Not a Pax Americana

New JFK conspiracy coverage asks “why?”

Oliver Stone's 2021 documentary, JFK: Revisited, opens with a video clip of President Kennedy giving a commencement speech to American University's graduating class of 1963. The documentary, highlighting what has been learned since Stone made his iconic film JFK in 1991, also tried to answer the essential, decades-long question: “Why?”

“I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived,” Kennedy tells the students in a calm, matter-of-fact tone, “Yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.”

“What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children. Not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men and women. Not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.”

Simply stated, JFK was becoming a peacenik. Two years of being president – marked by the failed invasion of Communist Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and then the Cuban Missile Crisis – had turned Kennedy into someone on the edge of dismantling the CIA and the military-industrial complex.

“The JFK that was murdered in 1963 was a completely different JFK than the one who was elected in 1960,” says Rob Reiner in the first episode of his 2023 podcast, Who Killed JFK? “The Peace Speech marks his transformation from Cold Warrior on the campaign trail to a peacemaker who is blazing his own path.”

Kennedy had inherited the Bay of Pigs operation and forced CIA Director Allen Dulles to resign after it went down in flames. The invasion by CIA-trained Cuban expatriates did not inspire a general rebellion and many fighters were left dead on the beach. JFK later defused the crisis over Soviet missiles arriving in Cuba by overruling Pentagon war hawks and making an arms-reduction deal with Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Six months after declaring “Not a Pax Americana,” JFK was dead. For the next 60 years, the United States would be embroiled in one military conflict after another.

The Empire Strikes Back

When ascending President Lyndon Johnson formed a blue-ribbon panel to investigate Kennedy's murder, Dulles was brought out of pasture to guide what was called Warren Commission. In 1964, this commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable lone gunman who killed JFK all by himself for unknown reasons. Fifteen years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy,” although the committee did not identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.

Tens of thousands of previously classified files have been released to the National Archives since Congress passed the JFK Records Act of 1992, a law inspired by Stone’s JFK. Still, about 3,500 remain in the clutches of intelligence agencies, and neither President Trump nor Biden forced their hand – so far.

Truthsmack has previously published an overview of new evidence, including claims by former Secret Service agent Paul Landis that indicate at least four shots were fired at Kennedy. Here's a recent podcast video where we explore how Pax Americana is finally on the verge of collapse.