JFK and the Unspeakable

"We can know the essential truth of President John F. Kennedy's assassination . . . .

"Thanks to the pioneer investigators into President Kennedy's murder, the truth-telling of many witnesses, and a recent flood of documents through the JFK Records Act, the truth is available. Not only can the conspiracy that most Americans have thought was likely now be seen in detail. Not only can we know what happened in Dallas. More important than filling in the crime scene, we can know the larger historical context of the assassination--why President Kennedy was murdered. We can know the liberating truth. . .

"For turning to peace with his enemy (and ours) Kennedy was murdered by a power we cannot easily describe. Its unspeakable reality can be traced, suggested, recognized and pondered. . .

"Is our wariness of the truth of JFK's assassination rooted in our fear of truth's consequences, to him and to us? For President Kennedy, a deepening commitment to dialogue with our enemies proved fatal. If we are unwilling as citizens to deal with that critical precedent, what twenty-first century president will have the courage on our behalf to resist the powers that be and choose dialogue instead of war in response to our current enemies?"

----From the Preface of "JFK and the Unspeakable," by James Douglass,
published by Orbis Books, New York, 2008


We must know the truth about John F. Kennedy's murder, not only so that he may have justice but in order to set American history back on its proper tracks. Our President was assassinated before us and unless we know why and how and who, it can happen again. Something is stirring: Caroline Kennedy, at age 51 wants to enter the U.S. Senate; three important new books on the crime in Dallas have been published in the past 18 months, and, perhaps, there is no longer a danger from those who caused the President's death.

Let us keep on with the good work of truth-telling, not only to give full and complete honor to Jack Kennedy himself, but that it may be a protective grace for Barack Obama.