Why JFK's Own Wife Said He Would Have Prevented Vietnam

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  @BehindTheDynasty-h9v · 9 days ago · pinned

  📌 SOURCES<br><br>Jacqueline Kennedy oral history recordings with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., spring 1964 — released September 2011 by the Kennedy Library<br>Caroline Kennedy &amp; Michael Beschloss, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hyperion, 2011) — book and 8 CDs of original recordings<br>National Security Action Memorandum 263, signed October 11, 1963 — withdrawal of 1,000 military advisors by end of 1963<br><a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKNSF/342/JFKNSF-342-013">https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKNSF/342/JFKNSF-342-013</a><br>National Security Action Memorandum 273, signed November 26, 1963 — effectively reversed NSAM 263&apos;s withdrawal trajectory<br><a href="https://www.lbjlibrary.org/">https://www.lbjlibrary.org/</a><br>Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7, 1964 — Joint Resolution of Congress, H.J. Res. 1145<br>Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Times Books, 1995) — McNamara&apos;s acknowledgment that Kennedy was moving toward disengagement<br>Robert F. Kennedy interviews (1964–1968) on his brother&apos;s Vietnam intentions — documented in the RFK oral history at the JFK Library<br>Vietnam War casualties: 58,220 U.S. military deaths — National Archives, Vietnam Veterans Memorial<br><a href="https://www.nps.gov/vive/">https://www.nps.gov/vive/</a><br>Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. — Pulitzer Prize winner (A Thousand Days, 1966), Special Assistant to President Kennedy<br>Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died May 19, 1994 — biographical record, JFK Presidential Library<br><a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/">https://www.jfklibrary.org/</a>

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  @SweetT77777 · 4 days ago (edited)

  Jacqueline Kennedy didn&apos;t say anything until after her death because she knew it would cost her the same as her husband before her and wouldn&apos;t have changed a single outcome either. The men in charge made sure they got EXACTLY what they wanted at the expense of ANYONE who in their way. It&apos;s not about right or wrong here, but literally life or death consequences for speaking up.

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  @DarlitaStephens · 10 days ago (edited)

  That&apos;s one of the reasons those sharks in the US government killed him (Oswald was just the patsy....there was more than one shooter. &nbsp;It was a conspiracy, and I&apos;ve known this since 1995, when I first researched JFK Jr. and his family...and it was not the first conspiracy on US soil and damn sure was not the last.). &nbsp;War is big business....a serious money maker. &nbsp;He opposed the Vietnam War; he not only wanted Civil Rights for all Americans but equality, &nbsp;and his diplomacy prevented full-fledged nuclear war with Russia during the Bay of Pigs drama down in Cuba, where the warmongers in our government actually thought that he was not only weak for not going initiating a nuclear war, but some even accused him of being a communist. &nbsp;It was crazy. &nbsp;The devils in our government also didn&apos;t like the directiont he wanted to take the country in....they just didn&apos;t want it. &nbsp;He was too progressive, especially for the time in which he lived. &nbsp;I fully believe that he was lured to Dallas so that they could kill him...with even his wingman, VP Johnson, being in on it. &nbsp;They murdered him because he was just too decent. &nbsp;THAT&apos;S what it boils down to. &nbsp;IDK what lies they told to have me sent to Eagleville, but I know that I was lured there so that they could try to kill me.<br><br>That&apos;s what tends to happen in this country to the profoundly decent, &nbsp;progressive public figures....we get destroyed. &nbsp;Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK Jr., Malcom X (after his epiphany in Mecca), Lennon, Gabby Gifford (she survived the assassination attempt but she almost didn&apos;t), and me (I think I&apos;ll be dead within the next 2-3 years MAX).

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  @erikgordon3884 · 4 days ago

  The U.S. Military death count in Vietnam the day JFK stood at 244 and would escalate to over 58,000 by 1975 when Saigon fell to North Vietnam later to be renamed Ho Chi Minh City

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  @jimmcaleenan7243 · 10 days ago

  JFK didn&apos;t trust the military and would pulled out of Vietnam it&apos;s hartbreaking

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  @DeanaHills · 3 days ago

  I AGREE KENNEDY WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WANTED OUT OF VIETNAM. IF YOU LOOK BACK FROM TODAYS PERSPECTIVE, KENNEDY(JOHN) WAS NAIVE, INEXPERIENCED, LAID BACK, TOOK HIS TIME DOING THINGS THAT WERE VISIBLY IMPORTANT, FAILED TO BE ASSERTIVE TO HIS STAFF, ALLOWED HIS STAFF TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS WEAKNESS OF FAILURE OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AROUND HIM, WHERE HE HAD TO ADMIT THAT HE FAILED, AND HAD TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT HE HAD NEVER DONE BEFORE IN HIS LIFE DUE TO HIS FATHERS AMBITION. HE LIVED THROUGH HIS FATHERS AMBITION UNTIL HE GOT HIS WAKE UP CALL. HE DID NOT READ WHAT WAS PUT IN FRONT OF HIM FROM THE PEOPLE IN HIS CABNIT, HE NEVER PUSHED BACK PUBLICLY, I.E THE PAY OF PIGS MEMO FROM ALLAN DULLES, HE DID NOT READ IT AND TELL ALLAN DULLES NO HE WILL NOT SIGN IT. HE AGREED WITH IT BUT DID NOT READ IT, THUS THE FAILURE OF THE PAY OF PIGS. HE WAS LESS ENGAGED WITH THE PUBLIC ON VIETNAM WAR BY NOT COMMING FOWARD OR BEING MORE OPEN ON HIS PLANS OF VIETNAM TO THE PUBLIC. FORMER PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES HARRY S. TRUMAN AND DEWIGHT D. EISONHOWER KNEW HE (KENNEDY)WAS NAIVE AND INEXPERIENCED BUT WERE PROFESSIONAL BACK THEN WHO DID NOT PUBLICLY ADMIT IT WHO KEPT THEIR VIEW ON KENNEDY TO THEMSELVES. IN MY OPINION, LOOKING BACK ON HISTORY, IF KENNEDY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE OPEN AND ASERTIVE TO PUBLIC BY THE USE OF THE MEDIA OR WALTER CRONKIKE ON HIS PLANS OF WITHDRAWING BY EXPLAINING HIS EXACT PLANS ASERTIVELY TO WITHDRAW FROM VIETNAM IN 1963, THAN MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE CHANGED THE OUTCOME OR THE DECISIONS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO VOTE NO ON THE GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION OF 1964 THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR THAT COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE DEATHS OF 58,468 US SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. LYDON B. JOHNSON PLAYED ON KENNEDY&apos;S LACK OF PUBLIC OPENESS OR TRANSPARANCY AND AS A RESULT, HE (JOHNSON) USED HIS RESIDENTIAL POWER TO ESCALATE THE VIETNAM WAR. THE PENTAGON PAPERS EXPOSED IT YEARS LATER.