Will our November 22 healing ceremony break the spell cast on the nation by JFK's assassination? Will we be ready to transform from warriors committed to victory through war into spiritual warriors just as passionately committed to peace? It's an idea whose time is now! That and ending the cycle of revenge and retribution, coupled with earth's rights economic justice--might just work to build the future world.

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PART ONE: How we discovered the deep truth behind JFK's assassination through the magic of Love Field Airport

After sixty-one years of asking "who's to blame", it's time for all Americans to come together with the citizens of Dallas to break the spell that keeps us from the bright future we want and deserve. We've come to a profound understanding of how the resurrection of JFK'S spirit of peace through the magic of Love Field will fulfill that goal.

On looking back to what drew our attention to Love Field in 2023 we were reminded of our own choices made in 1981 and how the path we chose to get here was inspired by JFK's favorite poet Robert Frost in his poem A Road Not Taken.

That year we became the first American journalists to gain access to Afghanistan following the expulsion of all western media after the 1979 Soviet invasion. Getting the first Visa to enter Kabul with a film crew for CBS News was a big SCOOP after a blackout of 18 months. But we never imagined back then that touching the ground of Afghanistan would lead us to Love Field and the deep truth about the JFK assassination forty-three years later. But that is exactly what happened.

After witnessing CBS's willful misuse of our facts on Afghanistan and its transformation into propaganda we continued to challenge the mainstream narrative through ABC News and PBS and received the same results. Back then most Americans believed that freedom of the press was not only a Constitutional right but that it actually meant something. We had yet to face the truth that no matter what facts we unearthed the official narrative on Afghanistan would remain the voice of the CIA and there was little we could do to change that. Faced with that reality, we finally asked ourselves, if facts didn't matter, what did? So in 1987 we decided to follow the Road Not Taken and started writing screenplays and by the early 1990s had developed four.

Then in September of 1991, our 10-year-old daughter Alissa told us of a dream with Paul's deceased father - accompanied by a man who told her he was 800 years old. We already knew the Fitzgerald family had come to Ireland 800 years before as mercenaries for King Henry II and decided the dream was a mystical message. But where did it lead? After three months of researching the Fitzgerald history we saw Oliver Stone's film, JFK, and found the clues that would unlock the meaning of our daughter's message. Stone's decision to include secret societies in his telling resonated with us. In our research into the 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland, largely run by the Fitzgerald family, we found motivations for why some secret societies would target JFK as retribution for past offenses. We had hoped Stone would be interested in this history but he wanted our Afghanistan story instead.

Although our three years of work with Stone did produce the Three Nights of Desmond script concept, it was never fulfilled. Thirty years in the making, we finally brought that concept to fruition in 2021 in our memoir series, Valediction Three Nights of Desmond along with Valediction Resurrection. Since then our publisher Kris Millegan has been hosting monthly Roundtable discussions based on our memoir, giving us the platform to further explore the Fitzgerald legacy.

It is through Valediction Revelation, the last of our three-part memoir, that the fulfillment of what Kris had inaugurated comes full circle. Our story begins in Boston at the Parker House Hotel Press Room in 1981where Paul stood at the exact spot where JFK announced his candidacy for Congress in 1946 and held his bachelor's party in 1953. It then comes to a shocking conclusion at Love Field Airport in Dallas in 2023 following the JFK assassination conference - where Paul delivered the address on the Fitzgerald legacy.

It wasn't until we were leaving Dallas and entered Love Field Airport for the first time that we knew what needed to happen next. Love Field represents the final moments in JFK's life; the place where he arrived in the morning alive and left deceased that afternoon. Since this place was the location of JFK's final destination and a mystical crossroads between heaven and earth, this location awaits our delivery of JFK's spirit of peace.

We decided a healing ceremony at Love Field is the answer. Once activated, we can continue to put our collective imaginations together to manifest JFK's Spirit of peace back into all our lives where it belongs.

The kickoff campaign will be on November 22, 2024. The healing ceremony will take place between 2:15 and 2:45 PM CT at the Bronze Spirit of Flight Statue near the entrance to Love Field Airport. The world is welcome to join us in the ceremony from wherever you are.

