And makes me cry. I'm doing a research paper on my favorite President JFK and I was looking up some vids on Youtube and I came across this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E66__vymfPAI cried. And now I can't sleep. great.
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This creeps me out
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Yeah, I kinda had to watch it because of my paper. But I'm like... fascinated with JFK. Seriously, I'm in love with him and his little brother Bobby Kennedy. Definitely my favorite President closer to my time even though he was a womanizer/man slut It upsets me when I think of the assassination of the Kennedys and even worse when I have to write about it.
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Must be an American thing. Beyond being shot, and the controversy over his death, I know nothing about JFK. Video was kind of graphic, but that was about the only upsetting thing.
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JFK was probably the most loved president of all time. Republicans and Democrats alike liked him. I think what creeps Japan out is the fact that JFK's murder is one that was never really solved. Lee Harvey Oswald took the fall for it and maybe he did it. Or did he? It seems fishy to me that with all the controversey surrounding the man's death that our government would wish to seal the documents so that no one could see them. Why would there be a need if the government has nothing to hide? So like I said, I don't know LHO did it. But the Magic Bullet Theory? Give me a break....
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"Republicans and Democrats alike liked him."Not here. My boss and one of the people I have to work with hate him. The regard him as "the dirtiest of those dirty Kennedys." When they think no ones around I've even heard them say, "he deserved to be shot, the country is better off." The only president the regard as being worse than Kennedy was Franklin Roosevelt. Of course they're Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hanity, G. Gordon Liddy and Bill O'Riley disciples. There not Okies either. Why we get all the ultra-Republicans (not conservatives, there's a big difference) moving here I don't know. I wish they would go back to where they come from.
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"Not all Republicans are bad tho."Oh, I know and don't mean to imply that they are. The problem is in those who abandon philosophy and reason in the face of party loyalty. There are those who take party loyalty to cult like status. It's the same things as the Nazis, as long as the party does it, says it or condones it, it's okay.I find people, on any side, who don't like to admit to the complexity of problems and think about or deal with them in there true nature, tend to fall in line with ideologues.
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Originally Posted By: cenfathIt seems fishy to me that with all the controversey surrounding the man's death that our government would wish to seal the documents so that no one could see them. Why would there be a need if the government has nothing to hide?Fishy, yes...but don't assume it was the government that had something to hide. What's the first rule of assasination? Kill the assasin. Why? So they can't be used, if caught, to point to the truth of the matter. Why was JFK killed?...The real question that remains is what did killing JFK hide. Who it was that actually pulled the fatal trigger is merely trivia.
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Why was JFK killed? The biggest theory that I've heard was that he wanted to get America out of the Vietnam war but too many people had too much money invested in it.
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And his little brother! I seriously loved them, and my family who was alive at the time never forget.
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Originally Posted By: bobaliciousWhy was JFK killed? I don't know...maybe to protect the knowledge of the CIAs involvement with the mafia at the time, but something tells me it's bigger than that. I'm not really sure. I think anybody who knows for sure is either dead or on somebodies hit list.
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Originally Posted By: A.W.
Yeah, all I can say that "they got issues" problem. JFK helped out with freeing Martin Luther King, Jr. out of jail. And FDR helped save this country from one of the darkest economic times. They were Presidents who did good things.
Of course it's arguable that we didn't need his reforms in the same way that some other Democratic European countries didn't need anything to get out of it. Of course, it's always possible that they didn't need anything like that because the U.S. was able to get out of the Depression, but still. As I recall, FDR is the President with the most bills/whatever deemed unconstitutional.
Originally Posted By: A.W.
Doesn't it seem weird that Lyndon B. Johnson supported the Vietnam War? And how quickly he took the oath of office after JFK's assassination. From what I heard, LBJ did not like JFK that much and it's been rumored that he might have had some kind of hand in the plot to kill JFK. Also, LBJ called Martin Luther King, Jr. the n word as well because MLK protested against the Vietnam War. The reason why I know LBJ said that about MLK because I watched a film about MLK and his life leading up to his assasination.
Johnson also talked to reporters while skinny-dipping in the White House pool just to make the reporters nervous. Johnson took the oath of office the day of the assassination because it would not be a good thing to have the country without a President even for a day.