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Inducted into Squadron13's War Crimes Library in August of 2009

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JFK and the UNSPEAKABLE
by James Douglas
co-founder of Ground Zero Center for Non-Violent Action in Poulsbo, Washington.
Contact Ground Zero (link below) for information on how to get a copy of James book.

Selected excerpts from "JFK and the UNSPEAKABLE":
(selected) CHRONOLOGY 1961-1963

January 19, 1961: During a briefing with outgoing President Eisenhower, President-elect Kennedy "raises the possibility of the United States supporting a coalition government in Laos that would include Communists, Eisenhower says it would be far better to intervene militarily with U.S. troops"

January 20, 1961: President Kennedy delivers his Inaugural Address, balancing Cold War statements with the hope "that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction."

July 20, 1961: At a National Security Council Meeting, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and CIA director Allen Dulles present a plan for a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union "in late 1963, preceded by a period of heightened tensions." President Kennedy walks out of the meeting, saying to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "And we call ourselves the human race."

September 25, 1961: President Kennedy delivers a speech on disarmament at the United Nations in which he states: "The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us... It is therefore our intention to challenge the Soviet Union, not to an arms race, but to a peace race - to advance together step by step, stage by stage, until general and complete disarmament has been achieved."

April 13, 1963: President Kennedy, backed by overwhelming public support, forces the leaders of the steel industry to rescind a price increase that violates a Kennedy-brokered agreement to combat inflation. Kennedy's anti-business statements and beginning cancellation of the steel companies' defense contracts make him notorious among the power brokers of the military-industrial-complex.

June 10, 1963: President Kennedy delivers his Commencement Address at American University in Washington proposing, in effect, an end to the Cold War. Rejecting the goal of "a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war," Kennedy asks Americans to reexamine their attitudes towards war, especially in relation to the people of the Soviet Union, who suffered incomparable losses in World War II. Now nuclear war would be far worse: "All we have built, all we have worked for, would be destroyed in the first 24 hours." He announces his unilateral suspensions of further nuclear tests in the atmosphere, so as to promote "our primary long-range interest,""general and complete disarmament."

September 30, 1963: President Kennedy reopens a secret channel of communication between himself and Nikita Khrushchev, via Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and a Washington-based Soviet Secret Police agent. He thereby circumvents a State Department he can no longer trust for his communications with the Soviet leader.

CHAPTER ONE

As Albert Einstein said, with the unleashing of the power of the atom, humanity reached a new age. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima marked a crossroads: either we would end war or war would end us. In her reflections on Hiroshima in the September 1945 issue of the Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day wrote: "Mr. Truman was jubilant. President Truman. True man; what a strange name, come to think of it. We refer to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man. Truman is a true man of his time in what he was jubilant."
President Truman was aboard the cruiser Augusta, returning from the Potsdam conference, when he was informed of the United States' incineration of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb. Truman was exultant. He declared, "This is the greatest thing in history!" He went from person to person on the ships, officers and crew alike, telling them the great news like a town crier.Dorothy Day observed: "'Jubilant the newspapers said. Jubilate Deo. We have killed 318,000 Japanese."
Seventeen years later, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, another president, John F. Kennedy, under enormous pressure, almost committed the United States to a nuclear holocaust that would have multiplied the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb thousands of times. Kennedy's saving grace was that unlike Truman he recognized the evil of nuclear weapons. Kennedy resisted the Joints Chiefs of Staff and most of his civilian advisers, who pressured him for a preemptive attack on soviet missile sites in Cuba. Thanks to the sheer grace of God, to Kennedy's resistance to his advisers, and to Nikita Khrushchev's willingness to retreat, humanity survived the crisis.
Kennedy, however, survived it for only a little more than a year. As we shall see, because of his continuing turn from nuclear war toward a vision of peace in the thirteen months remaining to him, he was executed by the powers that be...



Another review:
Here's what Daniel Ellsberg says about James Douglas, "Douglas presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy -- at odds with his initial Cold War stance--that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA."
--Daniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

for more information on Jim Douglas or his book, contact the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action he co-founded decades ago, http://www.gzcenter.org

"JFK and the UNSPEAKABLE" is a permanent addition to the Squadron13 War Crimes Library.


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