Over the past few days I’ve been thinking a lot about John Kennedy and what our world might have been like if he had lived. These thoughts didn’t just come out of the blue, they are the result of the fact that I have just finished reading one of the saddest books ever written: Farewell America by […]
This is the second in a series of articles written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we will carry every weekday as we approach the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.The Obama win continues to generate lively speculation and the links to the JFK legacy grow stronger. On […]
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a lot like the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Since that terrible day, almost 43 years ago, there have been over 2,000 books written about the JFK assassination. There have also been numerous television programs and several movies. There is endless theorizing and […]
True Statesman Son of Perdition When I re-read the words of John F. Kennedy, when I consider the legislation he sought to enact, when I consider the sheer depth and humanity of him, and compare him with what is lurking and lurching in the White House today, I am literally overwhelmed. How far down […]
Today, I want to come back to my JFK project. Twelve days from now is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination – a virtual coup d’etateffected by Corporate America and its various connections. As I mentioned when I began this little series in commemoration of John F. Kennedy, a close and careful study of American history […]
Did you know that if we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this… 60 Asians 14 Africans 12 Europeans 8 Latin Americans 5 North Americans AND Canadians Of all of the above, 82 would be […]
Today I want to continue with the subject of John Kennedy; there’s only one week left before the anniversary of his death, so I’m going to have to really put the pedal to the metal to get to the end of the subject on time. As it happens, now that the subject weighs so heavily […]
On November 18th, 1963, John F. Kennedy predicted that the month of April, 1964, would bring “the longest and strongest peacetime economic expansion in our Nation’s entire history.” And he added: “The steady conquest of the surely yielding enemies of misery and hopelessness, hunger, and injustice is the central task for the Americas in our […]
On November 19, 1963, 43 years ago today, at a ceremony in the White House Flower Garden, John F. Kennedy welcomed officers of state education associations of the National Education Association. he remarked: “I realize once again in a very personal way what a tremendous flood of children are coming into our schools…” He was […]
Later that day, he issued a statement on the Extraordinary Administrative Radio Conference to Allocate Frequency Bands for Space Radio Communication Purposes, held in Geneva, Switzerland from October 7 to November 8, 1963. He invited other nations to participate in setting up a global communication satellite system. He spoke of “a peace system worldwide in scope.” […]
On November 21st, 1963, 44 years ago today, the 1,035th day of John F. Kennedy’s tenure as President, he asked the Congress for $95.7 million in supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1964. He also asked his economic advisers to prepare a “War on Poverty” program for 1964. Then, President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy departed for […]
As I mentioned in the previous chapter of the present series, I was 11 years old and in my 6th grade classroom when the news of John F. Kennedy’s assassination was first broadcast. I was not ignorant of the idea that evil existed in the world, but I thought about it as something that was […]
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