The Symbiotic Travelers Ch. 09

The symbiotic Travelers

The New Frontier

BADSAM

It is July 9, 1946, the two syngeneic beings are still living in Boston. Yaphet has quit working in the defense plant. She now stays home and makes wicker baskets for a local hardware store. They are sold on consignment; Julia gets 50 percent of the sale. James is a writer for the Boston Globe newspaper.

"I got that new map of the United States you wanted, Zlatex," Yaphet informs her extraterrestrial consort as he comes in from work. "It came in the mail this morning. It has all 48 states on it. We can replace it with the other one we have that only has 33 states on it."

Using their handheld personal mobile communicators, they record the dates of each state's entrance into the Union in SAM, the simplified automatic mainframe computer processor.

Kansas became a state on January 29, 1861; West Virginia on June 20, 1863; Nevada on October 31, 1864; Nebraska on March 1, 1867; Colorado on August 1, 1876; North and South Dakota on November 2, 1889; Montana on November 8, 1889; Washington State on November 11, 1889; Idaho on July 3, 1890; Wyoming on July 10, 1890; Utah on January 4, 1896; Oklahoma on November 16, 1907; New Mexico on January 27, 1912; and Arizona on February 14, 1912.

They hang it on the wall in the living room of the two bedroom, single bath house they are renting. They mark it with stickpins of all the places that they have lived since they arrived in Boston on February 3, 1766, from the planet Herth. They arrived in Cuba in 1782 after staying in New Orleans for a few days. In 1786 they moved to Saint Augustine, then in 1792 to Pensacola, and to Mobile in 1794. They stayed there for 13 years until 1807, when they moved to New Orleans.

After staying in the Crescent City until 1815, they lived in Alexandria, Louisiana for 15 years and then in 1830 they moved to San Antonio, Texas. Next, they stayed overnight on a remote stretch of land in the middle of Texas. Then they set up shop in a Native American Indian trading post for 23 years. In 1849, the U. S. Army named the town that eventually built up Fort Worth.

They sold the trading post to a retired army colonel in 1859 and moved to Fort Stockton but only lived there a couple of weeks before moving to Fort Davis for nine years. In 1868, they moved to Tucson after living in El Paso for a few weeks. Eleven years later, they started living in Phoenix, where they stayed for nine years before moving to Fort Yuma in 1888.

But after 13 months, they arrived in Otay Mesa and lived there for several years until 1898, and then in Chula Vista for about a month. In March 1898, they moved to San Francisco but in 1899 they set out for Sacramento.

In 1919, they moved back to New Orleans and stayed there until 1933, when they decided to live in Washington, D. C. After living there for six years, they moved to Chicago in 1939. Finally, they moved back to Boston in August 1945.

When they sit down for supper, Zlatex tells his extraterrestrial lover about a story he is working on for the Boston Globe. It is about the formation of the United Nations

On June 12, 1941, delegates of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, the Union of South Africa, New Zealand and of the exiled governments of Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia met in London. They signed the Declaration of Saint James Palace, a joint statement of goals and principles, that expressed their vision for postwar order. It was the first statement by the Allied Powers articulating a vision for a postwar world. It was also the first step that led to the eventual establishment of the United Nations.

It stated the Allies' pledge to continue the war against Nazi Germany and Italy and it inaugurated principles that would serve as the basis of a future world peace. The Declaration had three objectives.

First, all the nations confirmed their alliance to one another, and pledged to assist each other in the war against both Italy and Nazi Germany to "the utmost of their respective capacities."

Second, they pledged that none of them would enter into a separate peace agreement with any Axis Power and that there would be no lasting peace until the threat war was extinguished.

Third, they were all steadfast to the principle of peace based upon the "willing

cooperation of free peoples" whereby "all may enjoy economic and social security."

President Roosevelt made the establishment of the United Nations to replace the defunct League of Nations as his highest postwar priority.

The League of Nations was the first worldwide international governmental organization whose principal goal was to maintain peace throughout the world. It was founded on January 10, 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I. The main organization ceased operations on April 18, 1946, when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations.

The League's main goals included preventing wars through disarmament and collective security and solving international disputes through peaceful negotiation and arbitration. It also included the fair treatment of indigenous inhabitants, minorities, prisoners of war and the prevention of human and drug trafficking. The Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on June 28, 1919, as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it became effective with the rest of the Treaty on January 10, 1920.

The League of Nations had its origins in a speech of President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 that outlined his ideas for peace after the carnage of the "War to End All Wars." He envisioned an organization whose goal was to stop conflicts before they ended in war. He made an ominous prediction, "I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it."

The Second World War began a generation later on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.

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Within five years of the end of World War II, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when South Korea was invaded by North Korea. The offensive action of North Korea was supported by both China and the Soviet Union.

After the Japanese surrender, Korea was liberated from their occupation but divided along the 38th parallel. The United States stationed armed forces in the southern part in support of a capitalist government. The U. S. government's role was multifaceted. It aimed at global stability and focused on diplomacy, security, cultural collaboration and economic partnership with the South Korean government.

The Soviet Union occupied the North and established a communist government.

Both the South Korean and North Korean governments claimed to be the lawful authority over all of Korea. Border clashes increased along the 38th parallel throughout the late 1940s. Finally, on June 25, 1950, the North Korean People's Army, using troops, supplies, artillery and tanks supplied by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. Within a few days, they were able to capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the invasion and called for military support of South Korea. The Soviet Union did not vote on the resolution; their delegate was absent due to a boycott.

A United States led alliance of sixteen countries provided troops, supplies, artillery and tanks, for defense, with the South Korean and U. S. governments contributing the bulk of it. President Harry S. Truman called the conflict a struggle against communist aggression and mobilized American forces under the U. N. banner.

The Korean conflict developed into a bloody stalemate, with major battles and devastation, before ending in an armistice on July 27, 1953, without a formal peace treaty. The 38th parallel still divides the nations of South and North Korea.

Both Zlatex and Yaphet are appalled that the leaders of the nations of the world cannot see "the handwriting on the wall." Each and every war mankind has entered into is worse than the preceding war. Each war is bigger and more involved and more violent than the last one, to the point that now even innocent wives, mothers, children and infants have become victims of the aggressive warmongering belligerents. They cannot see that by continuing this type of behavior, it will only lead to utter destruction for everyone.

The two syngeneic beings have been living in Philadelphia since June 30, 1953. They cannot understand why the leaders of the world cannot see that there must be security for all, or no one will live in security.

Yaphet complains to Zlatex, "Why can't the world leaders take the advice of Klatuu, the alien from the 1951 science fiction movie we watched recently, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," directed by Robert Wise and staring Michael Rennie, Patrica Neal, Hugh Marlowe and Sam Jaffe?"

Towards the end of the movie, Klatuu gave an ominous warning, "The universe grows smaller every day. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned out cinder. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system and it works. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you."

