Thursday, May 11, 2017
John F. Kennedy's Vision of Peace On the 50th anniversary of JFK's death, his nephew recalls the fallen president's attempts to halt the war machine
On November 22nd, 1963, my uncle, president John F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as "nonsense" the right-wing notion that "peace is a sign of weakness." He meant to argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that "practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice," striving toward peace instead of "aggressive ambitions."
read more at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/john-f-kennedys-vision-of-peace-20131120
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