Speech made by Vlneent J' SaLandnia on June !, York CltY.

Central- Park, Nevu

1958 in

People, how can it be that dlverse madmen, such as ttu candidates we are asked to accept as the murderers of the four martyrs whom we honor today, are so focused in thelr madness that"they shoot only those great men who are iolned.wlth one to spari-ng manklnd from the opprescommonthread---dedicabion upon 1t ny our war lor ds? One w oul d vislted sl o n a n d vl o l e n ce the are random products of a generally expect madrnen---lf they in thetr cholee o f tar diver sifted r n6r e be sfct so ci e ty--*to gulded by ravaglng streams are not affalrs gets. Frlen-ds, human the unvarying as serve such madness of diverse and melancholy our military' of enemles lmportant most the purpo$e of killlng of our madness the ls it then madness, ff tfre motj-vatl-on be mi l l ta ry. A R e u te rs D i sp a tch fr om Moscowon June B states: "The Sov i et of Senator R ober t pre ss i s b u i l d i n g a pletur e of the kllllng serious oppositlon plot all to elLmlnate pait a oi F. Kennedy as and r epor ts ar tlcles policies. of flood A to p re se n ! Wa si ri n gton with openly it llnked have assassination the ln newspapers on the of and 1963 |n Kennedy F. John the murber of Presldent Rev. DIt. Martln Luther King, JP., in Memphls, Tennessee in Ap ri l . " No w , l o n g b e fo n e the Russlans saw flt to voi"ce this vle w , &7most all the people who have lnveetigated the assassination of President ion?: f . Kennedy reeognized Lhab the kill-ing was mstlvatea ny.tile dst?e to perpetuate t4e Cold War whtch Presldent Kennedy $ought to- end. We feel that the shootlng of Presldent Kennedy was a forelgn pol1cy ki1l1ng done at the b e h e st o f m1 1 i ta i ry cir cles in- the Unlted States and exec uted by operatives undLr the control and in the employ of the AgencY. C e n tra l In te l l i g e n ce What changed following the assassination of Presldent KennedSr was our fofelgn policy and our fornr of govennment. Three weeks the iunta ]eaders in Sa$.gonwere told after the asslssinatfbn that the United States was prepared to help as long as ai-d wa$ declslon to r ever se the pol l c y ne e d e d . H e h a d ma de the cr itical to wlthannounced at the end of the Kennedy adminlstration draw U.S. troops from Vletnam. fn Latin Amerlca, the Johnson government tmmbOtately s1gna1led the end of Kennedylsm by the rnilttai'y regines ln the Dominican Republlc and Iupporti.ng , 'e rl l i f. T [e Gu ]f ol fonktn lncident was gener ated by th e r oi l l on an all-too-unskeptary as a monumental fraud---perpetrated C o n g re ss--to pr ovide excuse for fur ther escalatio n i n ti ci l Vl e tn a m. S o p re si d eir t Kennedyts cour ageous effor ts to end the Cold War: were shot down wlth hlm, and the Cold War then grew and the democratle processes in the Unlted States in intensity e ro d e d l n fa vo r o f m or e power to' the m11ltar y' Thanks to a b111 whleh became law over the objections of McNamara, &$ of January 1, L969, our Jolnt Chlefs will enjoy a fo u r-ye a r te n n , a nd th6 Pr esldent will no- longer pe abl e to Such a la w r efi re th e m, a s i n the past, at hls discr etlon' j"n the Untted pattern constitutlonal verse$ thA tradltional contr ol over the mllltar y ' S ta te s o f ci vl l i a n JY. has stated -Artllrrlr-$chle$tag.qr , the sharp difference ln

