Another story of his bravery and how Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, forced him to leave the Marines.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/living/liv-c...e156375714.html
May 26, 2013 1:38 PM
In the early 1960s, Idaho Medal of Honor recipient nearly escalated the Cold War
The night of Sept. 30, 1961, was, literally and figuratively, one of the darkest of Art Jackson’s life.
The 36-year-old Marine captain’s job that gloomy night was to escort a man suspected of being a Cuban spy off the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. But a momentary delay — the lock on a gate wouldn’t open — began a series of events that haunts the Boisean to this day.
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Another story of his bravery and how Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, forced him to leave the Marines.
In one cigar box or the other, I still have Jack Anderson’s Washington Merry-Go-Round column about Arthur Jackson’s service at Gitmo. In repeatable language, I recall the outrage expressed by Commandant Shoup in tearing verbal strips off Captain Jackson.
Now, mellowed by experience, my view is that Commandant Shoup was as much angered at being placed in a situation where no less punishment was politically acceptable. It was textbook “it’s not the offense”, it was some literal coverup.
But at the end of any day, the Green Weenie struck…all hands.