Re: Still, a few things can be linked to make sense out of the [JFK] assassination & Viet Nam.
After reading Pr R. Woods' exhaustive bio on LBJ, I've come to think that the main reason behind the assassination of JFK was the latter's civil rights agenda... 1960s America looked very much like apartheid South Africa. White Southerners deeply resented the intrusion of a Northeastern, Catholic dynasty (Joseph, Jack, and Bobby) into their century-old way of life. Hence Pr Woods rightly talks of a "Second Reconstruction" from 1964 on.... The desegregation of bus transport, schools, universities, followed by the Voting Rights Act, Fair Housing, Medicare (which was, at the same time, a social issue AND a civil rights one, since it called for desegregating healthcare facilities) --taken all together, it was just too much for Southern states to cope with.... Yet, JFK would have none of LBJ's misgivings. With his 1964 re-election in sight, JFK told LBJ defiantly: "if I have to win over two states ONLY, it's gonna be Massachusetts (his native state) and TEXAS!"
Vietnam and Israel's secret endeavor to turn Dimona into a military program merely compounded JFK's problems with the US rightwing establishment....
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