JFK - 60 Years On....

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How many on here can remember where they were that day?

Related JFK fact, as all modern Presidents take office on 20 January, today is the day that Joe Biden overtakes JFK for longevity in office.
 
How many on here can remember where they were that day?

Related JFK fact, as all modern Presidents take office on 20 January, today is the day that Joe Biden overtakes JFK for longevity in office.
Most of the people who can remember the news would have been very young in 1963. I can remember it, but only the reaction to it on Nov 23, because that's when the news really broke in the UK. So I'd have been in bed asleep by the time it was first reported here.

Inauguration Day - Jan 20 unless that date falls on a sunday, in which case it's Jan 21.

JFK would have been 25 when Joe Biden was born. Marilyn Monroe would have been 16. bobby Kennedy was born on Nov 20, the same date as Joe Biden, he was celebrating his 17th birthday on the day Joe Biden was born.
 
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No AI would ever manage to generate an article so perfectly aligned with my interests.

If you’ve any interest in this it’s a very readable account of how the news was covered here. Includes an extraordinary clip at the end.
 
Never really got the fuss over him. Is it because he was named after an airport?
Appreciate thats a joke but I guess if you weren't alive in 1963 to remember him then his importance might be underestimated . For the age when politics was very conservative and people were paranoid about communists and reds under the bed he was kind of a breath of fresh air. That and his views on liberalising black rights was game changing for the US.
 
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Appreciate thats a joke but I guess if you weren't alive in 1963 to remember him then his importance might be underestimated . For the age when politics was very conservative and people were paranoid about communists and reds under the bed he was kind of a breath of fresh air. That and his views on liberalising black rights was game changing for the US.
Also there is an argument to say non of us would exist now if he hadn't negotiated with Kruschev to avert nuclear armageddon. I think a lot of his military advisers wanted to nuke first and ask questions later over the Cuban missile crisis.
 
Also there is an argument to say non of us would exist now if he hadn't negotiated with Kruschev to avert nuclear armageddon. I think a lot of his military advisers wanted to nuke first and ask questions later over the Cuban missile crisis.
Yes. and paid for that with his life.
 
Whichever date it was first mention in the UK I heard it on the news in our kitchen. Just one of those things I always remember. I was 9 coming up 10 then.
 
There were only about 50,000 US troops in Vietnam in early 1963. Kennedy signed an Executive Order for those troops to be withdrawn.
The industrial end of the Military/Industrial Complex were gearing up to make some serious money. The Military wanted it.The Industrialists wanted it…So
“ The Vietnam War cost $168 billion, or $1 trillion in today's dollars. 20 That included $111 billion in military operations and $28.5 billion in aid to South Vietnam.”

Others reasons for his murder are available.
 
I wasn't born until the 70s but I have always found the stories in and around this to be fascinating CIA, Cuba, the Cold War, Laos Space Race and lots of other changes to society especially in the U.S. He did a lot of good for a young man himself. I still don't believe LHO acted alone looking at all the evidence after his assassination. That Warren Commission was full of holes. Loads of documentaries on about him his life this week.
 
He single-mindedly invented conspiracy theories.

I'm with Bill Hicks. on this...


Unbelievable. And you know what’s wild? People’s, er, attitudes in the States about it. Talking about Kennedy, people come up to me: “Bill, quit talking about Kennedy, man. Let it go. It’s a long time ago, just forget about it.” And I’m like, alright, then don’t bring up Jesus to me. As long as we’re talking shelf life here. “Bill, you know Jesus died for you.” Yeah, well, it was a long time ago. Forget about it! How about this. Get Pilate to release the [beep]ing files. Quit washing your hands, Pilate. Release the goddam files. Who else was on that grassy Golgotha that day? “Bill, it was just, you know, huh, taking over of democracy by a totalitarian government, let it go.”



Lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he’s gonna want to see a [beep]ing cross, man? “Ohhh!” May be why he hasn’t shown up yet. “Man, they’re still wearing crosses. [beep] it, I’m not goin’, Dad. No, they totally missed the point. When they start wearing fishes I might show up again, but … Let me bury fossil heads with you, Dad. [beep] ’em … Let’s [beep] with them! They’re [beep]in’ with me now, let’s get ’em. Give me that brontosaurus head, Dad.”

You know, kinda like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on, you know. “Thinkin’ of John, Jackie. We love him. Just tryin’ to keep that memory alive, baby.”

[Smacks his right forehead, and mimes the motion of Kennedy’s head] Back and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left. Which, by the way, that action you see Kennedy’s head go through in the Zapruder film. Caused by a bullet … [turns round and points behind him] comin’ from up there. Ha! Yes, I know it looks to the layman or someone who might dabble in physics … this action here would be caused by a bullet coming from … well … [points to the front] Up here. Did you see that? Did everyone see that?

Yeah, but no. What happened was Oswald’s gun went off, causing an echo to echo through the buildings of Dealey Plaza and the echo went by the limo on the left up into the grassy knoll, hitting some leaves, causing dust to fly out which 56 witnesses testified was a gun shot, ’cause immediately … Kennedy’s head went over. But the reason his head went over is ’cause the echo went by the motorcade on the left and he went, “What was that?”

So there, we have figured it out. Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America, your government is in control again. Here, here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up! Go back to bed, America, here’s American Gladiators. Here’s 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their [beep]in’ skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America, you are free, to do as we tell you. You are free, to do as we tell you. “Oh good! Honey, I heard on the news that they’ve figured out that the gun, what happened is, is that there was an echo and Kennedy was, er, asking Jackie what it was, and that that’s why his head flew u— Honey, what time’s Gladiators on? Are we missing it? I’m so glad we’re free, honey.”
 
I remember it like it was yesterday. Light lunch of Heinz beef and vegetables dinner, with some rusk mashed up in milk. Afternoon mainly divided between potty and sucking my fingers. Early night, but not particularly restful as teething.
 
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