At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace.
But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence.
Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.
Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade.
As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda
JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglass
A lengthy read but a very worthwhile one that explores the friction between JFK and a variety of old money elitist groups. Douglass chronicles JFK’s redemption arc from a cold warrior who early on used some aggressive rhetoric in the escalation of hostilities with the Soviets, however somewhere along the way in what Douglass considers to be a spiritual awakening, JFK realizes it is his duty to do everything in his power to prevent nuclear holocaust and deescalates multiple close calls and even goes behind everyone’s back to continue correspondences with Fidel Casto & Nikita Khrushchev in the promotion of peace and mutual disarmament.
The correspondences, many of which appear in this book, are truly fascinating reads where all 3 national leaders express their appreciation for humanity and beauty and concerns that each’s respective “underlings” were working to undermine them and the peace they pursued. After reading this book, I began to realize JFK’s righteous fight for peace and bold defense of his people made the question more which powers-to-be didn’t have incentive to kill him rather than the other way around, all of which are considered to be by Douglass, and I would expect nearly all of his book’s readers, to be part of an unspeakable evil which JFK paid the ultimate price to oppose on behalf of the American people who entrusted him with the office of president at a time when the rise of nuclear weaponry threatened humanity’s very existence.
After reading this book, I came out convinced in a way that I wasn’t before that we wouldnt even be here if not for jfk’s commitment to peace.