Zlatex answers her, "There system was easy. They had Gort, the all-powerful robot that would destroy the Earth if they extended their violence. Earthlings don't have that."

"You're right. But Earthlings do have atomic weapons. And they can obliterate everyone and most of the other living things of this planet with them. Then about the only thing left will be bacteria, rats, roaches, flies and those vermin that eat carrion."

"Well, let's hope that mankind brings peace to everyone before that happens," Zlatex retorts.

After the Second World War ended, the Soviet Union began installing satellite governments. It promoted the spread of communism to North Korea and formed an alliance with China. The United States followed a policy of containing communism and assisted Western Europe in its economic recovery. Both the Soviet Union and the United States instituted "military alliances" aimed at detaining each other, starting the Cold War.

The Cold War was an era of geopolitical mistrust and striving for ideological dominance between the two superpowers and their allies. It was called the Cold War because there were no actual military engagements. It began in the late 1940s and continued until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It saw the nuclear arms race whereby both nations stockpiled numerous nuclear weapons, used propaganda campaigns, espionage and technological oppositions such as the Space Race and sports competition in order to "maintain an upper hand" over the other.

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It is the evening of September 9, 1956, the two symbiotic beings are home watching their black and white television. They are watching Elvis Presley sing Love Me Tender, one of Yaphet's favorite songs. They both love Rock-N-Roll and frequently go to the University of Pennsylvania to attend sock hops in its gymnasium. She is taking courses at the university, about a fifteen minute drive from the house they are renting in Philadelphia. She registered for a major in Earth Science. Zlatex is a part time student there, taking evening classes. He registered for a major in Political Science.

They enter everything they learn into SAM, the Simplified Automatic Mainframe computer. Zlatex is happy that America is gradually catching up to where they were when they were living on Herth. Although he knows it is still years in the future, he is looking forward to the day when they have air conditioning, computers with keyboards, screen pointer devices, printers and flatscreen color televisions in every home, and everyone has a personal mobile communicator.

This past February they bought a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet station wagon. It is baby blue with white leather seats. They traded in their other automobile, a 1943 Chevrolet pickup truck, which they had traded in for a 1932 Ford pickup truck they bought new. It is the fifth automobile that the two syngeneic equivalents have owned. Each time they purchased a car they paid cash for their vehicle and entered the info into SAM. Neither of them wanted to risk borrowing the money because a credit check might reveal that they are alien beings.

They documented the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria into SAM. In a thick fog, on July 25, 1956, the luxury liner collided with the MS Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. She immediately began to take on water and started a severe list to her starboard side, leaving half of her lifeboats unusable. However, the ship stayed afloat for about eleven hours before taking her final plunge. This plus the calm, appropriate behavior of the crewmembers, improvements in onboard communications, and the quick response of other ships in the area, helped to avoid a disaster similar to that of the Titanic in 1912. Only 46 people died of the 1,660 passengers and crew that were aboard.

They recorded into SAM the dates Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union. On January 3, 1959, Alaska became the 49th state and on August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state. Yaphet purchased another map with all the states on it. The two syngeneic beings then took down the other map and put the new one up in its place.

On May 1, 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside the Soviet Union. It was flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers and hit by a surface-to-air missile. After parachuting safely out of the airplane, Powers was captured and sentenced to ten years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served twenty-one months, and then he and a U. S. graduate student, Frederic LeRoy Pryor were exchanged for Soviet KGB Colonel Rudolf Abel.

Frederic Pryor was an innocent pawn who got caught up in the Cold War. He was studying in Berlin during the partition of the city in 1961. He was imprisoned in East Germany for six months before being release in the prisoner swap.

The U-2 incident occurred during the tenures of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

At first, the U. S. government denied that it was a spying mission, claiming that the airplane was a weather research aircraft and not a military spy plane. But the Soviet government knew that that was a lie because they not only had the airplane, but they also had some of the espionage camera equipment.

Khrushchev allowed Eisenhower to save face and possibly salvage to some degree, an upcoming peace summit between the two by laying the blame, not on Eisenhower, but on Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Dulles. He said that anyone who wanted to understand the U-2's mission should "seek a reply from Allen Dulles."

After John F. Kennedy was elected President, he asked Dulles about this. But Dulles withheld critical information from the President. He also gave him embellished assessments about the mission, including covert operations and reconnaissance and he gave him misinformation about the Bay of Pigs invasion. When Kennedy found out the truth, he fired the director of the CIA. Dulles never forgave Kennedy for that, and from then on, he sought for an avenue to have him removed from office.

It is Friday January 20, 1961, Yaphet and Zlatex are living in Charleston, South Carolina; James is a working as a writer for the Charleston Courier. He has been working there for eleven months. He has taken the day off to watch the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy. They are watching him take the oath of office as the 35th President of the United States.

They have listened to several of his speeches while he was campaigning for President. He has given them hope for the future of America and the world. He wants to establish peace throughout the world. His goal is to end war as a means nations use to settle disputes among themselves.

In his speech, Kennedy wrote down his thoughts, what he believed and what he wanted Americans, as well as the rest of mankind to do. "We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change... The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life...

"To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support...

"Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace."

On March 1st, less than six weeks after his inauguration, President Kennedy issued an executive order which established the Peace Corps. It's a pilot program within the Department of State. Kennedy wanted the Peace Corps to be a composed of trained American volunteers who would help foreign countries meet their needs for skilled manpower. The program was formally authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961.

The Bay of Pigs invasion on April 17-20, 1961, was a failed paramilitary action composed mainly of Cuban exiles, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. It was designed and backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Richard M. Nixon while he was still the Vice President.

In late 1959 or early 1960, believing that Vice President Nixon would get elected President, Nixon and the director of the agency, Allan W. Dulles formulated the CIA backed Bay of Pigs invasion, aimed at bringing down Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba.

The CIA operative George H. W. Bush is part of Operation Zapata, code name for the invasion. Bush has denied this although he has strong financial ties to Zapata Oil. Bush later became director of the CIA and then President of the United States.

Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban government on January 1, 1959. His forces overthrew the government of President Fulgencio Batista, who was backed by organized crime. When Castro took control of the government, he closed all the casinos, which were controlled by organized crime figures not only in Cuba, but also in Las Vegas and Miami.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Cuba became a magnet for gambling and nightlife. It attracted many wealthy vacationers from around the world, particularly from the U. S. This created an opportunity for organized crime figures who were deeply enmeshed in Cuban casinos, hotels and the tourism commerce that prospered there.

Batista, who ruled in the 1940s and again from 1952 to December 1958, emboldened this development. His second term as dictator was marked by corruption and repression of the Cuban citizens. He allowed organized crime figures to operate freely in exchange for bribes, kickbacks and other personal enticements. But the casinos were not just places for gambling. They also served as centers for money laundering.

