How Whole-Cloth Falsehoods Take Root: John Kennedy And Ronald Reagan

The first step in debunking a quote is to find the original source. In this case the debunking is easy, because there is no original source.

Alan: Technically, it is impossible to prove that a quotation does not exist since, in the final analysis, there are many "personal communications" that have never been publicly published but which were, in fact, communicated by word of mouth. That said, "bilge is bilge." Generally speaking, one could easily track down all documented communications by JFK from the seventh day before his death. Ever since Ronald Reagan normalized fiction as truth, American conservatives have dedicated themselves to ridiculous extrapolation from "technicality" and "exceptions to rules" so that they "become" New Rules.

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Kennedy never said that. It's a made-up quote. 

The quote does not exist in any book indexed by Google, or Amazon. Zero results. Compare that with the "Monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" quote, which gets over 1,520 results in Google books. This means the "quote" is so new that it's not even got into any conspiracy books yet. And not only is there no record of him having said it, there's no record of anyone even claiming he said it. 

Seven days before his Nov 22 1963 assassination would be November 15th, 1963. On Nov 14th JFK gave a news conference:where he said nothing at all like that quote. That news conference is sometimes attributed to Nov 15th, as it appeared in the NYT the following day. Actually on Nov 15th, JFK gave two speeches.

The first was to the AFL-CIO labor organization, and was a generally upbeat assessment of American industry. 

The second was the to Catholic Youth Organization, and is slightly closer in tone, but still nothing like what is claimed. The following is an actual quote from JFK in that speech, and is the only thing of record that he said that day that remotely resembles the claimed quote:

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The world is engaged in the most difficult and trying struggle in its long history. All of the great epics which have torn the world for the last 2,000 years pale in comparison to the great ideological gulf which separates us from those who oppose us. It is our responsibility not merely to denounce our enemies and those who make themselves our enemies but to make this system work, to demonstrate what freedom can do, what those who are committed to freedom and the future can do.

The invented quote could possibly be an extreme corruption of this, but is more likely a paraphrasing of elements of the April 27th 1961 "conspiracy" speech that led to other mis-quotes:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/16...-by-a-monolithic-and-ruthless-conspiracy-quot

I did a little digging to try to find some possible origins of the "enslave", and the earliest usages:

Earliest full mention on Usenet: 4/10/2004

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"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man woman and child.
Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." -
President John F. Kennedy - 7 days before he was assassinated.

This has a different initial wording from the original. It's simply a quote in the signature of Dick Eastman, and could conceivably be the origin. I emailed Dick Eastman, but he did not remember where he heard the quote. Perhaps he wrote down someone else's paraphrasing of the "Monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" quote. One can imagine a preacher coming up with this version when preaching a sermon on the lessons JFK left us. But we'll probably never know where it really came from. 

There are a couple of earlier posts on Usenet that sound somewhat similar. 

Usenet post by Virgil Gray, 11/25/2001

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The enemies of God are going to kill and enslave every man
woman and child in this country. Their first test toward realizing this
began on September 11, 2001.

alt.conspiracy post 1/18/1996

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We have available video tapes of astonishing information. These tapes
cover credible information of a plan to build a one world government of
global domination. They cover things like prophecy, conspiracy and
high tech bio-tech secret plans to enslave every man women and child on
this planet.

There is also some discussion on Snopes, and on Reddit.

Alan: The "Comments" section on this post are also illuminating. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman-and-child-jfk.319/ 

What Obama actually said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du6546rfZ-0&feature=youtu.be

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"Did Obama Really Say This?"

https://www.facebook.com/Spontaneous.Order.Society/posts/408990049186880

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Breitbart weighs in:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/30/Obama-Makes-It-Clear-Chicago-The-Blueprint-For-Gun-Laws-Nationally

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Snopes spends a hugely disproportionate amount of its time debunking right-wing lies.

Just browse a while at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/politics.asp