Virtual JFK

I just saw this movie last night at the Beloit International Film Festival (BIFF) and I am still reeling. I was six months old when JFK was killed and frankly,embarrassingly,everything I've ever known about him has been related to me through others' opinions and glossy magazine articles discussing conspiracy theories, Camelot and Marilyn Monroe. I feel like I just took an incredibly interesting history course, one that everyone should attend, including most certainly, our current and any future US governments. This film should be shown to every high-schooler, and followed up again, with every college student. What an absolute eye opener.

This is a great documentary and tells of how JFK prevented war on multiple occasions - in Cuba during Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile crisis, in Laos, in Vietnam in 1961, in Berlin, and withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Then LBJ took over and he was a different type of president. He wasn't the skeptic Kennedy was. He firmly believed that Vietnam could be won, a very costly mistake for America. If JFK had been in office, he would have most likely have negotiated or withdrawn, just like he did in hte case of Laos/Cuba.

If only presidents today were like JFK - President Bush reminds me of LBJ, he went to war in Afghanistan over an attack on the U.S, but then forayed into Iraq, which had nothing to do with the attack. JFK would never had done such a thing. The Iraq War costed billions of dollars, and thousands of American lives. We need more presidents who understand that war is unnecessary and a last resort.

After deeply studying the life and philosophy, both the pros and cons, of JFK for greater than 3 years , I believe this movie is one of the best. This movie embeds the sounds, struggles, and outlooks of the JFK peace keeping ability. War does have a horrible price but so does peace, except in peace no one bleeds but only human's can grow from needed conflict. JFK and American Democracy needed the Communist's challenge. Today, what country or what idea makes America stronger and hopeful that with external pressure, a slingshot of universal pleasure can take place for global liberty. We have come to a point to where we have small tea parties, instead of un-surrendering civil revolutions. We have terror groups, who can never be seen, but we fight a number count War on Terrorism. A war where news keep the American deaths silent but make sure to print foreign suicide deaths. Like Vietnam, more foreigners will die because of American involvement. 2 million Vietnamese died along with over 58,000 American troops, including my uncle. In this movie you will notice the numerous press conference JFK had done and the what seemed like half a hundred news reports. I will alway argued that our media has looked that other way and escaping the element of "PRESS." Pressure is how journalism, even when you don't want to hear it or it seems like a conspiracy, keeps a democracy able to survive.