President Kennedy Injured in Dallas?

Robert Frost has also died :-(

Again? Didn't he die like a year ago or something? Something there is that doesn't like the grave.

Police correspondent Alex Drake quipped "it's all a dream, I'm in 1963world" at a special press conference.

"Don't try it" added 34-year-old British tourist and witness to the shooting John Ravenscroft.

Ummmm hi? Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative

It will take Billy Joel to put this into some sort of meaningful context for me.

guys my roomate's uncle Abe was there and had his home movie camera.

he just uploaded this to youtube:

***warning: not for the faint of heart***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg07N9OrKW8&feature=related

uh hello we are in mourning here, no grody fake video, your uncle max is a real L7

yeah it's a shop i've seen a few blah blah pixels blah

off-topic but if any of you ever go down to Dallas, there's a strip joint called The Carousel you should check out.

yo is it true kennedy got sonned by a wite kid after a cuba beef??????

why'd they take him to Parkland did he not have insurnce

What's that white stuff Jackie's so desperate to collect? OMG he was smuggling drugs in his head for the mob!

Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative

This is totally fucked up. They have the suspect of the biggest crime of the century and he's not protected. Makes me think that someone wanted him shut up because he could name the people who were bankrolling him. I don't buy it that he was a lone nutjob, it must be the Soviets behind it.

Some of the political blogs are now claiming there was a second gunman, up on some grassy knoll somewhere. Mentalists as far as I'm concerned, that'll never stick.

(meta note: This thread is dangerously close to starting an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination, CIO.)

It is an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination! Have you had blinders on in the past few days, you fucking beatnik?

As far as those conspiracy theories, I heard that someone told all the Jews to stay out of Dealy Plaza on Friday.

white is black and black is white

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0707/jfk_style_0702.jpg

OK, guys, let's put down the Carling Black Label and face facts, this guy was only human and just as corrupt as the rest of our presidents...except for FDR, Wilson, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Teddy - now they were some infallible guys with no skeletons in their closets.

Kennedy was a hothead with next to no policy experience who nearly got us into the next Big One just a few months ago - or have you knuckleheads already forgotten in the rush to make him the next Marilyn Monroe? Now there was a death worth bemoaning - someone who really stood for America in a way you could get behind. If we ever even hear the name Kennedy in politics again I'd be very surprised.

The only consolation for all this hand-wringing is that Johnson has got his head screwed on straight. I'm counting on him to follow up all the empty promises of Kennedy's presidency with real change; we should be okay so long as he doesn't get us entangled in any military quagmires. (The rubes are talking about Indochina but anyone with any understanding of geopolitics should understand that the next big fight is going to be over the Finnish border.) 'Nuff said!

This is bumming me out, but I'm not going to completely despair. I think there's a lot of promise in his little brother Bobby.

Has someone from Europe blamed the US' right to bear arms yet? Let me be the first then!

mail-order gun? mail-order fun more like it

I think there's a lot of promise in his little brother Bobby

Surely it's time for America to look beyond one political family and to get a colored president. It's kind of a crazy idea and I know some of you are going to say it's too soon. But this guy's on a roll after that big march and I hear he's up for the Nobel prize next. Now's the time to seize the initiative...
http://paskewich.typepad.com/paskewichcom/images/martin_luther_king.gif

multi xpost Tragic that Monroe and Kennedy both died so young, they would have made a beautiful couple.

Still, look on the bright side, Jackie Kennedy's single. Lady Bird Johnson's definitely not my first lady ;-)

(meta again -- ok, this thread is actually pretty depressing. I mean... can you IMAGINE...?)

I wouldn't vote for MLK if he ran in the primaries against Bobby or Lyndon. BFK and LBJ has already done much for the black community. They're experienced. I know that MLK has been skeptical of the rumblings in Indochina, but really, he's just all talk about fairy tales, a dreamweaver.

Yeah, I think you're right, I mean what more could blacks want? They need to trust that LBJ does the right thing. To be honest I cannot see a time when America will be ready for a black president. Maybe a woman?! Yeah, right, I know.

MLK gave them a deram

http://quechido.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/15/i_also_have_a_dream.png

What's with this grammar, is that ebonics?

http://i29.tinypic.com/6ib1ub.jpg

ok now this is just icky. fuck off, guys.

well, at least we have the younger kennedy brothers, especially teddy. i feel he will inspire young people, mostly young women, to go places they would have never gone to otherwise.

I wonder about Teddy this weekend. I hope he doesn't drown in his sorrows.

I can't believe Teddy was elected to the senate. All he ever does is drink and chaffeur his brothers' friends around, the useless sod.

xp

I think he got elected because of his looks, to be honest.

http://www.celtic-music.com/images/photos/thumbs/edward_kennedy.jpg

I'm telling you, women DROP DEAD for that guy!

YOU HAVE COLOUR TV NOW?! NO WAI

I saw one of these things at MM Cohn's the other day:

http://en.citizendium.org/images/thumb/c/c5/1951_CBS_12CC2_Color_TV.jpg/250px-1951_CBS_12CC2_Color_TV.jpg

Out of my price range, though.

damn teddy is a fine lookin bro

is anybody else really worried about nixon

who?

ike's veep, ran against jfk back in 60. scary dude, and the party likes him i think.

They say Nixon lost the election because he looked like he's hungover in that one televised debate, and didn't come off as appealing as JFK. In reality he'd just been ill, and refused to wear makeup. So Kennedy won just because he looked better, wore makeup like some queer, and was generally better at bullshitting gullible voters. At least Nixon's got some integrity.

All that was missing was Kennedy having a cute puppy or something with him.

oh my god speaking of cute:

http://www.hippy.com/trip/kennedyfuneral.jpg

:'(

that kid's gonna grow up to do something great.

Jackie looks quite pretty in mourning... I bet you one day youngsters will find that sort of attire actually hot. And they'll listen to "morbid rock & roll" or something.

They say Nixon lost the election because he looked like he's hungover in that one televised debate, and didn't come off as appealing as JFK.

Oh THAT guy. He's history, I wouldn't worry about it.

so, lbj's first month in office, any thoughts?

He's apparently going to meet with that negro troublemaker reverend, so high marks for him.

Hai I'm presidetn of Bell Helicopter and I'd just like to say LBJ is a total fucking BRO.

Goldwater's going to wipe him up next year if LBJ does get cozy with the negroes.

I think enough time has passed now to view these events with equanimity. How's it shaping up for you guys over there? Personally, I reckon there were two, maybe three shooters, and that the R-s were involved. (Can't take too many risks!)