Kennedy shook the world like 9/11

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/19/03 | Janet Daley

[elbucko]

Well, I wasn't there, but I have a theory anyway:

So do I. The "Left", in this country with help going all the way back to the Kremlin, picked at America's scabs and made them bleed. That's the only "conspiracy" I am willing to buy.

When the Soviet Union fell, I asked a friend of mine, who is very pro Irish IRA and very anti-British, what the IRA was going to do for funds, now that the KGB was broke. He looked at me funny, as if he didn't understand. A year later, when the IRA began suing for peace at the same time searching the world for money to carry on their "struggle", he understood. He is no longer pro IRA.

The 60's and the 70's were the last expression of Soviet Communists. There are still, however, a few holdouts.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Until Vietnam became a big intrusion on the lives of those under thirty, the home front was still relatively calm until 1965.

You're right. 1965 was a very calm year. I remember a relative getting drafted that year, and my brother enlisted in the Navy because he was going to get drafted. Even 1966 was calm as I remember. Then the people in cities and on campuses started rioting, and by '68, things were out of control. Women didn't wear hats and gloves anymore.

[PISANO]

I was in the Military at the time of JFK assassination and it did have great effect on the nation. Enhanced MAINLY because of TV. The DEATH of FDR effected the nation IMHO to a greater degree emotionally. TV made the JFK story and the subsquent killing of LHO a never-ending drama whodunit. The country was NOT CAMELOT like and there were many future problems that had the seeds planted during his administration. The LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA is the primary reason for the OBSESSION with the KENNEDYS in general and JFK in particular.

However after living through both JFK's assasination and 911 there is NO COMPARISON in my mind. Assasinations have happened before in this country. An attack on our HOMELAND of this magnitude is completely without parallel.