President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas 60 years in the past right now – on Nov. 22, 1963.
And it’s been all downhill since then.
It doesn’t matter what you consider JFK’s presidency – I’d say he was okay, however not nice – however who can argue that the nation hasn’t modified for the more serious since that horrible Friday?
In the aftermath, a lot of the nation’s elite – the very best and the brightest – had a collective nervous breakdown, and so they and their descendants have by no means recovered. They now careen from one “existential” disaster to the subsequent – one hysteria after one other, many years of panic, from international cooling to international warming to acid rain proper as much as the current.
Trump! COVID! George Floyd! Trump!
The nation stumbles on, increasingly resembling, within the prescient phrases of Richard M. Nixon, “a pitiful, helpless giant.”
It’s simple to overstate how a lot that one assassination has modified all the things. As Adam Smith noticed after a British defeat in 1777: “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
Which if true could be very fortunate for us. I feel not less than a few of the nation’s ongoing nervous breakdown is expounded to the truth that no person nonetheless actually is aware of for certain who killed JFK.
I do know, we’re imagined to consider it was the unique lone wolf, Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist. But I don’t consider it, and neither did Lyndon Johnson, for that matter. (It’s on the White House tapes when LBJ is speaking to Sen. Richard Russell.)
Who did it? The CIA? The Cubans? Even LBJ has had books written about him as a suspect, since he was apparently going to be dumped from the ticket in 1964. My cash could be on the Mob, for double-crossing them after they went all out for JFK in 1960, however that’s simply me.
As time has gone on, much less and fewer consideration has been paid to this anniversary. The days of Kennedy hagiography as a cottage business are lengthy over.
Attention spans are brief. For most individuals, JFK shouldn’t be inside residing reminiscence. He’s not a up to date. Indeed, not one of the Kennedys are, which is why the final Kennedy to run for elective workplace in Massachusetts misplaced to, of all individuals, Ed Markey – a Ok-Mart Kennedy, as we used to name these knock-offs with the faux accents and the swept-forward hair and all the remainder of the affectations.
But there’s one other issue at work within the declining curiosity within the Kennedys. The reality is, JFK now not matches comfortably into the trendy Democrat pantheon.
As a matter of reality, if he have been alive right now, JFK wouldn’t even be capable to get on the poll to run in a Democrat major in Massachusetts, not to mention prevail over a wokester’s wokester. He might by no means get 15 p.c of the vote at a state Democrat conference that he’d have to make the first.
Maybe JFK’s most well-known quote was: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
That’s virtually hate speech for Democrats these days. He additionally talked in regards to the “long twilight struggle” – that means, the Cold War, towards Communism. Nowadays, within the Democrat get together, the lengthy, twilight wrestle towards the US and the individuals Kennedy represented.
The final time Kennedy got here to Boston was in October 1963, an enormous fundraiser on the Commonwealth Armory for the Democrat governors of New England. His room was on the Boston Sheraton. He had his 19-year-old White House girlfriend Mimi Alford come up from Wheaton College. The president requested her to carry out oral intercourse on his little brother, Sen. Ted Kennedy.
She declined.
Now, not removed from the Sheraton, the state is planning to place up a whole lot or hundreds of unlawful aliens from components unknown, lots of them little doubt criminals, only a few of them planning to work anytime quickly.
Does anybody assume Jack Kennedy would assume open borders was a good suggestion? He wasn’t that a lot of a liberal, in any case.
You’re not supposed to speak about it, however he was a pal of Sen. Joe McCarthy. He gave $1,000 money to Richard Nixon when he was operating for the Senate in 1950. He voted towards statehood for Hawaii.
He palled round with a few of the greatest segregationists in Congress, all Democrats. He used to go all the way down to pre-Castro Havana with Sen. George Smathers of Florida, one other Democrat, and benefit from the most interesting hookers Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante needed to supply.
He spent a lot of his time in Palm Beach, the place blacks have been prohibited by legislation from opening property till not less than 1962.
In November 1951, Congressman JFK addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce:
“We cannot abolish the poverty and want… There is just not enough money in the world to relieve the poverty of all the millions of this world… It is not only beyond our grasp, but is beyond our reach.”
The subsequent 12 months, whereas JFK was operating for the Senate, the New Republic reported on a speech he gave at Harvard through which he stated:
“… that he could see no reason why we were fighting in Korea, he thought that sooner or later we would ‘have to get all those foreigners off our backs’ in Europe… that he rather respected Joe McCarthy and thought he ‘knew Joe pretty well, and he may have something….”
Sixty years later, they’re not making Democrats like John F. Kennedy anymore. And no matter his shortcomings have been, that’s too rattling dangerous.
America was quite a bit higher nation earlier than he was shot, and the Democrats have been quite a bit higher get together.
