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JFK and the Unspeakable

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The cover-up of all four murders, each leading into the next, was based, first of all, on denial—not the government’s but our own. The unspeakable is not far away. — location: 241 ^ref-2053

John F. Kennedy’s assassination is rooted in our denial of our nation’s crimes in World War II that began the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. — location: 265 ^ref-64783

Reassessing Kennedy, he expresses the hope that Kennedy will win reelection and become the United States’ greatest president—by recognizing there can be coexistence between capitalists and socialists, even in the Americas. — location: 576 ^ref-24802

he told adviser Ted Sorensen that the union members “cheered and applauded their own sacrifice,” whereas the company representatives were “ice-cold” to him.[10] — location: 6188 ^ref-3767

One month to the day after JFK’s assassination, Truman said he was “disturbed” because the CIA had “become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble.…There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”[4] — location: 18244 ^ref-11083

in the name of national security, they had unwittingly allowed an alien force to invade a democracy. — location: 18248 ^ref-31184

the world had to deal with a U.S. government agency authorized to carry out a broad range of covert, criminal activities on an international scale, theoretically accountable to the president but with no genuine accountability to anyone. — location: 18249 ^ref-50613

love as the other side of truth, a respect and understanding of our opponents that goes far enough to integrate their truth into our own. — location: 18280 ^ref-63926

when a nation is under the continuing domination of an idol, namely war, it is a story that will be covered up. — location: 18323 ^ref-11529