LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY FROM JACK BORDERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 16, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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President John F. Kennedy
The White House
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mister President:
Anniston, Alabama
September 16, 1963
I wish to protest, as a peace-loving progressive
American, the use of American armed forces and ma-
terials in south Vietnam. The Vietnamese people do
NOT want us to aid the Diem-Nhu dictatorship. We
are only supporting the regime's Himmler-like special
forces simply because the Central Intelligence Agency
deems it necessary. Vietnamese opinion, or anyone
else's for that matter, means very little to these
international gangsters.
On the pret*xt of a phony war against Communists, the
Diem lackeys of American imperialism now wage war
against Buddhist monks and the youth of the country.
Mme. Nhu has such disdain for human life as to say of
the protesting monks, "Let them barbecue themselves."
These atrocities expose the decadence not only of the
Diem dictatorship but even more of American imperialism.
How can such consorting with criminals be in the national
interest of the United States? It may help those inter-
ests in Wall Street who fatten off colonialism, the
ultra-rightists and racists in the U.S., who want a
similar situation here. But it can only bring - as it
already has - harm to the vast majority of the American
people, whose hope for a happier, more prosperous
future can only be achieved in a world where peace
reigns among free and independent nations.
I call. upon you, Mr. President, to:
* Stop all financial, economic and military aid to
the Diem-Nhu dictatorship.
Pull the CIA out of South Vietnam.
Recall all American troops, advisors and war
material from that nation.
Jack Borders
P. O. Box 75
Anniston, Alabama
Since ely yours,
J
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3611 Powelton Avenue
Philadelphia 4, Pa.
September 16, 1963
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President,
How can we support a war and the government behind the war when
that government is constantly persecuting its own people and double-crossing
us as well?
The Ngo family may be Catholic, and call themselves Christians,
but to persecute their own people as the ruling family in Vietnam is doing is
not Christian at all. They dth it in the name of anti-Communism but the power
behind the throne has made it clear he would rather have the North Vietminh in
his country than the Americana. It would seem obvious that all the Ngo family
really want is power. We are giving them this power to the tune of a million
a day from our open funds and the public does not know how much more through
the secret funds of the CIA. This power and wealth they are using to destroy
their own people. The guilt of this genocide is also ours for making it
possible.
Will we never learn? We backed Chiang Kai-shek. He is an
exile on Taiwan, thrown out in spite of our mammoth aid in military equip-
ment and funds. We backed Sighman Rhee. His own people threw him out. If
our troops left Korea, the North and South would join together to make their
own country their own way. The time may come when they will throw us out as
the Chinese have and the Japanese would like to. And now we are backing
Ngo Dinh Diem ---
We would have more influence in Asia - the time for power on
another continent has passed - ie we took our troops out of those countries
and had normal trade and educational exchanges with them.
We must take our troops and money out of Vietnam.
Yours; incerelyr
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