BS: Nov 22: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing

Subject: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:04 AM

What were you doing that day?
How did it affect you?
Do you think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone?
Who do you think was behind it?
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:44 AM

Abraham Lincoln...?

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:50 AM

And the anniversary of this:

the death of Aldous Huxley

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:51 AM

The mob? The commies? The Klan? Nixon? The CIA?
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:11 AM

Perhaps it was like Murder on the Orient Express, they all did it!

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Charmion
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:10 AM

22 November is also the birthday of Charles de Gaule. Perspective, people; the rest of the world also has history.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Dead Horse
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:21 AM

So long as he is still dead, why worry?

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:30 AM

Will it ever happen again? It was an earthshaking event.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:44 AM

Do you ever look for existing threads?

......Obviously not......


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:48 AM

How often does it fall on Thanksgiving?
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:01 AM

You're right Henry....the turkey did it!

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: kendall
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:06 AM

I was hanging storm windows with my Father in law. Shock and anger that any son of a bitch thought he had the right to kill our president.
Charmion, many things happened on that day, some less important.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:11 AM

I was just a little kid. I didn't understand it much. Mom said Oswald was crazy.
No cartoons on TV for 3 weeks. All day every day news coverage. Funeral.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:14 AM

Hinckley nearly pulled it off again.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 08:02 AM

Caroline must feel very sad today.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 08:41 AM

"How often does it [Nov 22] fall on Thanksgiving?"

A better phrasing of the question would be "How often does Thanksgiving fall on November 22?" because November 22 is 'fixed' and Thanksgiving is not.

2012, 2018, 2029, 2035, 2040, 2046, 2057, 2063, 2068, 2074, 2085, 2091, 2096

When we look at those numbers we can easily see a pattern that will hold true until we once again re-adjust the calendar by having a double leap year--that is a leap year where there are TWO extra days added, but since that occurs only once every 10,000 years or so it need not affect this calculation.

The pattern is easily discernible by noting the years between the above dates. The pattern is such: 6,11,6,5,6,11,6,5,6,11,6,5 and so on. A very simple calculation when compared to "Who put the bomp in the bomp shu bomp shu bomp?"

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Charmion
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 08:46 AM

Thanks, Brucie9. I have always wished for an appropriate assessment of the challenge presented in the bomp-shu-bomp question.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 08:52 AM

That would have been Fred Bandersnatch. He had an excess of bomps leftover from a celebration the previous week in honor of the Great Fartiste, Joseph Pujol, aka "Le Petomane."


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 09:35 AM

I thank you both.

Fred Bandersnatch, a name I will commit to memory. It answers a question that has plagued me for many decades.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 09:41 AM

AKA "Da Frub". At least, that's what they called him in the chess club.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 10:22 AM

Blackbeard also died this day.

Hi, Henry!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 10:30 AM

Hi.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 10:33 AM

I was a 12-year-old lad and I was in front of the telly at home in Radcliffe, Manchester. Scene At 6.30 was on. A few minutes into the programme, Mike Scott, the estimable presenter, interrupted his item to tell us in a halting, incredulous voice that news has just come in that President Kennedy had been shot. That was at about 6.35pm UK time. Granada TV was the first to break the news in the UK, I discovered later.

http://www.transdiffusion.org/tv/tvheroes/mike_scott

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 10:37 AM

I was...chillingly.. in an American History class in college.

I also had a paper route and had to deliver that news headline to over a hundred people.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 10:48 AM

The best account of the assassination of Kennedy is Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann's book, "Ultimate Sacrifice" (which should be made into a movie soon).

He was killed by the mafia, Roselli tried and failed in Chicago, Trafficante, in Miami,
and in Dallas, was done finally by Marcello in Dallas, who was Ruby's boss.
Harvey was set up as a patsy.

Marcello did it

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 11:09 AM

I figured it was them.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 12:23 PM

But what I can't figure out, Perry.....

