jfk For high school students upcoming book's foreword by Prof. Fetzer

Foreword

Alen J. Salerian, M.D., has been a champion of the rights of human beings to be alleviated from the suffering they endure as a consequence of mental and physical pain.

This book follows in that tradition by attempting to alleviate the pain and suffering Americans have endured as a consequence of the death of our 35th President.

JFK was no ordinary man, but one of extraordinary intelligence and perception, who had the ability to transcend his own membership in the elite of the United States and extend himself on behalf of every citizen.

Those who advance the interests of their own economic (political, racial or religious) group are dime a dozen. Those who can rise above their own circumstances to act on behalf of every other human being are extremely rare.

JFK was a man of that kind. And I applaud Alen’s efforts to explain—in plain and simple language—why JFK’s life and death should matter to each of us, even though he was taken out more than 50 years ago.

Because Alen is a psychiatrist who has served as the Chief Consultant for the FBI during his career, he provides a perspective that no other author on this case—and there have been many!—has been able to supply.

This is a modest and unpretentious book, but it packs a punch. By the time you have made your way to the end, you understand what happened to JFK—and why he was taken out. All in all, a remarkable achievement.

What he has written should interest the young and the old, the rich and the poor, working men and capitalists alike. Something extraordinary was lost in Dallas that day, which we must strive to recapture and never forget. 

James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

McKnight Professor Emeritus