the unspeakable

Many people are very compulsive over the date of November 22, 1963, their have even been countless books written about this infamous day that was full of chaos and fear. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is the most well known assassination in American history and if not that then is the most famous of the 1960s. I’m sure many wonder why it matters, It was many years ago and it was a president that did not have a very long presidency and had a very little during the little time he had.
This book is very centered on John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the conspiracy based around his assassination. The author of the book is James Douglass, he was born in 1937. As much as he is an author he is also a very well known activist with a strong background in christian theology. Douglass was also a professor of religion at the university of Hawaii. Some say that is where the first protest the involved the Vietnam was came from.
This book is probably the most level headed, well-arranged, and from the most recent collection of data that I have seen in a Kennedy book, all put together in a short four hundred pages which could be compared to a one thousand to two thousand page books by authors that have added their own crazy and lucrative fantasies instead of using straight facts that were physically collected and not thought up by some who has their own ideals. In this book Douglass emphasizes why it matters by looking at Kennedy’s legacy such as what he did while he was in office both good and bad, he also of course talks about the assassination itself. The book is all told through an American Trappist monk known as Thomas Merton, the book is told through his writings and own philosophy. The title is deprived from Merton, who very v...

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...Vietnam was not worth one more American lives.
Douglass goes on to tell how Kennedy overrode a lot of high trigger happy officials that would have went to war at any moments notice. Once he started supporting the Test ban treaty it set in stone what kind of president he should be remembered for. This book the unspeakable had a different twist to it other then the classic mystery and conspiracy theory it bring you to the realization what JFK did and stood for up to the day he died, it hits you when you stop think about what you just read a man paid the ultimate price for what he believe in and that was peace. If no one gets any sense of thankfulness their their wont be many books that will.
Douglass has around 45 years of research that he had to his disposal and it seems like he tried to use the most credible and more well know sources such as the New York Times.