Friday, September 25, 2015

Eugene Dinkins: a page from JFK the magnificent journey

Eugene Dinkins : A Page From  JFK: The  Magnificent Journey

    On November 6, 1963 Pfc. Eugene Dinkins held a small press conference in Geneva Switzerland to warn of a plot to assassinate Pres. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He also in writing informed his superiors, the FBI and the Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy.
   On November 13, 1963 Dinkins was involuntarily committed to Walter Reed Army Hospital psychiatric unit.  Heavily medicated  he also received electroconvulsive treatment. After months he was declared mentally incapacitated and discharged. Since then Dinkins never spoke to reporters and vanished from public life.
    For a courageous young soldier without any psychiatric history doing the right thing by informing his superiors and the public by correctly predicting the assassination of Pres. Kennedy and then to be declared insane and disappearing from public life is a mind-boggling story.
   It is reasonable to question whether psychiatry became a tool of oppression as it was observed to be in Stalin’s Soviet Union. What happened to the cable and letters to the FBI and the Department of Justice? What happened to him? What was the medical justification for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and treatment? From a psychiatric perspective having unusual thoughts or delusions does not justify involuntary commitment. For all we know, he was not suicidal, homicidal or presenting a danger to others so hospitalization made no sense.

   The observation about Dinkins is how little energy has been invested to investigate his fascinating and tragic story, consistent with complicity of silence.
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