PART TWO: The Day after the November 22 Healing Ceremony and Beyond

Once the November 22, 2024 healing ceremony at Dallas Love Field Airport has been completed we'll activate the Economic Justice and World Peace Proposal we've been writing since 2021 inspired by the Roundtable discussions.

Will our November 22 healing ceremony break the spell cast on the nation by JFK's assassination? Will we be ready to transform from warriors passionately committed to victory through war into spiritual warriors just as passionately committed to peace? It's an idea whose time is now... or never! That and ending the cycle of revenge and retribution, coupled with earth's rights economic justice--might just work to build the future world we can ALL live in.

- Introduction

Violence begets violence, war begets more wars. These facts have been known to generations before our time and we should not have to learn this horrible truth again. Old angers and hatreds have been instilled in new generations. We cannot continue in this manner and survive as a people. We must calm down and put our minds to diffusing the crisis. Is there a solution? Yes there is; knowledge, understanding and the courage to resolve the problem without violence. First we must move away from the economy of war that can only create endless war to an economy of peace that will produce the endless peace we want.

- Activating JFK's Plan for World Peace

Our problems are man made. Therefore, they can be solved by man. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

JFK is continually rated as one of our greatest presidents, a testament to his ability to inspire hope, faith and courage in Americans. He asked us to take on the most important challenge of our times in 1963 by helping him to create world peace. His American University Speech laid out that plan beautifully. Resurrecting his plan for world peace is long overdue. It is time for We the People to come together to imagine the peaceful future we want to emerge out of this final chaotic stage of empire.

It was in 2022 when we realized that building peace based on JFK's American University Speech needed Henry George's economics of peace as the foundation to stop the cycle of endless war. Once this truth is known we will then be able to build genuine world peace.

Henry George's economics advocates equal rights for all and special privileges for none. It affirms everyone's birthright to share in the earth's natural resources. You will be amazed at how quickly shifting taxes from earned income on wages to unearned income on land and natural resources automatically curbs land speculation and hoarding, the root causes of poverty, homelessness and war. When large landowners finally pay their fair share, it benefits everyone. Known as the Commons Rent, the riches that now flow to the few; who claim more than their fair share will be used to finance all of our public goods and services. If you want to create a just, prosperous and peaceful future learning how to fairly share the Earth is the first step. The more rapidly people awaken to the power of the earth rights tax policies the faster we will build a world of peace and plenty for all.

-JFK's Peace Speech resonates with Badshah Khan's Afghan Peace Message

Next we'll intertwine JFK's plan with Afghan tribal leader Bhadshah Khan's non-violent movement. If anyone today could name an historical figure connected to the origin of non-violent resistance against oppression, it would be Gandhi who defined the idea of non-violent resistance in his struggle to free India from British colonial rule.

In 1929, a Pashtun tribal leader in Afghanistan named Bhadshah Khan became an important ally of Gandhi by inaugurating his own non-violent movement known as the Khudai-Khidmatgar, the servants of God. Khan decided to serve God by serving humanity.

Instead of focusing on British oppression first he set out to change the tolerance of revenge killing from their ancient tribal code known as Pashtunwali. Afghans had lived by the code for millennia and continue to rely on it to this day.

The strength of Kahn's philosophy challenged more than the tribal code of Pashtunwali and the dominance of the British Empire. Khan also challenged many Western orientalists who claimed that his movement was just an aberration of a warrior culture that could never give up war. In our research into Khan's movement we discovered his inspirational principle of turning warriors of war into warriors of peace was similar to JFK's plan.

Kahn chose first to reform the ancient Pashtun tribal code that sanctioned killing to resolve family feuds. In his speech JFK asked Americans to first reflect on reforming their own concepts of peaceful coexistence before expecting the enemy to change. Khan's philosophy is expressed most beautifully in this quote: Is not the Pashtun amenable to love and reason? He will go with you to hell if you can win his heart, but you cannot force him even to go to heaven.

