While acknowledging that Oswald was a communist, Packer wrote that this didn’t absolve the “city’s right wing of any responsibility.” The New Yorker’s George Packer explained how the “potent brew of right-wing passions, much of it well organized and well funded-Bircher anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism racism” led to Kennedy’s death. This view continued to resurface over the years, but became particularly prevalent again around the 50th anniversary of the murder. It was his fate, however, to reach the White House in a period of violent change, when all nations and institutions found themselves uprooted from the past. “He was in Texas today trying to pacify the violent politics of that state,” read the editorial.įrom the beginning to the end of his administration, he was trying to damp down the violence of the extremists on the right. On the night of the murder, The New York Times printed an editorial titled “Why America Weeps: Kennedy Victim of Violent Streak He Sought to Curb in the Nation.” This entirely false but persistent narrative was popularized not even a day after Kennedy was killed.
Given these facts, Oswald’s political persuasions should be fairly clear cut.īut the left has repeatedly tied JFK’s assassination to right-wingers in Dallas and various other sordid groups. Soon thereafter, Oswald murdered the president. I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.” In his letter announcing his intentions, Oswald wrote, “I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker. Immediately after being discharged in 1959, Oswald made a visit to the Soviet Union and unsuccessfully tried to defect. Marine Corps, his fellow soldiers called him “Oswaldskovich” because of his obsession with the USSR. Oswald had been involved in socialist and communist politics from a young age. He was about as far from the American right as one could be. Instead, it was almost certainly a far-left radical, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had ties to the American Civil Liberties Union and was an avowed communist. It wasn’t “right-wing hate” that killed the president on Nov.
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In a memo, Trump stated that the remaining withheld documents will be reviewed once more, with a deadline of April 26 for agencies to demonstrate a need to prevent disclosure.Įven with the full release of the files, many questions will still likely surround Kennedy’s murder, but one thing isn’t a mystery. ĥ4 yrs since #JFK assassination, 25 yrs since mandated release TODAY, and we’ll have to wait another 6 months to MAYBE see the good stuff. Mysterious handritten note in #JFKfiles says Oswald traveled w/ “El Mexicano” to Mexico City in September '63. Thx for kennedy files release Ridiculous that CIA wants to review to redact YeGods u had fifty yrs NOW CIA WANTS FURTHER COVERUP/POTUS STOP
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In a series of tweets, the president voiced his intention to authorize all remaining documents, but in a controversial move, the CIA delayed the full release, citing national security concerns.
Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. President Donald Trump authorized the release of 2,800 records connected to the JFK assassination last week, following the Presidential John F. And there’s no sign that the fascination is going away anytime soon, especially now that thousands of once-secret documents will be revealed to the public. Kennedy’s assassination remains one of the most significant and dissected events of the past century.įrom pop culture, to Hollywood, to academia, to old-fashioned conspiracy theories, the legend of Camelot has been ingrained in our cultural and national identity.
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