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U.S. President John Kennedy flashed this huge smile whereas conferring with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany on Nov. 22, 1961 on the White House in Washington. The Chief Executive and his household plan to depart later right now to spend Thanksgiving Day at Hyannis Port. (AP Photo/Bryon Rollins)
The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races towards the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas, Tx., Nov. 22, 1963. With secret service agent Clinton Hill driving on the again of the automotive, Mrs. John Connally, spouse of the Texas governor, bends over her wounded husband, and Mrs. Kennedy leans over the president. (AP Photo/Justin Newman)
Lee Harvey Oswald sits in police custody shortly after being arrested for assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby, a neighborhood membership proprietor, as he was being transferred to a metropolis jail. (AP Photo)
Passersby stand exterior a tv studio in Washington, D.C., as they obtain information of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)
Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected murderer of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holds up his manacled fingers at police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the place he’s held for questioning, on Nov. 22, 1963. New testing on the kind of ammunition used within the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions on whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, in keeping with a examine by researchers at Texas A&M University. (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman)
Seen by the limousine’s windshield because it proceeds alongside Elm Street previous the Texas School Book Depository, President John F. Kennedy seems to boost his hand towards his head inside seconds of being fatally shot in Dallas, Nov 22, 1963. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the President’s forearm in an effort to help him. Gov. John Connally of Texas, who was within the entrance seat, was additionally shot. (AP Photo/James W. (Ike) Altgens)
Sen. Edward Kennedy lays a white rose on the foot of a British memorial to his brother, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on twenty fifth anniversary of his assassination, at Runnymede, close to London, Nov. 22, 1988. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)
FILE – In this June 3, 1961, file picture, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy discuss within the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in a suburb of Vienna. The assembly was a part of a sequence of talks throughout their summit conferences in Vienna. Fifty years after the Cuban missile disaster, the National Archives in Washington has pulled collectively paperwork and secret White House recordings to indicate the general public how President John F. Kennedy deliberated to avert nuclear struggle. The exhibit opens Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, to recount the showdown with the Soviet Union. It is named “To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” (AP Photo)
FILE — Surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he’s led down a hall of the Dallas police station, Nov. 23, 1963, for one more spherical of questioning in reference to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The life insurance coverage coverage on the person who assassinated Kennedy paid out lower than $900 to his mom, however the demise declare she filed to get that sum has bought at public sale for nearly $80,000. The unique Notice of Insurance Claim for Lee Harvey Oswald bought for $79,436 on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Boston-based RR Auction stated in an announcement. (AP Photo/File)
President John F. Kennedy makes a nationwide tv speech October 22, 1962, from Washington. He introduced a naval blockade of Cuba till Soviet missiles are eliminated. (AP Photo)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, proper, confers together with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1, 1962 in the course of the buildup of navy tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that turned Cuban missile disaster later that month. (AP Photo)
President John F. Kennedy as he appeared on a tv set in New York City Oct. 22, 1962 informing the American individuals of his determination to arrange a naval blockade towards Cuba. (AP Photo)
FILE — Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kennedy and spouse Jacqueline in cockpit of their sailboat, Victura, at Hyannis Port, Mass., Aug. 7, 1960. The senator took benefit of excellent climate to get in some crusing earlier than leaving for Washington. “The First Kennedys,” a brand new e-book that sheds mild on the impoverished immigrants from Ireland whose descendants would come with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, presents hope to America’s newest arrivals from Afghanistan, Ukraine and different international scorching spots. (AP Photo, File)
As seen in ‘JFK: Through the Looking Glass,’ President John F. Kennedy rides within the motorcade by Dallas shortly earlier than his assassination. (Courtesy of Shout! Factory)
FILE – In this Dec. 6, 1960, file picture, President Dwight Eisenhower poses with President-elect John F. Kennedy on the White House in Washington, earlier than a non-public convention. Researchers on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 2020 have discovered a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at White House occasions. The letters shed new perception into Eisenhower’s handoff to Kennedy early in 1961, and the strikingly completely different attitudes that folks held about alcohol at official capabilities. (AP Photo, File)
President John F. Kennedy speaks at a press convention August 1, 1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)
John F. Kennedy, left, and his brother, Robert Kennedy, are proven collectively on July 10, 1960 in an unknown location. (AP Photo)
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A portrait of the Kennedy household as they sit within the shade of some timber, Hyannis, Massachussetts, Nineteen Thirties. Seated from left are: Patricia Kennedy (1926 – 2006), Robert Kennedy (1925 – 1968), Rose Kennedy (1890 – 1995), John F Kennedy (1917 – 1963), Joseph P Kennedy Sr (1888 – 1969) with Edward Kennedy on his lap; standing from left are: Joseph P Kennedy Jr (1915 – 1944), Kathleen Kennedy (1920 – 1948), Rosemary Kennedy (1918 – 2005), Eunice Kennedy (rear, in polka dots), and Jean Kennedy.
FILE – In this Nov. 22, 1963 file picture, President John F. Kennedy waves from his automotive in a motorcade in Dallas. Riding with Kennedy are First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, proper, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left. The National Archives launched the John F. Kennedy assassination information on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, File)
President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural deal with after taking the oath of workplace on the Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 1961. (AP Photo)
Lt. John F. Kennedy, skipper of PT boat 109, is proven stress-free within the South Pacific, 1943. Six many years after Aaron Kumana helped rescue younger U.S. naval officer John F. Kennedy from Japanese seize in 1943, the U.S. Navy formally acknowledged its debt to the Solomon Islander Wednesday Aug. 22, 2007, who for years was believed lifeless and never honored. (AP Photo)
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