Subject: JFK announced troop reductions in S. Vietnam. (transcript)
Date: 22 Oct 1998 04:37:05 GMT
From: dsharp673@aol.com (DSharp673)
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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk

Many people seem to be unaware that President Kennedy publicly announced his
intention to withdraw a thousand men from South Vietnam by the end of 1963.
This announcement was made in a press conference on October 31, 1963, just
22
days before his death.  In fact, the very first question asked in that press
conference was about troop reductions in Vietnam and Korea.

Here is the entire question and Kennedy’s response:

"[REPORTER:]  Mr. President, back to the question of troop reductions, are
any
intended in the far east at the present time – particularly in Korea and is
there any speedup in the withdrawal from Vietnam intended?

[PRESIDENT KENNEDY:]  Well as you know, when Secretary McNamara and General
Taylor came back, they announced that we would expect to withdraw a thousand
men from South Vietnam before the end of the year.  And there has been some
reference to that by General Harkins.  If we’re able to do that, that will
be
our schedule.  I think the first unit, the first contingent, would be 250
men
who are not involved in what might be called front-line operations.  It
would
be our hope to lesson the number of Americans there by a thousand as the
training intensifies and is carried on in South Vietnam."

   ------ from JFK’s press conference, October 31, 1963

[An audio cassette tape recording of the referenced press conference was
provided by the John F. Kennedy Library, audio-visual department, Columbia
Point, Boston, MA 02125.]

NOTE:  The referenced press conference is widely known and snippets are
frequently used in documentaries about JFK shown on the major television
networks; however, Kennedy’s comments about scheduled reduction of personnel
in
South Vietnam are ALWAYS deleted from ALL such documentaries.  The producers
of
these documentaries usually show an interview with Walter Cronkite sometime
earlier where President Kennedy suggested we should stay in Vietnam.
Obviously
Kennedy changed his public position on Vietnam shortly before he was killed,
but the news media – to this day – is keeping that information from the
public.

The question is, WHY?

The answer is simple:  COUP D’ETAT.

Dave Sharp