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Like the sinking of the Titanic, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has been a subject of fascination for me over the years. I remember perusing Mom and Dad's copy of the Warren Commision Report with great interest. I remember, earlier than that, repeatedly combing through the National Geographic issue shortly after the assassination and developing a crush on Caroline Kennedy who would have been about my age at that time. In Jr. High School I wrote a short paper based on Mark Lane's assertion of a second assassin or more and conspiracies surrounding the event. The presentation given here...

<p>John Forbes Kerry seldom misses an opportunity to bring up the subject of his Vietnam War experiences.</p> <p>"It is hard still to explain the clashing feelings," Mr. Kerry wrote in the New York Times the other day. "There was [sic] the deep and enduring bonds forged among crewmates, brothers in arms from all walks of life fighting each day to keep faith with one another on a tiny boat on the rivers of the Mekong Delta. And there was the anger I felt toward body-counting, face-saving leaders sitting safely in Washington sending to the killing fields troops who were often poor, black or brown."</p>

There have been several threads posted here (some by me) which have mentioned John Kerry's testimony before the Fulbright Committee of the US Senate in 1971. In his remarks, Kerry cited the "Winter Soldier Investigation" where over 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testified at a Detroit Howard Johnson's about wholesale rape, torture, and murder they claimed U.S. soldiers committed in Vietnam. Many have since contended that these atrocity stories were largely fabricated. Several researchers have suggested that they were inspired by Mark Lane, who was involved with Jane Fonda who helped sponsor the "Winter Soldier Investigation." Many of the comments they...