The day the world changed ... forever.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, won the 35th presidential election in January of 1961.

He was brutally assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

When we look at this assassination as a separate event, many people tend to think that maybe it was just done by one man.

It’s certainly not impossible.

But there is a much larger picture we can’t afford to overlook; what happened BEFORE the assassination.

Many researchers look at what happened after his death, when Johnson took over in the Oval Office, and see that as proof of a political conspiracy involving the succeeding President, Lyndon Johnson, himself.

But I believe that the events of 1961 and 1962 were the powder in the kegs, and they brought us to the event that unfolded in Dallas, Texas, on that fateful day in November of 1963.

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When Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban Government in 1959, he changed his country in two different ways.

He made it better for the common people by increasing healthcare, pushing out anything racist, and making education better.

But he also cut off trades with other Western countries, and set forth to become the first communist country in the Western Hemisphere.

This made him impopular with his fellow Cubans.

For the longest time Cuba had just been another island in the Caribbean, until Castro commited his coup.

From then on he would forever be on the minds of American politicians.

When Kennedy took office in 1961, one of the first things he was tasked with was the Bay of Pigs invasion.

He was reminded to uphold his campaign promise to invade Cuba and free its people, so that trade with Cuba could be restored.

But it was really about the U.S. Government feeling threatened by having a communist country so close (90 miles) to its borders.

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On paper it looked fairly simple: have a group of Cuban exiles, who were well-trained and armed, to invade Cuba, and overthrow Castro.

But that wouldn’t have been enough, so the CIA came up with a plan to help them.

Operation Mongoose was introduced – the plan to assassinate Fidel Castro.

This plan was much bigger, and more complicated. If done according to plan, it couldn’t fail.

Unfortunately Kennedy didn’t approve of American involvement, and certainly didn’t want his intelligence agencies to interfere with something that was 100% a Cuban problem.

The CIA special teams - one of them was Operation 40 - which was once spearheaded by Richard Nixon! - went ahead with Operation Mongoose anyway on April 17, 1961, which infuriated Kennedy in the background.

Publically he denied U.S. involvement altogether.

When the ground troops called for air support (eight B-26 bombers out of Nicaragua), they didn’t get it.

This air support could’ve only been approved by an executive order, something Kennedy apparently didn’t give.

The consensus was that JFK left the Cuban exiles, as well as the CIA special teams, out there to fend for themselves.

Behind closed doors Kennedy denied being asked for permission to provide air support, but in the corridoors of power he was raising hell.

In Cuba, 1250 men of Brigade 2506 were captured and tortured. 125 of these men were said to have been of the CIA special teams.

This created a big wedge between the CIA and the Kennedy administration.

Kennedy apparently told one of the highest officials in D.C. that he would “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds”.

We can only imagine the reaction of CIA director Allen Dulles upon hearing this.

But shortly after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy fired Dulles.

He felt Dulles had let him and his administration down, and created a rather big blemish on his political reputation.

His good buddies Gen. Charles Cabell (Deputy Director of the CIA) and Richard Bissell (head of the Spyplane Project) soon followed.

This was unheard of, because all three men were so highly placed in the intelligence power structure, and it started murmers in Washington. Murmers about the Kennedy brothers being dangerous, as well as being foolish.

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On October 14, 1962, during a routine spy flight over Cuba, a U-2 photographed what appeared to be nuclear missiles.

Upon examing the photographs, the conclusion was reached that these were Soviet SS-4 medium range missiles.

This really caused a stir in Washington.

Naturally the Kennedys were blamed for allowing this to happen by not eliminating Castro when they had the chance.

Although President Kennedy stated that the Jupiter missiles, which were installed in Turkey in June of 1961, were already obsolete, the Soviets must have felt they had the right to put the same pressure on the United States as the Americans had put on the Soviet Union.

Of course publically Soviet Premier Krushchev denied there were any SS-4’s installed in Cuba, which was partially true since the installations hadn’t been completed yet. Behind closed doors both super powers debated amongst themselves how to proceed.

Were the Soviets actually setting up to destroy the United States?

With those missiles so close, the U.S. would have no time for a counter-strike.

We can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if that U-2 hadn’t taken those pictures when it did.

Castro obviously didn’t have a problem helping the Soviets take care of the Americans.

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So in exchange for trading rights between the U.S.S.R. and Cuba, Krushchev agreed to put a squeeze on the U.S. by shipping several dozen nuclear missiles as close to American soil as possible.

Kennedy and his ExComm team (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) didn’t have an easy time, because every decision was a critical one. They were so close to a full scale nuclear war, they could practically taste the fallout.

Kennedy opted for the only logical solution:

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Though it may have seemed weak to most, it was the best and most peaceful decision to make. And it worked.

The Cuban missile crisis ended on October 28, 1962.

Had he listened to his military advisers, they would have obliterated Cuba, killing every living soul on that island, including the innocent ones.

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As part of a deal between Kennedy and Krushchev, the Soviets dismantled and removed their missiles from Cuba, and the Americans did the same to their missiles in Turkey several months later.

The Kennedys were happy.

From the moment he set foot in the Oval Office of the White House, he found himself knee-deep in serious political issues, and he dealt with them. I should say THEY dealt with them, because John Kennedy rarely made important decisions without his brother Bobby at his side.

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Then came that horrible day in November of 1963.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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An assassination so carefully planned, so perfectly executed, with so much hear-say and denials polluting the media and corrupting the opinions of John Q. Citizen, that it's impossible to believe it was carried out by one lone 24 year old former Marine.

As the official story goes.

John Kennedy had made a lot of enemies in Washington, especially within the CIA.

To the powers in D.C. he looked like he was soft on communism, but he wasn’t. He was just against aggression.

He wanted a presidency without a war.

He knew that destroying Cuba would be considered an act of war upon the Soviet Union, who would in turn launch its long range missiles.

He knew that a full scale nuclear war was not something the American people wanted. There would be no winners.

So ask yourself this; why would Lee Harvey Oswald, a young man who loved Cuba and the Soviet Union, kill the one president who did everything in his power to avoid going to war with either?

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What it comes down to is that John Kennedy was never given the chance to a normal presidency.

The day after his inaguration he found himself in the middle of a brewing conflict in South East Asia, and a growing communist threat just off the coast of Florida. And whichever decision he made would be a lasting one.

Whichever decision he made would be impractical in the eyes of the majority, or a sign of weakness to a group of many.

Whichever path he chose to walk would be the wrong one.

His presidency would take a hit, one way or the other.

 

And then there was the other Kennedy.

Since the day Bobby was appointed Attorney General, he and J. Edgar Hoover didn’t get along.

But as soon as he took the seat in Washington, he made sure that Hoover knew who was the boss.

A man of Hoover’s years of experience now had to answer to a young pup, and this never sat right with him.

It was a rather large blow to his ego.

When Bobby took away certain powers from Hoover, like running comminique through the Attorney General’s office instead of through the FBI office directly, this made Bobby very impopular.

Because now Hoover had to answer to not just one, but to two Kennedys.

When Jack did the same to Allen Dulles of the CIA, the Kennedy brothers became marked men in the political circles.

All this has nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald.

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And if you still have doubts whether or not there was a plot against the Kennedy brothers, whether or not their presence in Washington was welcomed, I suggest you research the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 6, 1968.

After all, he was running for President of the United States too.

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And he was winning.

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