Enjoy part two of this 3 part series:
Me: Okay. Was it your destiny to die when and how you did?
(Pause as JFK speaks to Jamie)
Jamie: He makes eye contact the whole time. It’s almost uncomfortable. I’m the one looking around the room.
JFK: That’s a commonly asked question. Yes ma’am, it was.
Me: Why?
JFK: It was God’s divine timing. There’s a perfect moment when you put gasoline on a fire to make it take off. There was a perfect moment in my career for me to step away and truly give the responsibility over to the people and take it off my plate. It was with great sadness that I watched my children and my family deal with the suffering and the loss, but it was such a position of pride—
Jamie’s voice is quavering at this point. I can tell she’s choking up.
Jamie: Oh, I just got this overwhelming sensation of sweetness that like just makes you wanna cry. It’s not sad at all.
JFK (I can still hear Jamie near tears as she translates): —overwhelming sense of pride to watch people take on my fight.
Jamie: He’s talking very slowly. He’s smiling the whole time. He’s not compromising his posture or anything. It’s weird. It’s just the emotion that comes over. Highly patriotic, which I don’t often feel these days, but (choking up again) feeling it now.
Me: Yes, I can hear it in your voice. But Mr. President, why did you have to die the way you did? Why couldn’t you have just died of a heart attack? Why did it have to be so—
JFK: A public death was necessary, and for it to be documented was necessary so that the people could see the corruption of the Office.
Me: Why would that show corruption of the Office? What corruption are you talking about?
JFK: Ma’am, I knew high and well that there was a price on my trip to Texas. Presidents in the past and in the future will not just mysteriously get knocked off.
Jamie: He says it with a little smirk on his face!
I chuckle.
JFK: It is a highly planned event, and you’d be surprised by how many ears there are listening to these planned events. Anyone who has a political stance or a strong voice like Martin Luther King—we know our life is short term. A flame can only burn so bright for so long. Then, it must be passed on. For me, I passed it on to the people, and this is why it had to be a public viewing.
Erik: Is a public viewing a death?
JFK: Yes sir.
Me: Obviously you had a spiritual contract with your assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Did he do this of his own volition, on his own, or did others put him up to it?
(Pause)
Jamie: He’s pausing.
JFK: It is not well known and documented that he had a group supporting him, but he did have a feed of information that came from a government branch that fed his misconception of what my ultimate goals were as a president.
Me: Did this government branch feed you that information purposefully?
JFK: Yes.
Me: What was your ultimate goal that he was so upset about?
JFK: Giving everybody equal rights.
Me: Are you talking about a racial thing?
JFK: Yes ma’am, if you want to put it that way.
Me: Okay. What branch are we talking about?
(Long pause)
Jamie: He flashes a really big smile at me and shakes his head, no.
(Pause)
Jamie: He’s not going to discuss it.
Me: Okay, so basically, it was part of our government.
JFK: The United States of America. Correct.
Me: Why won’t you divulge that information since it was from a government in the past and not current people?
JFK: I’m sure you’re highly aware that even though the people are no longer living, the structure is still in place, so whoever is coming in behind them is filling the shoes that were previously placed there for them. The corruption is still present. It would have been my ultimate dream to have had a government that was an open book. As you know, our system needs restructuring. As it stands, there is too much greed and ego running a free country, and these two ideals collide.
Me: Are you saying it might be dangerous for Jamie and me? Is that part of it?
JFK: No. You pose no threat.
Erik: Is that because they’re so small?
Me: No! Would our lives be threatened if we publicized more specific information?
JFK: No, I understood the question.
Clearly, he didn’t want to go on with this particular subject.
Me: Okay. Were you here to learn anything?
Jamie: He straightens out his jacket in the front.
JFK: Maybe I was here to learn too much.
Jamie (chuckling): He’s grinning. You forget how full his cheeks are. You know, he’s got good, pinchable cheeks.
Jamie: Please don’t pinch them, Jamie.
Jamie: I’m so far away from him. Trust me!
Jamie laughs hard.
Me: You must resist!
Jamie: At least I’m a little more relaxed that when he came in.
Me: Yeah!
(Pause)
Jamie: Erik’s clarifying for him.
Erik: Well, was there one area in your life you felt you came in to polish, to get to know it better?
JFK: Commitment.
Me: Commitment to a woman or to an ideal, a principle?
JFK: Across the board. To a marriage, to a term, to an ideal, to intimacy.
Me: Do you think you accomplished that?
(Long pause)
Jamie: He laughs, like really out loud. Pretty loud! He’s telling me it’s a fifty-fifty vote.
Jamie and I laugh.
Me: It has to do with votes, of course. Do you think you accomplished your spiritual mission?
JFK: Yes ma’am.
Me: I think you did, too.
One more thing: E. J. Daniel and Erik have finished another novel, Just Sayin’! If you’d like to download a free copy, email the author at ejdaniel@q.com. NOTE THAT IT’S Q.COM NOT G.COM! If you haven’t read the prequel, Second Chances as well as their first book: Same Moon, Same Sky, please request that as well. Their both short reads and excellent. Erik is very proud of his work.
