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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 04:38 PM Original message |
44 Years ago next Thursday - Hope Died |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. I was going in 9th grade. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 03:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
41. These assassinations are what led to the conservative victories. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #41 |
46. Remember |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:21 PM Response to Reply #46 |
52. How right you are. He was another Brown & Root/Halliburton |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Oswald's Ghost" - except that Oswald didn't commit the crime |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I was wondering how long it would take. |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I'm convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots... |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. GHWBush was in Dallas |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Oswald may have fired the gun, but someone had to plan the whole thing. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
47. Why Not Johnson |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:00 PM Response to Reply #47 |
58. Yeah, but people forget that Bush had a motive. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 07:38 AM Response to Reply #58 |
61. LBJ had reasons also |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
55. One shooter? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Generally, assassins are very proud and boast of their accomplishment. |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Many professional assassins, however, value anonymity |
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MinM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 08:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
62. Breach of Trust |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. I was in 7th grade, too. |
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chaumont58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. A few years back, I saw Joseph Califano(sp?) interviewed on CSPAN |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
63. Read "Legacy of Ashes" by Weiner. |
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stevietheman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. I've come to the conclusion that the Kennedy years are way too overblown... |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. See post #13. n/t |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. If you were there when it all happened and I get the sense you were not |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:57 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Wow. Blues90 puts my thoughts on paper |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 03:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
42. Read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 09:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
48. You speak many true words. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. I was a sophomore in high school. |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Most DUers don't know what a typwriter is |
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stevietheman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 10:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
59. Was innocence lost when Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 09:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
49. Oddy enough |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. Read Norman Mailer's "Oswald's Tale." |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. My favorite president - JFK |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. That was the day I came home from the hospital after my mother |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Not the best day to be born |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Right |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 09:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
38. I think the biggest disaster is the lies we've been fed and |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. Had JFK not been assassinated |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. Amazed no one has rec'd this thread |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:55 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. anyone who wonders why Our generation is our generation |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. My parents would definitely agree with you. |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:01 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Like Sept. 11 to the current generation |
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electron_blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:41 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Yeah... I was born in 63 and Kennedy's assass'n was always followed the year of my |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. My daughter witnessed 9-11 from Washington Square |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Happy birthday Mike |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. I remember standing for hours to view Bobby at St. P |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. My 2nd grade teacher said, "children, today is history" and she cried |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
30. I was sick with a cold |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 09:13 AM Response to Reply #30 |
50. Wow! Plate Of Shrimp! |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
33. Sad day, horrible day |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 08:07 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I wonder if middle school would have changed things |
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Oldtimeralso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
35. 44 years ago |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
36. PBS carried water for the BULLSHIT notion that when JFK's head went back |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
37. I had just come back from overseas and was on leave. |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
39. I was 5 |
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Greylyn58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-18-07 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
40. I was 5 years old at the time, four months shy of turning 6 |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
43. I still hear the drums. I'll never forget the drums. nt |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
44. One of our darkest moments. But surely JFK wouldn't want us to feel that "hope died" when he died. |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 06:27 AM Response to Reply #44 |
60. We've still got Teddy |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
45. He served less than a thousand days.. a lifetime ago..and yet |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 02:12 PM Response to Reply #45 |
51. kick |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:10 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Most of the time I have to really wonder if there is such a person |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
54. Hope did die that day....but we don't know...had he lived ...how it |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
56. Jack and Bobby are dead, yes, |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
57. I was in the fourth grade/catholic school |
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