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Was this the beginning of the decline of America?

Heck JFK today would be more conservative than Mitch McConnell.

1 posted on 11/20/2023 11:53:36 AM PST by DallasBiff
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National Geographic has a new 3-part series on November 22, 1963, and the days that followed. I watched the first episode, and tried to watch the second, but it contained nothing more than the original horse shit that was fed to us 60 years ago. I lost my own innocence, and gullibility once I realized that our own government had taken JFK out.


30 posted on 11/20/2023 12:18:38 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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JFK’s assassination definitely marked the beginning of the 1960s as we know it.


34 posted on 11/20/2023 12:27:34 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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Then, in a matter of seconds, he was killed by a madman.

Believing that is what led to the decline in America.

38 posted on 11/20/2023 12:30:19 PM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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The decline of America? It should be noted that nothing really changed with the murder of John Kennedy. That happened a few years later in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant.
When that happened the politicians news media went berserk! They blamed the NRA, Guns, Pulp Fiction and comic books. Glorifying Violence on TV and violence in movies.

So to smoke off Federal government involvement, toy guns disappeared from toy stores. Pulp fiction books had less lurid covers, Comic books disappeared for a while, new gun laws that did nothing were passed. TV shows, mild even then, were dumbed down to kiddie shows, movies shown on TV were butchered to remove “violence”.
But movies for the big screen got a pass when they said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system(GMRX)
Once the Hays code for movies was done away with they proceeded to reshoot scenes adding lots of blood, guts. gore, and sex to get the now coveted “R” and “X” ratings.

Now with satellite and cable TV even TV shows have become more violent and sexual oriented.


39 posted on 11/20/2023 12:31:41 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I question whether America had maintained its alleged "innocence" until the Kennedy assassination. The country had been through the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the development and use of the atomic bomb.

Already in the 40s and early 50s, film noir had created a mood of angst and foreboding. The Kennedy assassination happened to roughly coincide with the rise of the New Left and its corrosive effect on the nation's spirit and culture, but this just accelerated a process that was already underway.
40 posted on 11/20/2023 12:32:16 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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America’s “Crossing the Rubicon” moment


42 posted on 11/20/2023 12:35:34 PM PST by PGR88
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What actually changed America was the 1962 ruling pushing God out of public life. Almost immediately, things began to change for the worse and fall apart, a trend that continues to this day.


48 posted on 11/20/2023 12:44:11 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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Journalist Bob Schieffer is 86 years old.

America lost its innocence when JFK died?

What a maudlin piece of Political Left crap!

Kennedy stole the 1960 election from Nixon with massive voter fraud in Chicago and massive voter fraud in LBJ's home state of Texas.

In 1956, Eisenhower and Nixon won Illinois by almost 20%.

In 1956, Eisenhower and Nixon won Texas by 11%.

Sixty-three years later, the GOP has still not figured out how to stop voter fraud.

49 posted on 11/20/2023 12:44:28 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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51 posted on 11/20/2023 12:50:52 PM PST by nagant
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Article:

“he was killed by a madman”

Mockingbird Media is still going strong with the coverup—six decades later.

That is the most important lesson of the assassination.


54 posted on 11/20/2023 12:53:47 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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I was in college when it happened. What people don’t get is that was the beginning of our beginning to “doubt” and “understand” government is not a kindly big brother. (Read Roger Stone’s Book).


55 posted on 11/20/2023 12:53:52 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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JFK was a solid part of the decline, we live in much of his dream world of open borders unionized federal employees, closed-down mental hospitals, affirmative action, and a sordid degraded White House.


57 posted on 11/20/2023 1:01:08 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“Madman”? Or planned man? A buddy and I just pulled into our HS parking lot from lunch and heard the news. We ran in told classmates and nobody believed us. For about 10 minutes.


59 posted on 11/20/2023 1:09:04 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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One of the first times the deep state stepped out of the shadows to remove a threat?

...or simply a lone-lunatic?

60 posted on 11/20/2023 1:10:45 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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Was this the beginning of the decline of America?

It seems so to me. Following Kennedy we got that polecat LBJ, massive political upheaval the rest of the decade... Things didn't start to look up again until 1980.

And i don't think Oswald acted alone - the ballistics just don't add up.

62 posted on 11/20/2023 2:29:23 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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Back and to the left.


65 posted on 11/20/2023 2:43:02 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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It pulled the Country left. JFK was a moderate to somewhat Conservative, LBJ was ragging Liberal, and the left was able to step up it’s infiltration. Left, Jfk was a


67 posted on 11/20/2023 3:18:00 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LOBALISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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Oswald although with dubious connections just took it upon himself to pop Kennedy from his perch. Oswald was flamed with pro Castro passion and Kennedy initiated that failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1962.
Also ‘the patsy’ Oswald killed officer JD Tippet as well that fateful day. He was guilty as sin. He just happened to work at the Tx School Depository building and acted upon his murderous plan. No conspiracy with CIA in my opinion just a murderous lefty commie loser who adored Castro. What a loser schmuck.


71 posted on 11/20/2023 3:28:13 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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BKMRK.


78 posted on 11/20/2023 7:56:44 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Charles Guiteau might have been madman (as well as a “dissatisfied office seeker”).

Oswald (if he even was the assassin) wasn’t.


79 posted on 11/20/2023 8:10:30 PM PST by x
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