After Castro took control of the government, he closed the casinos and forced organized crime figures to leave Cuba, marking the end of their involvement in Cuban gambling and influence in the government. In needs to be noted that Nixon had close ties with these organized crime figures. Also, President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy were investigating many organized crime figures and their influence in national security, including Carlos Marcello, who was deported on April 4, 1961, as part of a crackdown on organized crime.

Those who claim that President Kennedy was involved with organized crime figures cannot explain why he and Robert were attempting to rid America of these same individuals.

When President Kennedy refused to offer U. S. air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion, this aided in its failure. Organized crime figures, such as Meyer Lansky, Sam Giancana, Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello never forgave Kennedy for that, and from then on, they and former Vice President Nixon sought for an avenue to remove him from office, ousting Castro and reestablishing their gambling empire in Cuba.

On September 12, 1962, while speaking at Rice University in Houston, Texas Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the moon" speech. The audience consisted of faculty, students and other invited guests. His speech was an effort to build public support for the space program, in particularly the Apollo program to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade..., not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win."

Kennedy looked upon space flight as a "new frontier," that invoked the same pioneer spirit that built America, that made America the great nation that it is and what it stands for. He immersed his speech with a sense of destiny and resolve, underlining the freedom that Americans choose their destiny rather than have it chosen for them. His goal would not be fulfilled for another seven years when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the moon.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, which is also known as the October Crisis, was a thirteen day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was from October 16-28, 1962. Historians consider it to be the closest the Cold War came to all out, full-scale nuclear war.

The U-2 spy plane had photographic evidence of medium and long range missiles in Cuba, having been placed there by the Soviet Union. Kennedy was advised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to implement military air strikes against the missile sites and then follow up with an invasion of the island. But he did not want to do this because it could possibly lead to war with the Soviet Union.

Instead, he chose a less aggressive course in order to avoid war. On October 22nd he ordered a naval blockade of Cuba in order to prevent more missiles from reaching the Cuban mainland.

Kennedy and Khrushchev finally reached an agreement, the Soviet Union would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba in exchange the U. S. would agree not to invade the island. Kennedy also secretly agreed to dismantle all of the offensive weapons it had deployed in Turkey. However, some Soviet bombers remained on island, and the United States kept the naval blockade in place until November 20, 1962. It was officially ended after all offensive missiles and bombers had been withdrawn from Cuba.

The October Crisis revealed the necessity of a quick and direct method of communication between the two superpowers. It culminated with the establishment of a Moscow-Washington hotline which reduced tensions between them for several years. In short, Kennedy and Khrushchev together reached a diplomatic peaceful conclusion and avoided a war between the two superpowers.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, several members of the Joint Chiefs saw Kennedy as "soft on communism." Many of them never forgave him, and from then on, they sought a method of removing him from office.

When organized crime bosses learned of this agreement, they became enraged. They lost all hope of ever returning to Cuba. They increased their desire to remove him from office "at all costs."

On August 7, 1963, First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, gave birth to Patrick Bouvier; the child died on the 9th. It is the second child of Mrs. Kennedy and the President that has died; the first was stillborn in 1956. They have two other children, Caroline, born on November 27, 1957, and John F. Kennedy Jr., born November 25, 1960. The two deaths will not be the only tragedy of Camelot.

November 21, 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at that time, and Haroldson L. Hunt met with Clint Murchison Sr. (both Texas based oil magnates) at his house the evening before the assassination of JFK. While attending the meeting, Johnson is reported to have said to his mistress Madeleine D. Brown: "After tomorrow, those God damn Kennedys will never embarrass me again."

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Air Force One had just landed at Love Field in Dallas. Former Vice President Nixon had earlier left Dallas Love field bound for New York. An unconfirmed report says that when asked where he was when he was first informed about the assassination of JFK, Nixon's original response was that he did not know.

At times of great trauma, the incident forms an unforgettable impression on a person's mind. Not knowing where one was on 11/22/1963 is like not knowing where one was during any meaningful, momentous event in their life.

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James is still working for the Charleston Courier. He calls Yaphet in order to tell her to put on the television. When she answers the phone, she is crying.

"I guess you heard about the assassination."

"Yes," she manages to respond through her tears. "I had just turned on the television and was watching the midday news, when they interrupted the broadcast. Oh Zlatex, it's terrible. I thought sure Kennedy and Khrushchev together were finally going to establish world peace for all of us."

"Yeah, me too," he answers her. I just want to tell you that I'll be home late tonight. My editor wants me to..."

"Well, I imagine all the writers will be working late," she interrupts him. "This is big news. Don't worry about supper or anything. I probably won't fix anything. I don't feel like eating anyway."

"I don't feel like eating either. I'll pick up a hamburger or something on my way home. But as I started to say, my editor wants me to write a story about the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. He assigned the work to me after I questioned how they were able to catch him so fast."

"I saw him on TV. He was handcuffed and being led through the Dallas Police station. I heard a reporter ask him if he shot the President. He answered, 'I'm just a patsy.' Then the police escorted him down a hallway."

"That's right," Zlatex answers his extraterrestrial consort. "He worked at the Texas School Book Depository, which is located at 411 Elm Street in Dallas. That's approximately six kilometers from the theatre at 231 West Jefferson Boulevard, where he was arrested."

"That's quite a distance. How did they catch him so fast?"

"They arrested him for allegedly shooting a Dallas police officer. But the vast amount of information that was given to the news media about him immediately after his arrest sounded suspicious to me."

"How so?" Yaphet asks.

"Here he is, a joe nobody warehouseman and within a few minutes the national news media is telling us that he had previously defected to the Soviet Union, that he married a young Russian woman while living in Russia, that he allegedly visited the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, seeking a visa to travel to Cuba and the Soviet Union. This and much more, tells me that Oswald isn't just a joe nobody like the rest of us."

Zlatex pauses. Then, "my editor also wants me to go to New Orleans. Oswald was arrested there this past August 9th. He was handing out pro-Castro leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which he was the only member. He got into a quarrel or some kind of altercation with some anti-Castro Cubans, but they weren't arrested."

"When are you going?"

"My editor got me a flight for the first thing tomorrow morning," he answers her.

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On Nov. 24, 1947, Congressman Richard Nixon helped a Chicago mobster, Jacob Leon Rubenstein avoid a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities (HCUA). Congress wanted to know what he knew about organized crime. Soon after this, Rubenstein moved to Dallas and changed his name to Jack Ruby. Ruby died in prison of a pulmonary embolism from lung cancer on Jan. 3, 1967.

November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of JFK. He does this on live television; the whole nation saw it.

Lee Oswald was a double agent working for the CIA while he was living in Russia. When he was in the Marine Corps he was trained as an espionage agent while stationed in Atsugi, Japan, the CIA base for U-2 spy planes.

He could speak Russian fluently. He was sent to the Soviet Union in October 1959 under the pretext of defecting, but in reality, he was a double agent. He gave the Soviet government information about the U-2 spy plane. They used this info to shoot down Francis Gary Powers in May 1960.

