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Coming Soon: 60 years later, The Myth of John F. Kennedy

Coming Soon: 60 years later, The Myth of John F. Kennedy

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


Coming Soon: 60 years later, The Myth of John F. Kennedy

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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1 minute
Released:
Dec 20, 2020
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Podcast episode

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In our next episode, we go mythbusting.   It's the 60th anniversary of the election of JFK and so our target is, "Camelot" itself.
Kennedy is seen as a civil rights hero and a dove by many. But did he take bold leadership to end the Jim Crow Era? Was he killed by the military-industrial complex because he was going to withdraw from Vietnam and end the Cold War? The answer is NO. Listen in and find out why. 
On the next Green & Red Podcast, Bob and Scott discuss the legacy, and the many enduring lies people--from Oliver Stone to QAnon to today's liberal scholars and media-- still believe, and the myths about John Kennedy's saintly acts, whose politics have lived on in Clinton, Obama, and now Biden.
We'll post this next episode soon. 
Released:
Dec 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.