Posted on 04/01/2015 9:27:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was only 2 when he was murdered. But somehow, I seem to remember it. Or maybe the “feeling” of it - the heavy emotion that surrounded it, perhaps.
I don’t think you can really remember anything at two years old... only the echoes of events.
I was 15, and only a few blocks away. Seems like yesterday.
Wow, you were there?
Must have been extremely disturbing. He was a popular President.
Completely self-centered and bought by the Kennedy family to rehabilitate and change the true history about the fat-slob, disgraceful, drunken-driver killer.
Man, I need to read more carefully, or get more coffee. I was on Cape Cod when Ted killed Mary Jo.
The Ted Kennedy memorial should be a gas station urinal.
He was popular post mortem. One of the reasons he was in Dallas was to try to shore up his sinking poll numbers. You have to read the papers and editorials before his demise.
He was never anything but rich white trash
Ha! I was talking about JFK... thought you meant you were in Dallas, and a few blocks away when he was assasinated...
Interesting...
It always “seemed” like he was well-liked.
Sinking poll numbers due to Bay of Pigs? Cuban Missile Crisis???
Time to release the censored details of Chappaquiddick.
The media loved him, so of course.
If he had lived, Barry Goldwater might have made him a one-termer. LBJ won in a blowout because of the JFK halo effect. You will note that when Johnson had to run on his own record, he forfeited and left Hubert holding the bag.
Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was getting away with manslaughter.
Teddy Kennedy: Lion of the Senate (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Ed Markey just dissed Hillary and Barack, both of whom think of themselves as the greatest senator of all time.
“...he forfeited and left Hubert holding the bag. ...”
Which allowed Nixon to sweep it...
Johnson was a real piece of work too. Nasty fellow, by a lot of accounts.
I was taking Amtrak from northern Ohio to South Carolina. There was about a 6 hour layover in DC. I took a long walk to the mall, then came back by Congress. The Senate was in session. All I had to do to get in was to provide ID and state who my representative was. I entered the balcony, which was maybe 10 per cent occupied, and Kennedy was reading a speech, assisted by a preppy looking acolyte page turner. I am not at all sure CSPAN was televising at that time, nor can I be exactly sure that he was reading this exact passage, but it was during the Bork hearings, where Ted Kennedy, and others, turned Bork into a verb. At that time, prior to many more years of alcohol abuse, waitress sandwiches and too many carbohydrate laden sandwiches, he was much trimmer.
My vantage point was directly over his right shoulder. Could have beaned him with a wad of paper, though I probably would have been expelled from the chamber.
Moby-Dickhead or The Hunt For The Great White Whale
"Thar she blows, Captain!"
That is an interesting story.
The kennedy’s are a curse of America. This fat drunk teddy was responsible for admitting illegals. They can all roast in...
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