The information Oswald gave to the Soviet government was a trap that the CIA hoped they would succumb to. However, the KGB - the Soviet equivalent to the Central Intelligence Agency - did not fall for the deception. Instead, they gave him a job in a television and radio plant.

The KGB did not use Lee Oswald in the way the CIA hoped they would. He was never able to get his hands on any confidential information which the intelligence community hoped he would get. In June 1962, when the opportunity arose to bring him back to the United States, the government did so. That was why he was not arrested for treason upon returning to America.

When President Kennedy was assassinated, Oswald was working with the domestic intelligence division of FBI, under the direction of Hoover. He was told by his handlers to be on the lookout for any impending leftwing radical threats to the President. But this was only a ruse in case he accidentally stumbled onto the real assassination plot, which the rightwing extremists were at time planning.

Upon hearing about the assassination of JFK, Khrushchev reacted with shock and concern. He was worried about the implications for the détente that he and Kennedy had formed, as well as their efforts to soothe tensions the Cold War had started and the potential for instability that his death would bring to Soviet and U. S. relations. He feared that Lyndon Johnson and other hardliners in the U. S. government would take a more aggressive role in the relations between the two superpowers.

On November 29, 1963, seven days after President John F. Kennedy was murdered, the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, formed a committee, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate that assassination.

Also on the committee were: Senator Richard B. Russell, Chair for the Senate Armed Services Committee; Senator John Sherman Cooper, former advisor to the Secretary of State in the 1950 NATO meetings; Representative Hale Boggs, Majority Whip for the Democratic Party; John W. McCloy, former Assistant Secretary of War during WWII; Representative Gerald R. Ford, member of the Military Appropriations Committee; and Allen W. Dulles, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under the Eisenhower/Nixon Administration.

It should be noted that Nixon personally recommended to President Johnson that Gerald Ford, who was known as the CIA man in Congress, be on the assassination commission, and that Dulles and Ford were responsible for more witness testimony than any other member. In fact, a large portion of the evidence gathered and fabricated by the commission came through these two individuals.

In December 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy gave an interview to Theodore H. White of Life Magazine. During the meeting she told him how her husband loved listening to the Broadway musical, Camelot. She said that President Kennedy particularly liked the closing lines of its title song: "Don't let it be forgot, that for once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot." Mrs. Kennedy pointed out that her husband's presidency was like Camelot - a brief magical moment in American history that would never come again. The conversation was published in Life Magazine on December 6th. It reinforced the image of the Kennedy administration as a golden age of culture, optimism and youthful energy; Camelot became a metaphor for his presidency.

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It is February 9, 1964, Zlatex and Yaphet are watching the Beatles perform live on television. Beatlemania has hit the nation. Yaphet loves the songs She Loves You and Till There Was You. But neither of them understands why so many teenagers are "going wild" over them. They're just musicians, no different than any other singer or Rock-N-Roll band.

When James returned from New Orleans, he wrote an article about the Warren Commission and its investigation.

On September 24, 1964, the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known frequently as the Warren Commission, presented the summary and conclusions of its alleged investigation to President Johnson. This summary and conclusions report has since been known as the Warren Commission Report (WCR). The complete summary and conclusions were eventually put into 26 volumes of Commission Evidence and Exhibits (CE) and can be found on the Internet. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot President John F. Kennedy.

However, much of the evidence against Oswald contained in these 26 volumes is irrelevant - such as Jack Ruby's mother's 1938 dental records (CE XXII, 1281, p.395). This "evidence" would not be relevant even if Ruby had bitten Oswald to death.

Indeed, more than that, the entire twenty-six volumes appear to be haphazard and disorganized. There is no index and the "chaos seemed planned," as though those in charge of the inquest were "deliberately hiding something." Nevertheless, anyone wishing to read these books should do so, as there is still much to be learned from them.

A person may wonder how the Warren Commission could come to its conclusion since it used the evidence that anyone can find in the twenty-six volumes of Commission Evidence and Exhibits. The answer is simple. There exists testimony in the twenty-six volumes that supports the conclusion of the Warren Commission Report.

However, that evidence is tainted. First of all, the Warren Commission began with a preconceived verdict of Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt and his alleged method of committing the assassination. In support of this, they took statements from some witnesses who clearly lied when giving testimony. They relied on evidence taken from witnesses who were prejudiced against Oswald. The Commission based its conclusions on statements of hysterical witnesses and those seeking to glorify themselves.

In order to support their preconceived conclusion, they took statements from witnesses who were coaxed in what to say before they gave their testimony. Some witnesses were coerced or frightened into making false statements. Finally, the Warren Commission Report cited testimony of witnesses out of context. It ignored many relevant facts and important testimony. It reshaped evidence in order to make it parallel to its preconceived conclusion. It oversimplified evidence and it created its own evidence. All the proof that pointed toward its preformed conclusion is accepted, while any facts that pointed toward the truth the commission either suppressed or rejected.

Any hypothesis that supports the "lone gunman theory" is based upon the lies presented in the Warren Commission Report, cannot be believed and must be ignored. Those who believe it only make fools of themselves and hurt America's future geopolitical role as a world leader. Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot President John F. Kennedy; he was framed for that murder by those who were ultimately in command of all the information that they helped manufacture.

In order to aide in their coverup, those who orchestrated the murder of President Kennedy told Chief Justice Warren that Castro hired a hit team to assassinate the President. He was faced with a choice; he could accept Lee Harvey Oswald as a patsy or start World War III in a war with the Soviet Union. The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot and killed Kennedy.

Kennedy had angered mob bosses who wanted to return to Cuba to revitalize their gambling empire. He was seen as soft on communism by many officers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was going to "break the CIA into a thousand pieces," and he wanted to remove J. Edgar Hoover from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and install his brother, Robert as the new director. Finally, he stood in the way of U. S. involvement in Vietnam. Organized crime, some members of the JCS, Dulles, former director of the CIA, Hoover and Nixon saw him a threat to their dominance. He had to be removed from office.

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In 1956, the first U. S. troops arrived in Vietnam. They were sent as a Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) to train the South Vietnamese army. Dwight Eisenhower was President and Richard Nixon was Vice President.

In 1963, Kennedy issued National Security Action Memo 263 - an executive order to get U. S. MAAG troops out of Vietnam. The first 1,000 troops were due to be home for Christmas 1963. Kennedy's troop withdrawal order was rescinded by President Johnson the Monday before they buried John F. Kennedy. This opened the door for further commitment of the U. S. in the war in Vietnam.

The first American combat troops - the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade - arrived in Vietnam on March 8, 1965. They were sent there to defend the U. S. airfield at Da Nang, Vietnam, which was used to transport MAAG troops in and out of Vietnam.

