http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jfk/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:30:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419530/posts In the special election for US Senate, the Kennedy shadow is so long that it extends all the way into the Republican Party. Or so it would seem from the first television ad of the race, in which Scott Brown, the GOP candidate, employs an unlikely visage to make his case to voters: President John F. Kennedy,... [text excerpted] The new 30-second spot begins with grainy footage of Kennedy delivering a 1962 speech on using tax breaks to spur the economy. Halfway through, the image morphs into Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, finishing Kennedy’s sentence. “President Kennedy actually was... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419530/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416718/posts The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether it was just a coincidence that the august New York Times, for whom I’m proud to have written (including eight cover stories for the New York Times Magazine), published an an almost full-page Valentine to the gossip site TMZ this morning. On the very morning TMZ published what they seemed to think was the scandal scoop of the century (”The JFK Photos That Could Have Changed History”). This was an allegedly long hidden or lost photo supposedly taken on a yacht in 1956, supposedly showing JFK sunbathing while nude... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416718/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416323/posts <p>It’s no secret that John F. Kennedy liked the ladies. But he may have had wilder times than anyone imagined.</p> <p>An unearthed photo shows a man who appears to be Kennedy on a boat full of naked women, according to a new report.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416323/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:38:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts Photo that "could have changed history" actually from a Playboy shoot...see don't trust TMZ, they may have gotten Michael Jackson announced death first but they are trash just like all other media is trash!! DECEMBER 28--In a colossal screw-up, the gossip web site TMZ.com today published a photo purporting to show John F. Kennedy frolicking on a yacht with a harem of naked women--except that the image actually appeared as part of a November 1967 Playboy photo spread, The Smoking Gun has learned. The TMZ hoax was billed as an "exclusive" featuring a photo that "could have altered world events."... SmokingGun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416429/posts MZ received an email from someone who said the photo we posted showing a man appearing to be John F. Kennedy on a yacht with naked women was actually a photo from a 1967 Playboy photo shoot -snip- UPDATE: 1:11 PM ET A rep from Playboy tells TMZ the photo ran as part of story titled, "Playboy's Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny with an Able-Bodies Complement of Ship's Belles." She says the photo was taken on one of the islands that make up the Grenadines (Petit Rameau). TMZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416429/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416243/posts Does this photo show John F. Kennedy on a boat surrounded by naked women? According to celebrity website TMZ, the man sunning himself on deck alongside naked women while others leap into the water is none other than JFK. The black and white picture shows four naked women in total, two bathing on board while another two launch themselves from a large yacht into the water. TMZ is claiming that JFK, who went on to stand up to the Russians in the Cuban Missile Crisis and make the iconic 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech, is shown dozing in the far... London Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416243/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:49:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts TMZ has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women -- it's a photo that could have altered world events. TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409218/posts Paul Samuelson, the dean of American economists, died last Sunday at 94. An MIT professor and Nobel Prize winner, Samuelson made one major venture into public policy. This was when he advised the John F. Kennedy campaign and economic transition team in 1960 and 1961 and thereafter consulted with the new president's Council of Economic Advisers. Obituaries have been quick to credit Samuelson's advice to JFK for launching the great 1960s expansion. The Boston Globe quoted Samuelson's recommendation to JFK in 1961 — "a temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession" —... Investrs.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409218/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:37:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405087/posts Law: American heroes are arraigned for allegedly punching a terrorist in wartime. What happens to Tiger Woods isn't vital to our country's future. What happens to Matthew McCabe, Julio Huertas and Jonathan Keefe is. People are more likely to recognize the names of Tiger's alleged bimbo eruptions than the names of these three Navy SEALs we sent into battle. They are not household names in a nation consumed with Climate Gate, the public option and the antics of billionaire athletes. An administration consumed with apologies has said the architect of 9/11's massacre, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, must be given all the... Investors Business daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405087/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:15:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398185/posts John F. Kennedy remains a beloved figure almost a half century after his death. Rush Limbaugh is still the main man to Republicans. Although polls show dramatically declining support for a government run health care system, the vast majority of Americans aren't sure what it is they dislike. Such are the results of a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair survey. JFK was the No. 1 response when Americans were asked which president they would like to see added to Mount Rushmore. Twenty-nine percent named the president assassinated 46 years ago. Ronald Reagan was next with the support of 20 percent of... South Florida Sun Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398185/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:12:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390944/posts This Sunday the Discovery Channel is running two back-to-back documentaries -- "Did the Mob Kill JFK?" and "JFK: The Ruby Connection" -- exploring the role of the Mafia behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: New information and never before heard details of a startling confession raise new questions on just who was behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent killing of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. * * * "I had the little bastard killed. He was a thorn in my shoe" -- according to a secret FBI informant these were the... TV By The Numbers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390944/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378755/posts Cold War: The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland. The Berlin Wall has been a famous backdrop for American presidents sounding the battle cry of liberty in the struggle against tyranny. It was there that John F. Kennedy expressed our solidarity with the encircled residents of that outpost of freedom with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner." And it was there that Ronald Reagan, with a defiant "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," voiced our... