#769: Duvaliers and Kennedy: Bellegarde-Smith comments

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>

> From:Amywile@aol.com
> 
> Didn't Duvalier used to gloat that it was on Nov. 22, 1963 that John Kennedy, 
> someone he eventually considered an enemy, was assassinated?
	
	On a sable le champagne! Champagne was had at the National Palace.
Soon afterwards, the U.S. embassy asked prominent Haitians to write a few
paragraphs about the meaning of John F. Kennedy for posterity. Those who
wrote, such as Dantes Bellegarde who was 86 years-old then, were called to
task. Bellegarde was briefly "imprisonned" and his family harassed and his
home searched by the secret police.  
			P. Bellegarde-Smith
			University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee