A President For Peace
America Magazine - THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REVIEW
18 November 2013

Civil Disobedience as Prayer
Red Letter Christians
4 February 2013

Guruji, Gandhi, and Terrorism
Speech Delivered at the Ceremony for the Enshrinement of Sacred Relics at The Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda, 8 October 2011

Jim Douglass on The Hope in Confronting the Unspeakable
in the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Keynote Address at The Coalition on Political Assassinations Conference, 20 November 2009
Dallas, Texas

Fortune’s Warning To President Kennedy:
Beware The Ides Of April
Context by Jim Douglass

King and the Cross
A reflection at the Holy Week Faith and Resistance Retreat
Washington D.C., April 2007

The Converging Martyrdom of Malcolm and Martin
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Princeton Theological Seminary, March 29, 2006

The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis
Spring 2000
Probe Magazine

A Letter to the American People (and Myself in Particular) On the Unspeakable
1999, 2012
Originally published in Fair Play Magazine

The Assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy in the Light of the Fourth Gospel
1998
Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review

“Because JFK turned to peace with our enemies, he was assassinated by the covert forces of his own national security state. Hope comes from our confronting the unspeakable.”

Among the works presented here are Jim’s “MLK Conspiracy Exposed” updated article and an annotated transcript of his Keynote Address at the 2009 Coalition on Political Assassinations Conference in Dallas on the hope in confronting the Unspeakable in President Kennedy’s assassination. With 81 endnotes, this presentation provides a detailed summation of elements explored in JFK and The Unspeakable - Why He Died and Why It Matters. Published by Orbis Books in 2008, the book referenced here is the 2010 softcover edition published by Simon and Schuster.

Near the end of the Keynote, Douglass poses the central question of his talk: “So how can the why of his murder give us hope? Where do we find hope when a peacemaking president is assassinated by his own national security state? How do we get hope from that?” He follows this with the essence of the transforming nature of the story of John Kennedy’s turning towards peace.

The why of the event that brings us together tonight encircles the earth . . . Because John Kennedy chose peace on earth at the height of the Cold War, he was executed. But because he turned toward peace, in spite of the consequences to himself, humanity is still alive and struggling. That is hopeful. Especially if we understand what he went through and what he has given to us as his vision.

At a certain point in his presidency, John Kennedy turned a corner and he didn’t look back. I believe that decisive turn toward his final purpose in life, resulting in his death, happened in the darkness of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although Kennedy was already in conflict with his national security managers, the missile crisis was the breaking point.

At that most critical moment for us all, he turned from any remaining control that his security managers had over him toward a deeper ethic, a deeper vision in which the fate of the earth became his priority. Without losing sight of our own best hopes in this country, he began to home in, with his new partner, Nikita Khrushchev, on the hope of peace for everyone on this earth – Russians, Americans, Cubans, Vietnamese, Indonesians, everyone on this earth – no exceptions. He made that commitment to life at the cost of his own. What a transforming story that is.

One of the most remarkable dimensions of this transforming story is the secret correspondence between Nikita Khrushchev and John Kennedy. Khrushchev initiated this private channel of direct communication between himself and the U.S. President when he wrote JFK a 26-page letter dated September 29, 1961 during the Berlin Crisis. In it, the leader of Communist state, an avowed atheist, invoked the biblical analogy of Noah’s Ark to express their common concern for peace in the nuclear age.

I often think how necessary it is for men who are vested with trust and great power to be inspired with the understanding of what seems to be an obvious truism, which is that we live on one planet and it is not in man’s power—at least in the foreseeable future—to change that. In a certain sense there is an analogy here—I like this comparison—with Noah’s Ark where both the “clean” and the “unclean” found sanctuary. But regardless of who lists himself with the “clean” and who is considered to be “unclean,” they are all equally interested in one thing and that is that the Ark should successfully continue its cruise. And we have no other alternative: either we should live in peace and cooperation so that the Ark maintains its buoyancy, or else it sinks. Therefore we must display concern for all of mankind, not to mention our own advantages, and find every possibility leading to peaceful solutions of problems.

