― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy, Thursday, 7 October 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 October 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.prouty.org/nixon.html
George Bush Sr. was working for the CIA at the time, dealing with cubans, but that's another story.
I love me some conspiracy theories.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 October 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Former Texas first lady Connally dies
By Kelley Shannon, Associated Press WriterSeptember 2, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
Connally, the widow of former Gov. John Connally, died late Friday of natural causes at an Austin assisted living center, said Julian Read, who served as the governor's press secretary in the 1960s.
As the limousine carrying the Connallys and the Kennedys wound its way through the friendly crowd in downtown Dallas, Nellie Connally turned to President Kennedy, who was in a seat behind her, and said, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you."
Almost immediately, she heard the first of what she later concluded were three gunshots in quick succession. A wounded John Connally slumped after the second shot, and, "I never looked back again. I was just trying to take care of him," she said.
She later said the most enduring image of that day was the bloodstained roses.
"It's the image of yellow roses and red roses and blood all over the car ... all over us," she said in a 2003 interview with The Associated Press. "I'll never forget it. ... It was so quick and so short, so potent."
Read said Connally had been sitting at her desk writing thank-you notes when she died.
"She has been extremely active and vital the past few days and weeks," he said. "It's a shock to all of us."
In 2003, she published a photo-filled book -- "From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy" -- based on 22 pages of handwritten notes she compiled about a week after the assassination and rediscovered in 1996.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Connally "the epitome of graciousness."
"Long before she was propelled into the national spotlight from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, she was a Texas icon," Perry said in a statement.
Connally, formerly Nellie Brill, met her husband at the University of Texas in Austin, and they married on Dec. 21, 1940.
John Connally managed several political campaigns for fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, including his 1964 presidential campaign. Connally was elected Texas governor as a Democrat in 1962 and won re-election twice, serving three two-year terms.
He was treasury secretary in the Nixon administration and ran for president as a Republican in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected. John Connally died in 1993.
Nellie Connally helped raise money for many charities. In 1989, Richard Nixon, Barbara Walters and Donald Trump turned out for a gala to honor her and raise money for diabetes research.
"I've never known a woman with Nellie's courage, compassion and character," Walters said. "For all her ups and downs, I've never heard a self-pitying word from her."
John and Nellie Connally suffered financial difficulties after he left office. Private business ventures after 1980 were less successful than John Connally's career as a politician and dealmaking Houston lawyer. An oil company in which he invested got into trouble, and $200 million worth of real estate projects went sour, and he ended up filing for bankruptcy.
Nellie Connally served on the Board of Visitors of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1984, and a fund in her name raised millions for research and patient programs. The Houston hospital's center for breast cancer also is named for Connally, a survivor of the disease for more than 15 years.
About a year ago, Connally moved back to Austin after decades in Houston.
Survivors include her daughter, Sharon Connally Ammann, two sons, John B. Connally III and Mark Connally, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are pending. She is to be buried near her late husband in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
There was a documentary, maybe a couple of years ago, that pretty convincingly dealt with every doubt/conspiracy theory including the 'magic bullet' one. IIRC it was to do with the fact that the seats at the back were higher than the seats at the front, and that the front of the car was more narrow at the front. Or something. Anyway, by the end of the documentary I was completely won over to the Oswald-acting-along side.
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Oswald did it and he was a lone gunman, without any assistance whatsoever.
2. Oswald was a patsy and INSERT CONSPIRACY HERE did it.
Why not
3. Oswald was solely responsible for physically shooting Kennedy, but he was aided/abetted/instructed in doing so by party or parties unknown.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always thought that this was the most likely explanation.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
That's kinda what I believe too. With the CIA & FBI knowing all about it, but looking the other way.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
wasn't like 30 minutes of Stone's JFK spent on this?
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 14 September 2006 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
This documentary (that I mentioned earlier) looked into that as well, and the gist of it was that there had been so many supergrasses over the past 40 years that it was unthinkable that if the mob had been involved the truth wouldn't have come out by now.
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. The conspiracy crowd likes to talk about the body count of mysterious deaths associated with the assassination, but what about the body count of just being a mid-level Mafia soldier in the 1960s? Most of those guys were probably dead or in jail by the mid-70s.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
so did Oswald
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
So then, why did Jack Ruby whack Oswald?
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
There's a fair amount of errors in Case Closed though, which make it about as useful as the pro-conspiracy books. Posner is a dick forever though for his famous post-9/11 "focus and clarity" editorial in the Wall Street Journal where he reversed his opinion on Bush II and came out in support of him.
Still, I would have liked to have seen of his debates with Vincent Bugliosi.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― xave (xave), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
-- xave (sl...), September 14th, 2006.
