James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable, recounts how Patrice Lumumba was assassinated just three days before J.F.K. took office, and where Fidel Castro was when he learned of the murder in Dallas.
Author and researcher James Douglass spoke to the J.F.K. Speech Committee on Nov. 22, the 62nd anniversary of John F. Kennedy‘s assassination.
The program begins with the full replay of Kennedy’s June 1963 commencement address to American University in Washington, a controversial speech in the nation’s capital as he proposed detente with the Soviet Union, saying the Soviet people were just as human as Americans. He was dead five months later.
Douglass tells the story of the assassination of Congo’s first democratically-elected president, Patrice Lumumba — whom Kennedy had high hopes for — three days before the American president was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1961. The C.I.A. feared Kennedy would release Lumumba from prison, Douglass says.
He also tells how Cuban leader Fidel Castro learned of Kennedy’s killing in the words of a French journalist who was with Castro at the time. Kennedy had sent a message to Castro through the journalist seeking reconciliation.
Meanwhile the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. were surveilling Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy‘s meetings with a K.G.B. agent in Washington through whom J.F.K. communicated diplomatic messages to Nikita Khrushchev.
President John F. Kennedy at the American University commencement on June 10, 1963. (Cecil Stoughton/JFK Library/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
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The J.F.K. Speech Committee meeting and discussion contains/reveals historical facts of which too many Americans have no knowledge, making this presentation very valuable for properly educating Americans on their nation’s most important-but-suppressed moments of history.
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Peace.
If one wants to understand this in depth, one might look up his close associate, Mary Pinchot Meyer and the effort, including her murder by the CIA, to find her diary.
Thank you for sharing this talk by Jim Douglass. What is the original website it was posted on? I would like to contact them, and see their next talks.
NATO was established to destroy the Soviet Union/Russia. As citizens of NATO countries we must demand the end of NATO. Only then will we have more peace in the world.
NATO was to have been disbanded after the Cold War. And still it exists. Just like the Income Tax was temporary and still it exists.
Once they start breathing there is no euthanasia.
This is fitting today as it’s looking more and more like the Trump regime will soon embark on its own version of the Bay of Pigs invasion, only this time in Venezuela, and likely with air cover.
Please help us all.