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13 thoughts on “WATCH: Newly unearthed audio of JFK discussing events surrounding Vietnam war”
Ann Furr
I truly believe Kennedy got us in the Viet Nam war and Johnson inherited it and Nixon had to save the USA “face” and get us out of there. It’s very sad for the many young soldiers
Wow!! You need to study your history. The French preceded us and were massacred. We sent advisers in in the late 50s( pre JFK) in an attempt to fire up the South Vietnamese troops- these were Special Forces and CIA.
Kennedy wanted to get out and was in the process and planned to vacate in his 2 nd term. Didn’t happen.
Bell helicopters were made in Texas, rdd Ed member where LBJ was from.
War is all about money.
PERIOD.
Kennedy and his Green Berets loved playing cowboy. Kennedy made it “patriotic” to fight in Viet-nam.
His real legacy is not anywhere near the calculated virtuosity of his legend. Plus JFK is the one who signed the EO allowing government employees to unionize – the even greater tragedy today than Vietnam.
Anyone draft age during those early years has very different memories of the live Kennedy, compared to the post-mortem mythic JFK. He was very jingoistic.
A week after JFK was buried Jackie had an interview with Life mag reporter & had an extensive interview and spun the narrative of Camelot from whole cloth.
Yeah i don’t buy this crap!!!! come on folks do you honestly believe that ?? There is no way that they all of a sudden found a secret tape is bullshit …. Hmm wonder why they all of a sudden want you to hate Kennedy… Believe what you want but i lived it and have hounded over any info i could read every scrap as did 98% of the other baby boomers… Good luck folks don’t buy the shit they are pushing now a days…
Government secrecy means that records are classified for many decades. When I started this research that led to the book, I found thousands of pages of records on this subject that had never been released. Unless someone makes a request for them, they are not automatically declassified in most cases. I submitted around 200 FOIA/MDR requests, including one for the 38 seconds on this tape that was still restricted — which appears to be about Iraq, not Vietnam.
If you want to go back to JFK I would suggest you take it back to President Eisenhower. In 1959 I was being interviewed for OCS and was told that at the end of my training would be assigned to a special forces unit that was going to Vietnam. It was President Eisenhower that thought Vietnam was going to be another Korean situation and wanted to stem the tide of communism in Asia.
I truly believe Kennedy got us in the Viet Nam war and Johnson inherited it and Nixon had to save the USA “face” and get us out of there. It’s very sad for the many young soldiers
Wow!! You need to study your history. The French preceded us and were massacred. We sent advisers in in the late 50s( pre JFK) in an attempt to fire up the South Vietnamese troops- these were Special Forces and CIA.
Kennedy wanted to get out and was in the process and planned to vacate in his 2 nd term. Didn’t happen.
Bell helicopters were made in Texas, rdd Ed member where LBJ was from.
War is all about money.
PERIOD.
Vietnam was a French colony. We went in because we had a treaty w France to support them in a war. We went in & they left. Then the rest happened
Kennedy and his Green Berets loved playing cowboy. Kennedy made it “patriotic” to fight in Viet-nam.
His real legacy is not anywhere near the calculated virtuosity of his legend. Plus JFK is the one who signed the EO allowing government employees to unionize – the even greater tragedy today than Vietnam.
Anyone draft age during those early years has very different memories of the live Kennedy, compared to the post-mortem mythic JFK. He was very jingoistic.
But his brother Robert expressed concerns abt govt unions. Saying it would be the hand that bites them.
There goes my opinion that there was at least one good Democrat politician in history.
A week after JFK was buried Jackie had an interview with Life mag reporter & had an extensive interview and spun the narrative of Camelot from whole cloth.
Fascinating!
Yeah i don’t buy this crap!!!! come on folks do you honestly believe that ?? There is no way that they all of a sudden found a secret tape is bullshit …. Hmm wonder why they all of a sudden want you to hate Kennedy… Believe what you want but i lived it and have hounded over any info i could read every scrap as did 98% of the other baby boomers… Good luck folks don’t buy the shit they are pushing now a days…
Government secrecy means that records are classified for many decades. When I started this research that led to the book, I found thousands of pages of records on this subject that had never been released. Unless someone makes a request for them, they are not automatically declassified in most cases. I submitted around 200 FOIA/MDR requests, including one for the 38 seconds on this tape that was still restricted — which appears to be about Iraq, not Vietnam.
If you want to go back to JFK I would suggest you take it back to President Eisenhower. In 1959 I was being interviewed for OCS and was told that at the end of my training would be assigned to a special forces unit that was going to Vietnam. It was President Eisenhower that thought Vietnam was going to be another Korean situation and wanted to stem the tide of communism in Asia.
The comment made by LBJ when he learned of the coup and assassination was reportedly: “S__t man, he was the only boy we had.”