LBJ not JFK committed the USA to war in Vietnam.
LBJ escalated the war with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution but JFK was CIC in 1963 and I was aboard a Tanker AO 62, refueling carriers that were launching aircraft as fast as they could during the unrep. They were dropping bombs as fast as they could, so what was that all about?
I left the Navy in 1965, flew out of Clark field back to the States and never looked back. Went to college were I learned how evil, so I don’t really need a history lesson from someone that doesn’t know it. My memories are often mixed, I have vivid memories of things that that never happened, or at least my wife of 40 years tells me that.
I do know for a fact where I was the day Kennedy got shot, we had steamed to an unrep rendevoux where our Captain hailed the Flag ship asking why their flag was at half mast, we were informed then that JFK had been shot.