p o si ti o n following the assasslnation of Pr esld ent m i l l ta ry about the Joint C hi efs K e n n e d y. " T h e re i s nothing infallible of Staff. I know what they recommendedduring great crlses of in each case their r ec om m ent h e K e n n e d y A d mi n l sti:ation.,.and d a ti o n s w e re p l a l n l y wr ong. Pr esid.ent Kennedy took their adv i c e on h l s g re a t d e cl si ons once- - - befor e the Bay of Plgs. H e dl d n o t ma ke th a t mj -stake again...Th1s sudden wor shlp of the Whren General Macrnilitary is not in the American tradltion. Arthun car.ried hls carnpaign for the escalation of the Korean l i i a r to C o n g re ss a n d the pub11c, Pr esident Tr uman fir ed hi m ." flred John F. Kennedy. Is such an 1 subnrib that the military i d e a a ra ry? P re sl d ent Kennedy dld not consider a m ilitar y t a ke -o ve r a n a b su rd idea. fn Paul B. F&y, Jr . r s book, T he P l e a su re o f H i s C o mpany, Pr esident Kennbdy was quoted as s ay i ng ossible. It could haPPen in this co u n try, b u t th e condltions would have to be just r ight. If, f o r e xa mp l , th e muntr y had a young Pr esldent, and he had a E a y o f P i g s...T h e n if ther e Br er e another Bay of Pigs, the r ea cti o n o f th e co untr y would be, tIs he too young and i nex per weuld alnost feel that it was thr ei r patr i i en ce d ? T h e mi l i ta ry of o tl c o b l i g a ti o n to stand r eady to pr eser ve the integr ity c oul d it cf Pigs, if ther e wer e a thir d Bay t he n a tl o n ...T h e n , of a B ay was h a p p e n . B u t i t w o n tt happen on my watch. " Ther e aas Ther e Pi g s i n w h i " ch th e CIA betr ayed Pr esident Kennedy. a d e te n te w i th R u ss la, followed by a test ban tr eaty wh i c h reslstance. And when Kennedy sought encountered heavy milltary pollcy, he was himself flred by the to ehange the Vletnam on his watch. Upon hls death, the mlli tar 11 n ri l l ta q y---ki 1 1 e d b e ca n e th re $ o mi n a nt fo::ce in our Ecver nr nent. C:a;' tc: i:t:::e;' said this on December 10, 7967: "ffrere's also much talk about 6r nhof whatr s ahead. McN a ma ra tsre sl g n a tion bej.nq an nr nl"nous confi,r m S.ti.on,of . wh&t: a' } r :eady h appened. Ae tu a l l y 1 t 1 s mo rer ' of' a ar e goi4g to tnai mean bne m ilitar y nob H i s d e p a rtu re d o e s ga i n th e a sce n d a n cy. It m eans they alr eady have. ' ' ft is m y co n te n ti o n i h a t th e guns of Dallas v{ er e designed to ac c om consolldatlon of powen in the lJnit ed :l i sh th i s mi l i ta ry S ta te s. announcement In the afternoon of November 22, 1963 the first t h a t L e e H a rve y Oswald was the lone assassin of,tr esident Kennedy came from the Pentagon's Situation Room o{ the l,rhite r adio to the H o u se . T h e co mmu n lcation was sent by m llltar y flying from Dal1as to Uashwas back Party i,thich Presn.dential Oswal d, and agalnst any ther e was evldence b e fo re i n g ta n . N o w , be fo re th e rn i l i ta ry could possibly know ( unless he was thei r a g e n t) tfra t Osw a l d had no accom plices, the Pentagon was pr epared to assert finally that Oswald was tire man ivho had fired cr oss- fir e dlr ec ti ons e l l th o se g u n s fro m all those dlffer ent to infer that the not r easonable ls it fh e n , D a l " l a s. S o in invented the Oswald hoax? American mllltary of Senator Kennedy, when the tr{hlte House i:recame The kllllng a l m, was no sur pr lse to the Kennedy Assas s i nati on h i s re a l l sti c Jo h n Kennedy' s enem les had bo be Rober t Kennedy r s in ve sti g a to rs. en e ml e s, a n d th e y had to act at this er itical Junctur e to a ssa ssi n a te h i m b e for e.he becane Pr esldent, at which pol nt he wo u l d h a ve b e e n a b le to do battle with those for ces in our government which killed hls brother and are mj-lj-tarizing and o u r so c iety. b ru ta l i zi n g F a sci st-ml l l ta ry assasslnation is not a new phenom enoni n

h l sto ry. B e n l to Mussollni' s { ascLsts, tn flghting their w ay to p o w e r over ar r of d l cta to ri a l r tar y, lCI l- gz4 asslsslnat ed br a, i co mo Ma tte o tti r- the disttngulshed socialist deputy. Matteott:., llke bhe Kennedys, was a mlllionalre, and like the- Kennedys hls great wealth. dld not spare him from the bullets of th;) b ru te s. Ma tte o ttl , ]ike the Kennedys, hated war , and th i s m ade him the enemy of the mllttary. Matteotti, llke the Kennedys, w a s a ssa ssl n a te d by Faseist- m llitar lsts ln his gover nm ent- . T h l s mi l l ta ry typ e assassination had its par allel ln the gov ernment of Japan in 193j, when 14oo offlcers and men of the Ja p a n e se ml l l ta ry eomm ltted bloodthtr sty deeds of assa s s l natl on a g i a l n st th e i .r cl vi l lan politlcal opponents. These assa s s i natl ons helped pave the way ,for Japanese mllitary ascendency to power.. , ,itK E;\ {x-Pt qhy the killing of.,Mal-comX e.d Dr. Martln Luther Ktng, Jr.? V*yy These good men hrere F"?f{+gl4d e'*a auorlt reading their peop16'and 3 preventlng their oppo$Xfiiciru rn order to-make trrb mirrtary apparatus of the united states reLevant to our population, disorder and chaos among the blacks are deslred- by the crA and th e m1 l 1 !+" y. rf the m ititar y can flght r aclal gubr r llla w ar s in o u r cl tl e s, a s they ar e planning to do, then- the..,' ca n p a ra d e u n d e r th e gulse of white civilptlon pr oteetlng t he so ci e ty fro m b l a ck unclvtlized hoar dJ. To depr lve the b l ac k p o p u l a ti o n o f i ts finest leader s, leaves the black eomm uni ty confused and prey to agent provoeateurs. The crA and FBr anb o th e r u .s. i n te l l l g e nce ageneles would cause the black peopl e enter violent adventuristlc enter"prlses deslgned to bnd- 1n , !g th e d e str.u cti o n o f our blaek pcpulatton

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o f o u r fo u r ma rtyrs. Let us buir d on that wor k. Let us r ebui l d th i s so ci e t;r sp a rked by lnspi::ation pr ovided by these cour ag e o u s me n . L e t u s not delay in this eoning together . Tlm e l s sh o rt. T h e g u n s d ,r e quick. Those assassins' guns sm ashed th ro u g h b l a ck sku l ls and white skulls and sp6wed out a s l ngl e red eolcr which shows the ki-nship of all rnankind. rf we do-not qu i e kl y j o i n to g e ther , br other $ the guns will piek us off one by o n e , a n d j o l n u s together - - .- in oeatr r . Thls is the le s s on to b e l e a rn e d fro m the kllllng of pr esldent Kennedy, Mal c ol m x , D r. K tn g a n d S e n a tor Kennedy.

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