Was JFK’s Vietnam Policy Changed After His Assassination?
COPA Presentation 2010
The President’s Special Assistant for National Security, McGeorge Bundy, played a key role in the reversal of JFK’s Vietnam withdrawal policy starting immediately following the assassination. That he drafted a document (NSAM 273), which began that reversal of policy, on November 21st–the day before JFK was assassinated–is suspect. LBJ signed the final version of the document to escalate the Vietnam War on November 26th, a mere 4 days later and the day after the funeral. It was the first official act of his presidency involving National Security.
Please watch the entire video presentation, which I gave in Dallas for COPA in 2010.
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-Greg Burnham