This September 11, please listen to this entire interview with the late great Vincent Salandria, who almost immediately saw through the lies of the official story of President Kennedy in November of 1963 and who clearly perceived and articulated the significance of what took place that day for the world we still inhabit more than fifty years later.
The above interview was recorded in 1994, more than thirty years after the assassination -- and Vince Salandria cuts right to the meaning of what that day in 1963 meant to the world ever after, including the world of 1994, and every single one of his observations and insights remains as accurate today as when this interview was recorded in 1994.
And every single one of his observations can be applied to the catastrophe of September 11, 2001 -- and you can listen to this interview and apply everything that he is saying about the assassination of President Kennedy to the events of September 11.
For example, beginning at 0:27:30, in response to a question regarding whether there should be a special investigator into the murder of President Kennedy (recall that the Oliver Stone film JFK had just come out, reigniting the perception among the people that the official story was clearly a lie), Vince Salandria replies:
Well, if you're asking me whether the government, the murderers of John F. Kennedy, should conduct another investigation, after having given such monumental lies in its first two investigations: heavens no! No more governmental investigation. Should there be further investigation? Sure! We should zero in on the people who did it. Identify them. See them for what they are. Take them on, no matter what their power. But that investigation should not be conducted by governmental circles. It should be conducted by private individuals -- around the world! Because this effects not only this country, but around the world. Perhaps a million South Vietnamese died as a consequence of what happened in Dealey Plaza. That the world, hanging always, between peace and war -- and it's the interest of the people who killed Kennedy to maintain war: to find enemies, to seek them desperately, to manufacture them, to have the American media play them up, so that the weapons business can continue, and that the greed can continue to be satisfied.
That these words apply not only to the impact of the murder of the elected president in 1963 but also to the events of September 11 in 2001 should be self-evident to all at this point in history.
Beginning at 0:33:02 Vince Salandria declares:
The Dealey Plaza killing of Kennedy did not only kill a president: it effectively killed the presidency. Every president who has had to follow Kennedy -- even one I can think of with very few brain cells -- had to know what happened: had to know therefore what could happen to him, if he did not recognize where the power over the presidency really lay. So I suggest to you that yes, ideally, the president should openly advise the American public -- and the world -- that we had a coup. But that, as a practicable matter, that is not going to happen. And therefore, it's up to the American people to use this politically -- not to divide up the society, and I suggest to you that the people who killed Kennedy have effectively managed to divide up the family -- the country -- in a very effective way: rich against poor, class against class, race against race, ethnic group against ethnic group, shattering old coalitions. That people must come together, in the knowledge that a more open society will benefit all of us, will improve the quality of life for all of us, will improve the relations in the world, for all the peoples of the world. And therefore all of us have a great stake in knowing the truth of that coup, and reversing it: and organizing politically. One man, one president, won't be able to do it, Dave. Each of us who come to know the truth must join together, organize politically, and struggle -- maybe a long struggle -- to defeat the power -- those rulers -- who took over the presidency in Dealey Plaza. No single president can do it for us. We have to do it.
Beginning at 1:05:50 he reiterates this same theme:
No one man can solve the case. This is a matter for little people -- many little people -- to join together and become a powerful group that seeks the truth, and demands the truth, and knows the truth, and states the truth, and will not tolerate that our cities be denied what they need, that our poor be denied what they need, in favor of providing junk weapons which can't be used, against enemies which don't exist, and have to be manufactured. Only when you get political movement of that kind can you get change. No single president can do it. No single investigator can do it. No special investigator can do it. Nothing from within the government can do it. History has demonstrated that pressure has to be put upon the government for progressive changes to occur.
And finally, beginning at 1:16:49 he declares:
We all know, I submit, at some level, what happened in Dealey Plaza. We all know what was behind it. We all know that they are still in power. When we are willing to act, like people who know, should act, as responsible citizens, rising up and not tolerating this abuse of power -- this manipulation of people -- then the world will change for the better: not until.
Note that when he says that we all know at some level what happened (and I would argue that this is true of both the assassination Vince Salandria is directly discussing in the 1994 interview, as well as about the events of September 11), but that we are told something completely different and told we must not entertain any other explanation, even going so far as to disbelieve our own eyes and our own gut, he is describing very precisely the manufacture of trauma: the separation from one's self. And I discuss this in my most-recent book, Myth and Trauma, in relation to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and in relation to the events of September 11.
In the above interview from 1994, Vince Salandria does not specifically use the psychological term "trauma," but he describes this disconnect very vividly in his final remarks, saying (beginning at 1:14:08):
"Forget evidence! We are committed to Oswald, and only Oswald. Forget what you saw. Forget what you heard. Forget what you smelled -- that gunpowder. Forget what your senses tell you. When you get off this plane, you know only one thing: that Lee Harvey Oswald killed your president -- no one else was involved. No one else was involved: it was no conspiracy. Understand that? You also understand what you saw and heard -- but forget that! You're to hold both of those things as true: Oswald did it, and your senses tell you that it was a conspiracy." And now you are gripped in a paralyzed double-think process. George Orwell tells you what you are now: you're nothing. You're our subjects. We are the power.
Vince Salandria always said that the assassination of President Kennedy was a "false mystery," and when he finally consented to publish his views in a book, this phrase became its title. By that he means that we were actually meant to see that what happened is not what we continue to be told what happened, and that the killing was not a mystery at all. You can access Vince Salandria's book, False Mystery, for free online here.
Vincent Salandria was a towering figure in the subsequent decades of analysis of the lies surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. He passed from this life just a few weeks ago, in late August.
Len Osanic of Black Op Radio (dot com), who has published over 1,000 shows and whose program should be part of your regular listening, produced a moving tribute show to Vince Salandria after hearing the news, in which he invites those who knew Vince personally to share their thoughts about who Vince was and what he did for the world in his tireless efforts, usually "behind the scenes."
You can listen to and download that interview here: it is Black Op Radio show #1006. I highly recommend listening to the entire program, all the way through, even if it take several days to do so (listening in small bites until you go through the entire show), in order to get a real sense of what kind of man Vince Salandria was and why every single person alive today owes him a debt of gratitude. You will also find, in listening to conversations with those who knew him, that he was well aware that the September 11 operation fits into the very same pattern as the JFK assassination.
I would also highly recommend visiting the Black Op Radio archive page and checking out all of the links that Len Osanic has posted in the show notes to show #1006, his memorial tribute to Vince Salandria.
Vincent Salandria very clearly perceived that we have been traumatized, deliberately traumatized, by events such as the murder of President Kennedy, and the September 11 operation. And he very directly explains what we must do, to gain clarity on what is going on, regarding those who want to polarize the people against one another (using every type of dividing tactic possible), and even dividing us as individuals against our own self (as he so vividly describes in the final quotation cited above).
And once we have clarity, he explains that the only way for us to change the world for the better, and to take on those who did these things and continue to do them, is for us to act together, and to overcome those efforts to polarize us against one another and against our own self.
As he says in one of the quotations cited above: "We have to do it."
