Even though its an event 48 years in the past, the horror of the JFK assassination still makes November 22 a day we notice on the calendar. Theories still abound of what really happened in Dallas.
Its one of those events a generation remembers, although most Americans alive today were not alive when the President was shot. I was a youngster at Brookview Elementary School in Irondequoit NY when we were sent home shortly after lunch. How many other school days from that time in life do I remember with such specificity ?
RealClearPolitics - Revisiting the Kennedy Assassination: Frank Rich and the Paranoid Style
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I've been to that window. It didn't happen the way they said it did. Promise. That shot was highly, highly, highly unlikely.
Yup, we were sitting in 8th grade Social Studies class at the beginning of the period wondering where our teacher was. He came in about five minutes into the class and anounced that the President had been shot in the head and was not expected to live. Shortly after that the announcement came over the PA that the President had died and that we were going home.
You think you were at the window.... When you take the tour they don't take you to the window...Just one like it. So it may seem different if they took you to the right one. Who's to say. I saw it on the history channel. They have the real area closed off.
It was Roger Mcdowell from the grassy knoll..
It is more a shame that the democrats have assassinated what it means to be a democrat. Today Kennedy would be labeled a right wing extremist who believes in trickle down and a cowboy Cuban missile crises war hawk.
Ask not what your country can do for you? Hell no! We are owed everything from our country because we were born.
Sorry CR. I was there before it was a museum. For years after the shooting, the City of Dallas acted like nothing much happened in their town. In not sure when it became clear to them that it was history, but a friend and I just walked into the building, took the elevator to the 6th floor. I don't think it became a museum until the late 80's. I'm telling you. That motorcade drove AT the building. A shooter would only have had to lower the barrel to take an easy shot as JFK approached the building straight on. As the motorcade reached the bottom of the building, it made a left turn and was at that point almost at the bottom of the building. The angle down from the 6th floor was extreme. If you look out that window, you will come away thinking Oswald did not take that shot by himself. The angle is severe and the motorcade was accelerating. He would have passed up the easy shot earlier as JFK approached. It is a very tough shot.
I was there in 1981 and it was a wide open shot from my persective.
Even as a kid I always heard people say it had to be more then one shooter. I believe it sure could have been. Besides....I believe the dude they caught was to dumb to plan it anyway. He had to have had help. Think about why they let his wife walk away without a question. Because they knew she wasn't in it? Or that even the dude they pinned it on knew nothing?
Uh huh… Sure, and by your standards, Ronald Reagan would easily qualify for status as a back-stabbing, disloyal RINO turned liberal; since the conservative wish to ban abortion was never seriously pursued; since he broke with the hardliners in his administration and compromised with the Soviet Union on arms control, and since his attack on entitlements never materialized.
Since… in one of the greatest ideological about-faces in the history of any presidency, he agreed to a $165 billion bailout of Social Security (damn socialist).
And since… in the face of looming deficits, he repeatedly ignored today’s fundamental conservative doctrine that taxes should never be raised and raised them ELEVIN TIMES after the budget deficit nearly tripled and raised the debt ceiling 18 times (damn tax and spend liberal).
Oh, and he added a new cabinet-level department; one of the largest federal agencies; the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Yep… by today’s standards Reagan would be big government, big tax and spend socialist liberal critter.
Did I say he gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants…?
On the positive side… he looked great on a horse.
5:11 you are correct...Reagan was a liberal by my standards. The worst offense is when he got the drinking ages and BAC laws changed in all the states by withholding federal highway funding. But even worse is the SCOTUS incompetently or fraudulently found that constitutional.
Don't forget he was union president, cut and ran like a liberal from Lebanon, made it law that hospitals had to treat everyone coming to the ER. He sold guns to our enemy Iran.
11:39 If you are saying that, then you are simply being contrary. Or, you have no experience or knowledge of shooting. The rifle would have been held as if shooting a target a foot from the shooter's feet, an extreme angle. Also, by the time the shots were taken the motorcade was moving at a fairly good clip. But the angle is what makes it so difficult. The shooter would also have had to place himself way up into the window. After seeing it, I do not believe Oswald acted alone. Now I realize he was a Marine sharpshooter, and that is a significant fact. But as such he would also have realized how much easier the straight on shot was. He would not have passed it up to attempt something so difficult. I do a lot of rifle shooting. I also own the 6.5mm that Oswald used. I don't believe it happened that way.
Ah yes, the “lone gunman” theory…
Contrary to popular belief, the Warren Commission didn't have the final say when it came to analyzing the JFK assassination.
In 1976, amid a public outcry concerning the accuracy of the “official” Warren Commission report, the House of Representatives established the House Select Committee on Assassinations to re-examine the “facts” behind the assassination of Kennedy.
The Committee officially stated that Oswald probably did not act alone, and yes, there was a high probability at least one additional shot was fired by an unknown person. (at least four gunshots in Dealey Plaza, two of them within 1/2 second of each other, and at least one of the shots likely came from the Grassy Knoll).
And this is where it gets really interesting…
From the report:
“The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.” [sic]
The committee was very careful not to point fingers at specific organized crime families, foreign governments, local organizations, or even U.S. Government organizations.
They worded their conclusions in a way that didn't rule out individual members of said organizations acting in unison, unlawfully, or without the approval of the organizations they worked for.
The report is also highly critical of agencies involved in the investigation including the FBI, Secret Service, and the CIA for their “unusual and aberrant behavior during the day of the assassination” and “the speed with which they announced it was Lee Harvey Oswald” and for not following proper investigative procedures.
The results, while public record, were never broadly publicized.
If you really want to know what happened on that fateful day in Dallas -- jump in the rabbit hole and follow the money.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...”
A summary of the report can be found here:
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html
I don't know anything about all that.I read it but I'm not smart enough to digest it all. And I believe very little of what the government dishes out as fact. All I know is that shot from the 6th floor window is highly unlikely. There has to be more to that story. You could put a hundred good rifle guys up there and I'll bet only one or two could score even just one hit. I will never believe it happened that way.
John Hinkley did not act alone either. The guys that staged the moon landing were in on it.
Really? Where is the official government report on Hincley?
We as a stupid group of people, who in the government's book can't handle the truth, will never hear the truth.
8:23 Very cute. But if you looked out that window you wouldn't believe their story either. I think that's what make's the official version work. People like you have never seen that angle, they've never seen that view. So they believe what they're told. Useful idiots are, well, useful.
People who believe that there could never be an alternative to what we have been spoon fed by the government or the media are in abundant supply in this country.
Myself? I believe that we landed on the moon back in '69 but I also believe that there was plenty of advance warning of 9/11. I don't think --> our <-- govt was involved other than to not act on that warning.
Uh, yeah. I think. Not sure what point -->you<-- are trying to make. But neat stuff.
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