From back in the day when the news media would actually show us things instead of talking heads.
Posted on 06/02/2016 8:23:07 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BOSTON —President John F. Kennedy’s love letter to an alleged secret mistress will be put up for auction by RR Auction.
The four-page love letter was written to Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Kennedy family friend and wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, in October 1963, a month before the president’s assassination.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcvb.com ...
Yes, and the sainted Ben Bradlee of WaPo Watergate fame interfered with the criminal investigation of her murder, enabling the destruction of potential evidence (her diary).
That would certainly explain a thrice married, twice divorced serial adulterer running for president.
The controversial late comedian Lenny Bruce was scheduled to appear at a major comedy venue in December, 1963. When Kennedy was assassinated, whether or not to cancel the engagement became an issue. Bruce opted to go on; the issue then became whether to mention the assassination, or not, knowing he risked his career either way.
Bruce walked on stage, and stood there for several minutes, saying nothing while the packed audience waited, tittering nervously.
His opening line: “Man, oh man. Poor Vaughn Meador.”
Oh. Well, somebody took the trouble to point it out.
Yep, like Eddie Murphy said, They throw their Ps, like they were Frisbees.
This is a sign that the Kennedy dynasty is finally dead. Can you imagine the Kennedys *allowing* an auction house to sell a love letter to the mistress of a sainted Kennedy if they still had the power to stop it. This is *admitting* infidelity (which we all knew but it’s another thing to have it officially confirmed).
I wouldn’t trust the Secret Service until it’s purged.
And then the sister of the editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, had an affair with JFK and she was murdered under
suspicious circumstances. Top officials of the CIA went to her Georgetown townhouse looking for ...?
They have Narcissistic personality disorder.
Er, ah . . . book-maaahk
The story goes Meador was on a flight to Las Vegas at the time Kennedy was shot and, after he landed, someone asked him “Do you Kennedy’s been shot?”
To which he put on his Kennedy voice and replied “No, but if you hum a few bars, I’ll try to fake it.”
The look he received after that told him his career was finished.
You weren't alive when those of us who were experienced almost three full years of his crude, distasteful, and unpatriotic use of the White House and his playfully, blithe conduct of the privileges covering it up.
You weren't alive to understand the deep distrust and rejection of his imperious Camelotish conduct, his failed Bay of Pigs incident, and his initiation of US involvement in the Viet Nam conflict that made him extremely unpopular. In fact, he most certainly was not a "hero" until the day he was shot, a moment in time seized by the media to turn the hearts of the un- and dis-informed fickle public into an enduring state of blind, doting, misplaced compassion. Not everyone was fooled by this unfortunate ending of his failing career as upholding America's anti-Communism struggle in the Cold War:
"The editors of National Review judged John Fitzgerald Kennedy to be a consummate technician of mass politics. His programs and policies -- often chosen, by the evidence, in opportunistic furtherance of technical manipulations--we judged to be, for the most part, dangerous to the nation’s well-being and security, and to the survival of our perilously threatened Western civilization. Neither his death nor the fearful manner of it provides any reason to change these judgments." (My added emphasis)
-- Excerpt from the National Review, quoted by Loe Conason in his article for the National Memo, "Was JFK A Conservative — Or A Socialist? Let’s Ask The Right-Wingers Of 1963" (click here) (Nov. 22, 2013, 50 years latere)
Please do not think that by any means I would believe that this was the way our President should be relieved of his office. Unlawful, certainly, and not at all laughable, but unpatriotic--who can know? One would have to be in possession of reliable information not within reach of the ordinary citizen at this time.
It would not be my way to honor and uphold the Constitution of my forefathers.
From back in the day when the news media would actually show us things instead of talking heads.
I have that Vaughn Meader album, “The First Family”. It was recorded on October 22, 1962, at the high noon moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that’s a small detail.
To listen to it now is to hear a wistful snapshot in time when life seemed simpler (though it wasn’t, as we later learned). The entire album is lighthearted joshing of a beloved President and his even more beloved family.
I was 14 then & remember those times.
Most tracks had only one punch line. The funniest for me was “White House Summit Lunch” where JFK orders sandwiches rather than host a formal dinner, to save time. The reactions of the heads of state are hilarious, especially Khrushchev, Castro, & Nasser.
Needless to day, Vaughn Meader’s career mostly ended after the assassination.
Meyer was shot to death on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath on October 12, 1964, three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report, whose conclusions Meyer allegedly challenged.[6][7] The timing of her killing and the effort by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to retrieve Meyer’s diary immediately after her murder have prompted investigation of possible CIA involvement in her death.[8] The African American man accused of her murder, Ray Crump, Jr., was acquitted at trial in July, 1965. Her murder remains officially unsolved.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer
That’s the most ghoulish image I think I have ever seen. So this was the aftermath of the `golden age of Camelot’?
And LBJ was already in power and leading us into Vietnam, race wars, and the age of Aquarius.....amazing that we survived as a nation until Ronald Reagan became President.
She fell on a knife 4 times. :-)
“The First Family,” yes. We listened to it over and over. Eventually it got retired to the basement and I don’t recall ever seeing it again.
“Khrushchev, Castro, & Nasser.”
A blast from the past.
from wiki:
According to several sources, standup comedian Lenny Bruce went on with his November 22 nightclub show as scheduled. Just hours after Kennedy’s death, Bruce walked onstage, stood silently for several moments, then said sadly, “Boy, is Vaughn Meader f**ked.” The joke proved true. Meader discovered that he was so completely typecast as a Kennedy impersonator that he could not find anyone willing to hire him for any of his other talents.
You must be young. The papers and magazines and even the TV news used to run pictures far worse that this all the time. They weren’t afraid to present the public with reality. Today it’s OK for the movies and TV to show unrealistic fake gore and nobody says a word.
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