Actually I was pretty young when JFK was shot, my parents were upset that day naturally but it meant little to me at the time or even ever. He was young, good looking and charismatic and in office so short one could imagine anything they wanted from him, (C Matthews used to say Obama was JFK LOL)
I read a book on the Bay of Pigs and JFK didnt look that great in it. Stone tried to build him up as another crucified Jesus, in fact that EXACT analogy was made in the movie by Donald Sutherland playing ex-US OSS The whole movie theme is so preposterous and Stone makes him into a brave hero risking his family for the ‘truth’ for promoting a bunch of nutty theories, Johnson, Castro, American Cubans, Military, defense contractors, Mafia, everybody was in on killing JFK.
But then again I watch and laugh at Moores movies too, and people calling in CSPAN actually believe them.
I was twelve. My grandmother had driven us up to Olathe, Kansas from Joplin, and I was visiting my cousin’s classroom that day. The principle and some teachers wheeled in a television set so we could see history unfolding.
I remember certain portions of that weekend very well. I was watching when Ruby shot Oswald. Amazing.
I do think there was a natural effort to canonize Kennedy before and after his death.
Kennedy blew the Bay of Pigs situation badly. In short order he admitted so in public, and took full credit for it.
There are some things I don’t like about the guy. There are some things I admire about him.
His father was a piece of excrement. I believe his dad stole the election from Nixon, with help of the mob. Dirty tricks had been involved each step of the way as I understand it.
There were plenty of people angry at him. The mob had reasons. Castro had reasons. Marxists in the U. S. had reasons. The C. I. A. probably had reasons.
Obama is not J. F. K. That’s moronic fantasy on his part.
Some of this you’ve already said. I agree with your take on it.
I don’t like seeing things handled like Oswald did. Let the elections handle the situation. Even as bad as Obama is, I don’t want to see anyone create another hero out of an ass hat clown.
Saying that, I don’t mean to imply that Kennedy was a total fool. I do think he had a lot more on the ball than Obama. This guy is frighteningly ill informed.