A particular JFK speech

[Paul Mackin]

I take it, therefore, this Kennedy speech is no great cause for alarm 
for the p-list.

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On 12/17/2011 8:20 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> I mean, if you look at the context:
> he's in front of the newspaper guys, who are not all that friendly to
> him, which he mentions.
>
> he contrasts open society with the secrecy and the stealth of
> Communist insurgency
>
> he tries to unite everyone at the gathering against that threat, and
> enlist their loyalty, and remind them of their duty as newspapermen.
> I really don't see this as a forum for any kind of venting of
> suspicions other than against totalitarian Communism, and the need to
> distinguish free society from it...
>
> and there's no development beyond the mere mention of "secret
> societies" - it's a real stretch, although I personally believe in the
> existence and abhor the effects of numerous secret societies such as
> ALEC and Skull and Bones, I don't see them in this speech.
>
> However, we do know that at this same time, Kennedy was putting out
> secret feelers to Khruschchev and to Castro and in fact via
> journalists (this is detailed in James Douglass's excellent _JFK and
> the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters_ .)
>