Sixty Years Ago

Jews turn things around fast. My dad’s funeral was 48 hours after he died. We almost had it the day after he died, but we wanted to give some out of town relatives a chance to make it. Nothing was pre-planned. My mom just went into action mode and pulled it all together.
ETA: obviously we weren’t pulling off a state funeral, so I’m not comparing my dad’s service to JFK’s. I’m just saying that Jewish funerals get planned on the quick every day.

 

And with the memory of bullets whizzing over his head in Dallas, LBJ rapidly reversed JFK's imminent plans for withdrawal from Vietnam. Or so I've read.

 

i could make those shots 10x over without a second thought. But for any hunter, you would have taken the shot with him coming toward you, not going away.

 

Been there several times as our nationals have been in Dallas at least 4 or 5 times. The museam is great. The thing that always struck me is the fence at the grassy noll. Im not really prolific with rifles, but it just seems like it would be a real easy shot (or shots) from behind that fence. And how easy it would be to just walk away from there with nobody ever knowing the difference.
Edit: driftwood just said basically the same thing. Also curious why he wouldn’t have shot with the cars coming toward the book depository, which also seems easier, and also gives time for the moving away shots if needed.

 

Something I did not know until today. Reporters carried Oswald's casket to his gravesite because there was no family present. Amazing photo.

 

Assholes for doing that.

 

The Highly Unusual Funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald

 

Yeah, all the Kennedy apologists who say he would have kept us out of Vietnam conveniently forget that almost all of LBJ's top military advisors were Kennedy appointees and that his good buddy Maxwell Taylor was one of the top culprits. The only one who consistently opposed widening the war was George Ball and he was quickly marginalized in 65 or 66.

There was another high-ranking administration official who opposed escalation, but he died in a plane crash, can't remember his name.

 

Sometimes I'm amazed I made it to my fifth birthday.

When the Pentagon Wanted to Nuke Russia – The Future of Freedom Foundation

 

Tonkin was shady as hell and probably only exceeded by W's Iraq WMDs (which I'm sure they're still looking for).

I don't even blame W or Dick Cheney as much as Colin Powell (RIP), who sang the company tune to the end.

 

Yet in Stone's film, Oswald pulls off some sort of "miracle" getting off three shots and got lucky.

 

The miracle was getting the bolt cycled for three aimed shots before the driver snapped to what was happening and floored it.