http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm
Posted on 01/17/2011 12:42:26 AM PST by smokingfrog
How do we know that grade-school students in Dallas spontaneously cheered the news that President John F. Kennedy was murdered in their city?
Because it's been repeated ad infinitum for almost half a century. Therefore it must be true, right?
It's a belief that's taken on the aura of holy writ to liberals, thanks to propapandists like radio host and lawyer Mike Papantonio in preserving its mythology for each new generation of true believers.
You'd think someone who practices law would know better. Then again, you might not.
Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show Thursday, "Ring of Fire" radio program co-host Papantonio talked about President Obama's remarks at the Tucson memorial service and drew a parallel between current-day political rancor and the toxic divisions of the early 1960s --
PAPANTONIO: As I listened to him, I remembered something, though. I remembered that hate is like ink in water in the way it spreads. And I wish, you know, I know he had to be careful on the way that he dealt with this issue, but it's an important issue. And that is the way hate spreads. I think about the 1960s. You had right-wing billionaires fueling hatred against John F. Kennedy, the same way, I mean exactly, Ed, the same way they're doing it today. You had, crowd hatred doesn't just happen, it usually takes money to egg it on. And that's what we saw in the '60s with John F. Kennedy. When Secret Service, Ed, begged Kennedy not to go to Dallas, it's because they feared for his life. It wasn't because they expected a Lee Harvey Oswald-type of assassination.
As in, left-wing "type" of assassination. Decades later, liberals still shrink from the specifics --
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
We lived in NYC, and I went to a catholic elementary school. The nuns were freaking out, and us kids didn’t know what to think. That week-end the city was about the most quiet I had ever known it to be. All this was followed by Oswald getting whacked on nationwide TV, and then the riots soon thereafter. The world had changed, and not in a good way. I doubt JFK would have gotten re-elected; there was too much unrest, especially in the South. His demise in the fashion that defined it was not, however, constuctive or beneficial. Personally, I blame RFK for a whole lot of the assassination that ensued, and also LBJ. Both were dirty in this.
My husband and his crazy uncle were just arguing about this after the AZ shooting. Ray is positive that Oswald was set up by his right-wing handlers and no amount of facts will change that in Ray’s mind.
I don’t bother with any discussions with Ray & I keep reminding my husband about the saying “Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time & annoys the pig”, but my husband still tries to bring a bit of common sense into his uncle’s life.
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm
Oh wait, you're talking about KENNEDY!? All of the above happened when Ronald Reagan was shot. Sorry about that.
Guess no liberal radio host wants to talk about that, though.
Oh yeah, he brings up Bush 1 as being in on a the kill Kennedy conspiracy.
RFK and JFK were idiots way over their heads on every aspect. To their demise they both underestimated and tried to play LBJ for some local yocal. But LBJ was a much smarter “dirty” politician, much bigger crook and even after all this time still seems to be the instagator behind both their hits. To a certain degree Lyndon did us a favor, RFK would have been crowned by the sheeple and would have been worse than even nobama. Ending up with LBJ proved far worse for America in the long run.
I was in a parochial school, and there were no cheers that day.
Here’s a little bit on why people might think that.
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushCh08-2
You should call Michael Medved on conspiracy day (Thursdays, I think) with that one.
Thanks. This whole thread is an amazing testimonial to what really happened in classrooms and homes that day. JFK’s assassination hit this country like 9-11-01 did. Maybe even harder.
Unfortunately, I had the opposite experience.
I was sitting in the auditorium with all the other boys in junior high in Houston. The coach was delivering a lecture on venereal disease. Another coach walked on stage, very distraught, and said, “Boys, I have terrible news. President Kennedy has been shot”.
A number of kids, the worst bigots and bullies in the school, STOOD UP AND CHEERED. They were dixiecrats and hated Kennedy for backing civil rights. I estimate that about one third of the boys cheered.
The next year in history class discussion, I expressed support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act (I already considered myself a Republican). This particular teacher, Mr. Roach (his actual name), had a Confederate flag in his classroom instead of the American flag. He stood up and said, “A’hm gonna go get a drink o’ water. You boys don’t make too much noise.”
The moment he left the room I got jumped by five dixiecrats. Some desks got knocked over, but I won. He walked back in and was very unhappy to see me still standing.
I grew up in the bad old days of bigotry and prejudice. My parents were not bigots and taught me to treat all people as equal. Oh yeah, I remember being four years old and some lady yelled at me in Weingarten’s Grocery Store for drinking from the “Black” water fountain. I ignored her.
Texas has changed. I still meet a few bigots, but most of them are democrats.
Thanks for repeating your memories of that sad day.
I wrote a paper in HS based on the Warren Report. Funny it didn’t mention any of this. ;^)
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