Thomas Merton: Enemy of the Warfare State

Recent research suggests how the bizarre and untimely death of Catholic author, mystic and outspoken anti-Vietnam War activist may in fact have been carried out by the CIA and at the direction of President Lyndon Johnson, whose Executive Branch tenure saw the political assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While there is a wealth of historical research on the deaths of the Kennedys and King, we are just beginning to understand how and why Merton had likewise become an enemy of the warfare state.

Music: Gregorian Chant: Easter Sunday - Alleluia - Pascha nostrum
Benedictine Monks of the Abbey Münsterschwarzach and Pater Godehard Joppich.