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 01:02 PM

Happy 99th birthday Benjamin Britten.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,Gervase
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 01:22 PM

I was sitting under the kitchen table while my mother made marmalade, and I couldn't work out why she was crying so much (even though I was nearly five).
Both my parents idolised JFK, and my mother was often told she looked like Jackie, which pleased her no end. Thankfully neither of them lived long enough to have their naive idealism dashed by what's now known about JFK. That said, history could have given us many far worse presidents.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 01:26 PM

.....and indeed it did. Hayes, Harding, Millard Fillmore, etc......


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: kendall
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:13 PM

Franklin Pierce useless as a screen door in a submarine.

William McKinley, in the pockets of the Robber barons.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:22 PM

I have posted where I was in two previous threads on Kennedy's assassination/murder. I mean no disrespect to JFK or my American friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:24 PM

Today is the anniversary of the death of C S Lewis. known (ironically) to his family, as Jack.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Charmion
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:37 PM

22 November 1963 was my Dad's 44th birthday. I was nine, in Grade 5 at Manotick Public School. The death of President Kennedy was the lead item on the CBC news that evening, in odd contrast with the orange-flavoured birthday cake provided -- as always -- by Granny.

The first time I ever saw a television in school was for the funeral procession, of which I remember only the black horse and the backwards boots.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:47 PM

Yup, that's a very emotive image Charmian.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: pdq
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 02:47 PM

The Mob took out Kennedy because of the abuse they were subjected to by Bobby Kennedy, not JFK.

I believe it was Marcella who was deported.

Numerous Mobsters were verbally abused by Bobby at Senate hearings.

They had to suck it up while the proceedings went on, but they were going to get even.

Does anyone else think that the Dallas police pulled away from Oswald so they were out of harm's way when Ruby pulled the gun?

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 03:11 PM

Yes. They did.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 03:53 PM

"Does anyone else think that the Dallas police pulled away from Oswald so they were out of harm's way when Ruby pulled the gun?"

I watched the news (at the time) with that footage and other than pictures hanging from the walls of that underground area with choreography instructions, I don't know how anyone could NOT have seen that, pdq.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: pdq
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:26 PM

"...underground area with choreography instructions..."

You don't suppose that the ballet lessons were given by Lyndon Johnson, do you?

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:38 PM

Nah, Ron's boy took classes

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:29 PM

Carlos Marcello was not deported. He was sent to prison and died shortly afterward.

Yes, JFK was killed because of RFK. This was Marcello's idea, "cut off the head of the snake".

Ruby shot the patsy, pure and simple.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:36 PM

For the loss to the world, Huxley's and Lewis' deaths meant much more, for they had accomplished much. To America (and to the world) Kennedy's was the death of promise unfulfilled, and that is the saddest death.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:50 PM

"Who put the bomp in the bomp shu bomp shu bomp?"

Who gives a shit, Bruce?

Much more importantly, who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

Espescially since Ding Dongs may soon be extinct.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: pdq
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:52 PM

Yes, Carlos Marcello was deported by Bobby Kennedy.

It was a rude "grab 'n' go" type deportation that infuriated Marcello.

I think he was born in Tunisia of Sicilian parents, but he held a Guatamalan passport.

Bobby sent him to Guatamala.

                                                   lots of info here

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:18 PM

"Much more importantly, who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?"

Greg, this is the one time you have ever disappointed me. Bed Frandersnatch put the 'ram in the rama lama ding dong'. Spaw said so earlier in the thread. Sheesh, how many authors can a brilliant piece of writing have?

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:26 PM

Awright then, wise guy: Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip??

Bet I gotcha there!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:30 PM

You. You are the dipshit around here.
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Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:32 PM

Only for a moment. Bred Fandersnatch. I have that on good authority.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: gnu
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:38 PM

My but you are a wee testicle tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Today: Anniversary of Kennedy Killing
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 06:59 PM

Henry, if you'd ever given Greg a chance to express his views, you'd see the man behind the posts. He is a well-read, lucid, intelligent man who has a great love of American literature and American history. He and I have been good friends for more years than I remember.

He was encouraging to me at the lowest ebb of my life. I trust him without reservation. As a btw, a zinger to my old friend was interrupted by your post. That was just not a good thing to do. Capiche? I had the best set-up line in the history of Mudcat and now it's fucked.