On April 27, 1961 John F. Kennedy gave a speech titled The President and the Press at The Waldorf Astoria, a 47 Story hotel in New York City. This speech was directed to the members of The American Newspaper Publishers Association. In the speech he spoke about a secret conspiracy who were expanding its control around the world.

• “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
• “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.“
• “It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.“

I can’t help but wonder if JFK was trying to warn us about the evils infiltrating the mainstream media and his own party. This speech could be one of the reasons for his assassination 2 years later.

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