Posted on 11/18/2013 9:13:31 AM PST by Nextrush
If we’re smart we’ll use this week to educate people on the nature of communists like Oswald and Leftism in general.
You mean about the 80% communist in the Government????
Ah you forgot, Have Gun will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve Queen and the Jackie Gleason show from Miami.
There is a whole website about TV signoffs. I don’t know if some stations still do it. There are stations in small towns still but now cable and satellite are everywhere.
I know one of our stations use to play “America The Beautiful” by Ray Charles.
I remember well the times. He was not popular at all when he was killed. I’m not so sure he would have been re-elected in a race against Goldwater.
The 1964 LBJ race was run using JFK’s hearse as a prop. I don’t think anyone could have beaten LBJ. If you remember, LBJ kept almost all the Kennedy cabinet in their jobs. Those weasels had no problem switching loyalties.
Even RFK stayed on as Attorney General, and quit after the election, so he could run for the Senate from New York.
I was in kindergarten when the nuns rushed in at nap time and rolled in a tv so we could all watch the news of the assassination. I remember Walter Cronkite getting emotional and later Ruby shooting Oswald.
one doesn't need to go into whether or not he acted alone to know that something smelled about that guy. But with all that you mentioned about Oswald, that he got back into the country just by asking, with his wife, with money given to him by the US government to fly here, and we're supposed to believe that J Edgar Hoover's FBI wasn't watching every move he made?
Camelot would have been a bigger failure had it lasted longer.
The overemphasis on Kennedy’s assassination may be due to TV’s entry into history at the time, thus making a bigger impact on the US population, or the generation into which you were born, or both. Kennedy is the only President assassinated in my day, so it is no surprise this event has been more prevalent.
The thing that has me stumped is how so many conspiracy notions attend to this. Weren’t they supposed to release some significant documents on the 50th Anniversary? Some things the Kennedy’s did not want public till then?
Saw that image on many a Saturday morning while waiting for Popeye and Felix the Cat to entertain.
There was no point in running as a Republican in Texas, or in the rest of the South for that matter. A Republican couldn’t get elected to the Library Board. The Democrats were certainly the Segregationists, but they were also the Communists. Strange bunch, even back then.
Still doesn’t answer the question as to why the Texans did not like Kennedy.
Almost no southern states were for Kennedy. Recall that Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arizona, and Louisiana ALL went for Goldwater in ‘64.
As to why, my estimation is that about 60% was the civil rights issue, 20% was because Kennedy was Catholic, and the rest was the “soft on Communism” knock. But that’s only my opinion from what I saw as an adolescent at the time. But I loved politics back then and followed it closely, as do I still.
No matter where one stands on JFK, that State Funeral appropriately on black and white TV back then was as somber and dramatic (? if that is the right word) as can be. Really something, I don’t know when we’ve had something like that other than with JFK and I believe they say they have a “lone horse” during the funeral march. Quite ceremonial.
Wouldn’t be as memorable on color TV though color was starting to come of age around then.
Was 9 years old when this happened. Can still hear the sound of the drums and the horses’ hooves during the funeral procession in my mind.
per my post, “lone horse”, meaning “riderless horse” symbolizing the deceased president, very potent imagery.
Ruby’s the real idiot in all this, because of him, that’s why there are conspiracies and all this. What a dumb a and owner of a strip bar to boot. Jackass.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity. It explains a lot more than conspiracy. Our law enforcement agencies were warned by Russian intelligence that the Boston bombers were heavily involved in Muslim terrorist groups in Chechnya. After they committed the terrorist act, police agencies locked down Boston and a few suburbs for a day to try to catch the surviving brother. After ending the lockdown, a local resident found him without police assistance. Despite all the blather about “Boston Strong”, the whole incident highlights law enforcement incompetence. The FBI and State Department were clearly as incompetent a half century ago.
Did you know that Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz named the castaways boat the "S.S. Minnow" as a poke in the eye to Mr. Minnow.
It’s not really fair to compare the JFK assassination to McKinley’s or Garfield’s. JFK was a mass media figure familiar to all. Presidents were distant and known only in black and white newspaper engravings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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