In several articles at LRC I have described the ongoing war between President John Kennedy and the national security state (principally the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the upper echelons of the CIA). Here are three examples: here, here, and here. Other writers have definitively documented this conflict, see the authoritative summary volume, ,JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated. by Douglas P. Horne, The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK:  The CIA, the Pentagon, and the “Peace President”, by Andrew Gavin Marshall, and JFK and the Military, by Robert Dallek, A key sinister figure in this … Continue reading General Curtis LeMay and His War Against the Kennedys