While annotating this transcript, I discovered that the entire Foreign Relations of the United States, [FRUS] of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon-Ford Administrations – 172 volumes total – are online at http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments. The Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: Document List (FRUS, 1961-1963, Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges) contains 120 communications, of which 21 make up the secret letters between JFK and Khrushchev. The President’s first letter responding to the Chairman acknowledged the fitting analogy of Noah’s Ark to their mutual dilemma.

I like very much your analogy of Noah’s Ark, with both the “clean” and the “unclean” determined that it stay afloat. Whatever our differences, our collaboration to keep the peace is as urgent—if not more urgent—than our collaboration to win the last world war. The possibilities of another war destroying everything your system and our system have built up over the years—if not the very systems themselves—are too great to permit our ideological differences to blind us to the deepening dangers of such a struggle.

The opportunity for Khrushchev and Kennedy to communicate directly through such an unmediated channel afforded each man the chance to begin to know each other as a human being he could respect. As Douglass writes in the Preface, “Respect means recognizing and acknowledging our enemies’ part of the truth, whether or not that makes life more difficult for us. Recognizing his enemies’ truths made life much more difficult, and finally impossible, for Kennedy—leaving us with the responsibility of recognizing the painfully obvious truth of Kennedy’s death.”

In the summer of 1962 while sailing with friends and discussing the recently published novel, Seven Days In May, that described a military takeover in the United States, President Kennedy “discussed the possibility of such a military takeover very calmly:”

“It’s possible. It could happen in this country, but the conditions would have to be just right. If, for example, the country had a young President, and he had a Bay of Pigs, there would be a certain uneasiness. Maybe the military would do a little criticizing behind his back, but this would be written off as the usual military dissatisfaction with civilian control. Then if there were another Bay of Pigs, the reaction of the country would be, Is he too young and inexperienced?’ The military would almost feel that it was their patriotic obligation to stand ready to preserve the integrity of the nation, and only God knows just what segment of democracy they would be defending if they overthrew the elected establishment.”

As if steeling himself for the final challenge, he continued, “Then, if there were a third Bay of Pigs, it could happen.”

Pausing long enough for all of us to assess the significance of his comment, he concluded with an old Navy phrase, “But it won’t happen on my watch.”

The above is from Paul B. Fay Jr.’s The Pleasure of His Company (p. 163), a recounting of Fay’s friendship with JFK that began in 1942 when the two men met in a PT boat training camp. Douglass explores the import of President Kennedy’s thinking regarding giving himself three Bay of Pigs -type events before seeing just such a coup in the United States.

As articulated both in his talk and with much more detail in JFK and The Unspeakable, there were many more than just three “Bay of Pigs” – comprising the escalating list of conflicts between President Kennedy and his national security state – before he was assassinated. A list of these conflicts includes the following:

1. 1961: negotiated peace with the Communists for a neutralist government in Laos;
2. April 1961: Bay of Pigs and JFK’s response: “[I want] to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
3. 1961-63: Kennedy-Hammarskjöld-UN vision kept the Congo together and independent;
4. April 1962: conflict with big steel industrialists;
5. October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis;
6. 1961-63: Diplomatic opening to Third World leadership of President Sukarno;
7. May 6, 1963: Presidential order NSAM #239 to pursue both a nuclear test ban and a policy of general and complete disarmament;
8. June 10, 1963: American University Address – the Real JFK Jubilee – not Nov 22;
9. Summer 1963: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty;
10. Fall 1963: beginning of back-channel dialogue with Fidel Castro;
11. Fall 1963: JFK’s decision to sell wheat to the Russians;
12. October 11, 1963: Presidential order NSAM #263 to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam by 1965;
13. November 1963: Khrushchev decides to accept JFK’s invitation for a joint expedition to the moon.

