The President Was Shot...

Obsessed is too strong a word, curiously interested would a better description. For many Brits the Kennedy era epitomised the America that we aspired to, that aspiration ended abruptly in 1963. I don't think many Brits give much credence to the multitude of conspiracy theories, as I implied in my post on Spencer Perceval (that everyone politely ignored), we have no need for alternative explanations.

Dean wrote: ...that was an arsy Noel...

And behind the arsey Noel...



A dodgy untrustworthy type

That's not a grassy knoll you can see, it's Dean's beard... Bob's not been around for a while, I notice

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone....it was a great day of food and family here....

Cheers!

The T wrote: ^Now, did you kill the thread yourself or was there a second Admin hidden somewhere who actually executed the final deletion?

It was me alone! There's a grainy 8mm film to prove it.

It was the magic deletion...

^Now, did you kill the thread yourself or was there a second Admin hidden somewhere who actually executed the final deletion? 

^Manson's very existence is objectionable but as far as the thread goes I agree. 

It has nothing to do with it being 'okay' or not, don't be paranoid.   It simply seemed to run its course and a judgment call was made to close it.  

If you want to complain about it, post in a Site Discussion thread.

Having just read it, it makes perfect sense it was closed--  the consensus seemed clear, what more is there to say   The likely outcome would be a dark discussion about why Charlie was such a mean guy.

'nuff said about it in this thread, me thinks.

dr wu23 wrote: what's your take on why Ruby went after Oswald? At that point it wasn't even clear if Oswald had indeed shot Kennedy. So why would a small time hood throw his life away and shoot him in front of the whole world? Was he some kind of Kennedy freak or was there more going on there? And then he goes to jail and eventually dies from cancer and never says much about it all. A conspiracy minded person would think he was getting rid of Oswald (a loose end...)so the whole case would be blamed on the patsy and since he was dying from cancer anyway it didn't matter to him.  Did Ruby do this for some one else...like the Mob..?

It is a mystery and yet, at that time, it seemed to somehow make sense.   The whole country was angry, sad and outraged.   The climate in Texas was reactionary and often violent.   Here was a ganster from the east coast who'd been running numbers, guns, and ladies his whole life, finally wound up being the "man to see" in Dallas if you wanted to conduct some action, and ends up gunning down LHO in a police basement no one other than cops should've been in (had the DPD gotten Oswald into a car and away, he might've been much safer from that point on), and ruining his life by being the man who killed our only chance to hear from the accused and see justice done, instead of becoming the hero he thought he'd be.   That is assuming he wasn't put up to it.  

Personally I'm convinced ~ as convinced as one can be in this case ~ that Ruby and Oswald not only knew each other but were actively involved in local Dallas crime.   Whether Lee Oswald was some sort of Federal informer or provocateur does not negate the probability that these two were hanging out and up to all sorts of sticky business.





Edited by Atavachron - November 26 2013 at 20:53