ASSASSINATIONS AND CONSPIRACIES (True Crime) by Castleden Rodney

Author:Castleden, Rodney [Castleden, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

John F. Kennedy

1963

On 22 november, 1963, after barely 1,000 days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot dead by a sniper in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man ever to be elected President of the United States – and the youngest to die. He was born in Massachusetts on 29 May, 1917. After graduating from Harvard in 1940 the following year he entered the Navy. In 1943, his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer and, despite sustaining serious injuries, Kennedy led the survivors to safety. After the war, he became a Democratic congressman, advancing to the senate in 1953. In 1960 he became president by a narrow margin.

Kennedy’s economic programme launched America on its longest sustained expansion since the Second World War. He responded to demands for racial equality, calling for new civil rights legislation. He cherished the idealistic hope that America would resume its historic mission as a nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. Aid was given to the Third World, but a major confrontation with the Soviet Union intervened, in particular in Cuba. Kennedy allowed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba from America in an attempt to bring down the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. That was a catastrophic failure.

The Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy responded by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and taking new initiatives in space. The Russians tried to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a blockade on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. In a dangerous and still-controversial confrontation between Kennedy and Khrushchev, the Russians backed down and took the missiles away. Kennedy had in common with an earlier American president, Abraham Lincoln, a commitment to the fair treatment of black people, an ability to make a lot of enemies as well as friends – and a grand vision of America’s destiny.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed President John F. Kennedy, was a very different character from John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed President Abraham Lincoln. Until that fateful moment when he killed Kennedy, Oswald had achieved nothing at all. It was as if that was the only thing he could do to make people remember him, as if that was his only way into history.

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans in October 1939. His father died two months before he was born. For a time he was left in an orphanage, and after that he moved from place to place with his mother Marguerite, because she found it difficult to hold down a job. By the age of eighteen, Oswald had lived at an astonishing 22 different addresses and he had attended 12 different schools.

As a boy, Lee Oswald became a persistent truant, a street kid, missing 80 percent of his high school classes. He grew up rootless, insecure, and unsocialized, he was always the odd one out. When he was 14 all the symptoms of a disturbed personality were apparent when he was remanded in youth custody.

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