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JFK’s hidden record as president
The continuing aura surrounding John F Kennedy enters history as among the more surreal fabrications, says SHANE QUINN
Former US president John F Kennedy
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JOHN F KENNEDY’S legacy sees numerous streets, buildings and statues emblazoned with his name across First World nations.
Such unquestioning glorification has shielded much of the reality from public eyes, while reinforcing elite Western power.
The successful results suggest one obvious thing — how remarkably successful propaganda can be, even when aimed at highly educated, privileged societies.
To begin with, Kennedy’s outright invasion of South Vietnam in February 1962 — hundreds of US air raids since initiated — would later result in the greatest loss of life in the post-World War II period.
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