JFK Assassination - more than one shooter? (Page 2/7)
maryjane SEP 11, 02:10 PM

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Everyone knows the girl on the left, but how many can identify the one on the right?
Don't lie. There are probably two or three on here who know why she is important.



If you know something Willie, just spit it out. What's your line here?
williegoat SEP 11, 02:47 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

What's your line here?



You are one of the two or three that I knew would know.

Both of those ladies died under similar circumstances. Just a coincidence, I suppose.
fredtoast SEP 11, 04:28 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:


Everyone knows the girl on the left, but how many can identify the one on the right?.
MarkS SEP 11, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by fredtoast:





Wow, Dorothy Kilgallen. Didn't recognize her even though What's My Line was a staple at our house. I guess I never knew how she passed.
williegoat SEP 11, 07:11 PM

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Originally posted by MarkS:

Wow, Dorothy Kilgallen. Didn't recognize her even though What's My Line was a staple at our house. I guess I never knew how she passed.


There is credible speculation that she and Marilyn Monroe each met their demise as a result of what they knew in association with the Kennedys.
Raydar SEP 11, 09:10 PM
This latest report from the former Secret Service agent contains some conflicting info, compared to the initial statements he gave to authorities.
I'm kind of of the opinion, "So? What else have you got?"
But maybe someone else will have something to say. I'm not holding my breath.

Not that I don't care. Quite the contrary.
I am about 1/4 way through a book about JFK and the assassination. It's called "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters", by James W. Douglass.
I was not at all familiar with the author, but a quick bit of research shows that he is quite the outspoken pacifist. But according to him, so was Kennedy.
Fair enough. But he tells a compelling story.

The book/author takes the position that Kennedy was at odds with the Joint Chiefs, The CIA, and the FBI, from right out of the gate. They wanted war - even nuclear war. He did not. You can guess where this is going.

If anyone is interested...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439193886/

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williegoat SEP 11, 09:26 PM

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Originally posted by Raydar:

This latest report from the former Secret Service agent contains some conflicting info, compared to the initial statements he gave to authorities.
I'm kind of of the opinion, "So? What else have you got?"
But maybe someone else will have something to say. I'm not holding my breath.

Not that I don't care. Quite the contrary.
I am about 1/4 way through a book about JFK and the assassination. It's called "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters", by James W. Douglass.
I was not at all familiar with the author, but a quick bit of research shows that he is quite the outspoken pacifist. But according to him, so was Kennedy.
Fair enough. But he tells a compelling story.

The book/author takes the position that Kennedy was at odds with the Joint Chiefs, The CIA, and the FBI, from right out of the gate. They wanted war - even nuclear war. He did not. You can guess where this is going.

If anyone is interested...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439193886/



The way I understood it, JFK really struggled with the Viet Nam problem, but within eight months of LBJ's presidency, we had the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Raydar SEP 11, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

The way I understood it, JFK really struggled with the Viet Nam problem, but within eight months of LBJ's presidency, we had the Gulf of Tonkin incident.



There was a lot more to it than 'Nam.
VietNam was actually considered "small change", from what I can gather. Laos was the real issue - at least in the beginning.
Cuba was a big deal, too. Everybody but JFK wanted war - with whoever.

It's a fascinating book.
maryjane SEP 12, 01:22 AM
Yes, Laos was a huge issue for both JFK and LBJ. (and no small one for me. )
Raydar SEP 12, 09:03 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Yes, Laos was a huge issue for both JFK and LBJ. (and no small one for me. )



No doubt. You were there in the thick of it. I came along a few years after. I was too young to understand world politics - or any politics for that matter.
But I'm pretty sure that none of us were allowed to really understand what was going on. We only understood what they wanted us to understand.

After diving in to the aforementioned book, I find myself amazed at all the power the president doesn't have.
Our country is run like a freakin' syndicate. (I have to believe that not much is changed - at least not for the better.) Kennedy got to "sleep with the fishes."