The White House and other leaders of the U. S. government claimed that it was stopping communist aggression in Vietnam, but that is not the truth. There was never any attempt to win the War. There was never any large scale offensive, the government just tried to prolong it as long as possible with minor skirmishes, hit and run tactics and harassment artillery fire. The U. S. military leaders in Vietnam were fighting "with their hands tied" by those in Washington, D. C. If the U. S. wanted to stop communism, then it would have done what it could to win the war.

By the end of 1968 there were over 530,000 American troops fighting there. The United States cannot claim that it was a victim in that war. There were numerous occasions by American troops of misconduct perpetrated by them. A classic example was the Incident on Hill 192. In November 1966, a squad of American soldiers kidnapped, raped and murdered a young South Vietnamese girl. The crime came to the attention of the authorities only because one of the members of the squad reported it, despite being threatened by those in his squad to keep quiet. Each of the soldiers received varying sentences for their roles. The incident became one of the most infamous crimes of the Vietnam War.

Yaphet interrupts his narrative. "Zlatex, let me ask you something before we go any further on these subjects. You've done some investigation into Kennedy's presidency and his assassination. Did you find anything about the affair he allegedly had with Ms. Marilyn Monroe?"

"He never had any affair with anyone. That was more disinformation put out by those who orchestrated his assassination. I read one tabloid that said both John and Robert Kennedy and actor Peter Lawford, the husband of Patricia Kenndy, had a foursome with Ms. Monroe in a Las Vegas motel room. There is not one scintilla of credible evidence that the Kennedy brothers had sex with anyone. As for the Mafia prostitute who claims to have had an affair with John, she cannot name any date, time or place where the event supposedly happened.

"Didn't Ms. Monroe sing happy birthday to President Kennedy in a provocative manner?" Yaphet continues.

"Yes, she did. But that is not evidence that they had sex. It's evidence that she sang happy birthday to him. That's all it is! No President can have an affair without the news media learning about it and then immediately reporting about it. None of the rumors of John Kennedy's clandestine extramarital affairs were reported until after he was murdered. It's all yellow journalism, and every bit of it came from the files of those who killed him."

"Yes, but can't the Secret Service sneak a woman into the White House?"

"How, Yaphet? The President is a virtual prisoner of the White House. Everything he does and everywhere he goes is closely watched, not only by the Secret Service but also by the media. Think about it. Air Force One, Marine One, the presidential limousine and the White House are constantly stalked by news personnel; that includes the so called "secret entrances" into the building. There is no way any President can have someone visit him or leave that mansion without somebody knowing it, let alone leaving and then go to Las Vegas for a sex party... in a sleazy motel room?"

"You make a convincing argument, Zlatex."

"Any time the President goes somewhere, there is an entourage of personnel and vehicles following him. For every mode of transportation he uses, back-ups go with him. The presidential limousine, Marine One and Air Force One, each have a decoy that shadows him, and his helicopter and airplane leapfrog with the decoys while in flight. When the President uses Air Force One, two jet fighters escort the airplane and a military C-17 Globemaster III carries his limo. There are numerous Secret Service personnel stationed all around the White House, both inside and outside, all closely guarding the President. So, the question naturally arises as to how the President can go somewhere or have someone visit him in the White House without anyone knowing it."

"Zlatex, all this talk about sex has got me hot. I think I'll go out and have an affair with some guy," Yaphet mischievously says.

"You do that, and I'll paddle your naughty ass, until it is crimson, and your face is streaked with your tears." He replies with his own playful smirk.

"Ooh, you're cruel," she answers with a coy smile. "You're not going to hurt me, are you Sir?"

"If you do what you just said, then yes I'll beat your butt, really bad." He begins to unbutton her blouse but pauses. "In fact, I'm going to spank your naked cheeks with my belt for just thinking about it." He drops the shirt on the floor, removes her cupless brassiere and, after kneeling in front of her, pulls down her denim hotpants to her ankles.

"Yes Sir, I deserve to be brutally punished." Yaphet suppresses a grin; happy that their role playing is going great. She cups her supple breasts, flicks her erect nipples with her thumbs and sighs ecstatically at the thought of what her lover is going to do to her tender flesh.

After taking off her pink thong panties, Zlatex presses his face into her pubic mound, breathes deeply though his nostrils and then kisses and licks the blazing red hair of her knoll and labia. Next, he stands up, clutches her buttocks and kisses her deeply open mouthed. Their tongues tango together. She wraps her arms around his shoulders.

As soon as she finishes taking off his clothes, the two syngeneic consorts go into their bedroom and make passionate sex all evening long, each giving the other numerous orgasms throughout the night.

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On April 4, 1968, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On the terrace with him were Reverend Raph Abernathy, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles and Andrew Young, all key figures in the civil rights movement at the time.

A few minutes before 6:00 PM, the Reverend King walked out onto the balcony, accompanied by friends. While he chatted with them a sniper was allegedly hiding in a public restroom waiting for him to walk out onto the balcony. No one has satisfactorily answered how Doctor King just happened to step out on the balcony of the motel room in which he was staying at the precise moment a sniper was waiting to shoot him. Someone had to know beforehand when he was going to be on that terrace.

If one believes that James Earl Ray did the shooting, then it is an uncanny coincidence that both he and Reverend King just happen to be where they both were at the time of the shooting. Doctor King had to have been lured onto the balcony by someone, a "Judas," from among those who were with him.

On June 5, 1968, at 12:15 AM Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. He had just given his "on to Chicago and let's win there," victory speech in the 1968 California Democratic primary; he died twenty-five hours later.

As he walked through the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, to meet with reporters, at the last minute someone suggested he go through the kitchen and pantry area. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was waiting there with a.22 caliber pistol. Sirhan was in front of RFK at the time of the shooting while security guard Thane Eugene Cesar was to the right rear of Senator Kennedy holding his right elbow with his left hand when the fatal shots were fired.

Robert was shot behind his right ear; the bullet then went up into his brain. A second projectile entered his right armpit and exited through his chest. A third bullet hit him slightly below his armpit and passed through his body. The type of bullets that killed RFK came from a.22 caliber pistol. Cesar owned a.22 caliber pistol; he had it with him at the time of the shooting. That weapon was never tested to ascertain whether it was used in the assassination, nor was Cesar's hands examined for having fired a gun. Cesar's pistol has since been lost along with the real rifle used to shoot President John Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy did not believe the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed his brother. The Senator even conducted his own quiet inquiries into the shooting. He questioned several individuals in the intelligence community and in law enforcement for information about the events surrounding the assassination of the President. He expressed skepticism to several close friends and associates. He also intended to reopen the investigation into his brother's murder once he was elected president in 1968.

The Senator triumphed significantly, gaining victories in several Democratic primaries, solidifying his position as a strong contender for the Democratic nomination. He was certain to win the Democratic nominee for President and then the presidency; the nation was primed to vote for another Kennedy. Those who orchestrated the assassination of President John Kennedy could not let that happen. He had to be removed from the campaign before he became the Democratic nominee.

