Publisher's Synopsis
Introduction I compiled this book about these two Presidents on Freedom and Equality, each had a different view of how our Society should be. They both succeeded in change which cost them their lives. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was an American Statesman and Lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War-its bloodiest War and perhaps its greatest moral, Constitutional, and Political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, paved the way for the abolition of Slavery, strengthened the Federal Government, and modernized the economy. Racists in the Red States of today resisted equality of the Black Race so bad that they joined the Republican Party who freed the Slaves after Blacks joined the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy in 1960, who advocated equality of the Races to this day. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, Nellie, in a Presidential Motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964 concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand Trial. These conclusions were initially supported by the American public; however, polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up. Contrary to the Warren Commission, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979 concluded that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. An awful lot still remains mysterious, and not just because scholars haven't finished picking through the files. Of the 3,100 documents set to be released, 300 have been held back on the instruction of the U.S. Intelligence establishment - and there's no clue as to what's in them. President Donald Trump said he hadn't wanted to make the decision but that the files were a risk to National Security. He gave Agencies six months to sort through the files and argue for any that they think should still be kept Secret. But that decision has meant that far from putting conspiracy theories to rest, it has just served to spawn more. Some of the JFK files may never be released - and so the mystery and secrecy about what happened that day, and the ones leading up to and from it, could never truly end. Therlee Gipson
