The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

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Velo Vol

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Discuss.

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It was a sad day in American. It has been 50 years and I feel safe in saying the majority that were living then remember exactly what they were doing when the news broke. The only other feeling that comes close to that day was 9-11. Of course very different circumstances but both shocked America and brought the nation together.
 
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My only beef with JFK was dragging the US into the Vietnam war. Other than that he seemed to be a pretty decent conservative president.
 
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Politically JFK was way to the right of all democrats and about 50% of the republicans in office now.

If he was alive today he wouldn’t be allowed to join the democrat party - they would be lambasting him for his extreme far right views.

So isn’t it ironic that democrats have made JFK their leading idol?
 
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Vols520 said:
I think it was only one shooter. LHO was unstable as they get.
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I don't see any possibility that he was alone. One of the exit wounds on jfk's head seems to suggest he was shot from the front, which takes us back to the grassy knole scenario.
 
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Laugh til you fall out of your chair, but, I always thought that the 'ol wifey had something to do with it or some part in it.

He was a piece of S*** husband, she came from real money and power, and she had ways and means around her to make it happen. Cahoots with LBJ..?, from Texas no less.

She could have easily been the one in his ear to keep the top down, that he repeatedly told secret service that he wanted down. Something as simple as this being her only part to be in his ear and make sure it was so.

I can hear her the the night before,
"honey you need people to see you, and you and me together. It only helps make you more the people's President....". Next day, after all he is just a married man too, and he is going to do as his sweat heart told him in bed while discussing.

More so, who benefits in his death? We have the usual suspects already known. But, just as is life and in any murder case, there is a short list of people you start with. Think about it, she became the icon and the immortal Jakie O. She, and the family heirs, benefited greatly in terms of his death for decades and til this day.

Not saying that she was solely responsible or that she initiated it, but.......
 
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volmaverick said:
Politically JFK was way to the right of all democrats and about 50% of the republicans in office now.

If he was alive today he wouldn’t be allowed to join the democrat party - they would be lambasting him for his extreme far right views.

So isn’t it ironic that democrats have made JFK their leading idol?
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You latch on to whatever you can to win. Thats the way of the politician. If you can cover up the facts that might get in the way you can make it win.
 
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Just one illustration of how that era is different from today: the public didn't see the Zapruder film played until 12 years after the assassination.

Can you imagine something like that being "hidden" for so long today? It would be like us only now seeing a video of a jet crashing into the World Trade Center.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Just one illustration of how that era is different from today: the public didn't see the Zapruder film played until 12 years after the assassination.

Can you imagine something like that being "hidden" for so long today? It would be like us only now seeing a video of a jet crashing into the World Trade Center.
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Funny you say that.

I'd love to see the video of the one hitting the pentagon. Why hasn't it been released?
 
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Wonder how he would have been viewed if not assassinated and served out his term (or two). Probably "meh" he was alright.
 
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volmaverick said:
Politically JFK was way to the right of all democrats and about 50% of the republicans in office now.

If he was alive today he wouldn’t be allowed to join the democrat party - they would be lambasting him for his extreme far right views.
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Which is why he was killed by a self-avowed Marxist who had previously attempted to defect to the USSR and Cuba.
 
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Obsessed said:
Funny you say that.

I'd love to see the video of the one hitting the pentagon. Why hasn't it been released?
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I'm pretty sure than within a week after the attack I saw a video from a gas station across a highway in which you could see a plane flying into the building. Then it was confiscated by the FBI for evidence and disappeared from the web.
 
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davethevol said:
I don't see any possibility that he was alone. One of the exit wounds on jfk's head seems to suggest he was shot from the front, which takes us back to the grassy knole scenario.
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I am more of a single shooter theorist myself. There are photos out there that show an entrance wound in the back of his head, and the exit wound pretty much removed the whole right side of his skull. I am in no way a ballistics expert, but to me if he would have been shot in the front (from the grassy knole) the head shot wounds would have been in reverse.

Discuss......
 
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coors40light said:
I am more of a single shooter theorist myself. There are photos out there that show an entrance wound in the back of his head, and the exit wound pretty much removed the whole right side of his skull. I am in no way a ballistics expert, but to me if he would have been shot in the front (from the grassy knole) the head shot wounds would have been in reverse.
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One thing that gives me pause is the direction his head went (right, slightly backwards) when struck by the bullet, but I've not seriously delved into the physics of it.
 
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davethevol said:
I'm pretty sure than within a week after the attack I saw a video from a gas station across a highway in which you could see a plane flying into the building. Then it was confiscated by the FBI for evidence and disappeared from the web.
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I've seen testimony and footage of the aftermath. No evidence of a plane.

A woman walked out of the hole, and stated there was no evidence there to suggest a plane had hit the building.

I don't know. Why confiscate the video?
 
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Velo Vol said:
One thing that gives me pause is the direction his head went (right, slightly backwards) when struck by the bullet, but I've not seriously delved into the physics of it.
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The physics of it are interesting....given a back of the head entrance, the head would have done exactly what the film shows when the brain matter exited.

There was a show a few years ago on it, and they showed how the bullet would enter at such a high velocity in one piece the head would effectively not move, the bullet would rattle around in the head before exiting, making a much bigger exit wound. The expelling brain matter out of the front exit wound would come out so fast, and there would be so much of it, that it would propel the head backward.

Basically, the momentum of the matter coming out the front would drive the head in the opposite direction (backward).
 
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