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Taki: Why JFK wouldn’t have steered clear of Vietnam if he had lived

Kennedy was already embroiled in the Southeast Asian nation — and he'd installed Jupiter missiles against the Soviets

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issue 16 November 2013
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Everyone’s doing it, so I might as well jump in too. After all, I knew so many of the people involved, including JFK and his widow Jackie, and — sorry for the name-drop — even the actor Rob Lowe who plays the slain president in the film that’s coming out for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination.

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