Posted on 11/20/2023 11:53:36 AM PST by DallasBiff
(CBS News) There are not many of us left who covered the assassination of John Kennedy, but only those of us who were alive before that awful weekend can really know how much it changed America.
We had been a confident nation. We had won World War II. We believed in our leaders. We came to see our presidents as all but invincible.
Because of television, we had come to know John Kennedy and his family more intimately than any of his predecessors.
Then, in a matter of seconds, he was killed by a madman.
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Heck JFK today would be more conservative than Mitch McConnell.
100% yes, it was the decline of America.
No, but it was a big milestone. JFK was a threat to the CIA (thousand pieces into the winds) and the FED (EO 11110).
JFK, the Starter. Trump, the Finisher.
And JFK made Bill Clinton look as moral Jimmy Carter.
Cuter wife too.
Weren’t ones like Cronkite disappointed that Oswald turned out to be a devoted Marxist as opposed to being a Republican?
JFK would have moved left with the Party.
Yep, Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger. He kept bringing up the attack on Adlai Stevenson in Dallas, a few weeks before the assassination, as proof that it just had to be Right-Wingers that did it.
Well he had good taste, Marilyn Monroe.
Then, in a matter of seconds, he was killed by a madman.
The Parkland doctors have a different perspective on the
head wound....it was an exit wound.
Then, in a matter of seconds, he was killed by the Deep State.....................
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First report of JFK assassination from WFAA News in Dallas
https://rumble.com/v3515gm-first-report-of-jfk-assassination-from-wfaa-news-in-dallas.html
“he was killed by a madman.”
He was killed to send a message to anyone who would dream of a structural change to prevent what is about to happen to our nation.
With very few exceptions, throughout our political system, you could say the message was received.
That’s not insanity. That’s brilliant.
I will concede the point.
It’s when the domestic deep state reared its ugly head and people knew that things weren’t as they appeared to be. Gone was the care-free era of Howdy Doody, reciprocating lawn sprinklers, and white picket fences.
Stupid Leftist headline. JFK was a threat to our free republic IMO.
I would say the administration of FDR is when America lost its freedom and its innocence.
America had lived through the McKinley assassination and the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
President Good Hair who stole the election was not going to be re-elected.
The myth that was built up about this "beloved" drug addicted, warmongering Irish shyster who could NOT keep his pants zipped was done after he was safely dead.
And then the Fab-Four roused us out of our funk.
“We believed in our leaders.”
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Gullible fools that we were.
I met JFK snd liked him even though he was a Dem.
I’d volunteered at Republican hq in the city to collect money. Did such a great job, the state Repub finance director invited. me to lunch to offer me a paid job. As we ordered lunch, Cronkite came on to say JFK had been shot. I wanted to get home to my little kids and he wanted to go home too. End of my career as a Republican National Committee employee.
Yes, that a began the decline. Kennedy was the last good, smart, unbribable Dem.
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