JFK planned Military invasion of Alabama

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/109860944011800.xml

MONTGOMERY -- In the weeks before Gov. George Wallace's attempt to block enrollment of two black students at the University of Alabama, the Kennedy administration was poised to send more than 20,000 troops into Alabama if resistance to integration had become more violent, according to declassified documents and interviews with former military and civilian sources.

The contingency plan was drawn up after a University of Mississippi desegregation riot in 1962 and in advance of Wallace's June 1963 stand in the schoolhouse door at Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Dubbed Operation Palm Tree, the plan is outlined in 160 pages of documents obtained from the National Archives under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail the number of troops that would have been mobilized, their instructions on use of force, maps showing distances to target areas and even a fill-in-the-blank news release to announce the military operation.

If Kerry wins, can we do an invasion of Alabama just for the fuck of it?

[smiley_glad_hands]

1. Sounds like a plan. eom

[gee double you bee]

2. haha

:D

[specter]

3. LOL

Please free us from this draconian state government. Please????

:cry:

[seraph]

4. Sounds like a good idea

[Lefty48197]

5. Is this what GWB was protectin' Alabama from while in the ANG?

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. To be he didn't do it. JFK could have finished the job that....

Lincoln didn't!!!

Maybe Kerry can do it!!! :D

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Andrew Johnson's biggest mistake...

was not seeing to it that all those Confederate generals, high ranking officers, and politicians were swinging by their necks at the end of ropes.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. It would make for an interesting "what if" book.

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