“So, Who Ordered JFK Killed?”

One of the great tragedies of our nation was the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Everyone who was alive on that day remembers where they were.

This week there has been a lot of press coverage on that assassination, and there is STILL question as to who killed JFK, and why.

About 25 years ago I was sitting in the basement bar of a small hotel in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, with the recently retired number two man in the CIA, Ray Cline, (actually, the Number One professional who serves under a political appointee.)

It was Ray Cline seen bending over the desk of President Kennedy in that famous photo while the U-2 photos of the Russian missile sites were being pointed out in Cuba. He was the Number One professional man in the CIA for many decades.

A photo of me with the late Ray Cline and my then newspaper Editor, while we were all in Russia, is attached. You can see the typical Russian buildings in the background. We had meetings with many Russian military and politicians while in Russia, and you should have seen the Russian Generals embrace Ray when they saw him — he was revered even by our opponents for his professionalism.

One does not often get an opportunity to talk privately with someone like Ray, in a quiet venue like a dark, vacant hotel bar at 2 a.m. —  so I asked him, “Who killed JFK?”

I thought his answer was revealing: “I don’t know, but I can tell you who everyone on that plane back to Washington carrying the body of JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Mrs. Kennedy unanimously THOUGHT had done it.”

“ Fidel Castro.”

When you read the Ray Harvey Oswald background, that makes sense to me.

 

Canadian Healthcare

On KFI-Los Angeles, Bill Carroll, a transplanted Canadian now a talk radio guy, said in Canada he had to wait a year for his daughter’s MRI – but the other day in the KFI parking lot he spied a huge van, and when he investigated, it was doing MRIs.

In the parking lot!

He exclaimed that in the US you could drop into a parking lot van, ad lib, and get what his daughter had to wait a year for in Canada.

That has to tell you something!

Preview of New Book on the USS Pueblo

The new book on the seizure of the USS Pueblo by the North Koreans will be available at Amazon.com on December 3.

Meanwhile, entire chapters are on-line at the Author’s website, including a chapter on Rose Bucher, my wife, and I.

This is the Author’s website for his new book on the seizure of the USS Pueblo: The book will be available Dec. 3 on Amazon.

http://www.jackcheevers.net/

This is one chapter in the book, or at least one part of one chapter..

http://www.jackcheevers.net/read-an-excerpt.html

Additionally, Cheevers wrote more about Rose, and our (Jean and mine) involvement, but space didn’t let it hit the published book, so he added it to his website at:

http://www.jackcheevers.net/roses-story-deleted-chapters.html

The story of my life – always left on the cutting room floor

The Mess We Are In NOW!

If you read the current LA Times explanation of what the situation is tonight, you will see the answers to begin with “It depends,” and, “That’s unclear.”

Among other things, the current situation “allows” insurance companies to renew plans already canceled (some May, some not — they have reprogrammed their computers to meet what the government TOLD them), and State Insurance Commissioners have the option of going along with the president’s “new” plan — the state of Washington have announced they will Not.

We should ask OUR Democratic Congressman, Scott Peters (who was going to join Republicans demanding delay) and Diane Feinstein as well.

This fiasco has nothing to do with Republicans — Democrats drove this Obamacare vehicle away from the curb without a Republican vote, and the president drove it over the cliff with 15 Democratic Senators up for reelection fighting for the wheel.

When Democrats cannot convince or bribe even the Democrat’s favorite New England Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, then Democrats must ask if they have gone too far.

(They have!)

Bureaucracies grow because that is their DNA. examined  as early as the LAST century, when Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote Parkinson’s Law, generally stated as “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” — and it was determined by examining British Postal Service.

It’s just that government bureaucracies do not occasionally shrink like corporate ones do, so governments always need to acquire more land, more people, more power — and often governments fall into the control of strong socialists (Democrats) rather than weak socialists (Republicans), and spin out of control through overreaching.

Overreaching is the bane of ALL politicians,