In his American University Address President John Kennedy proposed nothing less than an end to the Cold War. As Douglass writes in JFK and The Unspeakable, “It had become clear to America’s power brokers that the president of their national security state was struggling with his Communist opponent not so much over who would win the Cold War as on how to end it.” (p. 175) In his farewell address, 3 days before JFK’ inauguration, President Eisenhower warned Americans that

“we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”

President Kennedy’s repeatedly challenging the imperatives of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the military-industrial-intelligence complex was a clear and hopeful response to Eisenhower’s warning. This is one reason there was such a universal outpouring of grief throughout much of the world when he was assassinated. His turning towards peace with increased vigor and resolve after staring into the abyss with the enemy Nikita Khrushchev, during the Cuban Missile Crisis was treasonous to the entrenched monied interests standing behind the institutions of government representing those interests. The President’s actions, culminating in his efforts to end the Cold War was seen as heretical – as would be the case for a President today vis-a-vis the War on Terror – by the political theology of violence we were then and are now still thrall to as a society. Douglass fine tunes this point in the Preface:

John Kennedy’s story is our story, although a titanic effort has been made to keep it from us. That story, like the struggle it embodies, is as current today as it was in 1963. The theology of redemptive violence still reigns. The Cold War has been followed by its twin, the War on Terror. We are engaged in another apocalyptic struggle against an enemy seen as absolute evil. Terrorism has replaced Communism as the enemy. We are told we can be safe only through the threat of escalating violence. Once again, anything goes in a fight against evil: preemptive attacks, torture, undermining governments, assassinations, whatever it takes to gain the end of victory over an enemy portrayed as irredeemably evil. Yet the redemptive means John Kennedy turned to, in a similar struggle, was dialogue with the enemy. When the enemy is seen as human, everything changes.

That reconciling method of dialogue—where mutual respect overcomes fear, and thus war—is again regarded as heretical in our dominant political theology. As a result, seeking truth in our opponents instead of victory over them can lead, as it did in the case of Kennedy, to one’s isolation and death as a traitor. (pp. ix-x)

Paradoxically, all of us in this society are involved in an ongoing denial of the transformation of our most esteemed national values – including liberty and justice for all – that have been replaced by a national security state structure that began to take root in the 1940s and that led directly to the assassination of a President endeavoring to move the world away from war and towards peace. Consider how our failure to confront the Unspeakable caused this to manifest. How compassion is our source of nonviolent social transformation. And how understanding and sharing with others the transforming story of a President who turned towards peace and gave his life as witness to a new, more peaceful humanity, can help move our own collective story in the twenty-first century away from a spiral of violence that can only end in omnicidal oblivion and towards a way of peace. Such movement serving Life’s interests is not only for the future of our species, but for all life exploring itself – and the unknown possibilities of existence – on this planet. These ideas set the frame of the book at the end of its Introduction.

The Unspeakable is not far away. It is not somewhere out there, identical with a government that became foreign to us. The emptiness of the void, the vacuum of responsibility and compassion, is in ourselves. Our citizen denial provides the ground for the government’s doctrine of “plausible deniability.” John F. Kennedy’s assassination is rooted in our denial of our nation’s crimes in World War II that began the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. As a growing precedent to JFK’s assassination by his own national security state, we U.S. citizens supported our government when it destroyed whole cities (Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki), when it protected our Cold War security by world-destructive weapons, and when it carried out the covert murders of foreign leaders with “plausible deniability” in a way that was obvious to critical observers. By avoiding our responsibility for the escalating crimes of state done for our security, we who failed to confront the Unspeakable opened the door to JFK’s assassination and its cover-up. The unspeakable is not far away.

It was Thomas Merton’s compassion as a human being that drew him into his own encounter with the Unspeakable. I love what Merton wrote about compassion in The Sign of Jonas: “It is in the desert of compassion that the thirsty land turns into springs of water, that the poor possess all things.”[9]

Compassion is our source of nonviolent social transformation. A profoundly human compassion was Merton’s wellspring for his encounter with the Unspeakable in the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and nuclear annihilation. Merton’s understanding and encouragement sustained many of us through those years, especially in our resistance to the Vietnam War. As Merton’s own opposition deepened to the evil of that war, he went on a pilgrimage to the East for a more profound encounter. He was electrocuted by a fan at a conference center in Bangkok on December 10, 1968, the conclusion of his journey into a deeper, more compassionate humanity.

