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A Personal JFK Remembrance
Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2013 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 11/21/2013 8:10:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: OrangeHoof
LBJ did not need to steal Texas. They won it handily.

All those extra ballot boxes handed in at the last minute sure did help.

Best book on the LBJ vote-strealing is: "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" by J. Evetts Haley.

21 posted on 11/21/2013 9:05:13 AM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Michael.SF @4: "My Grandfather voted for Kennedy in Chicago. He died in 1959."

Your grandfather probably has been voting the straight party ticket since then. The Chicago Machine appreciates your grandfather's loyal voting record over the past half century and looks forward to his support for the next half century.

22 posted on 11/21/2013 9:11:13 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: LRoggy

Your attempt at a rebuttal is rather limited.

Nobody asked you to believe what I wrote. You can take it or leave it. I really don’t care what you think and I’ll leave it at that.


23 posted on 11/21/2013 9:11:34 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: knarf

I’m not trying to come down on your for being from Boston or not being aware throughout all these years. My apologies if you felt that.

I can only say that my gut told me, don’t ask me how, that all that post-assassination and handwringing right after and for so, so many years afterward(continuing today still) was pure BS, and that stuff that followed was/is nothing but revisionist dreaming (lies).

So, in answer to your question, I never really bought it at all, so there wasn’t any real gymnastics required - only reading further confirmations from places and sources that weren’t holding back the truth.


24 posted on 11/21/2013 9:16:39 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

Your teacher’s statement always makes me wonder who “they” were, at least in her view. I was about your same age (3d grade, 8y/o) and we had just returned from our lunchtime break where we were allowed to go home. I’d heard the first info on the local radio station while eating and saw TV bulletins before returning to school. A friend in class had returned with a small transistor radio and that was the source of the announcement in class. And, yes, my teacher and all the girls were crying but the guys couldn’t figure that out.


25 posted on 11/21/2013 9:16:44 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Kaslin

Looks like there was a big donation to Obama from the Kennedys recently.

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to be free on bail while prosecutors fight granting of new trial

By Associated Press

Posted: 11/21/13, 12:11 PM EST |

STAMFORD, Conn. >> Kennedy cousin and former Greene County resident Michael Skakel was granted bail Thursday and expected to be released from prison while prosecutors in Connecticut appeal a ruling giving him a new trial in the 1975 slaying of neighbor Martha Moxley.

Skakel, the 53-year-old nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, touched his hand to his chest and looked back at his supporters in the courtroom, his brothers among them, as the judge set bail at $1.2 million. He has been in prison more than 11 years on a sentence of 20 years to life but was expected to b


26 posted on 11/21/2013 9:25:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Kaslin

Rush discussed how the Democrats started the conspiracy theories not long after and up to and including today because they do not want nor will admit that the shooter was a Communist Leftist and nothing more.


27 posted on 11/21/2013 9:28:43 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Gaffer
No problem ... the guy's dead and quite frankly, I lean more to conspiracy than not.
28 posted on 11/21/2013 9:43:11 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Slyfox
Actually, Kennedy carried Texas by less than 50,000 votes:

Kennedy: 1,167,932
Nixon: 1,121,699

29 posted on 11/21/2013 10:50:39 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: OrangeHoof; tumblindice
What you *might* be thinking of is Illinois, where JFK eked past Nixon with the alleged help of the unions and the Mob (at least the Mob sure thought they won that election for JFK and expected him to back off investigating them).

The "mob" was wrong. What should be put to rest is the fallacy that Illinois electoral votes put J.F.K. over the top. They most emphatically did not. Kennedy won the election handily without Illinois' electoral votes.

30 posted on 11/21/2013 11:53:05 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Kaslin
I was in the 6th grade at an elementary school in Eastern NM.

We were all called into the cafeteria where the Principal somberly announced the news.

The kids all clapped and cheered. Seems like they had been fully indoctrinated into the anti-Catholic mentality by their parents.

31 posted on 11/21/2013 1:14:31 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Arm_Bears

“So, is RINO Cal suggesting that Kennedy getting plugged caused all of this?”

No, what he is saying is that those of us old enough to remember demarcate a period of time “Before the assassination” and “after the assassination.” CHANGES would have happened regardless, but the wheels came off the social culture. For example, in popular culture, the Beatles, hit the US airwaves just a scant few months after. After the assassination, people wanted to get back to “normal” and that pop culture was at first refreshing — but it also was the spearhead of wide spread drug use. The Vietnam war had started under Kennedy (and make no mistake, he was anti-communist and would have continued), but really started to heat up a few years after, by ‘67 the anti-war movement and running down of America was in full swing. Socially at that same time the birth control pill came out -and a check on morals were breached. Things were never as “apple pie and white picket fences” back in the 50s and early 60s as is sometimes portrayed, it was a complicated era too - but American self-confidence was high, and most people were on the same page as far as foreign policy went: i.e. anti-communist. [True, there were backstabbing reds infiltrating the upper reaches of government from Roosevelt on through Truman, but this is NOT the ideology of the common US citizen.] But most ALL Americans loved their country. Dems overall just as patriotic as Republicans. You can’t say that today. The modern democrat is too often ashamed of patriotism. Let’s not forget the b/c pill which came out in ‘64 — loose morals became tolerated and women were lied to that “you can have sex freely just like a man.” What that led to were irresponsible men and women, not in a relation for love but “hook ups.” Bastard children became common place - especially when Uncle STUPID Sam became their daddy and made males feel less responsible for taking care of babies they’d helped make. Abortion became legal, and in ‘62 God was pushed out of the public schools. All this would have happened ANYWAY, regardless of Kennedy being shot or not. But it is a definite line of demarcation.


32 posted on 11/22/2013 2:25:45 AM PST by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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