But unfortunately it did. The tragedy of the murder of our 35th Presdent lingers with us. We wallow in debt, and only 12% of America citizens approve of our Congress and their current work. We have ceased to have a government of the people and by the people as prescribed in our founding documents. Why? And to what end? John Kennedy was a courageous man who dared to go up against the "invisible" powers that be. His belief was that man made problems could have man made solutions, that his role as a leader was really to lead, and not to follow the dictates of those who pulled the strings behind the curtain.
Three times he resisted the temptation to go to War- 1. Bay of Pigs- a small cadre of "resistance" fighters landing on the Bay of Pigs beach to lead an overthrow of Castro. CIA and military pushed him hard, but he did not commit our troops, planes or ships to engage Castro. 2. Berlin Wall- After WW2 Berlin was divided into East (under Communist control) and West (under Western influence). To stave off a lot of problems with defections and such the Communist leadership decided to seal off their part with the infamous Berlin Wall. Kennedy again came under a lot of pressure here to act in a military manner. One of his generals even put tanks right on the border, against what Kennedy ordered. Despite intense pressure he took the long view and resisted the call to arms. 3. Cuban Missile Crisis- When Castro took control he eventually ended up in alliance with the former USSR, who provided, among other things, weapons, including nuclear missiles. The missile launch sites were under construction when Kennedy learned of this and initiated a blockade, also called a quarantine, to stop shipment of missiles and offensive weapons. The military was trying their best to get him to invade, which he nearly did. 4. Vietnam- Kennedy told Walter Cronkite on CBS that it was "Their war" and they have to be the ones to win it. He had plans, and orders in place to begin removing troops at the end of 1963. So he made plans to get us out of a "Police action" we were already in.
Almost all serious students of the assassination agree that Oswald did not pull the trigger that killed the President, and may not have fired at all that day. So why watch the movie? Because it takes you back to that time, talking to the people who were there. You can see them struggling at times to reconcile what they saw with the official version of events. You can also see the officials giving misleading statements. Some not really lies, just not the truth, and some flat out false.
See it with your own eyes, and hear it with your ears. This movie remains, as has been previously indicated, one of the important ever filmed. Real people are involved, but so is the issue of the truth and who we are as a people. These folks are not profiting from this, and several look scared, but they talk anyway. Listen to what they say and it will frighten you and then make you angry. Angry that we have been fed lies for so long,and angry that we are now in two wars for which very few can tell us WHAT our objective is. Can you? I wonder if we can handle the truth. But open them we must if we are to survive and thrive as a free people.
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