“The human being” was Jesus’ name for himself, literally “the son of the man,” in Greek ho huios tou anthrōpou.[10] Jesus’ self-identification signified a new, compassionate humanity willing to love our enemies and walk the way of the cross. Jesus told his disciples again and again about “the human being,” meaning a personal and collective humanity that he identified with himself. Against his followers’ protests, he told them repeatedly that the human being must suffer. The human being must be rejected by the ruling powers, must be killed, and will rise again.[11] This is the glory of humanity. As he put it in John’s Gospel, “The hour has come for the human being to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24 ).

What Jesus was all about, what we as human beings are all about in our deepest nature, is giving our lives for one another. By bearing that witness of martyrdom, he taught, we will come to know what humanity really is in its glory, on earth as it is in heaven. A martyr is therefore a living witness to our new humanity.

Was John F. Kennedy a martyr, one who in spite of contradictions gave his life as witness to a new, more peaceful humanity?

That question never occurred to me when Kennedy died. Nor did it arise in my mind until more than three decades later. Now that I know more about JFK’s journey, the question is there: Did a president of the United States, while in command of total nuclear war, detach himself enough from its power to give his life for peace?

From researching JFKs story, I know much more today than I did during his life about his struggle to find a more hopeful way than the Cold War policies that were about to incinerate the United States, the Soviet Union, and much of the world. I know now why he became so dangerous to those who believed in and profited from those policies.

But how much of his future was John Kennedy willing to risk?

Kennedy was not naïve. He knew the forces he was up against. Is it even conceivable that a man with such power in his hands could have laid it down and turned toward an end to the Cold War, in the knowledge he would then be, in Merton’s phrase, marked out for assassination?

Let the reader decide.

I will tell the story as truthfully as I can. I have come to see it as a transforming story, one that can help move our own collective story in the twenty-first century from a spiral of violence to a way of peace. My methodology is from Gandhi. This is an experiment in truth. Its particular truth is a journey into darkness. If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

Whether or not JFK was a martyr, his story could never have been told without the testimony of risk-taking witnesses to the truth. Even if their lives were not taken—and some were—they were all martyrs in the root meaning of the word, witnesses to the truth.

The belief behind this book is that truth is the most powerful force on earth, what Gandhi called satyagraha, “truth-force” or “soul-force.” By his experiments in truth Gandhi turned theology on its head, saying “truth is God.” We all see a part of the truth and can seek it more deeply. Its other side is compassion, our response to suffering.

The story of JFK and the Unspeakable is drawn from the suffering and compassion of many witnesses who saw the truth and spoke it. In living out the truth, we are liberated from the Unspeakable.

9. Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1953), p. 334.
10. As biblical scholars John L. McKenzie and Walter Wink have pointed out, the excessively literal translation “the son of the man” for Jesus’ Aramaic phrase was as meaningless in Greek as it is in English. The Aramaic idiom Jesus uses eighty-two times in the Gospels to identify himself, bar nasha, means humanity, personally and collectively. What he says about himself as “the human being,” he says also about humanity. His story is meant to be our story. See John L. McKenzie, The New Testament without Illusion (Chicago: Thomas More Press, 1980), pp. 114-24; James W. Douglass, The Nonviolent Coming of God (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1991), pp. 29-59; and Walter Wink, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003).
11. Mark 9:31; 10:32-34; Matthew 17:22-23; 20: 17-19; Luke 9:22; 9:44; 18:31-33.

• A President for Peace
  The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
  by James W. Douglass
  November 18, 2013
  America Magazine, The National Catholic Review
• Gandhi’s Closest Disciple Shares Insights and Joy
  Narayan Desai’s life reviewed by Jim Douglass
  April 18, 2012
  The Street Spirit
• JFK, Obama, and the Unspeakable
  by James W. Douglass
  November/December 2010
  Tikkun Magazine
• Assassination Questions,
  An Interview with Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark
  by James W. Douglass
  November/December 1999
  Fair Play Magazine

• on the net
  • Browse 2010 edition (includes all of Chapter 1) at books.simonandschuster.com (Flash Image format)
  • Reading Group Guide 2010 edition at books.simonandschuster.com (HTML format)
    This reading group guide for JFK and the Unspeakable includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author James W. Douglass. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.

