59 years ago today President Kennedy assassinated

[Penny Lane]

Hard to believe! I was in my 8th grade Math class when it was announced over the speakers. What a shock! I'll never forget that weekend!

[TVLegend]

Not to come off as rude or anything, but don’t you mean 59 years ago?

[Dude111]

Its still sad....... He wouldnt do what they wanted so they offed him

[Caroline13]

Oh thanks for the reminder and everyone that was alive and could understand it all knows what they were doing. I was 25 and walking with my mom in a department store with my 2 month old in my arms and people started to scream.....

I worry about it happening again with other political truthseekers.

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

Not to come off as rude or anything, but don’t you mean 59 years ago?

What did I post? I forgot! I see the title has changed. Yes 59 is correct.

[GentlemanJim]

The thing I find most interesting about the killing of JFK is, that there were SO MANY entities with a plausible motive.

One book Seymour Hersh's 'Dark Side of Camelot" goes to great length to flesh out as many of them as possible....it's a great read.

"Mortal Error" by Bonar Menninger is a good read too, I can fully believe the fatal shot might have been an accidental discharge of a secret service agent in the chaos that ensued after Oswald fired his shots. The ballistics data Menninger presents is hard to refute. (how do you fit a 6.65 mm bullet through a 6.0 mm hole, etc). It's also easy to fathom the cover-up if this is the factual reality.

BUT, going all the way back to the very day after Kennedy was buried, my mom was certain LBJ was behind it all. And for years I just sort of scoffed that off. But having read heavily into that end the past 10 years, I'm more and more becoming a believer. He and that guy Clint Murchison could definitely have been behind it

[TVLegend]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

What did I post? I forgot! I see the title has changed. Yes 59 is correct.

You said 62 years ago. I guess it’s all good now though.

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

You said 62 years ago. I guess it’s all good now though.

That's weird. I wonder what I was thinking? Well, I had just gotten up this morning and was still half asleep I guess! Thanks for correcting me!

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by GentlemanJim

The thing I find most interesting about the killing of JFK is, that there were SO MANY entities with a plausible motive.

One book Seymour Hersh's 'Dark Side of Camelot" goes to great length to flesh out as many of them as possible....it's a great read.

"Mortal Error" by Bonar Menninger is a good read too, I can fully believe the fatal shot might have been an accidental discharge of a secret service agent in the chaos that ensued after Oswald fired his shots. The ballistics data Menninger presents is hard to refute. (how do you fit a 6.65 mm bullet through a 6.0 mm hole, etc). It's also easy to fathom the cover-up if this is the factual reality.

BUT, going all the way back to the very day after Kennedy was buried, my mom was certain LBJ was behind it all. And for years I just sort of scoffed that off. But having read heavily into that end the past 10 years, I'm more and more becoming a believer. He and that guy Clint Murchison could definitely have been behind it

If you're going to read one book on the Kennedy assassination, this is the book to read:

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Closed-H.../dp/1400034620

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. The CIA was not involved. And although more than four million pages of documents have been released since Posner first made his case, they have served only to corroborate his findings. Case Closed remains the classic account against which all books about JFK’s death must be measured.

I'm not sure if I still have my copy or gave it away, but if you are a critical thinker there should be no doubt in your mind after reading this that Oswald, and only Oswald, shot Kennedy.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Babalu

I'm not sure if I still have my copy or gave it away, but if you are a critical thinker there should be no doubt in your mind after reading this that Oswald, and only Oswald, shot Kennedy.

I read it, found it an entertaining read. But it felt like a whitewash. There is this mindset out there where people try to use the accusation of "conspiracy theorist" as a tool to discredit sources of ideas they do not approve of.

As if the easiest way to silence a whistleblower is to discredit them as a conspiracy nut.

Just too convenient.

And yes, I'm completely familiar with the argument that "we" have difficulty reconciling in our minds that such an inconsequential little pimple on our fanny could act in such a way as to have such a profound impact on our world, so we imagineer a more complex scenario more befitting the magnitude of the deed.

I just don't believe that explanation is the best one.

There is a reason why certain documents remain sealed to this day, and I don't think that JFK's libido is the reason why.

[Little_stinker]

Since no-one was interested in what I posted under the Route 66 forum, I came here to re-post the information from there.
Bobby Hargis, who was the motorcycle cop on the left side of the Presidential limousine, appeared in an episode of Route 66 when the show filmed episodes in Dallas over a year before that terrible day.
BH had a brief speaking part in "Kiss The Maiden All Forlorn".


Some of the Route 66 cast and crew visited the Carousel Club while filming in Dallas.

[Caroline13]

Originally Posted by Babalu

If you're going to read one book on the Kennedy assassination, this is the book to read:

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Closed-H.../dp/1400034620



I'm not sure if I still have my copy or gave it away, but if you are a critical thinker there should be no doubt in your mind after reading this that Oswald, and only Oswald, shot Kennedy.

This topic is posted on some other forums where I'm a member and so many theories, many books written on WHO DID IT, the Mob is mentioned, and some posted it was only Oswald, one just has to go with what they want to believe. I don't dwell on it as some things are Never known. So many stories have come out of this historical event: Onasis for one and so many more Kennedy stories.

I had forgotten that Jackie did marry Onasis and that she died quite young, 64.

[GentlemanJim]

I thought the story that Joe Dimaggio had it done as payback for the grief the Kennedy's gave Marilyn had a certain sweet sentimentality....

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Little_stinker

Since no-one was interested in what I posted under the Route 66 forum, I came here to re-post the information from there.
Bobby Hargis, who was the motorcycle cop on the left side of the Presidential limousine, appeared in an episode of Route 66 when the show filmed episodes in Dallas over a year before that terrible day.
BH had a brief speaking part in "Kiss The Maiden All Forlorn".


Some of the Route 66 cast and crew visited the Carousel Club while filming in Dallas.

Wasn't there an episode of Route 66 titled "I'm here to kill a King" about an assassination ,.. that was originally scheduled to run just a few days after the JFK assassination, that was postponed until the following year, because the plot bore discomforting similarities to the real deal?