James DiEugenio Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 This is an essay I wrote for Probe Magazine back in the late nineties. It is nice complement to my article on Hammarskjold and the Congo. If you read them both you will get a good overview of the whole Congo Crisis, which I think is not given anywhere hear the attention it should in the critical community. In this piece you will get a good overview of how JFK formulated his foreign policy ideas from 1951 onward. And how they differed with Eisenhower, Nixon and Dulles. http://www.ctka.net/FromTheArchive.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Very good overview. I still remember my leftist dad being so upset at the death of Lumumba, and seething at Dulles. But I don't think he ever got the full picture on JFK. Very few of my contemporaries are the least bit familiar with this Congo story, or with the anti- establishment positions of JFK on anti-colonial movements. I can guess that mainstream media then did not cover the story adequately, certainly not prominently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 Absolutely correct. To the point that the MSM tried to make a bad guy out of Lumumba and a good guy out of Moise Tshombe. Kennedy did what he did mostly out of his reverence for Hammarskjold I think. And his suspicions about his death, which he likely relayed to Truman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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