    Introduction
    Since John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, myriad authors have written works attempting to uncover the reasons behind the loss that changed the American landscape.
        With meticulous research, compelling arguments, and an expert sense of narrative, James W. Douglass boldly supplies fully formed answers to the “why” of JFK’s death. JFK and the Unspeakable offers a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest leaders, as well as insight into the political events that have shaped the America we currently inhabit. By the book’s conclusion, we not only believe Douglass’s depiction of the unspeakable forces that led to Kennedy’s assassination; we yearn for the chance to advocate the vision of peace for which he gave his life.

  • eBook On Amazon published in 2011; Look inside includes online copy of Preface, Introduction, Chronology and first third of Chapter 1. A Cold Warrior Turns
• various editions
  • Editions available in Libraries
  • 50th Anniversary edition at Orbis Books
  • 2010 softcover edition published by Simon & Schuster
  • Audiobook on CD - Unabridged, May 2011
    Read by Pete Larkin, 18 sound discs (22.5 hr.)
  • 2010 Softcover Edition used copies listing at isbn.nu
  • October 2011 kindle eBook edition
  • 2011 Korean edition, Words & Book Publishing Co., Seoul (isbn: 9788992114639)
  • 2013 French Edition published by Éditions Demi-Lune
  • 2013 50th Anniversary Edition at Open Library (used copies at isbn.nu)
  • 2014 Japanese Edition published by Dojidaisha (isbn.nu)
  • 2019 Russian Edition published by Alpina Publishers, Moscow
    Foreword by Oliver Stone
    English translation (via google translate)

From the English translation:

The book “Why John Kennedy was Killed: The Truth That Is Important to Know” not only provides an answer to how the murder was committed, but also explains why. The emphasis is not on the scenery, but on the main action, which makes this book unique in its kind. The topic of joint events by Kennedy and Khrushchev is a key one. The author also analyzes Kennedy’s policies regarding Cuba and Vietnam.

Douglas describes what the President of America was able to achieve during his reign, and what he did not have time to do. No doubt the world would have been different if Kennedy had survived. The author emphasizes that today Kennedy’s foreign policy is hardly felt in the USA, since neither Johnson nor Nixon began to continue the behavior strategy initiated by John F. Kennedy.

Today we have every chance to find out the truth about the murder of the president. The truth, which will bring reassurance and show the closest possible reality to the state of affairs in the world.

Why is a book worth reading?

This is the most authoritative book on the assassination of President Kennedy. Oliver Stone, Robert Kennedy Jr., Yoko Ono, John Perkins, Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Sheen and other famous people believe that it should be read to anyone who wants to understand why President Kennedy was killed.

In 1991, Oliver Stone released the movie John F. Kennedy. Shots in Dallas, “which refutes the official version of the assassination of President Kennedy. It was the active participation of Oliver Stone that helped to draw the attention of Americans to the book of Jim Douglass, which has withstood several reprints in the United States. In 2017, Stone personally invited the chief editor of Alpina Publisher to publish a book by Jim Douglass in Russian.

61% of Americans do not believe in the official version: that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and there was no conspiracy. These are the results of a survey that Gallup conducted in 2013. In previous years, the number of those who did not trust the official investigation reached 81%.

Kennedy’s assassination took place at a turning point in both American and world history, when the fate of not only the United States, but the world as a whole was decided. The consequences of this tragedy have not been overcome to this day. It is not surprising that now interest in the “Dallas murder” is growing again. Answers to many questions can be found in this book.

The author believes that much of what we know about the United States, about its freedoms and democratic values, is a screen that hides the police state, ready for everything, including the assassination of the country’s president, in order to maintain its power.

The author builds his conclusions not only on Oswald’s actions and testimonies of witnesses of the tragedy itself, but also immerses the reader in the wider context of the international situation and the actions of President Kennedy. That is, he is looking for the answer to the classic question of any investigator: “Who was interested in eliminating Kennedy?” And he gives an unequivocal answer to this question.

