1963: Shot in Dallas

Of the events of 1963, 10 out of 15 experts and readers chose the murder of US President John Kennedy. This happened on November 22 in the city of Dallas.

From the newspaper Pravda on November 23, 1963:

“US President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connheli fell, killed by killer bullets, at the moment they drove in an open car along Dallas Street. The president was mortally wounded in the head and thirty minutes later, at 14 o’clock, died in the hospital ... An hour after the murder, the Texas police arrested a 24-year-old resident of Dallas Lee Oswald ... He was an official accusation of attempted president. ”

Since Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the USSR for two years and even married a Russian girl Marina, the niece of the General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was suspected immediately after the murder in connection with the Soviet organs. The version of his mental illness was also put forward. However, the police did not manage to interrogate Oswald in detail.

From the New York Times of November 24, 1963:

“Lee Harvey Oswald made an attempt at a time when he was transported from the city to a district prison. Jack Ruby, the owner of the night club, well -known police shot at him ... The message received that Oswald died. "

The fact that Gangster Ruby was able to penetrate the well -protected police building was only one of the mysteries of this crime. Then it turned out that Oswald was an unimportant shooter and was unlikely to be able to release three bullets on a moving target with a sniper accuracy.

From the report of the State Commission of Warren of September 24, 1964:

“It was established that Oswald acted alone, no evidence confirming the version of the conspiracy could not be found ... The murder was the murder of the murder of Marxist-communist ideas, as well as the desire to get into history at all costs and compensate for the consciousness of their own inferiority.”

The conclusions of the Warren Commission at that time did not believe 60 percent of the Americans. Today, the number of doubts reaches 90 percent.

Currently, there are at least 14 versions of the one who was beneficial to the murder of the president - ultra -right circles, the American mafia, Cuban emigrants, the CIA, and the KGB ... However, not one of them has been completely confirmed.

When the violence mechanism is launched, it is already impossible to stop it

Oleg Kalugin

Washington

In the morning, on Friday November 22, 1963, I was absorbed in thoughts about the upcoming reception for the New York journalistic corps. Shortly before this, I, a correspondent of the Moscow radio, elected the Vice President of the Association of Journalists to the UN. It was necessary to note this. And at the same time deepen contacts with potential carriers of interesting information.

In the middle of the day I bought drinks for the upcoming reception in the supermarket. There were few people, from somewhere the sounds of a quiet music. Suddenly pacing between the grocery rows, buyers froze, and then rushed with exclamations in the direction of exit. Someone turned on the radio loudly. “In Dallas, an attempt on President Kennedy was committed, in serious condition he was sent to the Parckland hospital,” I heard the dictor's rushing voice. "God! What's happening? Why, why? " - These thoughts overtook my swift run towards the house. Here, the TV was already excitedly discussed what happened.

A day later, Lightning came from the center. It reported that the murder of Kennedy should be considered as a manifestation of the activity of the right, ultra-conservative elements in the United States, not interested in improving Soviet-American relations. It was also reported that Oswald is known for the KGB authorities, who suspected him in connection with the CIA. All employees of the KGB residencies in the United States were ordered to carry out energetic work in the diplomatic corps, among journalists and ordinary Americans, in order to take ridiculous speculations about Oswald’s connection with the KGB.

In those days, dozens of employees of our residency and their many “assistants” from the Soviet colony in New York were published “in the world” to state the position of Moscow in connection with tragic events in Dallas. This tragedy shocked America. She hit not only the prestige of the country, but also caused a deep emotional empathy, revealed many hidden springs and mechanisms of power. She served as a reason for speculation about moral principles in the ruling elite, about the “conspiracy” against the brave, unorthodox leader, the youngest president in the history of the United States.

The first Catholic in the White House, a wealthy, independent person, in some way spoiled, Kennedy was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in American politics. His dynamism, a charming smile, impressed young America. At the same time, the policy of “new borders” proclaimed by Kennedy, the innovative spirit of his undertakings caused wariness and even irritation in the conservative part of the population.

In those years, I did not belong to the ardent fans of Kennedy. On the contrary, his indefatigable energy, a cockstatousness, and spectacular propaganda gestures caused an alarm in me and even fears for the ability of the Soviet leadership to withstand the pressure of Washington. Against Kennedy Khrushchev, Kennedy seemed to be an uncouth provincial, capable of any adventures. It was painful to see Western journalists laughed at him.

Fortunately, boasting and sometimes indecent antics of Khrushchev were more likely to amuse the Americans scared. And, perhaps, precisely because the Soviet leader appeared before them as a simple mortal, and not an idol buttoned on the Marshal buttons - Khrushchev ultimately found a common language with Kennedy and in resolving the Cuban crisis, and in the preparation of a historical agreement on the prohibition of nuclear tests.

Kennedy's murder delayed the search for ways of Soviet-American rapprochement. After him, a spiral of violence began to twist in American society. A wave of racial riots swept through the United States. The country was more deeply drawn into the Vietnamese conflict with its carpet bombing and the mass destruction of civilians. In 1968, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy became victims of terror. In 1981, Ronald Reagan, President Ronald Reagan, was committed. Subsequently, the situation was aggravated. There was a real threat of international terrorism - the inevitable investigation of the US armed conflict with Iraq, missile strikes on the bases of extremists in a number of Muslim states, and finally, the bombing of Yugoslavia. America bristled by the barricades around the White House, concrete blocks in front of the buildings of federal departments.

A few years later, the United States, perhaps, will acquire a missile defense designed to protect from an attack by unpredictable rulers and terrorists, either North Korea, or anyone else.

Will life become safer and calmer from this in the North American continent?

When in October 1962, by order of Kennedy, the American warships in full swing went to intercept Soviet transport ships with missiles on board, for the first time in my life I had the feeling that the war between the USSR and the United States would happen right now, one of the leaders of common sense. The compromise between Nikita Khrushchev and John Kennedy, who put the end of a dangerous confrontation, escalation of power, became a triumph of common sense. And he did not let the genie jump out of the bottle.

Why am I?

And to the fact that the current leaders of Russia and the USA have something to learn from their predecessors today.