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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:33 AM Original message |
For those who think LBJ may have played a role in JFK Assassination |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. That Wink Is In Such Incredibly Bad Taste |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I'd take LBJ over JFK any day |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:01 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I think JFK certainly has been raised to the level of martyr |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. actually |
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NewYorkerfromMass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:28 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Gee, maybe 'cause JFK was a liberal who believed in taxes |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:59 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. JFK started the destruction of the progressive income tax |
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NewYorkerfromMass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 10:24 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. excuse me if this sounds a little revisionist but |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:34 AM Response to Reply #33 |
38. I guess it was Reagan that used the same arguments that JFK did |
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PROGRESSIVE1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:07 PM Response to Reply #30 |
48. I would have cut taxes too in 1961!!!! |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:44 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. if we had kept the progressive tax |
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jos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:56 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Untrue |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. Gee. You must never have heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yes I remember |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. TV program said JFK tried to normalize relations with Cuba |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:47 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. „Es una mala noticia." — Castro upon hearing the news. |
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liberalhistorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I've always believed that Johnson was secretly glad |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. When I Said |
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MattNC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. certainly a possibility |
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jos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. So what? |
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Ergotron (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. The truth is out there... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. It IS a serious charge. |
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molly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
3. I've always thought he was involved |
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mrbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. lbj did have some major brown & root connections. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. well that |
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agincourt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
56. Well don't you know? |
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Minstrel Boy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. The thing is, if the wink is conspiratorial, |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 10:08 AM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Excellent point, Minstrel Boy. We don't KNOW. |
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Minstrel Boy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:30 AM Response to Reply #32 |
37. I'm with you, Octafish |
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nolabels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:48 AM Response to Reply #32 |
41. Some of the reasons to bare this shield |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:17 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. Yes, Sir! or Ma'am! |
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NewYorkerfromMass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
11. Evidence of planning in Dallas: 2 things: |
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liberalhistorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. He hated being VP, wanted to be President, |
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
16. Octafish! You da man! |
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sangh0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
18. Read "Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 12:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
43. Didn't Caro write the multi-volume bio on LBJ? |
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sangh0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:01 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. It's still in process |
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Democrats unite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
20. Yawn |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
35. Thanks for adding. |
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birdman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. Seconds later Johnson and Thomas were caught high-fiving |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:38 AM Response to Reply #23 |
40. Where'd you find my bio photo? |
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Brian Sweat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
25. You don't even know that that is a wink. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:58 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Good point. However, there's a clearer photo available. |
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Silversocal (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
28. No big deal here. |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
31. George Bush Sr. was working intelligence in Texas at the time.... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:20 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. When will a US Attorney General investigate the assassination? |
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Andy_Stephenson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:35 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Look a here |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 12:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Thanks, Gbnc! |
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Minstrel Boy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 12:49 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. I just finished reading |
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Andy_Stephenson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 11:29 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. My Mother Bless her has said all my life |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
44. Whew |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
46. A wink - you're kidding, right? |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:08 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. You're right. There are many reasons for winking ;^) |
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Unknown Known (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
49. Brown & Root financed Johnson's political career - it's the oil, people!! |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:57 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. Petroleum is considered a "Strategic Resource." |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
52. Strange, but not convinced of Johnson's complicity. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-03 08:43 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. Reason? No Nixon. |
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