I’m one of that generation who gave up on the concept of
democracy when JFK was gunned down in Dealey Plaza 49 years ago today, except
I’ve always had my own spin of the deal. When they shot Jack – CIA style – that
was tragic, but when Jack Ruby took out Lee Oswald – Mob style – I knew
instinctively something was wrong. Very wrong..
“November 22 marks the 49th anniversary
of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The memory of the
tragedy in Dallas seems to be fading in America's collective consciousness. Few
people younger than myself (I'm 54) have any memory of the day it actually
happened. 9/11 has certainly replaced 11/22 as the time stamp of American
catastrophic angst. Yet the JFK story still acts as a gravitational vortex in
America's pop culture galaxy. ABC News released of audio tapes of First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy conversations shortly after her husband's death. The
factually grounded but over the top Jesse Ventura blamed JFK's assassination on "the same old military industrial complex " Stephen King published a time-travel epic called November 22, 1963. Bill O'Reilly wrote an uncharacteristically wimpy JFK book. And next year, Tom Hanks plans to
release a big-budget assassination drama called Parkland, the hospital where JFK died. In this
media spectacle, the Internet is a mixed blessing. The Web keeps the JFK story
alive by providing a platform and audience for ever more fantastical theories
about the death of the 35thpresident. More constructively, the Web has made
the government's troubling records about JFK's death available for the first
time to millions people outside of Washington and the federal government. I
believe this diffusion of knowledge is slowly clarifying the JFK story for
everybody.” (Click here for more)
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The secret words are Bolt and Action
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3 comments:
lets not pretend JFK was a knight in shining armour..with a fortune that runs into tens of millions..the Kennedy clan can write their own history ..Joe Kennedy sr JKK's, old man. if not a mob man..sailed very close to the wind..with friends like Frank Sinatra..wot do u think..??
..who killed Cock-Robin..??
why that's easy..LBJ..the man with most to gain _
Never really grasped the post-mortem elevation of JFK to thwarted saviour of the world, let alone the USA. Elected largely by his family's money and their highly dubious connections, talked the usual talk about USA, Freedom and Apple Pie, (and granted, also walked the walk over the Cuba crisis), stepped up the traditional paranoia against the encroaching Red Menace in far-away places, and screwed around as a perk of the job. Ultimately, probably another victim of a gangland killing.
Mr Jones..your off the boil with the Cuba Crisis..13 days that shook the world..the Russians stepped back, to fight another day..JFK would have taken us to the edge of heaven, or is that the gates of hell..??
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