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<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkjbs.shtml JFK & John Birch Society] | <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkjbs.shtml JFK & John Birch Society] | ||
[http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkjbsdallasad.shtml Dallas Hate-JFK Dealy Ad] | [http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkjbsdallasad.shtml Dallas Hate-JFK Dealy Ad] | ||
[https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/11/welcome-mr-kennedy.jpg Welcome Mr. Kennedy To Dallas...]</span> | [https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/11/welcome-mr-kennedy.jpg Welcome Mr. Kennedy To Dallas...]</span> | ||
The <mark>entire page 14 of the ''Dallas Morning News'', November 22nd, 1963 [the same day JFK was assassinated]</mark>, was devoted to an advertisement, <mark>ominously bordered in black like an announcement of mourning</mark>. ... | The <mark>entire page 14 of the ''Dallas Morning News'', November 22nd, 1963 [the same day JFK was assassinated]</mark>, was devoted to an advertisement, <mark>ominously bordered in black like an announcement of mourning</mark>. ... | ||
Under the sardonic heading, "WELCOME MR KENNEDY TO DALLAS," an organization styling itself as "The American Fact-Finding Committee" — a local coordinator of the <mark>John Birch Society</mark> and <mark>Nelson Bunker Hunt, the son of H. L. Hunt</mark>, it later developed, were <mark>the committee's most prominent members</mark> — asked the President twelve rhetorical questions. He was accused of responsiblity for the imprisonment, starvation, and persecution of 'thousands of Cubans.' The ad declared that he was selling food to the Communist party, and asked, among other things, 'Why have you ordered or permitted your brother Bobby, the Attorney General, to go soft on Communists, fellow-travelers, and ultra-leftists in America, while permitting him to persecute loyal Americans who criticize you, your administration, and your leadership?'..."'Mr Kennedy', the ad concluded, 'we DEMAND answers to these questions, and we want them NOW.' | Under the sardonic heading, "WELCOME MR KENNEDY TO DALLAS," an organization styling itself as "The American Fact-Finding Committee" — a local coordinator of the <mark>John Birch Society</mark> and <mark>Nelson Bunker Hunt, the son of H. L. Hunt</mark>, it later developed, were <mark>the committee's most prominent members</mark> — asked the President twelve rhetorical questions. He was accused of responsiblity for the imprisonment, starvation, and persecution of 'thousands of Cubans.' The ad declared that he was selling food to the Communist party, and asked, among other things, 'Why have you ordered or permitted your brother Bobby, the Attorney General, to go soft on Communists, fellow-travelers, and ultra-leftists in America, while permitting him to persecute loyal Americans who criticize you, your administration, and your leadership?'..."'Mr Kennedy', the ad concluded, 'we DEMAND answers to these questions, and we want them NOW.' | ||
— [[wikipedia:William_Manchester|William Manchester]], [[wikipedia:The_Death_of_a_President|''Death of a President'']] 1967 | [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Death_of_a_President/xX5dAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Google Books] | — [[wikipedia:William_Manchester|William Manchester]], [[wikipedia:The_Death_of_a_President|''Death of a President'']] 1967 | [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Death_of_a_President/xX5dAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Google Books] | ||
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories#Media/File:Wanted_for_treason.jpg Wanted For Treason]</span> | <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories#Media/File:Wanted_for_treason.jpg Wanted For Treason]</span> | ||
It was another 'Wanted for Treason' broadside. But there were two differences. This denunciation was reaching a vast audience through the pages of a respected newspaper [the ''Dallas Morning News'']. And it was appearing within hours of the President's arrival. ... | It was another 'Wanted for Treason' broadside. But there were two differences. This denunciation was reaching a vast audience through the pages of a respected newspaper [the ''Dallas Morning News'']. And it was appearing within hours of the President's arrival. ... | ||