Discussion about this post

User's avatar
John F. Davies USMC ret's avatar

For the past five years, I have been doing research into the military's response to the JFK assassination.

My many inquiries revealed no records on file in the military archives. It is quite perplexing because this has nothing at all to do with the events in Dealey Plaza. Most of the information that I have been able to obtain has come from the recent document dumps and the accounts of veterans who were serving that day. Overall, information about this essential part of the JFK assassination story has been fragmentary at best.

A very important set of documents which could answer many questions about the military response would be the duty logs of the National Military Command Center, ( NMCC). However, according to JFK researcher Larry Hancock in his book "Surprise Attack", these logs, specifically communications between the NMCC and other alert centers are nowhere to be found.

( "Surprise Attack", page 226).

From all that I can conclude, the reason why these documents haven't seen the light of day could be that they would show a confused, disjointed, and in many cases panicked response by the National Security Establishment. Knowledge of this at the time could have damaged the confidence of the public in the reliability and continuity of the military when dealing with a catastrophic crisis.

60 years after the fact, the lack of information on the military's reaction forms a great gap in understanding the events of that awful day in Dallas.

Expand full comment
Alan Green's avatar

All of the details mentioned here prove beyond doubt that the public have never been meant to see the real truth about the assassination. If the mass destruction of evidence isn’t bad enough, it’s always been my view that the really serious stuff was never written down anyway.

Expand full comment
13 more comments...

No posts