-The Fitzgerald Myth and History embodied in JFK's life and Death

Next we'll weave in the mythical stories from the Fitzgerald family's Irish roots. Myths are the stories of human encounters with the spirit world handed down over generations. When merged with the historical record it adds a depth to both.

In our research into the Fitzgerald's rise and fall from power-- starting with the 12^th-century Norman invasion of Ireland and ending four hundred years later with the beheading of the last earl of Desmond by Elizabeth I-- we discovered that the age of myth lived on in Ireland well into the 20^th century.

Starting with the Fitzgeralds' arrival in 1169 there was an outpouring of Irish prophecies connected to the family that were already in existence. Over time these prophecies became entwined with more of the ancient legacies such as the Grail legends from Wales and the Irish legends of the Dagda. The first myths about the Earls of Desmond began to form in the early 14^th century. Maurice Fitzgerald's son Gerald, known as Gearoid Iarla in Gaelic, inspired the origin myth of the family that exists to this day. Born in 1338, Gearoid succeeded to the Earldom in 1358 making him the 3rd Earl of Desmond and the leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. Gearoid's castle at Lough Gur became the center of the earldom and a home for his love to Gaelic culture.

As a respected composer of poetry, Gearoid became a leading example of the Norman lords' willingness to embrace their own Gaelicization. More Irish than the Irish was a phrase used by historians to describe this phenomenon of total cultural assimilation.

The Fitzgeralds adopted the mythic symbolism of the Gaelic tradition by embracing Aine as their goddess of sovereignty over the land. A poet in their employ referred to Gearoid's father, Maurice, as Aine's king and Gearoid as the son of Aine's knight. According to folklore, Maurice was walking by the shore of Lough Gur when he saw Aine bathing and seized her cloak, which magically put her under his power, and then lay with her. Aine told Maurice she would bear him a son Gearoid Iarla whom he was to bring up. One caution she told Maurice; he was not to show surprise at anything his son did because if Gearoid's feats were recognized as magical he would have to go with his mother into the otherworld. Maurice did ultimately lose his son to Aine.

-Our 1970 HAIR musical experience and why it still matters today

As we move towards world peace through economic justice we will also start organizing a musical concert in Ireland modeled after the 1985 Live Aid concert for famine relief in Africa. The sponsors of Live Aid took an issue nobody cared about, put it in front of 2 billion people through music and raised $127 million. But today millions are still at risk from famine.

This exposes the truth that focusing on famine relief was never going to be a remedy for famine. Our concert will promote a genuine solution through creating an economy of peace as the foundation that will address all human-made problems and that will lead to world peace.

Our musical inspiration comes from the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical HAIR. In its time HAIR was the center of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement; delivering a riveting political and social awakening. We lived our experience with HAIR when we became a part of the Boston production in 1970. HAIR's anti-war theme was shared by millions of Americans. Its finale song Flesh Failures Let the Sunshine In was an anthem for the peace movement that still stirs the soul today. Our effort towards peace through economic justice, dialogue and music will free us from the spell of endless war.

The concert will also help bring back the peace movement robbed from our generation by forces manipulating the Anti-Vietnam War Movement from behind the scenes. Changing the tone will re-orient people's thinking from war to peace.

By connecting to our shared past through the land that gave birth to the Fitzgerald legacy we will be stirring the spirit of the mythical Gearóid Iarla whom legend tells will rise from the dead at the end of time to free the Irish people from empire. Now is the time for the fulfillment of that prophecy.

The perfect setting to build a world peace consciousness through music is at the 5500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site north of Dublin known as Newgrange. In the Celtic calendar, August 1st was the Feast of Lughnasa in honor of the Irish god Lugh-- brother of the Dagda - the chief god of the Tuatha de Dannan-- And Newgrange was his home.

We were first brought into the vortex of this megalithic passage tomb on August 1, 1997, at Dublin airport when the driver of the shuttle bus posed a question after reading the name tag on our luggage. Who's the Fitzgerald? He asked. We are our son responded. Well so am I he said. That was the first hint that something unusual was happening.

