- Larry Schnapf, Bill Simpich, et al to send a letter to the President asking him to issue
an executive order instructing the agencies to release the rest of the records - The postponement of the release of the final batch of files by President Trump
- The archivist made a request for the postponement of the release of these files
- Public Interest Declassification Board to work with the National Archives to review the postponement requests
- The letter will arrive at the White House on Monday
- The upcoming 20th anniversary of 9/11
- How and why the release of the files was postponed by President Trump
- The archivist has no authority under the JFK Records Act
- No clear and convincing evidence of harm as a result of the disclosure has been produced
- The criteria for witholding certain records was that they did not receive approval from the CIA!!!
- In essence, they have eliminated the JFK Records Act
- The archivist has already received requests for further postponement
- Starting Monday, please call White House @ 202-456-1111
- Ask the President to instruct the agencies to release the remaining JFK records
- Call the White House weekly
- Call the House Oversight Committee @ 202-225-5051 asking them to conduct oversight hearings
- Call the Senate Homeland Security Committee @ 202-224-4751
- The archivist is supposed to give his recommendations to the President on Sep 26, 2021
- Video record your call and post it to youtube and JFK groups on facebook
- JFK assassination and Oliver Stone’s documentary on the cover of Paris Match magazine
- The article on Oliver Stone is titled Oliver Stone : C’est la CIA qui a tiré sur le président
- Google translation: “It was the CIA that shot the president” !!!
- Part B: Jim DiEugenio; beginning at 48:55
- At Kennedys and King
- Article: Jonathan Chait meets Michael Kazin by Jim DiEugenio
- Article: The Death of the Tumbling Magic-Bullet Theory by Benjamin Cole
- Jim DiEugenio reviews Josiah Thompson’s Last Second in Dallas: Part 1, Part 2
- JFK ranked 8th in the Presidential Historians Survey 2021
- FREE Borrowable Ebook: Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties by Harris Wofford
- The indictment of Shelby Jackson, the Secretary of Education for Lousiana
- The Kennedys and Civil Rights: How the MSM Continues to Distort History – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 by Jim
- Kennedy began affirmative action in March 1961
- Jonathan Chait says that JFK bungled his way into the missile crisis
- Book: Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case by Jim DiEugenio: Paperback, Kindle
- Chapter 3 of the book titled Bay of Pigs: Kennedy vs. Dulles
- The bay of pigs invasion was designed to fail
- Kennedy fired Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell and Charles Cabell fired after bay of pigs
- Khrushchev gave Cuba a first-strike capability
- The Cubans even had tactical nukes aka battlefield nuclear weapons
- The U-2 pilot Rudolf Anderson was the only casualty of the missile crisis
- Video: Thirteen Days Theatrical Movie Trailer (starring Kevin Costner)
- Stream Thirteen Days movie: Prime, Google, Vudu
- FREE Borrowable Ebook: The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest May
- MSM wants to create the public opinion that there was no big change when LBJ took over
- Kennedy passed the education bill in Oct 1963
- Book: The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen:
Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook - Article: The Shrinking of Lyndon Johnson by Clay Risen
- Video: Selma Movie – Official Trailer
- The ‘War on Poverty’ wasn’t started by LBJ but rather by JFK
- Chait promotes the myth that LBJ was continuing Kennedy’s policies in Vietnam
- SECDEF (Secretary of Defense) Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in May 1963
- The McNamara-Taylor Report
- Gen. Krulak and Col. Prouty actually wrote the McNamara-Taylor Report
- Johnson knew that Kennedy was withdrawing from Vietnam
- “I always thought it was foolish for you to make any statements about withdrawing. I thought
it was bad psychologically. But you and the president thought otherwise, and I just sat silent.” – LBJ to Mcnamara - There was not one American combat troop in Vietnam when Kennedy was inaugurated or on the day he was killed
- LBJ had Mcnamara rewrite the report
- The new report went against withdrawing American advisors in Vietnam
- “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do
what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves” – Lyndon Johnson prior to becoming the President - Neither The Washington Post nor The New York Times published
the chapter titled Phased Withdrawal of US Troops; 1962-1964 - FREE Download Ebooks: The Pentagon Papers (The Senator Gravel Edition): Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5
- Book: Death of a Generation by Howard Jones: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- FREE Borrowable Ebook: Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein
- FREE BORROWABLE Ebook: American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson & Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
- FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass
- Book: Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived by James Blight, et al: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- NSAM 288
- NSAM 288 listed 94 specific air targets in the North
- Johnson had planned to send American troops to Vietnam in Feb 1965
- The first 3500 troops landed in Vietnam in March 1965
- By the end of the year, the number of troops had increased to 100,000
- FREE Borrowable Ebook: The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam by Tom Wells
- Mcnamara didn’t do anything to stop the publication of the Pentagon Papers
- The myth of continuity between Kennedy and Johnson was begun by LBJ himself
- And continued by two hack writers: David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan
- Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest and Sheehan’s A Bright Shining Lie
- Sheehan and Halberstam were hawks
- They thought Kennedy was too timid
- “Bombers and helicopters and napalm are a help, but they are not enough”
– David Halberstam in his book The Making of a Quagmire (1965, Random House) - “The lesson to be learned from Vietnam is that we must get in earlier, be shrewder,
and force the other side to practice the self-deception” (ibid) - Sheehan and Halberstam wanted John Paul Vann to run the war
- OPLAN 34A and the DESOTO (DeHaven Special Operations off TsingtaO) patrols
- Johnson used the Tonkin gulf incident as the casus belli
- Johnson also reversed Kennedy’s policies in the Dominican Republic
- LBJ sent 25,000 marines to stop Juan Bosch from regaining power
- Senator William Fulbright
- The title of an article written by Michael Kazin:
“On the Fiftieth Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination Don’t Bother with the Tributes” - Please tweet to Jonathan Chait
- Oliver Stone’s documentary series JFK Revisited is selling very well in Europe
- Video: Oliver Stone on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass in Cannes 2021; Standing Ovations
- Oliver Stone refers to Jim DiEugenio a “wonk”
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