Never Seen Before Video Surfaces of JFK The Night Before He Died in 1963 (Video)

hotairpundit ^ | 5/17/10 | HAP

[Talkradio03]

A San Antonio man who is now 88 years old has turned over a video of Kennedy at a Houston gala with wife Jackie the night before he died in 1963, the video has been sitting in a chest of drawers in the man's living room untouched for 47 years..(Video)

[Larry Lucido]

Skip the blog. Direct video link from the original news source.

http://www.kens5.com/v/?i=93248714

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[dfwgator]

Most overrated President, ever.

[mkjessup]

He succeeded where Al Gore would fail 40 years later.

[EricT.]

He was a great junior Naval officer, and that’s about it.

[wbill]

Kennedy was a martyr. Had he survived, I’d call it “unlikely” that he’d not have been elected to a 2nd term.

[dfwgator]

This is why I pray nothing happens to Obama, other than being voted out in 2012.

[wbill]

What I meant to say was "He wouldn't have been re-elected".

Sometimes my fingers move faster than my brain. :-)

[wbill]

Ditto. God help us all, if something happens to BO.

And honestly, I wonder if BO selected Biden as veep, as an insurance policy.

As bad as BO is, not too many people in their right minds want to see Biden in that office.

[fso301]

He was a great junior Naval officer.

As long as you ignore how the commander of a high performance PT boat could have been surprised, rammed and sunk by a Japanese warship on a calm South Pacific night.

[ScottinVA]

Whaddaya know... a Dem sucking up to LULAC. Some things never change.

[dfwgator]

Never get into a car, boat, or plane with a Kennedy.

[ScottinVA]

As long as you ignore how the commander of a high performance PT boat could have been surprised, rammed and sunk by a Japanese warship on a calm South Pacific night.

I've always kind of wondered that myself. Someone had to be literally asleep at the switch on that one. I always though PT craft were agile enough to dodge a warship.

[Dallas59]

I thought he was dead?

[ScottinVA]

Never get into a car, boat, or plane with a Kennedy.

No sh*t. From JFK to Teddy, to JFK Jr, to Patches (did I leave anyone out?). They are DANGEROUS behind the wheel.

[ETL]

From the Wall Street Journal
NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.

Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.

Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."

The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586848318702756.html

[BunnySlippers]

I’d rather Biden in office than Barack. Biden is juast goofy ... but Obama is an ideologue. Dangerous. At the same time, I don’t want him to die in office.

As for Kennedy. His brand of being a Democrat was extremely mild compared to literally any Democrat today.

[ScottinVA]

though=thought

[wbill]

True, Kennedy (assuming that he didn't change any stances) would be a Republican in today's politics. And a conservative one at that.

I think that Biden would be more easy to manipulate by Pelosi, et al. He's like BO, only dumber.

But, in truth, I'd rather see NEITHER of them in office. 2012 won't come soon enough.