Will Trump Complete JFK's Goal of a Free Cuba?

[John Corbett]

JC:

Watch the Miami speech by JFK that I uploaded--JFK publicly vowed, in that speech made in December of 1962, after the CMC, that the Cuban exiles' flag would fly over a "Free Havana."

The Kennedy brothers were working several levers through 1963, from Castro assassination plots, to fomenting internal divisions in Cuba. They were hard core on Cuba. They were again developing more-substantive plans, while curtailing rogue amateur-ops by Cuban exiles  All that stopped suddenly with JFK's assassination.

LBJ curiously lost interest, seemingly entirely, in Cuba. And there it has stood since.

Interesting topic.

Well, let us hope Trump-Rubio can win the day this time around.

A Free Cuba, and a Free Iran, would be tremendous accomplishments.

At the time, it seems more like wishful thinking than a true belief. I don't think JFK was going to poke the Bear over Cuba. The resolution to the CMC was a result of both sides blinking although the impression was created that it was Khruschev alone who blinked. Much later we found out the details that we had vowed not to invade Cuba and we would dismantle our Jupiter missiles in Turkey in exchange for the Soviet removing theirs from Cuba.

Current events may prove JFK correct, even though much later than anybody would have guessed at the time.