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Location: Bastrop, Texas | .....JFK was murdered in front of the world. Shot like a mangy dog alongside his wife. His head exploded. That's what happened. As I grow older and learn more about the man I realize that he really was a great President. He really was fiercely independent and courageous. Because of that he made enemies.
What do you think the world would look like had JFK served two terms?
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Location: Never in one place long | I think he was a great man too but he definetly was not perfect.... I think he loved his wife but he had relations with many other women on the side. oh well, I still like him, everyone has their imperfections..... BTW, have you read the book "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reily? Very good read! I couldn't put it down. |
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Location: Oregon | I have been glued to the tv when any of the JFK specials have been on in the last week and it's so sad! He must have been an amazing man to have touched so many the way he did, must have really connected with the people. I watch footage of hundreds of people standing outside the hospital sobbing and even now, 50 years later, people that went through that time in history get all choked up all over again just talking about it. I compare the emotions that they must be feeling for that time as compared to my generations space shuttle explosion and 911. Gutwrenching emotion.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I was watching a program on JFK the other day, They showed the footage of when he was shot. It was the first time I've watched it. I about fell off the couch. It was so gruesome the way he "sprayed" after the second shot. I couldn't imagine being his wife, sitting next to him and witnessing that. |
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Location: Flat Rock,IL | ~BINGO~ - 2013-11-22 11:15 AM
I was watching a program on JFK the other day, They showed the footage of when he was shot. It was the first time I've watched it. I about fell off the couch. It was so gruesome the way he "sprayed" after the second shot. I couldn't imagine being his wife, sitting next to him and witnessing that.
I have an uncle who's a Texas ranger, he working on patrol that day, he got a call to go guard Gov Connally. He went by the car that Kenndey was in, said it was a size of a handful of brains. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I was brought up in a strong Republican family, and I always thought he was just a philandering liberal Democrat.
It wasn't until maybe 15-20 years ago that I actually started to read about him and I became more objective when it came to his leadership and his positions. For me it's fascinating, because I still remember a lot about the other prominent policians from those days. I think the 60s was the most interesting period in politics. Kennedy broke ranks with the Democrat establishment quite a lot in those days. He had political savy, but I don't think he was a fake. I think he was intellectually very honest. I guess I just get a little blue when I stop and realize how badly we need someone like him. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I am watching the History channel that has JFK: Three shots that changed America, so sad and scary  |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Kcaughran - 2013-11-22 9:21 AM ~BINGO~ - 2013-11-22 11:15 AM I was watching a program on JFK the other day, They showed the footage of when he was shot. It was the first time I've watched it. I about fell off the couch. It was so gruesome the way he "sprayed" after the second shot. I couldn't imagine being his wife, sitting next to him and witnessing that. I have an uncle who's a Texas ranger, he working on patrol that day, he got a call to go guard Gov Connally. He went by the car that Kenndey was in, said it was a size of a handful of brains.
That is absoloutly horrific. I couldn't imagine.... |
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| Five Days in Nov.
Clint Hill wrote that book, he was the SS agent that jumped on the back of the limo.
It is on my must read list
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Location: North Central South Dakota, west of the Might Mo | I think he was a very great leader...I think his personal ethics were equally as bad.
I often wonder if we would have ended up in Nam if he would have been President.
His assination was a horrible thing. It has been horrible to lose any of our Presidents via assination, and it would be horrible with any of our Presidents, whether I like them or not.
I have read O'Reilly's Killing Kennedy and learned so much about the history of the time, Kennedy, and the Kennedy family as a whole.
My Dad still today, can tell you exactly where he was when he heard the horrible news. Every time we has passed that point on the road, he has pointed it out.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | DD2012 - 2013-11-22 11:46 AM Five Days in Nov. Clint Hill wrote that book, he was the SS agent that jumped on the back of the limo. It is on my must read list
I'd like to read this as well. I vividly remember the news from our teacher right after noon recess. |
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| ~BINGO~ - 2013-11-22 11:15 AM
I was watching a program on JFK the other day, They showed the footage of when he was shot. It was the first time I've watched it. I about fell off the couch. It was so gruesome the way he "sprayed" after the second shot. I couldn't imagine being his wife, sitting next to him and witnessing that.
Yep and when Jacky crawls on the back of the limo it is to grab parts of his skull. |
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| I was 14 in history class when they came across the loud speaker that he had been shot. My teacher rolled in a TV and we watched until school let out. We where all in shock. Everyone spent the next 4 days glued to the TV. You have remember that this was the height of the cold war nobody knew if this was from the inside or outside of the USA. It was a vary scary time. |
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Location: Kentucky | DD2012 - 2013-11-22 12:46 PM Five Days in Nov. Clint Hill wrote that book, he was the SS agent that jumped on the back of the limo. It is on my must read list
He also wrote Mrs. Kennedy and Me.... excellent read. |
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| Murphy - 2013-11-22 1:41 PM
DD2012 - 2013-11-22 12:46 PM Five Days in Nov. Clint Hill wrote that book, he was the SS agent that jumped on the back of the limo. It is on my must read list
He also wrote Mrs. Kennedy and Me.... excellent read.
I was never a big Jackie O fan, probably because my Mother despised her.
SO that one never caught my eye
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Hannity had a guy on his show 2 nights ago, and this guy wrote a book that basically claims to support the idea that LBJ was the one responsible. |
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| HotbearLVR - 2013-11-22 2:35 PM
Hannity had a guy on his show 2 nights ago, and this guy wrote a book that basically claims to support the idea that LBJ was the one responsible.
would not surprise me at all.
LBJ was a dirty sorry SOB
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Location: Kansas and loving it | jbhoot - 2013-11-22 1:24 PM
~BINGO~ - 2013-11-22 11:15 AM
I was watching a program on JFK the other day, They showed the footage of when he was shot. It was the first time I've watched it. I about fell off the couch. It was so gruesome the way he "sprayed" after the second shot. I couldn't imagine being his wife, sitting next to him and witnessing that.
Yep and when Jacky crawls on the back of the limo it is to grab parts of his skull.
Jackie was reaching for the ss agent. Bill Greer wad driving, Roy Kellerman was seated next to him. Then Gov Connally and his wife, then JFK and Jackie. My mother was friends with the Kellermans, she grew up in New Baltimore MI. |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | His head exploded, hit by a full metal jacket , a bullett designed to pierce through. Hum....... |
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| justcruzin - 2013-11-22 3:39 PM
His head exploded, hit by a full metal jacket , a bullett designed to pierce through. Hum.......
If you are suggesting that a FMJ bullet could not have inflicted that amount of damage.
You would need to study up on Terminal Ballistics, but short version is that yes, a FMJ projectile impacting the back of your brain bucket can and will cause cataclysmic damage.
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