On the 50th
anniversary of JFK's death, his nephew recalls the fallen president's attempts
to halt the war machine
by Robert F. Kennedy
Jr.
On November 22nd, 1963, my uncle, president John
F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as "nonsense" the
right-wing notion that "peace is a sign of weakness." He meant to
argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using
destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that "practices what
it preaches about equal rights and social justice," striving toward peace
instead of "aggressive ambitions." Despite the Cold War rhetoric of
his campaign, JFK's greatest ambition as president was to break the
militaristic ideology that has dominated our country since World War II. >Read More<
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