Vincent Salandria: JFK's Assassination is A False Mystery Concealing State Crimes

Keven Hofeling:
(00:00) Vincent Salandria is introduced as a devoted truth-seeker who views the Kennedy assassination as a paradigm for understanding how the government operates when "up to no good."

(02:15) Salandria argues that JFK's assassination was a "patent Cold War killing" carried out by the US military-intelligence system and supporting civilian powers; he believes 35 years of debate serves the interests of the assassins.

(03:51) He places the assassination in historical context, tracing its origins to the militarization of America starting in 1898, which eventually led to an expanded American empire built on military strength.

(12:49) Salandria describes how successful political assassinations produce rapid policy changes, noting that Oswald's portrayal as a leftist was intended to intimidate the American left and potentially justify an invasion of Cuba.

(20:04) He criticizes mainstream media for "criminally and systematically" aiding the "Warfare state" in covering up the assassination, arguing that this pattern of concealment itself provides evidence of the military-intelligence system's involvement.

(25:00-29:35) Salandria reviews evidence including the Parkland Hospital doctors' initial conclusion that Kennedy's throat wound was an entrance wound, which contradicted the official narrative of shots only from behind.

(41:12) He suggests the Warren Commission acted as a "Ministry of Truth" to criminally conceal evidence, with officials like J. Lee Rankin making statements that contradicted substantial evidence of multiple assassins.

(46:53) Salandria argues that the White House's premature declaration of Oswald as the lone assassin before evidence was collected demonstrated high-level government involvement in the crime.

(1:08:16) He maintains that Oswald exhibited characteristics of a US intelligence agent rather than a genuine Marxist, and that this mischaracterization served to obstruct justice.

(1:19:30) Salandria concludes that Kennedy was killed for refusing to bomb/invade Cuba and for initiating withdrawal from Vietnam, asserting that Americans cannot consider themselves free until they understand and address the "evil nature of the Warfare state" that murdered Kennedy.
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Vincent Salandria address at the Coalition on Political Assassinations Conference, Dallas, TX, 20 November 1998.

This film is presented along with the annotated transcript of the speech in the 2017 digital book edition of "False Mystery: Essays on the JFK Assassination" released on May 29, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The complete book is freely available here: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/FalseMyst... and the annotated transcript of this address is here: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/FalseMyst...

This speech is a summary statement of Vincent Salandria's work on, in his words, “the extra-constitutional firing of the President” by high US military intelligence. In his concluding remarks:

“We now understand the deep significance of President Kennedy’s killing. Our cities blight while we build B-2 bombers and an unattainable but military-industrial-profit-generating anti-ballistic missile system. Our poor suffer miserable existences as we continue to fatten the military-industrial complex for protection against imagined or impotent enemies. Our public schools in the urban areas decay while we maintain military bases throughout the globe. We desperately search for terrorists and weak nation states which we can designate as ‘rogue states’ and therefore make them necessary targets for our Pentagon to show off its newest weapons systems.

“We cannot consider ourselves a free and democratic people until we understand and address the evil nature of the warfare-state power which murdered President John F. Kennedy. Until then we cannot begin the vital work of ridding the world of the terror produced by our mighty war machine that crushes hopes for true substantive democracy here and elsewhere.

“We can no longer afford to shield ourselves by asserting that the murder of President Kennedy is a mystery. There is no mystery regarding how, by whom, and why President Kennedy was killed. Only when we strip away our privileged cloak of denial about the truth of the killing will we be able to free ourselves for the hard global work of changing our unfair and brutal society to one that is more equitable and less violent.”