The second hint came when Paul asked where he came from. It's a little village on the other side of Ireland. I'm sure you've never heard of it. It's called Abbeyfeale he said. That's my grandfather's village Paul told him and then he said Whatever you do when you're in Ireland, there's one place you must go. It's called Newgrange. It's a 20-minute drive from where you're headed and it is the most amazing thing you will ever see.

It was awesome to enter this legendary site days later. It is central to pre-Christian Irish mythology having been built by the Dagda. Known as the Good Father he was a benefactor to all the people. Described as a passage grave, it was a house where the dead could pass in and out of supernatural reality into this world at will. Most of all, the concert at Newgrange will stimulate our imaginations to believe we can create the peaceful world we all dream of.

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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story, published by City Lights in 2009 and Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire in 2011. Their novel The Voice , was published in 2001. Their memoir, The Valediction Three Nights of Desmond was published by TrineDay in 2021 and The Valediction Resurrection in 2022. Visit their websites at valediction.net, invisiblehistory.com and grailwerk.com.

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In their memoir, Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond Part 1, co-authors Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould reported on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and how all was not what it seemed at that time. Clues about the next installment were planted. Valediction: Resurrection Part 2 probes the lineage between Paul and JFK's family. That research yields clues to a powerful empire that was conspired against and overthrown. Surviving bloodlines are targeted, such as JFK's November 22, 1963 assassination. While delving into his past, Paul sees the connection to his experiences in Afghanistan. Seemingly disparate subjects are linked to sinister forces in history, manipulating unwitting believers. How does the CIA's Soviet threat analysis known as "Team B" connect to the Arthurian legends? Do we march into the future through random events? Or has a course been charted, going back centuries?

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In "Valediction: Resurrection Part 2 co-authors Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould lay out a unique book that awakens new insights. The past is never easy to reconcile, and in Paul's case, he went back a 1000 years to do so. The author's quest for knowledge and truth is filled with intriguing stops along the way. It's a book with the qualities of a blockbuster film that will appeal to history lovers, conspiracy researchers, genealogists, and mystery fans.

Authors Bio:

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are the authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story and Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire and The Voice,a novel.

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team began working together in 1979 co-producing a documentary for Paul's television show, Watchworks. Called, The Arms Race and the Economy, A Delicate Balance, they found themselves in the midst of a controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Their acquisition of the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew in 1981, brought them into the most heated Cold War controversy since Vietnam. But the people inside Soviet-occupied Afghanistan told a very different story from the one being broadcast on the evening news.

Following their news story for the CBS Evening News, they produced a documentary (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) for PBS and in 1983 they returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline with Harvard Negotiation project director Roger Fisher. Arriving in Kabul that spring they were told that the Russians wanted to go home and negotiate their way out. But the story that President Carter called, "the greatest threat to peace since the second World War" had already been written by America's pundits was not about to change the script.

As the first American journalists to get behind the official propaganda on the war, they not only got a view of an unseen Afghan life, but a revelatory look at how the US defined itself under the veil of superpower confrontation. But as they pursued the reasons behind the propaganda, they were drawn into a story that was growing into mythic dimensions.

It was at the time of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 when they were working on the film version of their experience under contract to Oliver Stone, that they began to piece together the mythic implications of the story. During the research for the screenplay crucial documents were declassified. Over the next decade they trailed a labyrinth of clues to find a likeness in Washington's official policy towards Afghanistan - in the ancient Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark - whose origins began in the region now known as Afghanistan. It was a likeness that grows more visible as America's involvement deepens.
By 1998, as the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines, they started collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. They contributed to the Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future book project. In 2002 they filmed Wali's first return to Kabul since her exile in 1978. The film they produced about Wali's journey home, The Woman in Exile Returns, gave audiences the chance to discover the message of one of Afghanistan's most articulate voices and her hopes for her people.

In the years since 9/11 much has happened to bring their story into sharp focus. Their experience at combining personal diplomacy with activist journalism could become a model for restoring a healthy and vibrant dialogue to American democracy. Ultimately, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story lays bare why it was inevitable that the Soviet Union and the U.S. should end up in Afghanistan and what that means to the future of the American emp