{"article":{"id":118561,"heading":"The Kennedy Curse","author":"Carolina","created":"2004-11-05 05:20:19","modified":"2004-11-05 05:28:28","last_modified":"Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:28:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A President  who rose to power under  controversial circumstances wins election to a second term outright.  His party also increases its control in Congress.  The winner declares he has a \"mandate\" from the people.  Meanwhile a war in a far-off land involving increasing casualties for US  troops quietly continues.  <br><br> Bush's victory in 2004, right?   Guess again.  I'm describing the election 40 years ago - 1964.   The President is  Lyndon Johnson.   The \"controversial circumstances\" was the  assassination of President Kennedy one year  before.  The war was, of course, Vietnam. <br><br> At this time 40 years ago it seemed the Democrats had a solid lock on national politics in the US.  After all, since 1932, a period of over 30 years, they had controlled Congress for all but one term and had lost the Presidency only twice, to the World War II hero, Eisenhower.   But something now was rotten.   LBJ had mislead the people as to his true intent in Vietnam, campaigning as a \"peace \" candidate.   In fact history  would reveal that he'd made a secret deal with the military -industrial complex  as soon as he assumed office [and some would say before], to escalate  the  war  as soon as the elections were over.  He also hid from the public during the campaign how bad the situation was in Vietnam, and furthermore, had fabricated a non-existent attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam's coast, in order to get Congress to give him unlimited power to wage war. <br><br> But  even more sinister,  President Johnson had allowed the citizenry to be  mislead about the circumstances upon which he had assumed office - the Kennedy assassination. <br><br> Shortly before the election, in September 1964,  he'd accepted and indorsed a fraudulent report, which came to be known as the\" Warren Report\", after its titular chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren.   <br><br> This report concluded that  Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy.   In fact,  most of the commissioners, if not all, and President Johnson had sufficient information to believe that not only had Oswald not acted alone, but that there were two persons using the name  Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas that day, and that both had been involved in covert  intelligence operations on behalf of the US for several years.   See this author's articled in LA INDY MEDIA entitled \"Reversal of Fortune\". as  well as www.jfkresearch.com\/armstrong. <br><br> As a result of Johnson's defrauding the public about  the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam in the 1964    campaign,  the Democrats lost the White House in1968, and in fact have only  won three Presidential elections since then.  They have also lost control of the Congress, first the Senate in the 1980's, and then both houses for the last 10 years.  They also have lost  influence and control in other  centers of power such as the media and business. <br><br> Call it what you want - I call it the Kennedy  Curse -but  the fact remains that the party that seemed so invincible on election night 40 years ago is now on the verge of  oblivion.  It all started with the cover-up of  JFK's murder. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Despite having the same initials as JFK, Kerry was unable to reverse the curse that began 40 years ago.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/11\/118561.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}