JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment Quotes

“A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.”
― Douglas Horne, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated

“Anyone who studies this evidence with an open mind understands that there was a coup in America in 1963, and that the plot was cleverly designed in an attempt to blame the assassination of President Kennedy on both Fidel Castro’s Cuba, and the Soviet Union, at the same time.”
― Douglas Horne, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated

“...the attitude of the Joint Chiefs after the Missile Crisis was precisely what one might imagine, given the above events:

’We told you so; you failed to follow our advice and allowed this catastrophe to happen; you then failed in your duty to cleanse Cuba of Communist influence and an undeniable military threat to the United States by force, when presented with the perfect justification for war; and in doing so, you have proven yourself unfit to be President.’

In my view, the foregoing events — revealed by the Northwoods documents — are the Rosetta Stone to the Kennedy assassination. It is my opinion that the great disfavor with which the hawks (i.e., the overwhelming majority) in his own national security establishment viewed his eventual resolution to the coming Cuban Missile Crisis was the proximate cause of JFK’s assassination , one year later in Dallas.”
― Douglas Horne, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated

“victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan.”
― Douglas Horne, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated