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John F. Kennedy
Vs. the Empire
by Anton Chaitkin
This Nov. 22 is the 50th anni- post in Boston, Nov. 18, 1945,
versary of President John F. in anticipation of a run for Con-
Kennedys murder, a crime gress, he explained Winston
from which our country has Churchills recent electoral
never recovered. defeat by contrasting the out-
Investigators normally look of Churchills party with
consider who benefitted from a that of Franklin Roosevelt.
crime, and what changed as a Churchills Conservative
result of that crime. Party had governed England
In this case, we must first during the years of the depres-
understand who Kennedy was, sion when poverty stalked the
and what he fought for; who Midlands and the coal fields of
we were as a nation, and where Wales, and thousands and
we were headed when he was thousands lived off the meager
shot. Knowing that will make pittance of the dole. Where
plain who killed him and why. Roosevelt made his political
It will help guide us to what we reputation by his treatment of
must now change for our sur- the depression, the Conserva-
vival. tive Party lost theirs.
And the English voters had
Kennedys Nationalism Wikimedia Commons been jolted by that contrast
When Kennedy returned President Kennedy at Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962: when soldiers from Roos-
from his celebrated World War We choose to go to the Moon in this decade.... And evelts America were stationed
II Naval service and plunged as we set sail we ask Gods blessing on the most there in wartime: England tra-
hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on
into politics, he aimed to set which man has ever embarked. ditionally has been a country
the world back on the path of with tremendous contrasts be-
his late Commander-in-Chief, Franklin Roosevelt, and tween the very rich and the very poor. That arch Tory,
to bury imperialism. Benjamin Disraeli, ... once stated that England was di-
In his first political speech, to the American Legion vided into two nationsthe rich and the poor.... With
12. History will rightly note that the anti-Newtonian scientific exper-
tise of Dryden (airflow, turbulence, problems of the boundary layer) and 13. NSAM 271
his chief Soviet counterpart Leonid Sedov (continuum mechanics, non- 14. William Attwood, The Reds and the Blacks (New York: Harper and
steady motion of a wing, discontinuous velocity fields, turbulent flows, Row, 1967), pp. 142-144.
boundary conditions) are implicitly anti-imperial. 15.Ibid.