The United States Doesn’t Own the Mississippi River. JFK shot four to seven times from the front and the back. Article 8 of the 1783 Treaty of Paris reads: "The Navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the Subjects of Great Britain and the Citizens of the United States." Is this article still relevant today? Trump deserves a comeback revenge tour. They'll still try to steal it from him again. But the bigger the landslide the harder it is to steal it. Not impossible to steal it like they did with Arizona 2022.