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The John F. Kennedy Assassination - Some Historical Perspectives
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Posted on 11/23/2016 3:33:41 PM PST by EveningStar

Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent Opens Up About JFK's Funeral

Clint Hill
Esquire
November 23, 2016

On November 22, 1963—53 years ago today—President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The following excerpts from Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Presidents reveal what really happened from someone who was there: Jackie's secret service agent Clint Hill
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums is a ninety-minute filmed memorial tribute to President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated on November 22, 1963. It was completed in 1964, and released to theatres by Embassy Pictures in 1966...

Because [the film] was produced by the United States Information Agency, it was originally prohibited by law from being screened in the United States. However, the quality of the film was considered so outstanding that a special act of Congress allowed it to be shown in regular motion picture theatres, a rare honor for USIA films...
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Film on YouTube (1:25:40)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anniversary; history; jackiekennedy; jfk; jfkassassination; johnfkennedy; johnkennedy; kennedy
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1 posted on 11/23/2016 3:33:41 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Bfl


2 posted on 11/23/2016 3:38:00 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: EveningStar

Thanks for the links.


3 posted on 11/23/2016 3:43:35 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: EveningStar
I read an article yesterday about how Jackie Kennedy developed a close relationship with the widow of the other man killed by Oswald that day, Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit.

Very interesting.

4 posted on 11/23/2016 3:49:16 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: EveningStar

Bookmarked.


5 posted on 11/23/2016 4:02:06 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: EveningStar
"This just in..."

"...JFK is still dead."
6 posted on 11/23/2016 4:06:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EveningStar

Thanks!


7 posted on 11/23/2016 4:07:29 PM PST by W. (Practice does NOT make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect pistolcraft!)
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To: EveningStar

The movie “Years of Lightning, Day of Drums” was produced by Bruce Herschensohn, who would become a conservative pundit and Senate candidate in California.


8 posted on 11/23/2016 4:09:44 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: EveningStar

A major flaw in the film is its portrayal of President Eisenhower’s space program as a series of failures. In fact, Eisenhower’s space program was a spectacular success in which successful space shots far outnumbered failures.


9 posted on 11/23/2016 4:15:55 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: EveningStar
I have a black colleague who said to me not long ago "We've had only one black president and they try to stop him at every turn."

I was tempted to say "We've had only one Irish Catholic president and they blew his f@$%ing brains out," but I didn't.

I'm an Irish Catholic American.

10 posted on 11/23/2016 4:34:57 PM PST by Oratam
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To: EveningStar

Years of Lightning, Day of Drums is an excellent film that captures JFK’s vitality as well as the crucial/harrowing events of his presidency, plus his State funeral. Its historic footage alone is priceless to any student of those times.

There’s a half hour [PBS] video of Bruce Herschensohn, the film’s director -who also composed the stirring musical score- explaining why he, a Republican, felt compelled to make this film. It’s worth watching. (Sorry, could not find a video link.)


11 posted on 11/23/2016 4:44:02 PM PST by hold_muh_bier (and watch this: Trump wins in a landslide! UPDATE: WON The Presidency! Yeehaw!!)
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To: EveningStar

Nov 22nd used to be a very observed date.

That’s all over now. I wonder how many people today know much of anything about it.

And even fewer know that Oswald tried to assassinate General Edwin Walker (Ret.) on April 10, 1963. Took a shot by firing into a window of Walker’s home and just missed.

The FBI discovered that the attempt was made on Walker by Oswald during the Kennedy investigation. Marina corroborated the story. Walker was a right-winger, Oswald called him a Hitler-like fascist.

Walker was connected with a Wanted Poster for Kennedy done as a political statement. It accuses Kennedy of treason and the charges read much like what has been written about Obama, just substitute Muslim for Communist.

Walker and Oswald both hated Kennedy, but Walker never took a shot at him. He did have to resign and retire after being found guilty of violating the Hatch Act in 1961. He passed out John Birch Society writings to soldiers under his command.

Little snippets of history lost to most.


12 posted on 11/23/2016 4:50:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: EveningStar

JFK was murdered by a communist not unlike the onez in todays Democrat party.


13 posted on 11/23/2016 5:00:02 PM PST by stockpirate (OBAMA MUST BE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.)
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To: Oratam

But I did not,,,
Second thoughts?

God rest His Soul.


14 posted on 11/23/2016 5:11:51 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: EveningStar
And then we have:

Lee Harvey Oswald’s little green book shows JFK wasn't the real target

IOW, Oswald was a bum shot.

15 posted on 11/23/2016 5:33:05 PM PST by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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I'm glad I kept it to myself. JFK was assassinated for being an Irish Catholic about as much as President Obama has met resistance because he's black. Why validate my colleagues mistaken assumptions?

Thought, I thought it was really great comeback.

16 posted on 11/23/2016 5:38:46 PM PST by Oratam
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To: Fiji Hill
A major flaw in the film is its portrayal of President Eisenhower’s space program as a series of failures. In fact, Eisenhower’s space program was a spectacular success in which successful space shots far outnumbered failures.

IIRC, the Army and Navy were contending with each other for the primary launch rockets. Navy had the Vanguard as their prime candidate while the Army was developing the Redstone.

17 posted on 11/23/2016 5:43:35 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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And even fewer know that Oswald tried to assassinate General Edwin Walker (Ret.) on April 10, 1963. Took a shot by firing into a window of Walker’s home and just missed.

When I worked in Dallas, I drove by the Walker mansion every day. It was on Preston Road and seems like everybody knew exactly which window Oswald had fired through.

Subsequently, if I am not mistaken, the mansion was purchased by Harding Lawrence, the President of Braniff Airways, and his wife Mary Wells -- co-founder of the Wells, Rich & Green advertising agency which did the Braniff ads ("The End of the Plain Plane").

18 posted on 11/23/2016 6:23:39 PM PST by okie01
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To: Oratam
I was tempted to say "We've had only one Irish Catholic president and they blew his f@$%ing brains out," but I didn't.

I'm an Irish Catholic American.

The ONLY person who really, I mean really wanted to know what happened was an Irish Catholic. Her father was devastated when JFK was brutally murdered. She was not only interested, she was very, very intelligent. She was usually ahead of what I was showing her.

It turns out there are TWO INDEPENDENT ways to determine the times between each of the shots. I have shown that the times between each of the shots is the same in BOTH which means statistically that BOTH are valid measures of the shooting. Otherwise, you are forced to argue that some guys analyzing an audio tape just happened to get the times the same as the only film. It is NOT statistically possible that the times in the film and the audio tape unless the sounds of the shots were recorded.

Then I add in the fact that dozens of witnesses agree with what the audio tape analysis shows, the last two shots were fired BANG-BANG, two shots almost on top of each other.

Knowing that the audio tape did record the sounds coupled with the information the Zapurder film gives allows the observer to determine what happened during the shooting. It soon follows that the only way all of this could be possible is if the US government lied, forged evidence and harassed witnesses to hide the truth.

This video attempts to introduce you to what all that means:

INTRO TO SOLVING THE JFK ASSASSINATION MYSTERY

If this was easy, someone else would have told you what happened along time ago.

19 posted on 11/23/2016 9:02:43 PM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: EveningStar

If LBJ hadn’t done it he would have been acting out of character


20 posted on 11/24/2016 6:36:57 AM PST by Arkancide (www.arkancide.com)
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