It is interesting how the lamestream media has tried to spin the Kennedy assassination as the work of "tea party conservatives" from Dallas.  This was the case made by some prominent folks interviewed for XM radio's 3 day special broadcast marking the 50th anniversary.  

I don't believe we will ever know the whole truth about the Kennedy assassination nor about the Kennedy presidency.  Both have been spun and twisted starting from November 22, 1963 on through the past 50 years.

My personal view of John Kennedy was that he was a complicated, flawed human being -- as are all of us, not just our presidents.  He was neither a demigod that some try to make him out to be nor a demon as others try to make him out to be.  He certainly was a great communicator who personally knew how (and employed other who also knew how) to use the new medium of television to transform the presidency.  We'll never know what the rest of his presidency would have been like if he hadn't been killed.  

The assassination was certainly a national tragedy because whenever someone kills or attempts to kill an American president they are attacking the entire nation.  Add to that the fact that the assassination was caught on film and the events of the next several days were broadcast live across the nation and the world by the new medium of television -- and it obviously had a tremendous impact on the whole country.

I was way too young to have any memories of the assassination.  However, I did have the opportunity to travel to Dallas 7 years ago, and actually stayed at a hotel built on the east side of Dealey Plaza.  The window in my room actually looked out over the plaza.  Having read many books and seen many programs on the assassination growing up, it was simultaneously creepy and fascinating to be able to walk through that plaza.  
The most interesting place related to JFK in Dallas is not the plaza itself but the cenotaph which was erected as a memorial to JFK a few blocks away.  While Dealey Plaza embodies the tragedy of the assassination - the memorial embodies a spirit of hope and optimism --- that the killer(s) could not kill the spirit that JFK, at his best, represented.  50 years later, we can still have hope and be optimistic that one day the threat of nuclear war, the scourge of poverty, the sickness of racism and the cowardice of indifference towards our fellow man can - and will - be eradicated.

At the end of the day, the JFK assassination teaches us the Presidents are presented to the people by a few powerful people, to act in the interests of those that put them there.  If they go off script and defy those that put them there, they will be removed.  

Wall Street has taken control of America.  Every usurpation of personal liberty since the end of WWII has been sold using security and economics.  We have been told we will be safer and wealthier if we just gave up a little more of our freedom.  We've been in perpetual war, and ran up trillions in debt to the bankers paying for these wars.  Now we have a security state that continuously spy's on every American, and can indefinitely detain an American suspected of terrorism without due process.

Listening to many of Kennedy's speeches, especially his threats to dissolve the CIA , he was obviously an obstacle in creating the corporate police state we now live in.

It's interesting that you say that, Cicero, as the current president is looking to make a deal with Iran that our allies in that area don't like, but that China is just fine with. That action tends to lend credibility to your viewpoint. Just who is our president working for?

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At the end of the day, the JFK assassination teaches us the Presidents are presented to the people by a few powerful people, to act in the interests of those that put them there.  If they go off script and defy those that put them there, they will be removed.  

Wall Street has taken control of America.  Every usurpation of personal liberty since the end of WWII has been sold using security and economics.  We have been told we will be safer and wealthier if we just gave up a little more of our freedom.  We've been in perpetual war, and ran up trillions in debt to the bankers paying for these wars.  Now we have a security state that continuously spy's on every American, and can indefinitely detain an American suspected of terrorism without due process.

Listening to many of Kennedy's speeches, especially his threats to dissolve the CIA , he was obviously an obstacle in creating the corporate police state we now live in.

JFK was presented to the American people by a "few powerful people," he escalated our involvement in Vietnam to the point of even having President Diem of South Vietnam assassinated (which he gave the CIA the green light to do) and was certainly no enemy of Wall Street, the CIA nor the military industrial complex.