Assassinating JFK Led to the Vietnam War
With today, April 30, 2025, being the 50th anniversary of North Vietnam’s defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War, it is worth revisiting the role that the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President Kennedy played in that war.
The story begins with the war between JFK and the U.S. national-security establishment that broke out after the Bay of Pigs disaster soon after Kennedy assumed the presidency. The CIA was hoping to manipulate Kennedy into providing air support for the operation, but the scheme failed. Realizing what the CIA had done, Kennedy vowed to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” For it’s part, the CIA was livid over what it believed was Kennedy’s cowardice, weakness, and incompetence for failing to come to the assistance of the Cuban exiles, all of whom were killed or captured by Cuba’s communist forces while invading the island.
Afterwards, the Pentagon began pressuring Kennedy into ordering a full-scale military invasion of Cuba. That’s what the Pentagon’s infamous false-flag Operation Northwoods was all about, which Kennedy, to his everlasting credit, rejected.
Then came the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Kennedy settled by committing that the U.S. would not invade Cuba — in return for the Russians removing their nuclear missiles from the island. That meant that Cuba would remain permanently under communist control, which the Pentagon and the CIA were convinced was a grave threat to “national security.” Kennedy was, once again, considered a
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