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378755/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367757/posts It’s been over two months since General McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, put out the call for more troops. President Barack Hussein Obama continues to hem and haw and hold endless meetings to discuss the issue. Maybe he’s too busy having parties with J-Lo and friends, compiling his enemies list, pushing healthcare, playing B ball and campaigning for fellow Dems to worry about such trivialities as warfare. Meanwhile, things get worse abroad and more of our soldiers are paying the highest of price for an indecisive commander-in-chief. Obama’s stalling is a perfect example of his methodology: vacillate and ignore... OK, WE'RE RIGHT! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367757/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:16:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364514/posts Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.’s behavior. For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The C.I.A. says it is only protecting legitimate secrets. But because of the agency’s history of stonewalling assassination inquiries, even researchers with no use for conspiracy thinking question its stance. The files in question, some released under... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364514/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:55:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360332/posts I'm watching a collection of old news footage from the JFK assassination on the History Channel right now, and was wondering if any Freepers have any theories about what really happened. I figure with the great wealth of knowledge here on Free Republic, there's got to be some pretty good theories waiting to be shared. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360332/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:31:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360252/posts Is there anything left to be said—or seen—when it comes to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Just you wait. JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America, a two-part, four-hour special airing on History [Sunday, October 11, 9/8c and Monday, October 12, 9/8c] takes viewers back to November 22, 1963 and tells the story via a timeline using only archival news footage, much of which will be new even to assassination buffs. There is no narration (sorry, Peter Coyote). There are no talking heads. The project’s exec producers Nicole Rittenmeyer and Seth Skundrick used a similar technique in last year’s... TV Guide http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360252/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:14:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360251/posts On Sunday night, the History channel be gins a remarkable three-hour, two-part program on the assassination of JFK, perhaps the best on that subject you will ever see. And even if you think you've seen it all and can't bear to see it again, well, then think again. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360251/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:11:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355938/posts Apologies for the tease (can you post pics here? I'm a FR noob...) but follow the jump for perhaps one of the rarest photographs in existence. Of the beloved Bella Pelosi. Prepare yourselves... GANDESTE.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355938/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:32:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346895/posts NEW YORK (JTA) -- Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi insinuated that Israel was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speaking Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, Gadhafi implied that Israel may have plotted to kill Kennedy in 1963 because he allegedly wanted to launch a probe into its clandestine nuclear program. “Jack Ruby, an Israeli, killed Lee Harvey Oswald,” the Libyan leader was quoted by the translator as saying. “Why did this Israeli kill Harvey? Ruby later died mysteriously. The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the actions of the Israeli nuclear reactor in Dimona.” jta.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346895/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344227/posts Imagine writing hundreds of words about the death of Abraham Lincoln, without mentioning the name of his assassin. Or writing about 9/11 but putting the word "hijackers" in scare quotes... (Oh wait: if you endorse that kind of writing, you might actually earn yourself a short lived White House czarship. So scratch that...) Last night I stumbled upon a post at Media Matters -- or, as I like to call it, the George Soros Steno Pool. Media Matters is a leftwing "media watchdog" that monitors conservative talk radio and FOX News, then refutes their daily "lies." David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344227/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:14:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338070/posts HAVANA (AFP) – Cuban Vice President Juan Almeida Bosque, a revolutionary commander who fought alongside Fidel Castro to bring down a pro-American dictatorship, has died. He was 82. An official communique issued through state media said Almeida, the number three official in the Americas' only communist regime, died late Friday from cardiac arrest. Almeida was one of just three top Cuban leaders to hold the title of revolutionary commander. As a black man in racially diverse Cuba, Almeida was an important visual symbol of a break with the past, particularly in 1950s Cuba, when racism and discrimination were common. His... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338070/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334616/posts What would John F. Kennedy have done? See below. Many people are scared. They are scared that Obama’s objective is to make this country into a socialist state with the government controlling more and more of our lives and with us having fewer and fewer personal liberties. Obama’s vision for America is not shared by many. How many? There are only two polls you can really believe. Rasmussen and PEW. These two polls have been right on the money for the last two election cycles while others, NBC, CBS, CNN, Time, FOX, etc. are not as reliable. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/ Get the... Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334616/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:31:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334178/posts UK First Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334178/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:29:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331379/posts The day his brother was shot in Dallas, Ted Kennedy had to tell his father the news, and wondered who was behind it. Case Closed: Oswald and the Assassination of JFK author Gerald Posner reports.It was 12:45 in Washington D.C. on November 22, 1963. Teddy Kennedy, who had been a senator for less than a year, was presiding over the Senate, a thankless clerical job assigned to junior members. The chambers were almost deserted, but a few senators were debating a mind-numbing bill about federal library services. It was nearly time to break for lunch when the Senate’s press liaison... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331379/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330879/posts It is a clear homage to perhaps the most iconic White House photograph. Almost 46 years after the world first saw two-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr playing under the Oval Office desk as his father worked, the White House has released a picture of Sasha Obama, 8, hiding behind a sofa as President Obama reads briefing papers at the same desk. According to the White House, Sasha is sneaking up on her father as he nears the end of a working day behind the Resolute desk, which was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879.... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330879/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 00:54:42 GMT