General Discussion

Wasn’t clear until Maj. John Newman, USA, wrote “JKF and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power.” Then an active duty professor at West Point, Maj. Newman uncovered the missing part from the official history — “the Pentagon Papers.”

President Kennedy said he would not send US draftees to fight in another country’s civil war and signed National Security Action Memorandum 263 to put the Administration’s official policy in writing. Read NSAM 263 here:

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsam-jfk/nsam-263.htm

Four days after the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, LBJ reverses the policy to stay and support South Vietnam in its "contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy in NSAM 273:

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsam-lbj/nsam-273.htm

National Security Action Memorandum 263 (NSAM 263) is documentary proof JFK ordered US out of Vietnam. And after CIA and Pentagon leadership lied to his face about the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, President Kennedy would never have fallen for their rationale for escalating US presence in South Vietnam, their Gulf of Tonkin “Big Lie” on America.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1366764&mesg_id=1367923

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jmnpp

“In the final analysis, it's their war," (JFK) said. "They're the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them. We can give them equipment. We can send our men out there as advisers. But they have to win it -- the people of Vietnam -- against the Communists."