I remember talking with a man, a few years ago, who said he kept having a recurring dream about the Kennedy assassination. He indicated that he had read quite a bit about the incident, had done some research, and had come to no conclusions of his own, but, he kept having this dream, often.He never felt that Castro, or the Mafia had anything to do with the assassination. He felt that several shots were, in fact fired, but who, why and where, he, himself had no conclusions drawn, but the dream, he kept having this dream.
It was about Kennedy and his health. Many knew of his health issues, few, if any knew of the gravity of his actual health situation.
On one occasion, when many had thought Jack was spending some time at Lake Tahoe at Sinatra's Cal Neva Lodge, a double had been sent to Nevada, and Jack silently checked in, through the back door, at the Mayo Clinic to undergo a complete physical, away from the prying eyes of the press, and the government. The results were never known, by anyone, but Joe Kennedy, who personally received the results at his home in Hyannis Port, and after thoroughly reading and understanding their contents, destroyed the documents. He died, November 18, 1969, taking his secret to the grave with him.
The man who had the dream, related to me that Joe Kennedy, on a "fact finding" trip to the Soviet Union in 1960, had met a defector, Lee Oswald, who was a former Marine. Mr. Kennedy met with him on three occasions during his stay in Russia, and learned much of the young man. An acquaintance of Oswald, also a defector, related that Kennedy had befriended Oswald and even given him an unspecified amount of money to help in his living expenses. On their last meeting, a dinner, he remembered Oswald thanking Kennedy, and in closing, saying to him, "If there is ever anything I can do for you, just let me know.
In the dream, Kennedy knew his son, Jack did not have long to live in his presidency. His end would come slowly, after a lengthy period of deterioration, he would be reduced to a mere shadow of his once dominant figure. His father could not let that happen. He wanted an honorable legacy, one of achievement and accomplishment. He wanted his son to be remembered, but, Jack's health would not let that happen.
He thought often of an honorable legacy, one of adoration. He knew what had to be done. The rest we all know. Did Jackie know of the plan, no one will ever know. Does that explain her composure during the entire ordeal, the knowledge that his legacy would live and endure forever, that of a great hero, her Jack, his memory would live, forever. But, this all, was, just a dream ..........
