Kennedy, opposed to a war with Cuba, feared that his generals would overthrow him and escalate the crisis to a nuclear war that they believed to be winnable.
In desperation Kennedy turned to urgent, secret negotiations with his Cold War enemy, Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Disaster was narrowly averted through the vital historical meeting of October 27.[1]
Horrified by the event and under pressure from senior advisors to pursue a first-strike capability,[2] Kennedy made a decisive turn towards peace. He began urging the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and withdrawal from Viet Nam.
In June, 1963 he made an impassioned plea at the American University to make peace with the Soviets: "If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal."[3]
But he would not be long for this world, for he had bitterly alienated the hawks who placed "winning the Cold War" above the life of a President.
JFK's November, 1963 assassination unleashed nuclear roulette[4] to swagger and bluff its way into the eighties, obstructing his vision for peace while the planet hung in the balance.
Now, 50 years later, we again face a global precipice that cries out for decisive action. A radical transition to green energy must begin immediately to avert an unstoppable slow-motion disaster.
Again hidden forces have been obstructing a response. Since the Rio Summit in 1992, CO2 levels have spiked towards disaster while the media have remained fixated on pipeline and tanker routes.
Where is the human outcry for earth's life-support? Why have we failed to seize control of our survival?
Trappist monk Thomas Merton figured it out in the sixties. He coined the term "the unspeakable" during the nuclear madness of the Cold War, to describe a vacuum that can be utterly void of compassion and responsibility.[5]
This systemic moral abyss covertly carries out CIA assassinations and the overthrow of foreign governments while protecting senior officials from knowing too much, under the doctrine of "plausible deniability."
In failing to acknowledge and confront the under-side of the state we have allowed the abyss to grow, as it did in Hitler's Germany.
Following JFK's murder came the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, neither of whom, we now know, were murdered by lone gunmen.
Each of these men looked into the void and confronted the unspeakable in the name of peace and justice. Each paid the final price.
To learn from history, and to be worthy of their sacrifices, we need to "go there" too.
President John F. Kennedy
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Widespread suspicion that JFK was killed by elements within his own government, most particularly the CIA, has long been fostered by films such as Oliver Stone's 1991 JFK.
In 2009, Stone reviewed the extraordinary book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters:[6] "It is the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance. It is a book that deserves the attention of all Americans; it is one of those rare books that, by helping us understand our history, has the power to change it."[7]
On January 11, 2013, Robert Kennedy Jr. told Charlie Rose in front of a large Dallas audience that his father, Robert F. Kennedy (brother to JFK), privately believed the Warren Commission was "a shoddy piece of craftsmanship," and that "the evidence at this point I think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman."[8]
Kennedy said his father had "asked Justice Department investigators to informally look into allegations that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had received aid from the Mafia, the CIA or other organizations. He said the staff members found phone lists linking Jack Ruby, Oswald's assassin, to organized crime figures with ties to the CIA, convincing the elder Kennedy that there was something to the allegations."[9] Kennedy also praised the scholarship of JFK and the Unspeakable.
The Rose interview was taped but not broadcast by the media, which evidently does not "go there."
Please go to Global Research to continue reading.
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"The utter villainy of his accusers has purified his life."
~ F. Tupper Saussy about James Earl Ray written in Tennessee Waltz (1987)
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