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In reply to the discussion: 'I'm convinced a second gunman was involved in killing my uncle': Robert Kennedy [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)217. Conspiracies within conspiracies...
the fact is, JFK was humiliated by none other than Richard Nixon driving around with Joan Crawford several days earlier in a convertable in Dallas, where Nixon was bragging that he didn't have to worry about using a plexiglass shield or need Secret Service officers to keep him safe. His comments were published in a local newspaper. This may have humiliated JFK and prompted him to request not to use the new plexiglass shield for his vehicle, and to order his Secret Service people to keep their distance at the beginning of the parade route.
JFK had enemies in the far right who despised that fact that he had allowed communism to take hold in the Western Hemisphere (Cuba), but he didn't want to appear intimidated.
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'I'm convinced a second gunman was involved in killing my uncle': Robert Kennedy [View all]
elehhhhna
Jan 2013
OP
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OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#142
Read the book and then tell me what you think of LBJ. He wasn't just involved in....
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Jan 2013
#174
According to the last Gallup Poll on this subject in 2003, you're among the 19%....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#172
There is an interesting book on the history of Halliburton that could explain a connection
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#206
I don't know what the truth was, but I don't think the Warren Commission bothered to ferret it out.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#222
I was alive at the time. I know precisely where I was when the assassination happened.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#207
I was watching it on TV as an adult. There were a lot of questions even then that did not get
jwirr
Jan 2013
#4
I was referring to JFK. My children were already old enough to be watching with us. I was also
jwirr
Jan 2013
#13
You're wrong. The whole RFK family is convinced the second gunman was the armed guard. See below.
leveymg
Jan 2013
#11
After the murder of Kennedy I don't believe alot of what our government tells us. Especially
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#32
I know it changed my life. I was around 14 or 15 and I don't think I ever was able
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#72
Yeah, totally ... in fact a rouge I tried yesterday gave me a terrible rash ...
brett_jv
Jan 2013
#177
I wasn't a kid. I was already married. It really turned me into a doubter and a cynic about the
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#209
I agree with you. There is so much shit going on in this country we don't even know.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#213
I lived at Ft Campbell during the time of Desert Storm. So much was going on.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#196
When I was young, I broke up with a guy because he was going into the military.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#210
You did the right thing for you. I grew up in a military family. My mother married my
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#212
No, I have not. However after the recap of that report it was apparent to me it was a POS. The
monmouth3
Jan 2013
#169
I have no doubt that a few people in high positions had files on Hoover. No doubt.
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#70
My ex-boss was a Robert F. Kennedy Fellow, a Hickory Hill regular, and he said the whole family
leveymg
Jan 2013
#10
Bobby also believed that Jack's assassination was the result of a conspiracy. RFK, Jr.'s views are
leveymg
Jan 2013
#31
He was moonlighting from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. His name was Thane Eugene Cesar. FBI report>
leveymg
Jan 2013
#74
UR welcome. Here's the LA Co. Coroner's diagram of the bullet entry points and paths (not graphic)
leveymg
Jan 2013
#107
Unfortunately, Robert F Kennedy Jr. also believes that vaccines cause autism
Pale Blue Dot
Jan 2013
#16
CDC, 2012: Yes, Thimerosal remains in childhood vaccines and flu vaccines.
allrevvedup
Jan 2013
#173
Strike 3, yer out. CDC: vaccine "in multi-dose VIALS" contains thimerosal.
allrevvedup
Jan 2013
#216
That's what our own govt says, "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it
grahamhgreen
Jan 2013
#25
If my brother had been assassinated so brazenly, in public, I believe I would think long and hard...
truebrit71
Jan 2013
#205
I doubt you have either. It's a sloppy piece of fiction, as was Bugliosi's "work". nt.
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#82
Allen Dulles should be a name that concerns anyone who takes the Warren report seriously
think
Jan 2013
#89
Caro states in "Passage of Power" that Dulles was recommended for the Commission by RFK,
nyquil_man
Jan 2013
#92
"Technically", Dulles was forced out (resign or be fired), as was Richard Bissell....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#110
Who do YOU THINK YOU ARE telling anyone to STFU and come back when they can? Your
onecent
Jan 2013
#46
I am not an expert on this topic either, but Thom Hartmann co-wrote a book that explores
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#62
Thom Hartmann seemed to distance himself from the book when I heard him mention it
cpwm17
Jan 2013
#114
You're only 'skeptical' about other peoples' skepticism regarding the official story.
Mc Mike
Jan 2013
#77
I don't need website proof of climate change, so you're offering me nothing, times 12.
Mc Mike
Jan 2013
#90
Funny, I don't recall you mentioning E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession or the....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#126
All "real evidence" like the late Arlen Specter's "Single Bullet Theory"....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#178
So, tell me how the nearly pristine Magic Bullet was connected forensically to JFK's killing....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#204
It was a "she", not a "he" that tried to shoot Ford. Sara Jane Moore.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jan 2013
#136
I'm not exactly sure how many gunmen there were, but the investigation was botched
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#115
There was nothing plausible about the official story from minute one.
Waiting For Everyman
Jan 2013
#151
Three words that destroy any credibility of the Official Story as endorsed by the Warren Commission:
MessiahRp
Jan 2013
#158
Oh come on. He was handsome and a Kennedy but not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#193