HIS LEGACY LIVES (!)

I honorably quote from the Biography of John F. Kennedy. A quote summarizing the legacy of a man I proclaim an unfortunate America martyr. This quote is for those citizens of our United States and the world that knows little of the legacy of one of America's domestically slain Commander In Chief's: Mr. John F. Kennedy. A man --- an American that chose to fight political corruption from a position never attempted by any other president. An American President that genuinely put America and all the Americans therein first and under his leadership he subsequently placed the powerful --- those who would tend to use America for their own gain, on authoritarian notice.

     These fearless actions on his part eventually ended his life. He died a martyr and he continues to die every November 22^nd of every year for me and many others of our America. This will continue to happen until corruption is ripped from our United States Government, forcing these vitriolic plotting politicians to get off their asses and act in this matter. This will continue to happen until these politicians inter rehabilitation to kick that nasty habit of being addicted to the most dangerous drug of them all: absolute power! This will continue to happen until the powerful unknowns manning over it all stops waiting for everybody directly involved in the assassination of Mr. Kennedy too simply pass away, leaving absolutely no one to prosecute. This will continue to happen until these people stop putting decades of distance between that tragic day and allows us, Americans, in on intelligence that could quite possibly bring an end to the enigma that continues to shroud Kennedy's death:

     "On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

     Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.

     Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

     In 1956, Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.

     His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

     Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

     He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.

     Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.

     Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.

     Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of New Hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world ..."

     The assassination of Mr. John F. Kennedy was bigger than the whole of America --- bigger than the world inclusive will ever know. In the never-ending struggle to unravel the truths of that day and the objectives of those unknowns that plotted and executed this bold act of treason, please know that America --- the world inclusive will never-ever succeed. Believe this is you will, but Mr. Kennedy's death was miniscule in comparison to why his assassination was initiated. My theory can be found within a novel I've written entitled Conspirator's Odyssey: The Evolution of the Patron Saint. And this theory I feel all must contemplate long and hard before drawing your conclusion. Though this project of mine blends fact and fiction into a tapestry of historical information; I present this manuscript as a warning wrapped in a lie in order to tell you the truth.

     Theirs something you and yours must know! The United States of America is a well-oiled machine.

     Massive!

     Superior!

     Every machine has its defects and there are always technicians trained in wiping the machine free of those defects in order to keep the machine on due course, but these defects seem to always rear their heads. One of the biggest defects to this machine is patriotism! Not the type of patriotism where silly ass Americans plagued in a conditioned conformity waves the American flag high into the air screaming "I'm proud to be an American", blindly. I'm talking of true patriotism! The type of patriotism where American's are willing to look through the shroud that cloaks our America and will stop at nothing to have the citizens therein view our America and the processes therein with clarity. Mark my words; that my friend's is true patriotism!

     Every machine produces waist! You can say that it's somewhat the natural order of things, this waist. This waist is most often the blood of the citizens of our America. These technicians unethically and boldly refer to this waist as simply collateral damage. These technicians in the way they go about troubleshooting the many problems that plague this machine are expected not to fail in their duties.

     That's just the way it is!

     That's the way it's always been!

     That's the way it will always be!

     That's the American way!

Pragmatic author A.K. Kuykendall has a passion for writing conspiracy, espionage, horror, and suspense literature that blends the concepts of fact and fiction. For more information on his projects, visit http://www.thewriterofbooks.com/ or, to email the author directly for Q&A on this article, write to hislegacylives@thewriterofbooks.com