“Let’s get out of rescue disturbances before it is too late … be brave, jack.”
Two years before his assassination in November 1963, US President John F. Kennedy received this letter from filmmaker Rod Serling, known as the producer of the popular television series The Twilight ZoneIn the letter of 26 March 1962, the poignancy of this postscript needs to be investigated today after the latest release of another installment of ‘JFK files’.
Keeping his promise in mind, President Donald Trump on 16 March made more than 2000 documents related to JFK’s murder. JFK, who lived by media and died on screen, continues to rule the Medicap after six decades of his death. While experts are still passing through JFK files through more than 64,000 pages, speculation, the principle of conspiracy, shock, and the fear over the President’s murder are back with full force.
Who will tell the theorists of the conspiracy?
Did the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) kill JFK to continue its Vietnam experiment? Did the killer Lee Harvey Oswald work with the Soviet Union to eliminate the US President, who was going to the extra mile to push for disarmament at the height of the Cold War? Did the mafia, especially the Chicago crowd, ordered a hit? Has JFK’s ambitious vice -president, Lindon Johnson, ended his boss? None of these questions have yet been answered to the satisfaction of those asking. But this is the nature of the principles of conspiracy. Nothing accepts the concerns of the conspiracy theorists, and no document can dislike what already believes.
So, in fact it is the purpose of destroying documents that have exposed more than 400 social security numbers and other personal details of political, military and Congress personnel?
CIA, The Mover-And-Socrine
Documents reveal the internal functioning of the CIA to a large extent, which provides important historical references to the events of the Cold War. The details include Aadhaar active in New Delhi and Kolkata, contamination of Cuba Chinese shipment for the Soviet Union, unstable efforts to bring down hostile governments, and more. The CIA Spikraft is to see and bite everyone.
Nevertheless, instead of establishing the CIA as a villain, the current installment enhanced the agency’s image as a global mover-and-spore. JFK’s associate, Arthur Shlester Jr., expressed his disappointment in 1961 about the autonomy and power of the CIA, stating that the agency had “many features of a state within a state”. CIA is one of the most influential weapons in the US Armary.
The time of this revelation is interesting. At a time when the uninhabited policy actions of the Trump administration – domes and international – dreaded, disintegrated or rescued, a performance of American capabilities is useful. And so JFK is bringing back to the political field. Despite the suspicion of historians around JFK’s policies and character, his public image of perfection has ended to date. In JFK American history, Jackie Kennedy uses Arthurian Idil, called ‘Calot’. This is not the first time that Trump has bowed to JFK to get verification from the American public. In 2016, he attacked his fellow Republican and rival, Ted Cruise, based on the alleged partnership of the later father in JFK’s murder.
Trump could use some help
But let’s return to JFK on the advice of rod surling. The Cuba missile was written before the crisis, when the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, “Two most powerful nations against each other, with their finger on the button,” Sarling’s letter had a pat-on-on-a-bank for JFK for her nuclear disarmament efforts. JFK had been campaigning for nuclear disarmament since 1956 and made it an issue during his presidential dialect. Before and during JFK’s presidential post, the Soviet Union and the United States suspended nuclear tests between November 1958 and September 1961.
The self-fashion of Trump in the form of a peacock, which prevents wars requires the blessings of JFK. While keeping JFK alive in the public image, the trump may bend at the exemplary set by JFK in bringing Russia to the conversation table for the nuclear testing sanction treaty. Interestingly, JFK was cast as being “weak” in front of his Soviet counterpart Khrushchev, when the two met in Vienna in June 1961, soon after the CIA-proposed attack failed to Cuba’s Bay Off Pigs.
When the Soviet Union resumed the nuclear test, JFK challenged him “not for the race for arms, but for a peace race”. Unfortunately, all diplomatic efforts failed, and the US in his letter asked JFK to “Brave”. In October 1962, Cuba’s crisis came to light after less than six months.
Create image
Now that the Trump administration is in favor of peace with Russia, JFK’s memory works in their favor. A month before his assassination, JFK signed a limited nuclear test ban treaty on 7 October 1963. He had spent the last two months assuring a divided Senate about the need for American public and nuclear disarmament.
The act of Trump of JFK files to bring the truth of JFK’s murder to light can be seen unstable as files. Like JFK, Trump understands the power to create image.
(The author is a Delhi -based writer and academic.)
Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author
