"He betrayed the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs."
This is the Lee Harvey Oswald supposed rationale to justify the assassination. In reality, he defied this plot by the CIA.
"He brought the world to the brink of a nuclear disaster."
In reality, both he and Krushcev, in secret talks, were trying to avert that outcome and they succeeded.
"He pushed no civil rights legislation through Congress."
If he hadn't pushed, then why would the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have even happened? LBJ's own words in further pushing the legislation: "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."
Btw, as far as thanking Lyndon Johnson for his accomplishments, within 4 days of the assassination, he completely reversed Kennedy's executive order to withdraw all troops from Vietnam by Dec. of that year, and by 1968, we had 500,000 there, almost 60,000 of which died.
And finally, you sum up your stupid argument by slinging mud at a man publicly murdered 60 years ago, by trying to make an issue of his having been a known womanizer, a very moot issue at this point.
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OnanTheBarbarian (12144)
a year ago
Oh, thanks for reminding me of Vietnam. In true fashion to his mishandling of the Bay of Pigs, he got us mired in Vietnam. He also had Vietnamese President Diem assassinated. Karma is a bitch! Justice that he was assassinated himself.
Under the Kennedy administration, however, the U.S. began to invest heavily in the growingly troublesome situation in Vietnam. In his short three-year term, Kennedy had increased the number of American military advisors in South Vietnam from seven hundred to over sixteen thousand, way higher than allotted in the 1954 Geneva Accords. Kennedy also more than doubled the U.S.’s foreign aid package from $223 million to $471 million (Cohen 349). Critically, Kennedy also oversaw the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, representing a targeted and irreversible infringement in Vietnam from the U.S. Marc Selverstone writes that Kennedy and his team’s decision to overthrow Diem in November of 1963 represented, “an act that perpetuated, and arguably exacerbated, [Vietnam’s] political instability”, no doubt bringing the U.S. closer to the brink of war in Vietnam (Selverstone, Miller Center).
https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/vietnam-war-from-truman-to-nix/john-f-kennedy
There would have been no Cuban missile crisis without JFK's bungling of the Bay of Pigs.
And JFK's back and forth hemming and hawing is what caused the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Perhaps if JFK wasn't so busy cheating on his wife and fucking everything that moves, he would have had more time to get the Civil Rights Act through.
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db20db (17297)
a year ago
He was cut down by assassins before being able to bring the Civil Rights Act to fruition. And there you go again, trying to validate your argument by attacking the man's personal life, which I've already said is common knowledge by now. Smear tactics are an indication of a weak argument.
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OnanTheBarbarian (12144)
a year ago
Hahaha. I've backed up every one of my arguments with facts and links.
What's weak is that this man is still considered a hero when he got us mired Vietnam, betrayed the Cubans, ordered the murder of a Vietnamese leader, schemed to have Castro assassinated, and passed little or no significant legislation.
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MCguy (1175)
a year ago
IMO, the OP's post is off base (to be euphemistic). However, I suggest you Google "JFK Vietnam JFK library" to get a better understanding of JFK and Vietnam.
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