Just been watching the remembrance service from Dealy Plaza, seemed appropriately solemn and low key, well done I thought, save for that blow-hard politician going on and on. Did no one think to say to him, just keep it to 2-3 minutes ?
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
+1.
Incidentally I was due around that time, but was late, so was born 3 weeks later.
Did LBJ really fuck his skull? Or is that just a myth?
Quote from: The Brain on November 22, 2013, 02:53:36 PM
Did LBJ really fuck his skull? Or is that just a myth?
Appropriate thread ?
It could go in my daleks vs dallas 1pm one ?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
You had to be there :P
Quote from: Valmy on November 22, 2013, 03:23:23 PM
You had to be there :P
To see his threesome with Marilyn Monroe and Jeannie Carmen? Oh, hells yeah.
And he bagged Liz Taylor, too. GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAH
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
Quote from: 11B4V on November 22, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
See what I mean, Mongers? This is what happens when you don't get a humanities education. Throg smash!!!
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 03:28:56 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on November 22, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
See what I mean, Mongers? This is what happens when you don't get a humanities education. Throg smash!!!
:D
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 03:28:56 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on November 22, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
See what I mean, Mongers? This is what happens when you don't get a humanities education. Throg smash!!!
You dems need to stick together.
Quote from: 11B4V on November 22, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
Agreed, only an idiot would lose sight of the paradigm change which occurred during his presidency.
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 22, 2013, 03:31:06 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on November 22, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 22, 2013, 02:08:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 22, 2013, 02:03:53 PM
So any thoughts or musings in lght of this anniversary ?
That unbridled modern cynicism and "the oceans of debunking revisionism so unsparing", as someone in Politico put it today, makes us lose sight of how much a paradigm change his short presidency actually was.
What crap.
Agreed, only an idiot would lose sight of the paradigm change which occurred during his presidency.
It was Paradigm Lost :(
Of Oswald's deadly gunfire, and the knoll
From which a thousand theories have been launched
Brought loss of innocence unto our land
With death of Camelot, till lesser Ted
Amused us, from the height of his bar-stool
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
AP wire report of JFK shot:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZsiR7HCcAADKDr.jpg:large)
not sure if it's the very first report.
Not shown is that that below the arrow is something about Dr. Who.
The Only Person Who Knew Kennedy And His Killer ?
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While in the Soviet Union, Priscilla Johnson McMillan met a young American in her hotel who was trying to defect. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald.
John Meroney
The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination has drawn all manner of retrospectives. But for one woman, the memory of tuning in to the news coverage is particularly poignant. Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only person who knew both President Kennedy and his killer.
McMillan worked for Kennedy on Capitol Hill in the mid-1950s, when he was a U.S. Senator, advising him on foreign policy matters. She then moved into journalism and in 1959 was stationed in the Soviet Union, reporting for The Progressive and the North American Newspaper Alliance. It was there that she met a 20-year-old American called Lee Harvey Oswald. He was staying in her hotel while trying to defect to the Soviet Union.
McMillan interviewed him. Oswald proceeded to critique the American system and informed her that he was a follower of Karl Marx. "I saw," he said, explaining why he left the U.S., "that I would become either a worker exploited for capitalist profit or an exploiter or, since there are many in this category, I'd be one of the unemployed." On that night in Moscow, Oswald also told McMillan that he had a life mission: "I want to give the people of the United States something to think about."
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Rest of interesting article here, definitely worth a read:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/the-only-person-who-knew-both-kennedy-and-his-killer/281712/ (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/the-only-person-who-knew-both-kennedy-and-his-killer/281712/)