An artist’s impression...? Early December 1963 painter and close friend to John Kennedy William Walton travelled to Moscow (a trip already planned when the President was alive) to meet other Russian artists. However, asked by Robert and Jackie Kennedy, a secret message was to be conveyed to the Soviet leader about President Kennedy’s assassination. After the death of the President, the Kennedy family was in a precarious position. In their world, the feared enemy ‘Russia’ was now a friend, while their own government became an enemy. Forging a friendship with Nikita Khrushchev to ensure a peace path was formed, not only avoided nuclear war, but set in place a test ban treaty on atmospheric nuclear testing, a joint space venture and assisting in a positive dialogue with Cuba’s Fidel Castro. This however, increased the hatred of the President and his new foreign policy direction with the ‘dark forces’ within the United States. His enemies began to multiply, especially from those in support of the Cold War and the profits gained from such a ‘state-of-mind’. The Kennedy family’s secretly delivered message stated: ‘despite Oswald’s connections to the communists world, there was a large political conspiracy behind Oswald’s rifle... the President was felled by domestic opponents, a victim of a right-wing conspiracy’.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:08:51 +0000
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