I was having a look through Wikipedia’s page on the JFK assassination, and saw this picture they had of a leaflet that was apparently distributed the day before the event.
I’m interested in who it says are friends of the U.S. - Cuba, Katanga, and Portugal. They seem like odd choices. Could someone explain why the people who created the leaflet (who appear to be rabid anti-communists) would choose these places as examples of friends betrayed by Kennedy?
“Previous marriage and divorce”?
WTF?
Kennedy was blamed by kooks on the far right for not sending in the Marines to support the bay of Pigs operation, thus “freeing” Cuba from the Communists.
When Belgium finally turned loose the Congo, the first leader was the Soviet supported Lumumba. The province of Katanga attempted to secede from Congo and kooks on the far right decided that the division was solely over “communist” leadership and that Kennedy should have sent in troops to that civil war so as to allow the Katanga separatists to secede (much as we so successfully did in Vietnam).
Portugal was a right-wing dictatorship (the longest lasting right-wing authoritarian government in the 20th century) with a number of foreign colonies. Following WWII, many of the independence movements were run or supported by communist groups. Kennedy “failed” to help Portugal suppress several of those insurgencies, (although I do not recall which one would have been most prominent in 1963–perhaps Angola).
(I often wonder how the world would have turned out had we followed George Kennan’s policies of containment instead of the interventionist policies that we practiced and if we had, further, supported all indepencdence movements, coopting the “communist” movement instead of feeding it with our direct opposition. However, our need to keep colonial powers on “our side” with regard to the Great Game we played with the U.S.S.R. put us on the wrong side of a lot of independence movements.)
India invaded and took over Portuguese Goa in 1961. The people behind the pamphlet might have felt Kennedy should have gone to war with India over this.
The creator probably could, but as far as I know, they were never identified. And in any case, given the passage of time, they are probably dead & buried by now.
Yep that would be my guess as well. link :
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Could this be from KKK types who were none too happy to have a Catholic president? “Encouraging race riots?” “Anti-Christian?” WTF?
JFK dated a divorcee named Durie Malcolm before he married Jackie. A rumor circulated early in Kennedy’s presidency that they actually got married in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1947 and that the Kennedys paid to hush it up, without a formal divorce or annulment, including the illegal removal of the marriage certificate from the courthouse. Seymour Hersch reports it as the truth in his very controversial book The Dark Side of Camelot. Hersch claims as his source Charles Spalding, supposedly a longtime Kennedy family friend. They never denied dating each other, but Kennedy denied the rumor of their marriage while he was alive, and Malcolm also denied it in a message to Hersch denying him an interview for the book.
From the Warren Commission Report (1964):
“Upholds the Supreme Court in its Anti-Christian rulings” probably refers to these cases:
Engel v. Vitale, 82 S. Ct. 1261 (1962)
Any kind of prayer, composed by public school districts, even nondenominational prayer, is unconstitutional government sponsorship of religion.
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
Court finds Bible reading over school intercom unconstitutional and Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203 (1963) — Court finds forcing a child to participate in Bible reading and prayer unconstitutional.
Kennedy appointed two justices to the Supreme Court: Byron White (1962) and Arthur Goldberg (1962).
As if any president has a choice in whether to uphold a Supreme Court ruling.
P.S. The author of the handbill, Robert A. Surrey, is alive and living in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Tell that to Andrew Jackson.
I saw on Storage Wars Texas where a lady bought a unit and it had a picture of John F. Kennedy wanted for treason. They took it to the Kennedy Museum where he was shot from and they said there were only 5000 made and the value of it was probably $1200.
