Posted on 05/08/2007 11:31:25 AM PDT by raccoonradio
TUESDAY, MAY 8
1st Hour--?
2nd Hour
David Talbot, acclaimed journalist and founder of Salon.com will be in studio with us to discuss his new book Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath.
3rd Hour
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TV legend Fess Parker, (Daniel Boone was a man......) will be with us. The classic television series Daniel Boone: Season 3 has been digitally restored and re-mastered and is being released on DVD for the first time today! In addition to being a star from the golden age of television, Mr. Parker is also one of California's most sucessfull resort and winery owners...
4th Hour
Howie Carr show ping
how about that poll question...should Paris Hilton go to jail?
Already 92% voted “yes”
was that a leftover poll question from yesterday? I forget...
Do you know anything about the Talbot book? I think I’ve heard the name, but that’s it!
one of those arrested:
Derdar Tatar
Ta(r)tar sauce...?
I hadn’t heard of it but I looked it up on amazon.com. Release date is today.
>>For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged — until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. Talbot, the founder of Salon.com, has written a gripping political history that is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
>>Brothers begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother. Bobby’s suspicions immediately focus on the nest of CIA spies, gangsters, and Cuban exiles that had long been plotting a violent regime change in Cuba. The Kennedys had struggled to control this swamp of anti-Castro intrigue based in southern Florida, but with little success.
>>Brothers then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration, pitting the young president and his even younger brother against their own national security apparatus. The Kennedy brothers and a small circle of their most trusted advisors — men like Theodore Sorensen, Robert McNamara, and Kenneth O’Donnell, who were so close the Kennedys regarded them as family — repeatedly thwarted Washington’s warrior caste. These hard-line generals and spymasters were hell-bent on a showdown with the Communist foe — in Berlin, Laos, Vietnam, and especially Cuba. But the Kennedys continually frustrated their militaristic ambitions, pushing instead for a peaceful resolution to the Cold War. The tensions within the Kennedy administration were heading for an explosive climax, when a burst of gunfire in a sunny Dallas plaza terminated John F. Kennedy’s presidency.
>>Based on interviews with more than one hundred fifty people — including many of the Kennedys’ aging “band of brothers,” whose testimony here might be their final word on this epic political story — as well as newly released government documents, Brothers reveals the compelling, untold story of the Kennedy years, including JFK’s heroic efforts to keep the country out of a cataclysmic war and Bobby Kennedy’s secret quest to solve his beloved brother’s murder. Bobby’s subterranean search was a dangerous one and led, in part, to his own quest for power in 1968, in a passion-filled campaign that ended with his own murder. As Talbot reveals here, RFK might have been the victim of the same plotters he suspected of killing his brother. This is historical storytelling at its riveting best — meticulously researched and movingly told.
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Well, sounds like “storytelling” anyway! “Meticulously researched” is another question!
So young(!) and yet so cynical . . . ;-)
from Phil Inquirer
> While training for their alleged Fort Dix mission in the Poconos in February, some of the men allegedly discussed a planned attack on two American warships that were supposedly going to be docked in Philadelphia next year, the FBI said.
During a meeting on March 16, also apparently recorded by the FBI, one of the men said:
“You know where the stadiums are in Philadelphia? There is the Navy base and every year they have the Army-Navy ball game and they come and stay one or two weeks. The Navy base will then be full of people. You see this is an opportunity and the beauty of this location specifically if you have the proper weaponry, is that you can hit it. . .”
today’s poll
Was it insulting for President Bush to wink at Queen Elizabeth?
Yes
21%
No
79%
Camelot was all show and no substance.
Mafia. The now deceaseded Jack Anderson's last hurrah was a book purporting that Kennedy was killed by Castro via the mafia. I heard him on Art Bell promoting the book.
Castro wasn't pleased that the Kennedys were trying to have him killed, and since he confiscated a lot of mafia "property", he had a bunch of carrots to offer.
The fact that RFK was actively going after the [Italian] mafia at the same time made them receptive.
Anderson was losing it at the time, fwiw.
Before his death JFK wasn't too popular. Check out the papers before his assassination. He was in Dallas to attempt to shore up support.
The reason he was in Texas was to patch up his relations with the rats in Texas, the Rats need to carry Texas in those days.
As an aside as I was typing this my daughters dog "Taco", got out, a neighbor stopped by, political talk followed, a few Che Porter stickers went out, new Freeper?
I bet his children are Tatar Tots.
The reason he was in Texas was to patch up his relations with the rats in Texas, the Rats need to carry Texas in those days.
As an aside as I was typing this my daughters dog "Taco", got out, a neighbor stopped by, political talk followed, a few Che Porter stickers went out, new Freeper?
I was going to suggest a connection to the Hibernian branch: (Po)Tatar.
Too bad the tax cuts he wanted were passed in memoriam, rather than while he was alive. Probably wouldn't have passed if he were alive at the time, though.
Too bad his daughter has a hissy fit every time his speech (as POTUS, no less) on tax cuts is used to justify cutting taxes. Her mother didn't get her far enough away from the Kennedys. "...was that The Brothers Kennedy..." haha.
When they booked him, the magistrate asked him his name.
He replied: " They call me, Tatar Salad!"
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