The assassinations of Doctor King and Senator Kennedy paved the way for the election of Republican Richard M. Nixon as President in 1968. After the assassination of Senator Kennedy, the Democrats did not have any candidate who could effectively campaign against him.

It is June 6, 1968, when Zlatex comes home from his job as a writer for the Charleston Courier, he finds Yaphet again crying. He knows why she is crying. He puts his arms around her and comforts her. They both had hopes that Senator Kennedy would pick up where his brother John had left off. They both believed that he would put an end to America's involvement in the Vietnam War and reopen the investigation into President Kennedy's assassination, so that Americans would know the truth. They would know who was responsible for that murder.

"Oh, when is the violence going to stop, Zlatex? When are these Earthlings going to stop killing each other? When are they going to learn that it is more profitable to build a nation instead of destroying one?"

"I don't know, Yaphet. We've both studied the history of mankind's development and progress for the past several thousand years and have watched them ourselves for over 200 years now, and they have yet to learn it. Maybe they'll never learn."

"Let's move, Zlatex. It's about time we did so anyway. We've lived here in Charleston long enough. I want to move somewhere where there isn't so much hustle and bustle, away from the big city life."

"Want to go to Abilene, Kansas? It has a relative small population of just over 6,000 and I hear tell that the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle is looking for another editorialist for its daily newspaper."

James gives a two week notice to his editor and at the end of July he and Yaphet move to Abilene. The editor of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle hires him as the assistant editor and editorial writer.

It is Wednesday July 21, 1969, Zlatex and Yaphet are in their apartment in Abilene watching television. The Apollo 11 spacecraft has just landed on the moon, having launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16th. Neil Armstrong has stepped onto the moon's surface. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched him step as he announced, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." However, the 'a' got lost in the transmission and no one heard it, but Armstrong did say it.

Less than a month later the two symbiotic beings found themselves just outside Bethel, New York on their way to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. It is late Friday afternoon August 15, 1969, when they arrive at the festival. Yaphet has a flower painted on her left cheek and is wearing jean hotpants and a tie dye backless halter. Zlatex is wearing a T-shirt with the word PEACE spelled vertically; written after each word is Please End All Corruption on Earth. They are both wearing headbands with the word PEACE on them.

Already there are thousands of people attending. By Sunday an estimated 500,000 people have gathered together to peacefully listen to the music. The weekend became the defining movement of the 1960s counterculture movement.

It is April 17, 1970, the two extraterrestrial consorts are still living in Abilene, Kansas; it is just after 12:00 PM. Apollo 13 has safely splashed down in the South Pacific. Watching the televised recovery of the astronauts, James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, are millions of people around the world, including Pope Paul VI, who offered up prayers for their safe return, the entire newsroom of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, and Yaphet from their apartment. Everyone broke out in tears of joy as soon as the capsule hit the water.

The management of NASA called the mission a "successful failure." It failed to achieve its main goal of landing on the moon, but it was successful in overcoming life threatening challenges that forced the engineers, mission controllers and the astronauts onboard to all work together and improvise solutions for the safe return of the crew.

The editor for the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle has asked Zlatex to write an editorial about the merits of the Apollo space program and should the American government continue to fund spaceflights to the moon. He wants the article to be a positive goal that all U. S. citizens should embrace.

Apollo 13 was the seventh mission in the Apollo space program. It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11th. It was scheduled to be the third moon landing. But two days into its flight, an oxygen tank in the service module exploded, crippling the spacecraft. Swigert, having replaced Ken Mattingly as command module pilot, who had been exposed to German measles, reported to mission control, "Houston, we've had a problem here."

The crew could not land on the moon. Instead, after consulting mission control, they looped around it in a circumlunar trajectory. They shut down the command module for their eventual reentry and transferred to the lunar module, using it as sort of a lifeboat until they returned to Earth on April 17. Ken Mattingly never caught the measles.

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It is October 27, 1970, Zlatex has just purchased the album Jesus Christ Superstar for his syngeneic equivalent. She asked him to buy her a copy of the record on his way home from work. They both love the Rock Opera, especially the song Everything's Alright. Yaphet sings it to him when he gets upset over something. They record the opera into SAM, as they do all the music they listen to.

Neither Yaphet nor Zlatex can understand why so many conservatives falsely claim that the musical is blasphemous. It is the retelling of Holy Week, the last days in the life of Jesus Christ, focusing on the relationship between Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot. There is no spoken dialogue in the opera, everything is sung. It is a performance that blends the first century with the twentieth century in a remarkable mixture of rock and gospel along with orchestral accompaniment. It is one of the most famous rock operas of all time.

As Zlatex enters the new apartment they are renting in Abilene, Kansas on July 14, 1971, he slams the front door. Yaphet can tell that he is upset over something. She comforts him with a warm hug and an inviting kiss. After they end the lip lock, she asks him what has gotten him so upset.

"We got a news report this afternoon about an alleged sex ring in Dallas, Texas. Three married couples along with two single females and five single males periodically got together for consensual carnal activity. The five women and eight men would meet at one of the married couple's house the first weekend of every month. There they would all strip down and enjoy a weekend of naked sex."

"Ooh, that sounds exciting," Yaphet quips.

"But that's not the problem," Zlatex continues. "Remember how we hid microphones and minicameras all around Boston when we first got here in 1766?"

"Yes, we did it so we could learn about Earthlings, their language, their habits, their idiosyncrasies and other things about them."

Zlatex tells his extraterrestrial consort how their nosy neighbor figured out what they were doing. Then after the couple went to work, using a key they kept hidden in a flower pot near their front door, he broke into their house and hid microphones and minicameras in some of the bedrooms. Next, he gave the recorded sex party to an assistant district attorney friend of his.

In some of the scenes the women were role playing as the unwilling sex slaves of the men. The ADA had the men arrested for sex trafficking, sexual assault, rape, assault and battery and unlawful imprisonment. When they got to court the next morning for their arrangement and their attorney tried to explain to the judge that it was a sex party in which everyone was consensual, he disregarded the defendant's petition and ordered that they be held without bail. He also forbid the men from having any communication with the women, not even their wives.

When the defendant's lawyer tried to get the recordings excluded because no warrant was issued, the judge said that since the recordings were made by a private individual and the state had no part in making them, then they were admissible as evidence, even though they were made without the consent or knowledge of the defendants.

Yaphet adds, "When they have their trial, their attorney will call the women as witnesses who will testify that it was all consensual sex. Then the case will be dismissed. If not, then they will win after their testimony."

"Right!" Exclaims Zlatex. "But in the meantime, their lives are turned upside down and their other neighbors and friends will probably snub them and brand them as perverts. And all because of one ultra conservative meddlesome, snooping neighbor couldn't mind his own business."

"I'd sing you a song to cheer you up, Zlatex, but now I'm hot. Let's go shower together. I want you to spank my ass and make love while we are lathering each other's naked bodies. After we get into bed, you can beat me some more and impale me again. Then I want us to perform oral sex on each other."