The current confrontation between Russia and the United States has created a huge crisis of trust from the elites of both countries. It is all the more interesting to study in detail the situation around the 1962 Caribbean crisis, when a similar crisis of confidence was overcome by the personal courage of Kennedy and Khrushchev.

• The Nonviolent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace (Macmillan 1968)
  (2nd edition, Wipf & Stock, 2006). Read the Foreward by Ched Meyers.
• Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation (Doubleday 1972)
  (2nd edition, Wipf & Stock, 2006).
• Lightning East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age (Crossroads 1983)
  (2nd edition, Wipf & Stock, 2006).
• The Nonviolent Coming of God (Orbis Books 1991)
  (2nd edition, Wipf & Stock, 2006).
• Compassion and the Unspeakable in the Murders of Martin, Malcolm, JFK, RFK
  Keynote address to the International Thomas Merton Society, Mobile, Alabama, June 13, 1997.
  (Project Hope 1998) 16 pages
  (on amazon.com)
• JFK and the Unspeakable – Why He Died and Why It Matters
• Gandhi and the Unspeakable – His Final Experiment With Truth
  Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 2012
  
  In 1948, at the dawn of his country’s independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and security forces were complicit in the assassination and how in killing one man, they hoped to destroy his vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Gandhi had long anticipated and prepared for this fate. In reviewing the little-known story of his early experiments in truth in South Africa the laboratory for Gandhi’s philosophy of satyagraha, or truth force Douglass shows how early he confronted and overcame the fear of death. And, as with his account of JFK’s death, he shows why this story matters: what we can learn from Gandhi’s truth in the struggle for peace and reconciliation today.
  
  

• Street Spirit Interview by Terry Messman with Jim Douglass, June 8 & July 9, 2015
  Part 1
  One Trident submarine can destroy a country. A fleet of Trident submarines is capable of destroying the world. Jim Douglass explains how Ground Zero Center organized a visionary campaign of nonviolent resistance to confront “the Auschwitz of Puget Sound.”
  Part 2
  When Father Dave Becker came to dinner at the home of Jim and Shelley Douglass next to the Trident base, the first sentence he said after he sat down on the sofa was, “I want to understand from you what it means to be the chaplain of the Auschwitz of Puget Sound.”
  Part 3, The Acts of Resistance and the Works of Mercy
  Strangely enough, acts of resistance to the White Train’s deadly cargo of terribly destructive nuclear weapons created a community dedicated to peace all along the route of a Holocaust train.
  Part 4, Gandhi’s Vision of Nonviolence: Holding Firm to Truth
  “We chose to be in the sights of the weapons of our own troops. For a few days, we were just as vulnerable as the Iraqi people. Explosions were occurring all over the city from missile attacks by our fleet in the Gulf.”
  
