60 years ago today, on November 22, 1963, the CIA assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated, and changed the course of U.S. policy and istory. Thus began the installation of the intensified U.S. surveillance state.
JFK was clearly no leftist, but he was moving rapidly in a anti-imperialist direction. He’d commented that would dismantle the CIA. He’d planned, he said, to pull all U.S. forces out of Vietnam.
Several newer books on the subject are well worth reading in re-assessing JFK and what his assassination meant to everything that followed: David Talbot’s The Devils Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government and Peter Janney”s Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and their Vision for World Peace.
In 2011, when this post was written, we lost two of the stalwarts exposing the JFK and other assassinations — Dick Gregory, and Mark Lane. These books remain very much worth reading today, having made enormous contributions to understanding the kind of country we live in.
Below, is a photoshopped satire (made before computerized manipulations of photos became widespread) of the iconic photo from November 24, 1963, when gangster Jack Ruby murdered JFK assassination patsy Lee Harvey Oswald, in the Dallas police station as he was being transferred, despite Oswald being surrounded by police and FBI. To the end, Oswald maintained his innocence of killing JFK.
The Oswald Band’s last live performance, November 24, 1963.