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK?
i agree, it's an interesting read.
for me, the most plausible scenario is the one discussed in this book:
Live By the Sword by Gus Russo
it more or less argues for Oswald acting alone, but creates context for his motivations.
here's the forward from the book for good measure.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Kennedy — An Unfinished Life, by Robert Dallek
You could also say much the same about 9/11.
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
The dude defected to the Soviet Union! Do people forget this? Also, some dude he was in the service with thought he was a fake commie working for the CIA to find real ones.
― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Kerry Thornley!
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Later, the KGB figured that Oswald acted with potential mob help, and that the CIA and FBI didn't care since Kennedy was out of their hair.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Also the dude who wrote a BOOK about Oswald pre assasination!
― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, there's no convincing evidence for string theory, yet, and we're not giving up on that.
Berating conspiracy theorists for lacking evidence has always struck me as rather unscientific. You invent hypotheses and then gather evidence, right?, not the other way around. If you totally disregard hypotheses that lack evidence, no one would ever gather evidence and there'd be a moratorium on new ideas.
It's only been sixty years, and that's nuthin. Sometimes it takes centuries to solve a murder.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
however, Squirrel Police OTFM about the scientific method
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OFVJXdK.gif
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
the thornley brothers were named tom dick and kerry
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
no wonder the church of the subgenius beckoned
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
trueanon podcast has a 6 part deep dive
Hah. Dave Emory has hundreds of hours on it. He goes so far down the rabbit hole he comes out the other side.
(He's convinced it was a CIA op, btw.)
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty sure it was a time travel unit trying to stave off the Woke Mind Virus for another few decades
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
interesting Louisiana footnote in the wikipedia entry for Kerry Thornley:
Garrison charged Thornley with perjury after Thornley denied that he had been in contact with Oswald in any manner since 1959. The perjury charge was eventually dropped by Garrison's successor Harry Connick Sr.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
When are we ever getting our "his head just DID that" movie?
Where was Michael Ironside that day?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
given how antsy the mob gets over even whacking one of their own
I don't know if they got antsy about whacking their own or not, but they got over it pretty quick especially around this time period
― anvil, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:13 (one year ago) link
Is the prevailing theory now that the whole thing was a complete fuck-up on someone's part?
My personal theory is that They (CIA/Mafia/etc.) wanted to spook JFK with an attempt and their patsy accidentally pulled it off.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:31 (one year ago) link
jfk's head wanted to spook him by showing it could just do that on its own and accidentally etc
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 08:56 (one year ago) link
I read somewhere that Paul Krassner's comments about compromising positions between LBJ and JFK's corpse became pretty widely known and believed to greater degree than he'd expectedhttps://soundcloud.com/eptc/episode-8-side-a-paul-krassner
― Stevo, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
that is read it somewhere over teh last several months and now found a soundfile supporting it
best JFK assassination book i've read is still Not In Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers. he's not deluded enough to subscribe to specific theories, but he does line up all the unusual aspects of the shooting, the possible motives of those who might be suspected, and seems to conclude that there's something to it, but it's impossible to know the real truth. he seems to lean more mob involvement/oswald involvement/oswald as minor CIA asset who lost it, and while he completely dismisses Oliver Stone and his theories, what's interesting is just what from the film he nails down as factual (such as the time when Oswald met a Cuban exile for a brief moment and later a phone call come to her, telling her things about Oswald she didn't even ask about.)
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
The Summers book is the most plausible; I appreciated how he didn't address every what-about. I told the story about the Silvia Odio incident in the other thread, still the eeriest of the purported Oswald encounters.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
while he completely dismisses Oliver Stone and his theories, what's interesting is just what from the film he nails down as factual (such as the time when Oswald met a Cuban exile for a brief moment and later a phone call come to her, telling her things about Oswald she didn't even ask about.)
oh lol this is what I referred to -- I'm friends with her nephew!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
i think it's kind of a shame that the jfk conspiracy has become the one conspiracy everybody in america apparently believes in some form or another. what interests me about conspiracy theories is less whether or not they're _true_ and more _why_ people believe them - and most of the time, the answer is "they're racist". in other words i feel like the legitimization of conspiracy theories the jfk conspiracy has enabled also enables racism and bigotry.
the thing i love about the jfk conspiracy theory is that the more you dig into it the less sense anything makes. it's like what happens if you repeat a word, any word, enough times. pharmacy, for instance. just say "pharmacy" enough times over and over and it becomes really strange and bizarre sounding. so that's what i like about it, it's a way to deconstruct the basic assumptions and associations we have about the nature of reality itself. i'm into that kinda shit.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
we don't need no gates out there with that swamp! plenty of em gone in there. ain't none of em come out!