After, the two aliens spent the evening united together, each giving their symbiotic partner numerous orgasms throughout the night. The next morning Zlatex is refreshed and ready to write editorials about the news of the day in the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle.

On May 4, 1972, the FBI building is officially named the J. Edgar Hoover building to honor the former director. Zlatex is extremely upset about the renaming of the structure. He did research into the assassination of President Kennedy and discovered that Hoover hid relevant information about the murder and helped falsify evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald, an innocent "patsy" who was framed by the Warren Commission. Zlatex believes the FBI building should be named the Robert F. Kennedy building to honor the man who was going to reopen the investigation so that the truth could be known.

On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested while breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D. C. - James W. McCord Jr. former CIA officer, Frank Sturgis, anti-Castro activist with CIA connections, Eugenio Martínez, Virgilio R. González and Bernard Barker. The latter three were all Cuban exiles, and Barker was a former CIA operative. The burglars were in the process of putting wiretaps on the telephones and stealing DNC documents. After their arrest, it was discovered that they were part of Richard Nixon's reelection committee, known as the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP).

The intruders were working under the direction of E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who were members of Nixon's secret team of operatives known as the "Plumbers." The Plumbers were engaging in political espionage and sabotage against the DNC. The break-in was part of a broader campaign against the Democratic Party, meant to gather intelligence that could help President Nixon get re-elected.

The break-in became known as the Watergate scandal and involved Nixon's later attempts to hide and cover up his administration's involvement through bribing the burglars, obstructing justice, and using government agencies like the CIA and the FBI to impede investigations into the incident.

Two investigative reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein of The Washington Post newspaper uncovered critical information about Nixon's criminal activity. They were aided by a confidential informant referred to as Deep Throat, who was later revealed to be the FBI Associate Director Mark Felt.

During the subsequent Senate Watergate Committee hearings, on July 16, 1973, it was revealed that Nixon had a voice activated recording system in the White House Oval Office. The tapes, which contained critical evidence that uncovered President Nixon's involvement in the burglary, became a turning point in the investigation of the break-in of the Watergate complex.

There is an eighteen minute and 30 second gap in one of the conversations between Nixon and his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, who has written a book about Nixon's Presidency, "The Ends of Power." In it, he states that Watergate, the Bay of Pigs invasion and Dealey Plaza, i. e., the assassination of President Kennedy, were all intrinsically connected, leading to speculation that that is what the eighteen minute pause is about.

The recording took place on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in. Forensic experts have determined that the interruption is actually an erasure that occurred in at least five separate segments, suggesting that it was not an accidental event but an intentional act. Someone had re-recorded blank audio multiple times in order to make sure that what was originally recorded could not be retrieved. Although some individuals have suggested that the missing dialogue is about the burglary, that is not very plausible because other tapes provide evidence of Nixon's involvement in the cover-up.

The Senate Watergate Committee revealed Nixon had ordered the CIA to obstruct the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-in just a few days after it occurred. This tape became known as the "smoking gun" and was the key evidence that proved that Nixon was involved in criminal acts and the subsequent cover-up of them.

Facing certain impeachment and removal from office, on evening of August 8, 1974, Nixon announced that he would resign the presidency, "effective at noon tomorrow."

From the moment of the original crime on June 17, 1972, until he resigned, everything Nixon did was aimed at covering up his illegal activities. His connections to organized crime figures, his mysterious presence in Dallas in November 1963, his political espionage, his denials of wrongdoing and his firing of numerous aides who refused to obey his orders, which became known as the "Saturday night Massacre," it was all his way of promoting himself to the exclusion of everyone else.

Representative Gerald R. Ford, a former member of the infamous Warren Commission, assumed the Presidency, becoming the first person to fill that office and the office of Vice President who was not elected "by the people." Then on September 8, 1974, he pardoned Nixon, putting a halt to the Watergate investigation.

Zlatex notices that it is an uncanny coincidence, that Spiro T. Agnew resigned as Vice President on October 10, 1973, during the height of the Watergate investigation. President Nixon nominated Ford to replace him. He was then confirmed by Congress and sworn in as the new Vice President on December 6, 1973.

Agnew's resignation was part of a plea agreement between him and the prosecutor, following charges of political corruption and income tax evasion, while he was the governor of Maryland. Had he been the Vice President when Nixon resigned, he would not have pardoned him, and the enquiry would have continued until the truth was revealed. After her lover informs her of the "coincidence," Yaphet shakes her head in disillusionment that the American citizenry doesn't perceive what Nixon and Ford did.

While President Ford was visiting Sacramental, on September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to shoot him. She was a believer and follower of the cult leader Charles Manson and a member of his infamous "Manson Family." She was deeply committed to his extremely radical anti-government ideology. Fromme approached Ford with a Colt.45 caliber pistol but it not fire because she did not know how to properly chamber a bullet; the weapon did not discharge when she pulled the trigger. Fromme was charged with attempting to assassinate the President. She was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. She was released on parole in 2009 after serving nearly 34 years.

Then while Ford was visiting San Francisco on September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore also attempted to shoot the President. Moore was a political radical and informant for the FBI who became disillusioned with the U. S. government. She claimed her assassination attempt was intended to start a revolution to change the government. Moore fired a single shot from a.38 caliber revolver at him from a distance of about 12 meters. The bullet missed, thanks in part to Oliver Sipple, a bystander and former Marine, who pushed Moore's arm as she fired. The bullet struck a nearby wall. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in 2007 after serving 32 years.

In 1976, Ford campaigned for the office of President, but he was defeated in the election by Jimmy Carter on Tuesday November 2, 1976, becoming the 39th President of the United States, proving that the American citizens want truthful and honorable people governing them, not lies, management, deception and corruption.

Yaphet and Zlatex celebrate the election by visiting the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene. After, they go to eat at a steak house and then go to a movie together to see "All the President's Men," a political thriller about Watergate.

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On the feast day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, December 8, 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed in New York outside his apartment building, the Dakota. The gunman, Mark David Chapman said that his motivation was a desire to become famous by committing an infamous act. Chapman was subsequently incarcerated at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, New York. Yaphet tells Zlatex that his death was ironic.

"How so?" he asks her.

She answers, "John Lennon was an atheist and she is the mother of God."

It is March 30, 1981. Yaphet and Zlatex are living in Hell's Kitchen, New York. They are watching the evening news about the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

The President was shot outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C. The assailant, John Hinkley Jr., was a man with a history of mental health issues. As the President exited the hotel and approached his limousine, Hinckley fired six.22 caliber bullets from a Rohm RG-14 revolver. One bullet ricocheted off the limousine and struck Reagan in the chest, puncturing his lung and narrowly missing his heart. Hinckley said he wanted to get recognition from Jodie Foster, an actress with whom he had developed an obsession after watching the movie "Taxi Driver." Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity. After spending decades in psychiatric care, he was released in 2016 under strictly controlled conditions.

