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The King is Dead, Long Live the King
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R.I. P.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
🌹 May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963 🌹
Messed up TV for over a week ... I was 8 years old !
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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Elvis isn't dead.
Read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster to get some insight into how JFK's leadership and assassination led to Vietnam and "The Great Society" which may have led to many of the problems we have today.
Growing up during Vietnam (and serving in the Army post-Vietnam) the book changed my perception of how we got into that mess.
Yet, he has positively left the building !
IMO all the Kennedy's were criminals on all levels ... and people think this new ! Bootlegging, Bribery, Graft, Sex scandals et al !
Today's D.C. celebs have nothing on this group of felons ! Meet the new boss .. Same as the old boss !!!
It was some crazy three days or so. I was thirteen and remember watching with my family as Lee Harvey Oswald got wacked in real time. Even as a kid I never understood the renaming of buildings, roads and a space center because the guy was unlucky. In the immortal words of Jacqueline Kennedy...." Jack! ..Bang!...Duck..."😮
What would happen if you took a Carcano and fired it straight down into a bucket of water at your feet?
The backsplash in both the shooting and my example goes toward the shooter. Please consider putting down the 99-pack.
Did I say the backsplash went upward just like firing into a bucket? I believe I did not. The backsplash went where the bullet came from, just like my analogy.
Does the analogy have to be exact? OK, fill a bucket with water and cover the top with a thick sheet of plastic, to model the broken portion of skull. Then aim the sealed top of the bucket toward the back of a convertible, then shoot into it, then see where the splatter winds up.
It might have been the Secret Service: search "10 Reasons JFK's Death Might Have Been An Accident"
I wanted to remove the live link so I typed it out.
Everyone seems to forget it was The X-Files, Cigarette Smoking Man on the Knoll that day in Dallas ! 😆
I thought it was Trump’s fault?
As a former owner of a Carcano I’ve never bought into that Oswald acted alone
Biden Doesn't have the man parts .... No, my money is on Hillary and Nancy. Trump and the K's are cut from the same purple.
Never mind Hildabeast's age, she was born a predator ! 😆
I was 8 . Really messed up school and tv . Saw it all in glorious black and white . Later as an adult I began to realize what an egregious mess had made of the investigation and subsequent findings . Like Marilyn Monroe ‘s death , as well as Bobby’s everything touched by the Kennedy name has been tainted over the years . Truth , much like the history of a war is written by the winners .
The media loved democrats, even back then. They ignored the fact that Joe Kennedy essentially bought the presidency for son John. They blamed Russia when John nearly started a nuclear war over Cuba. They ignored all the affairs that John, Bobby, and Ted had with numerous Hollywood starlets, making Clinton look like a high school freshman. They ignored the connection between Bobby Kennedy and Marylin Monroe's death. They glossed over Ted's killing of Mary Joe, etc., etc., etc.
It is not meant to approximate exactly what happened. Can you even approximate exactly?
It is meant to show that backsplash can go back toward the direction the shot came from.
If you tried my test, what you would see, no more, no less, would be that backsplash can go in the direction the shot came from. Not complete proof of the Warren Commission's findings. It would not prove whether that bullet would fracture a human skull in the right way, or if there was enough or perhaps too much velocity at that range, or a host of other stuff.
Ask her if her father knows where Kennedy's brain disappeared to😉
It was re-interred with the body a few years later - 1967 IIRC. Not much of a mystery, Bob McNamara and Bob Kennedy were there, as was the US Army photographing the event. I believe the President's son Patrick was also re-interred at the same time.
I realize it's not a human head and I know it's a long way from being scientific but I once shot a few cantaloupes and after bullet impact larger portions flew forward with the direction of the bullets travel, very little if any debris came backwards. I myself vote forward shot. Addition: shots were from a Carcano rifle.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
What if the cantaloupe was as hard as a skull, but brittle so the passage of a bullet could crack it badly?
Did you mean to say "all told"?
JFK was an *............but he didn't deserve to be "Clinton'ed". He sure as hell wasn't a king.
A good majority of us could make those shots from the 6th floor.
The better shot, that nearly anyone could have made the shot from the grassy knoll.
Why was JD Tippett murdered?
Why did Oswald insist he was a Patsy?
Why on Earth was Ruby allowed to get so close to Oswald?
also- this: The 1975 House Committee on Assassinations. Said there were likely multiple shooters.
I have shot a lot of deer. That head shot on Kennedy came from the front, that is obvious.
Which means conspiracy. I think the Mafia did it, there is all kinds of evidence to support this including many statements from Mafia kingpins.
Without a doubt Kennedy stole the 1960 election, Papa Joe working with the Mafia to steal Illinois. Nixon knew about it but he chose not to contest it.
The Kennedys were crooks but still I think John had a lot of promise. I read several places where he was going to get us out of Vietnam after the '64 election and I think he would have. Good God that would have been a wonderful thing, to end the War in 1965. Lyndon Johnson really screwed that deal up.
To his dying day, my Dad insisted that LBJ and Wall Street were involved in the assassination plan. To him, it made sense that the VN war was nothing more than a way for big businesses to make profits selling equipment and supplies to the government. JFK was going to end the conflict, and had to be eliminated.
As far as the direction that the bullets came from, I am convinced that at least one was fired from in front of the limo. JMO, of course! (and we all know about opinions)
I'm pretty sure the office in the car behind was involved. I posted about it once a while back and care not to look it up. If someone wants to, knock yourself out. It was the best analysis I have ever seen.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain