Another Anniversary

The History Channel ran an interesting show on this the other night. Focused on the various conspiracy theories that have floated around. We don't hear as much about this nowadays, but anyone who was around back in the day will remember all the books and lectures on the topic. Can you imagine what it would've been like with cable TV and the internet?

Anyhow, the program pretty much punctured the various alternative theories, including that of Oliver Stone, who resurrected Jim Garrison, the New Orleans DA, as some sort of martyr for truth. Whereas, in reality, Garrison comes across as a fool who succumbed to his own notoriety.

Anyone seeking an interesting alternative theory by a terrific novelist should read "Libra" by Don DeLillo.

Interesting, D'Art. I was just talking to my potential roofing man about this very thing. I think Merry Andrew had a long thread on who really killed JFK.

Yes, indeed. Had all this been available during that time, we'd be having some conspiracy fun, I guess.

Seems to me that I recall something about a notion that Ari Onassis had a brain dead Kennedy on his private island away from the public eye. and that's the reason Jackie O married him.

Odd, too, was that nimh bought up a conspiracy theory about a recently found complex in Yugoslavia.

I'll try and find that link to the Tito thing.

Here is the link to that thread:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39275&highlight=

I was attempting to involve everyone on A2K in what some people see as a strictly American site. The reference to Eric Rudolph had to do with his hiding in the North Carolina mountains, then suddenly surfacing going through garbage cans. He surrendered peacefully, and I have seen nothing since.

Some sadistic company has a new video game in which one aspires to shoot Kennedy.

My God, edgar. Ain't nothing sacred, is there?

I was in half-day kindergarten then.
I remember coming back to watch television with Miss Gill, who lived downstairs.

Ah, ehBeth. You are such a youngun. <smile>

Did it make any impression on you then?

Miss Gill crying made an enormous impression on me, Letty. I loved her a lot, and didn't want her to be sad. Nothing could make her feel better that day.


Bobby Kennedy's killing was something that I understood more. hamburger and mrs. hamburger were out of town, and I was staying with my aunt and uncle - in the back bedroom with the tiny t.v. I was up very late, later than I should have been, thrilling to having a t.v. I had control of. Watching the scene in the kitchen in California hit me hard.

You know, ehBeth. Anwar Sadat's assassination got to me. Of course, Bobby and Jack also, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is strange to me that often the worst comes from among the so called supporters.

Ah, Mrs. Gill. My kindergarten teacher was Mrs. Wingate.

I was eleven years old and I remember that day well. My brother had a paper route and he was given triple the amount of newspapers he usually got for delivery…the headline read "President Kennedy Dead!" We gave a paper away to everyone we knew.


Here's a link to the game edgar was talking about


http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Nov/EEN41a1f95301612.html

That game is a pronounced attempt at making money and nothing else.

Someone clue me in here. Did I see where there was an unauthorized book about Jack and Bobby? The intimation was that they were not full brothers.