George H. W. Bush, Director of Central Intelligence Agency from January 30, 1976, to January 20, 1977, under President Ford, becomes the President on January 20, 1989. He was Vice President from 1981 until he took the oath of office to become the President.

Throughout the late 1980s, the U. S. government provided aid to Manuel Noriega, the anti-Communist President of Panama. During this time, Noriega was also heavily involved in drug trafficking. In May 1989, he nullified the results of the democratically held presidential election whereby Guillermo Endara had been elected. However, President Bush protested the results and sent 2,000 American troops into the country, where they began conducting military exercises known as "Operation Just Cause."

The American military took control of the Panama Canal in violation of treaties. Noriega surrendered on January 3, 1990, and was immediately transferred to a prison in the United States where he was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering. He died while in prison on May 29, 2017, from surgery complications for a tumor on his brain.

It has been noted by historians that this military action of the U. S. represented a new phase of American foreign policy. President Bush did not justify the "war" as a policy of the Monroe Doctrine or as a threat of communist aggression, but because it was in the best interest of capitalism.

On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, invaded Kuwait, an oil rich nation on the Persian Gulf. This incident eventually led to the Gulf War. President George H. W. Bush imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and then mobilized the U. S. military for Operation Desert Storm. This was a U. S. led coalition to free Kuwait. The result was that Iraq accepted a ceasefire on February 28, 1991, and was expelled from Kuwait. Although Kuwait regained its sovereignty, Saddam Hussein was left in power.

Meanwhile, another action took place that required the immediate attention of the U. S. government.

It is 8:50 AM September 11, 2001, Zlatex and Yaphet are living in Atlanta; James is the assistant editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The editor rushes out of his office and tells everyone to stop whatever they are working on. Next, he switches the station of the flat screen television attached to the wall of the NBC affiliate, where everyone in the room can watch the announcement. The commentator is talking about a passenger airline crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. While he is talking, he suddenly stops to listen to what someone is telling him in his earpiece. Seconds later, he announces that his station manager has just informed him that a second airplane has struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

James immediately calls Yaphet on his cell phone to tell her to turn on the television. He also asks her to record the event into SAM. She is horrified by the terrorist's actions. He informs his syngeneic lover that his manager has already notified the staff that they should all be prepared to work late. She tells him that she will get some fried chicken from a fast food store later. Then they can talk more about the tragedy when he comes home.

Less than an hour later a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Finally, a fourth plane is hurtled into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers tried to regain control of the hijacked airplane from the terrorists.

At 8:30 PM, President George W. Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush came on national television and acknowledged that all the attacks were the result of terrorist's assaults.

It is later discovered that the attacks were led by Osama bin Laden, an Islamist militant extremist, and by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the operational planner.

In several speeches and public remarks, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, all implied, without actually stating it, that there is a terrorist link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the September 11th attacks. However, there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and anyone associated with the assaults. Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden didn't even like each other and neither trusted the other. But American capitalists needed easy access to Kuwait oil and Saddam Hussein was complicating that.

President George W. Bush argued for the launching a military attack against Iraq. He claimed that the vulnerability of the United States as a result of the attacks of September 11, Iraq's alleged manufacture and possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and its support for terrorist groups, posed a threat to American interests and peace throughout the world.

On March 17, 2003, Bush announced an end to diplomacy between the U. S. and Iraq and issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. He gave the Iraqi president forty-eight hours to leave Iraq. Saddam refused, and the U. S. attacked on March 20th, beginning the second Iraq War.

After Saddam Hussein was captured, it was discovered that he had no connections with Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or al-Qaeda. Nor were there any weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. All that Bush wanted was to secure Iraq's oil fields so that American business could get Iraqi oil.

Saddam Hussein was imprisoned on December 13, 2003, tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity in October 2005, and was executed on December 30, 2006.

It is Saturday evening, February 3, 2007, Yaphet and Zlatex are preparing for bed. They are watching the evening news on television. The top story is about four men who robbed an armored truck. There was a shootout, two of the thieves were killed by SWAT police officers and the automobile of a witness was riddled with bullets. The second story is a follow-up of two bombings in Baghdad on January 22nd. For several weeks Iraq has experienced numerous violent incidents, including suicide bombings and attacks targeting civilians and security forces. The recent attacks in the January twin bombings killed at least 88 people.

The two extraterrestrial lovers are aghast that the American public and the citizens of the world cannot see what the warmongers of the planet Earth are doing. For over 240 years the two alien beings have watched world leaders lie to each other and deceive each other. They have seen nations wage war against each other and destroy each other. And still they persist.

Yaphet rhetorically asks her symbiotic equivalent, "Don't they realize that calls to arms, like remember the Boston Massacre, let's free the slaves, the remember Alamo, remember the USS Maine, remember Pearl Harbor and remember 9-11, can no longer serve as battle cries to entice and incite people to war? Mankind must come to understand the horror and brutality of war. Mankind must understand and see that all the battles and wars that have ever been fought clearly manifest that horror and that brutality."

His syngeneic partner agrees, "You're right Yaphet. We've been here almost two and a half centuries. I Think we should start an endeavor to end war on Earth as a means of settling disputes among nations. Get some people together who have the same desire."

"Zlatex, if we do that, it will only be a matter of time before everyone learns that we are not Earthlings, that we are from the planet Herth that is 4.24 light years away from here."

"I don't care, Yaphet. I think it is time to reveal ourselves. I don't believe that these Earthlings will do us any harm. They might even welcome us. So, what do you think? Do you want to start a revolution to end war on Earth?"

"Yes!" Yaphet shouts. "We'll start the first thing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I want you to spank my naked ass while we bathe each other. After that, make love to me and then the two of us can perform oral sex on each other. I want us to continually do it until we are both totally exhausted. That way we can fall blissfully to sleep and dream of exotic, wonderful things to do to each other's nude bodies."

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The United States, because it is the guiding light of the world, and the leader of world geopolitics must begin a crusade to rid the world of war. The United States must lead the world down peaceful paths. The citizens must elect trailblazers who will not only guide the nation toward peaceful goals but will also start a worldwide endeavor to dismantle all weapons of war, wherever they exist and to encourage all governmental leaders to seek peaceable diplomacy over bloodshed. They must heed the words of President John F. Kennedy.

"Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond the reach of human beings. Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and to abolish all forms of human life. Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to the great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

"... united there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. (This is) our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace. We offer not a pledge but a request: that (all) begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleash... the hand of mankind's final war. So let us begin anew... and bring the absolute power to destroy (all) nations under the absolute control of all nations. Let... (all) seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce. Let... (all) unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaias:

"... undo the bundles that oppress. Let them that are broken go free.

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Please

End

All

Corruption on

Earth

We've only just has only begun...