[Impala64ssa]

The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination is coming up. Just as an anectode, I remember many years ago my parents telling me a year before he was shot we were in a recession. Like many other seasoned citizens at the time, my grandparents, who lived through the Depression were worried that we were heading for another one. Also William Buckley wrote an interesting piece where he claimed that had JFK not been shot and ran for re-election in 64, Goldwater could have defeated him, maybe not a landslide, but a victory nonetheless.

[apoxonu]

was it...Abby Normal?

[taildragger]

Also William Buckley wrote an interesting piece where he claimed that had JFK not been shot and ran for re-election in 64, Goldwater could have defeated him, maybe not a landslide, but a victory nonetheless.

Yes no one will say he was mediocre to poor as a POTUS, not to mention all the things Teddy did to fubar us that stay with us today. It wasn't Camelot, it was may have been something else with Rot at the end of it...

[Gaffer]

One assumes that JFK actually had a brain to steal in the first place.

[Lmo56]

I wonder if he stuffed it down his pants ala Sandy Berger ...

[Artie]

“Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president’s reputation.”

I don’t think anything is too crazy with the government anymore. I seem to remember some years ago that Teddy ‘The Swimmer” had JFK’s original sarcophagus drilled full of holes, towed out to the deepest part of the Atlantic by a naval vessel and sunk so that it wouldn’t end up in the wrong hands or on Ebay.

[Steely Tom]

In the History Channel JFK assassination series, an individual who claims to have been present at the Walter Reed autopsy of Kennedy describes a number of very strange things that happened during the conduct of that procedure.

Among other things, he said that there were non-medical personnel in the room as observers, and at least one of these individuals had veto power over every step of the autopsy.

[US Navy Vet]

Ok I have a question: Who would have had the MOST to “profit” from JFK’s demise? Answer that one and you will get MUCH closer as to WHO the REAL killer(s) was/were.

[a fool in paradise]

[LS]

There is testimony on film in “Best Evidence” and in the book of the same name by David Lifton of TWO guys who were in the room in Bethesda who were conducting x-rays of JFK and who stated there was no brain in the skull. One of the radiologists insists he put his hands inside the cranium and said “my God, look at the size of the hole.”

[Hardraade]

The lefties are stealing stuff from the National Archives to this day.

Sandy underpants Berger is just the tip of the iceberg.

[dfwgator]

Here's Ted's brain.

[Alex Murphy]

Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president's reputation. "My conclusion is that Robert Kennedy did take his brother’s brain—not to conceal evidence of a conspiracy but perhaps to conceal evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy’s illnesses, or perhaps to conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was taking," says.

JFK: [regarding the scar on his head] That's where they took a piece of my brain. They got it back in D.C. in that God damn jar. [pause] I got a little bag of sand up there now.
Elvis: But Jack...uhh, no offense but...Elvis: President Kennedy was a white man.
JFK: That's how clever they are. They dyed me this color, all over. can you think of a better way to hide the truth than that?
-- Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy, in Bubba Ho-Tep

[Hardastarboard]

Not to be insensitive, but if this is true, there wasn’t much to retrieve after JFK was shot in the head.

[wideminded]

As I understand it, brains cannot be examined fully at the time of autopsy because they are too soft. They must be fixed for a time in formalin to firm them up for dissection. If it is desired to quickly release the body for burial, the brain may need to be retained to complete the examination, especially if damage to the brain is the probable cause of death. Following the examination of JFK's brain it was returned to RFK. This may have been after the funeral, but in any case was too late to reunite the brain with the body. RFK then arranged for the brain to be destroyed. His motivation was probably just to keep it from becoming an object of public curiosity and discussion right after the funeral.

What would you do in that situation?

[Snickering Hound]

And Oswald couldn't have done the shooting because he was recording his version of "Long Tall Sally" at the time.

[longfellow]

How would RFK know that the brain would show all these ailments. was he a DR. Too?

[EveningStar]

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[Fiji Hill]

I have this horror movie scenario—The brain of Sen. Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette (R-Wis.) has secretly been preserved at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. One day, some scientists do an experiment in which they transplant it into the head of a baboon. But to everyone’s horror, the baboon starts campaigning for president as a Progressive Republican.

Because he his brain is from the US and dates from 1855, the Supreme Court rules that the baboon is a natural-born citizen and cannot be prevented from running. Faced with the usual has-beens and never-will-bes that normally comprise the field of GOP presidential hopefuls, the baboon appears to be a shoo-in to become the party’s presidential standard bearer—and will be running against the the Progressive liberal that the Democrats always nominate. Can America be saved from the horrors of Progressivism?