Maybe I am idealizing the Kennedy years, but things were better then. Since that period there's been progress only in few areas. Women's rights are certainly better today than in the early "60s. Legal and political rights for blacks are better, though the economic struggle for most blacks still goes on.
But what else? Our middle class has sunk, quality jobs have evaporated, and our nation is constantly at war.
I think if Jack
Kennedy lived, I think the late 1960s would have been better, and that would
have provided a good foundation for the future. It is a fact that he signed a
memorandum a month before he died that he intended to pull all
It should be said
Kennedy had his failings, and there are certainly a lot of skeptics out there
who downplay what he would have done if he had lived. He was a philanderer and
dishonest to his wife; though publicly pushing integration he was friendly with
southern segregationists for political purposes; and the
But I believe if Kennedy had lived, there would have been no Vietnam War, and he would have achieved lot at home, in the end compiling a domestic record that would have rivaled FDR's.
I think it's
definitely fair to say if JFK, his brother Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther
King had lived,
I've always felt that
there was a conspiracy to kill John Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald may well have
been part of it, but he did not act alone. Too many people heard too many shots
that day in
While Kennedy was very popular, he was hated by some, including right-wingers and anti-Castro Cubans. He also had a lot of detractors in the military and the intelligence agencies, who thought Kennedy was "too soft on communism.' I believe people from the intelligence sector and the military, as well as some anti-communist Cubans, were part of the conspiracy. Oswald was on the fringes. Jack Ruby was sent to shut Oswald up. The fact that Ruby, a nobody, could waltz into the Dallas police station while the most important criminal suspect in American history was being transported, then walk up and shoot Oswald dead, tells you all you need to know about this case. It's been a total cover-up.
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