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 19 May 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
just say "pharmacy" enough times over and over and it becomes really strange and bizarre sounding.
specifically it loses meaning-- "semiotic satiation" iirc-- which might seem the opposite of the rabbit-hole disease (which is more like nabokov's "referential mania" in "signs and symbols")-- unless everything meaning the same thing and nothing meaning anything are on some mechanical level identical? (notes towards a horseshoe theory of conspiracy people / anti-conspiracy people.) anyway people in the mongoose/mob complex obviously had something to do w this lol
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 19 May 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
refs in the summers book to the stone movie are funny because he consistently condemns it in strong terms, laments its influence etc.; meanwhile i was scarcely turning a page without thinking "whoa i always assumed they made that up for the stone movie"
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 19 May 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link
i feel like the legitimization of conspiracy theories the jfk conspiracy has enabled
I don't really know how to measure this but I think the effects of Iraq are far more consequential in terms of public trust or credulousness than the effects of JFK. 'Everything is fake' for me has its roots or at least its liftoff from Iraq. It existed before that, but far less prevalent. There are likely other factors like social media, like people knowing how to hone and weaponise this stuff, but Iraqs erosion of public trust meant the soil in which conspiratorial thinking could be watered reached almost all gardens
― anvil, Friday, 19 May 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Haha yeah I mean based on having read that I believe fairly early in the book I thought it would be a takedown of conspiracy theory rather than an open-minded book musing about the possibilities. It does seem he draws the line with the specific named alleged conspirators in that film and the military industrial complex angle, but the other stuff that stone touches on he absolutely is willing to entertain as a likely possibility.
― omar little, Friday, 19 May 2023 03:59 (one year ago) link
Specifically the mob, Cuban exiles, and Oswald floating like an unmoored buoy among all.
An inspired act of God shoo happen here and put a Texan in the White House!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 May 2023 09:23 (one year ago) link
― anvil
i think it's different from person to person... for a lot of people iraq brought about that sort of shift in perspective, but for me it wasn't really until trump was elected president that i had that shift.
the complicated thing is that from a liberal perspective, a rejection of that worldview is... differences between us are _immaterial_ to them, i think that's where horseshoe theory comes from. the paradox is that material facts matter just as little to them as they do to any conspiracy-minded person.
i am at the point where i don't just ask myself _why_ people believe in conspiracies, but... whatever the term for it is, there's something in me that asks, you know, what even _is_ a conspiracy?
like, the thread revive about the bilderbergs, i'm looking at the alleged conspiracy and as far as i can tell it's literally just capitalism. is capitalism a conspiracy? i mean, there's an argument to be made!
three days after my egg cracked a lady named cassie labelle made a medium post titled "Being Trans Is Like Believing A Conspiracy Theory About Yourself". and maybe it's my background, i did the subgenius thing in the '90s, but i do have a tendency to look at it in those terms. like there was a coverup, right? some people knew the truth but they were dismissed as being "crazy" and didn't get listened to, and it was incredibly far-reaching, incredibly effective, it affected millions of lives, and one of them was mine. i was both a victim of this and complicit in the perpetuation of this state of affairs.
in some sense maybe the truth-value of a conspiracy theory _is_ relevant. believing a conspiracy theory like... there's a conspiracy theory, mia mulder did a video about it. it's a minor one, but it claims that every celebrity is secretly trans. except for elliot page who the conspiracy theory claims was amab and his "transition" was actually a detransition. anyway you look into it and you can kind of pretty clearly see the anxieties and insecurities that lead the person perpetuating it to believe it. believing something like that, or believing there was a cia conspiracy to kill jfk, to me that's different from saying something like "capitalism is bad", i mean you can't prove that in an absolute sense but there's a lot of evidence for that hypothesis, you know?
in some sense, just like what rumsfeld said about "known unknowns" basically makes sense, the idea of "alternative facts", i think there's a legitimate basis for that. it's a radical rejection of hegemonic narratives, and i've done that just as much as the people who say, i don't know, covid vaccines will turn you trans have done. the only way to differentiate the two is to take the truth-value of our respective beliefs into consideration.
idk. clearly i'm just rambling. hopefully some of that makes sense?
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 May 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
Back in 2002, during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq I heard Glenn Beck talking about how he'd been brought in to the Bush White House to look at evidence about Iraq's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing. It was right then that I decided that all the talk about WMDs was bullshit, because if they had any actual evidence for that stuff then why would they be fucking around with conspiracy theories?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 19 May 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
i think it's different from person to person... for a lot of people iraq brought about that sort of shift in perspective, but for me it wasn't really until trump was elected president that i had that shift
So far, I've lived through the bombing of Cambodia and the end of Vietnam, Iran-Contra, the CIA and cocaine trafficking, gaslighting of cancer victims downwind from nuclear tests, both Gulf Wars and dozens more I can't recall at the moment.. Go ahead, ask me about my perspective shift - worse every year and never once getting better.
C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite to thread!
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link