Posted on 11/20/2010 1:27:34 AM PST by Gomer1066
On November 22, 1963 I was in the office of a human rights organization in downtown Miami, Florida, fresh from service in the U.S. Army.
I was happy that President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev had not gone to war in October 1962 over Soviet missiles in Cuba. My battalion, part of the Second Infantry Division, had been put on alert to invade. A U.S. naval blockade had stopped any new missiles from being delivered and those that had been were withdrawn.
The Cold War had been going on since 1945 and tensions between the U.S. and Russia had briefly and dangerously reached a tipping point. Fortunately, the leaders of both nations pulled back. Elsewhere a relatively small, backwater conflict was going on in Vietnam, but few were paying it any attention.
John F. Kennedy was incredibly popular. He said that the torch of freedom had passed to a new generation and, at age 26, I was convinced his generation and mine were going to solve all of the world’s problems. I was unaware that JFK had so failed to impress Krushchev when they had met in Vienna in 1961 that the Soviet leader had felt emboldened to put missiles in Castro's Cuba.
On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, Lee Oswald, a leftist ....
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All anybody’s ever going to have as to what happened to JFK is a choice of 50 or more conspiracy theories, most totally plausible.
If Obama has the same fateful rendezvous with a bullet I do believe it will be a fabricated evidence package pointing to someone south of the border.
And we have quite a few Marines heading for a “vacation” in Costa Rica?
The election that destroyed America, 1960.
Oswald shot NO ONE, and that’s a fact
You mean because of Johnson , right ?
Not Tippit either?
I was in second grade (7 yrs old) and that day is one of the earliest memories i retain. For the younger generation this was a time when we routinely practiced such life saving procedures as ducking under the desk in case of nuclear attack so the procedures that day were not initially unsettling. The teacher had us line up and go to the nearest stairwell. Once in there we stopped on the stairs,along with every other class in the school (p.s. 42 on Orchard street,lower east side NYC). At some point the teacher,i forget her name,began crying. You could hear others crying as well. I have to assume information was coming over the loudspeakers but i was too much taken with the different routine to pay attention. Still,other students paid better attention than i did and they too were crying,whether from the news or the fact so many others were crying above and below us in the hallway. I asked the girl next to me why was everyone crying? She told me that the president had been shot (she was crying as well and said it in a tone that suggested a boy was too stupid to understand). I replied,and this is a true memory,reinforced because i repeated this to my mother later who had been crying as well,”So? He never did anything for me.”
I’ve never ever forgotten that because the events were so unusual for a school day. I really only have a few memories from that school mostly because i was transferred to another school after the third grade. That’s one i suspect will always remain with me since it has all this time.
Ouch! Touche’...”What goes around, comes around.”
I believe Diem was the CIA’s HVT.
Well, for the record it wasn't me.
I’ve read several books, studied the assassination for years.....and I agree with Vincent Bugliosi. If this had gone to trial, it would have been one of the easiest cases based on the evidence, in history.
Oswald acted entirely alone and anyone who believes otherwise has not studied the evidence.
This case is easier than O.J. and he had blood leading to his house.
Yep!
And the Left invented scores of conspiracy theories to get the spotlight off Oswald - one of their own - and to “save” failed President Kennedy by making him a martyr.
It was all because of JFK, Johnson, Teddy, Robert, losing Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, immigration, emptying the mental institutions, in the 1960 election we should have followed the women’s lead, and voted for Eisenhower’s veep.
“Oswald acted entirely alone and anyone who believes otherwise has not studied the evidence.”
You have to consider that Oswald would have made a terrible choice for a paid hit man. He was very unstable, unreliable, and did things a trained assassin would never do, like using a cheap mail-order rifle. Not to mention blowing away a police officer in public. In addition, a really good marksman should have been able to take out Kennedy with one shot instead of three.
And remember: If three people know a secret, it’s not a secret. Were there a conspiracy (especially something as big as killing a president), someone would have said something in the nearly 50 years since 1963.
Well put. Everyone knows 1964 was the election that destroyed America.
[ Well put. Everyone knows 1964 was the election that destroyed America. ]
I have to wonder if Goldwater would have won in 64 had Kennedy and by Extension Johnson’s presidency benefited by the death of JFK.
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