Obama declares Day of Remembrance for John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
US President Barack Obama declared Friday a Day of Remembrance for former president John F. Kennedy, and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his assassination.
“Now, therefore, I, Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 22, 2013, as a Day of Remembrance for President John F. Kennedy,” Obama said in his proclamation.
Kennedy, commonly known as JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Five decades after the president was murdered while riding in a motorcade, there remain an array of unanswered questions regarding the incident. Conspiracy theories continue to be published on who was behind the assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime and arrested the same evening JFK was assassinated, but Jack Ruby shot and killed him two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin.
However, the US House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
50 years on, investigative journalists and historians are demanding the CIA to declassify documents detailing what the government knew about Kennedy�™s accused assassin, before the assassination.
Several hundred of the still-classified pages, according to the Associated Press, concern CIA operative �œGeorge Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and, fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years.”
A prominent German investigative journalist and author believes the assassination was a coup d�™Ã©tat orchestrated by the CIA and the military which has been covered up to this day.
On occasion of the publication of his latest book, �œJFK: Staatsstreich in Amerika” (�œJFK: Coup d�™Ã©tat in America�œ), Mathias Broeckers talked to The Global Research in August elaborating on his research into the crime.
�œJFK had made definitive steps to end the Cold War. He had denied the involvement of the army in the Bay of Pigs invasion, which he had inherited from his predecessor, he had solved the missile crisis in Cuba through direct and secret contact with the Soviet-leader Khrushchev, he had ensured a nuclear test-stop with the Soviets, and he had ordered the withdrawal from Vietnam,” he said.
�œAll this against the will of the military, the CIA, and even against many members of his own administration,” Broeckers added.
Broeckers pointed out that many groups including the communists in Russia, China, Cuba, the Israelis because of �œJFK�™s dismissal of nukes in Israel,” and the Federal Reserve because of his idea for a new US dollar backed by silver, had motives to kill the president but �œonly the CIA and the military – and the FBI and the Johnson administration for the cover-up” had the means to carry out the operation.
According to world-renowned forensic pathologist Werner Spitz, the subsequent autopsy of JFK was botched.
“They botched that autopsy,” Spitz said. “They had absolutely no experience in forensic pathology.” For example, he said, they were not allowed to shave the area around the bullet wounds on Kennedy’s head.
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Source: Press TV