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Subj: Today in History - Nov 22
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1963
Kennedy assassinated
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a visit to
Dallas, Texas. His death caused intense mourning in the United
States and brought Vice President Lyndon Johnson to the
presidency. Kennedy's untimely death also left future generations
with a great many "what if" questions concerning the subsequent
history of the Cold War.In the years since Kennedy's death, a
number of supporters argued that had he lived he would have done
much to bring the Cold War to a close. Some have suggested that
he would have sharply curtailed military spending and brought the
arms race under control. The most persistent claim, which served
as the centerpiece of Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, is that
Kennedy would have withdrawn U.S. troops from Vietnam after being
re-elected in 1964. Stone went on to charge that right-wing
militants in the U.S. government coordinated the assassination
plot.It is difficult to say what Kennedy would have done had he
not been killed in November 1963, but the arguments raised by
Stone and others do not seem supported by the available evidence.
During his brief presidency, Kennedy consistently requested
higher military spending, asking for billions in increased
funding. After the humiliating defeat at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba,
his administration approved Operation Mongoose, a CIA program
that involved plots to destabilize the communist government in
Cuba. There was even discussion about assassinating Cuban leader
Fidel Castro. In Vietnam, Kennedy increased the number of U.S.
advisers from around 1,500 when he took office, to more than
16,000 by the time of his death. His administration also
participated in the planning of the coup that ultimately
overthrew South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was
murdered by his own military just three weeks prior to Kennedy's
assassination. If Kennedy was going to become less of a cold
warrior after 1964, there was little to suggest this change prior
to November 22, 1963.
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