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    JFK 51st Anniversary

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    DEALEY PLAZA UK

    Commemorative Address on the

    51st Anniversary of the Death of

    President John F. Kennedy

    Read by Barry Keane, DPUK Vice-Chairman

    at the Kennedy Memorial London

    November 22nd 2014

    We are here to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but there are some who say, after more than 50 years, that it’s time to consign President Kennedy to history, time to lay the controversy surrounding his assassination to rest. For we will never know the truth about his death; so does it really matter now? I believe it does and the truth will be revealed, it must, for we owe it to JFK’s memory.

    The world is very different from what it was in the early 1960’s; but the ideals and sentiments that John F. Kennedy stood for are still relevant 51 years after his death and indeed for all time.

    Mankind seems to be destined to forget the lessons that history teaches us, and we continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. President Kennedy believed this did not have to be the case.

    On June 10th 1963, at the American University in Washington, John F. Kennedy gave what was perhaps his finest speech, possibly the finest any leader has given. He spoke a few months after the world stood at the brink of nuclear war.

    His topic was world peace, not as an abstract concept, but genuine peace, the kind of peace which makes life on earth worth living.

    Among the words he used were a few lines which are rich in their simplicity as well as their significance.

    Speaking about the animosity between nations, he said:-

    “…… let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved, and if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

    For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.”

    President Kennedy’s own mortality became only too apparent a few months after he expressed those sentiments. But his words and his ideals are immortal.

    I believe the speech he gave on that day should be compulsive reading for all the world’s leaders.

    President Kennedy died before his time, but his ideals and vision of peace did not die with him. We, and future generations are the heirs to his legacy, and we all have a responsibility to ensure that those ideals and vision are realized and that his tragic death was not in vain.

    JFK's head covering at Parkland

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted · Edited by Barry Keane

    I find this description of the head covering that was done at Parkland, from William Manchester’s “The Death of a President”, page 294, intriguing, as it conflicts with Bethesda.

    “He (undertaker Vernon Oneal) was concerned about the Britannia’s pale satin upholstery; it was immaculate now, but could easily be stained. Motioning to Orderly David Sanders, Oneal directed him to line the inside of the coffin with a sheet of plastic. Nurse Doris Nelson and Diana Bowron swooped around, wrapping the body in a second plastic sheet. Then the undertaker asked Doris to bring him a huge rubber sheath and a batch of rubber bags. Placing the sheath over Sander’s plastic lining, he carefully cut the bags to size, enveloping the President’s head in them one by one until he had made certain that there would be seven protected layers of rubber and two plastic sheets between the damaged scalp and the green satin.”

    Paul Craig Roberts on the Ukraine and Cuban Missile Crises

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    We must heed the lessons of history. The Cuban Missile Crisis came to a peaceful because of the courage of JFK and to a large extent RFK.

    Unfortunately leaders of their calibre are rare and their deaths are all the more tragic because of that fact. This generation should be in no doubt that they were truly great men. Our very existence stands testament to their courage.

    give khruschev some credit, too

    And let's not forget the Russian submarine officer who voted against his two colleagues (who apparently believed that WW III had already started; the submarine was out of radio contact) and refused to authorize the firing of a nuclear-tipped torpedo at the U.S. destroyer that was "depth charging it" with small, but loud, explosive devices.

    Now that's what I call a real close call.

    --Tommy :sun

    All credit to the Russian. The difference is he didn't get his brains blown out of his head as a result of his humanity!

    COPA 2013 Presentation

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    Greg

    I agree entirely with what you say here.

    "I am very glad that the message I hoped to convey was not lost in the "hype" created by the media and officialdom. The pomp and

    circumstance associated with their pseudo "celebration" of his life was grossly inappropriate to the day memorializing the 50th year

    since his barbaric murder took place in their city. Indeed, any and all local celebrations of his life and legacy should take place yearly

    on any day (or weekend) EXCEPT November 22 and in a more fitting location OUTSIDE of Dealey Plaza, but within the city of Dallas

    fully sponsored by the Texas Historical Society.

    November 22nd 1963 should forever remain a day that lives in infamy, much as December 7th 1941 so remains."

    COPA 2013 Presentation

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted · Edited by Barry Keane

    Thanks Greg

    We must not let this event be forgotten. John F.Kennedy was a great man, of that there is no doubt in my mind. October 1962 was the turning point in history and we have JFK to thank for our lives, it's as simply as that. God bless the memory of that man!

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