  
• Jim Douglass – A Life of Peace and Resistance (mp3: 1:44:07)
  James Douglass interviewed by Rayborn Johnson on Beyond The Box, 1 July 2014
• Jim Douglass on JFK and Unspeakable Why He Died
  Interviewed by Jeff Blankfort on “Takes on the World”
  A-Infos Radio Project, 27 November 2013 (mp3: 42:20)
• JFK and Unspeakable
  James Douglass interviewed by Luke Hansen
  America podcast, 18 November 2013 (mp3: 26:36)
• Vancouver-bound author James Douglass on JFK and the Unspeakable,
  by Adrian Mack, Georgia Straight, 7 Mar 2013
• James W. Douglass Speaks About Gandhi And The Unspeakable
  Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon,
  writersvoice.net, 30, January 2013 (mp3: 58:32)
• Why JFK Died and Why It Matters: Jim Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE
  writersvoice.net, 22 November 2011 (mp3: 59:07)
• Jim Douglass on Lee Harvey Oswald
  writersvoice.net, 22 November 2011 (mp3: 5:07)
• The U.S. Is an Assassination State
  James W. Douglass talks with Lew Rockwell
  about the JFK murder and its consequences.
  Text Transcript of the Interview
  lewrockwell.com, 17 January 2013 (mp3: 20:27)
• Why Was JFK Murdered?,
  Lew Rockwell Interviews Jim Douglass
  Text Transcript of the Interview
  lewrockwell.com, 13 May 2010 (mp3: 19:19)
• The Iconocast Episode 5: Interview with Jim Douglass (part 1)
  Conducted by Mark Van Steenwyk
  Iconolast, 29 April 2010 (audio - 37:21)
  The Iconocast Episode 6: Interview with Jim Douglass (part 2)
  13 May 2010 (audio - 38:36)
• Angela Keaton Interviews James W. Douglass,
  antiwar.com, 2 December 2009 (mp3: 21:51)
• James Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE,
  jamesfetzer.blogspot.com, 15 April 2009 (mp3: 1:55:27)
• Non-violent Action in an Age of Violence
  Jerome McDonnell Interviews Jim Douglass
  WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, 2 April 2008 (audio - 28:12)
• Film: Interview - Jim Douglass - MLK, Malcolm X, JFK, RFK and the Unspeakable
  video produced by Mick McCormick
  recorded early 2000 while researching his 2008 book, JFK and The Unspeakable (mp3: 57:51)
• Living At Ground Zero
  Committed opposition to the Trident submarine: applied Ghandian non-violence
  An Interview With Shelley and Jim Douglass, by Robert Gilman
  The Foundation of Peace, Context Institute, Autumn 1983
  
  

• Talk by Jim Douglass author of
  JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
  Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, Washington
  You Tube, 6 June 2008 (film - 57:31)
  local-to-ratical audio mp3 copy (41.4MB)
• James W Douglass: JFK & The Unspeakable,
  Powell’s Books, Portland, Oregon, 9 June 2008 (audio - 46:18)
• Jim Douglass – JFK, Obama, and the Unspeakable,
  Presentation given at the Sacred Heart / St. Dominic Church, Portland Maine
  archive.org, 30 September 2010 (film - 71:33)
• Jim Douglass JFK, Obama and the Unspeakable
  Presented by Marquette University Center for Peacemaking
  YouTube, 2 February 2011 (audio - 1:17:30)
• The Arms Race Within, Trailer (4:55)
  Using only Gandhian principles, a community of love led by James and Shelley Douglass teaches us that outer disarmament comes from inner disarmament. Directed by Kell Kearns
  Available from Heaven On Earth Creations (at bottom of page)
  Idanha Films, 1985 (film - 57:25)
  
  

• “Blockading the ‘White Train of Death’,”
  by Terry Messman, Street Spirit, July 9, 2015
  A reporter warned Jim Douglass that he had observed a train north of Seattle that looked like it was “carrying big-time weapons.” The reporter added that the heavily armored, all-white train looked like “the train out of hell.”
• “Life at Ground Zero of the Nuclear Arms Race,”
  by Terry Messman, Street Spirit, June 8, 2015
  Jim and Shelley Douglass moved right next door to the Trident submarine base—Ground Zero of the nuclear arms race—and organized a boat blockade that led to an epic confrontation with the Navy and Coast Guard on the waters of Puget Sound.
• “How the assassinations of peaceful leaders like JFK and MLK translate into hope,”
  by Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun, 8 March 2013
• James Douglass | Americans Who Tell The Truth,
  Models of Courageous Citizenship
• Jim Douglass’ new book, Gandhi and the Unspeakable
  by John Dear SJ
  14 February 2012
  National Catholic Reporter
• JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
  Review of James Douglass’ Book
  by Prof. Edward Curtin
  25 November 2009
  Global Research
• Jim and Shelley Douglass —
  1997 Pacem In Terris (Peace On Earth) Award Recipients
  “have been steadfast in their efforts to build a world of peace based on justice.”
  The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award was created in 1964 by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council. An Award is presented by the Diocese in collaboration with other organizations to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country but in the world. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, the first recipient: “awakened in us a hope that no problem was too great to conquer – race relations, violence or poverty – when citizens work together. (1964, posthumous presentation)”

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