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[MR MISTER]

Uncanny! He even looks a bit like me.

[Varche]

I've never had anytime for him or his family, where socialism is a corrosive source on the cohesiveness, freedom and the wealth of societies, except for those leaders that exercise it like Blair, Clinton, Obummer etc, who use it to enrich themselves and their like minded cronies at the expense of everybody else in society including the poorest.

Err isn't Obama organising healthcare for the poor? Something other developed countries have as a given.

[albitz]

If only it were that simple.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

He was almost as incompetent in the oval office as Obama is. Even took the world to the brink of nuclear war.

No, it was the Soviets who took the World to the brink of nuclear war.  They shipped nuclear missiles into Cuba, right on the door step of the USA.  It got the reaction from Kennedy that you would expect.  However, Kennedy was so shaken by what had nearly transpired that HE initiated the "hot line" to Moscow so that in future any president could speak to the Soviet leader, and visa versa, to greatly improve communication before a crisis could form. Kennedy was also very keen to stop the arms race between the USA and USSR, but he met with significant opposition to that from the latter.

It is also considered by some historians, based on some documentary evidence, that Kennedy possibly was considering pulling the USA out of the Vietnam conflict during 1964. We will never know what could have happened, but Kennedy should have had his day to prove what seemed to be a great presidency in the building. 

Kennedy would have been a peacemaker, but he 'ran out of time' to really establish his worth.  A I stated before, World history changed on the 22nd November 1963, and not for the better.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

You've opened a can of worms, Lizzie.......

[cem_devecioglu]

bunch of right wing..

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Do go on dear chap

I would but....

[cem_devecioglu]

He was almost as incompetent in the oval office as Obama is. Even took the world to the brink of nuclear war.

No, it was the Soviets who took the World to the brink of nuclear war.  They shipped nuclear missiles into Cuba, right on the door step of the USA.  It got the reaction from Kennedy that you would expect.  However, Kennedy was so shaken by what had nearly transpired that HE initiated the "hot line" to Moscow so that in future any president could speak to the Soviet leader, and visa versa, to greatly improve communication before a crisis could form. Kennedy was also very keen to stop the arms race between the USA and USSR, but he met with significant opposition to that from the latter.

It is also considered by some historians, based on some documentary evidence, that Kennedy possibly was considering pulling the USA out of the Vietnam conflict during 1964. We will never know what could have happened, but Kennedy should have had his day to prove what seemed to be a great presidency in the building. 

Kennedy would have been a peacemaker, but he 'ran out of time' to really establish his worth.  A I stated before, World history changed on the 22nd November 1963, and not for the better.

Highlighted parts all agreed Lizzie


by the way every one seems to forget my country was already armed with nukes aiming Russia in that time.. so you decide who started it (not you Lizzie)

[chrisgixer]

What? Cem passes up the chance to comment on the mother AND father of all conspiracy theory's? No way!

Edit, nope, I was too slow.

[cem_devecioglu]

What? Cem passes up the chance to comment on the mother AND father of all conspiracy theory's? No way!

he is happy so gaves up for politics   only this much

[chrisgixer]

What? Cem passes up the chance to comment on the mother AND father of all conspiracy theory's? No way!

he is happy so gaves up for politics   only this much

Aha, there we have it. Unhappy sole = talk polotics.

Anyway. I'm very glad to hear it cem.

[cem_devecioglu]

What? Cem passes up the chance to comment on the mother AND father of all conspiracy theory's? No way!

he is happy so gaves up for politics   only this much

Aha, there we have it. Unhappy sole = talk polotics.

Anyway. I'm very glad to hear it cem.

thanks

[Sir Tigger KC]

As a mere whippersnapper who wasn't even a glint in his father's eye at the time, I can't really understand all the fuss to be honest! 

From what I understand his foreign policy was pretty poor ie The Bay of Pigs debacle and he was the fourth President to be assassinated, so it wasn't like it was unprecedented....    It seems that Americans have a fine tradition of trying to assassinate their Presidents!   

Maybe it's just that all Democrat Presidents are hailed as some sort of Messiah...    Having said that it was a tragic thing to happen. 

[chrisgixer]

He was massively popular, by the looks. About to be re elected?

Its a hugely shocking event. With live footage. ...regardless of any political stand point, to see such a popular figure murdered in front of so many people there just to see him, and his wife sat beside him.... If that's doesn't move you, nothing will.

Shocking. Utterly shocking.

[chrisgixer]

X still marks the spot on google maps btw.

[Webby the Bear]

I've seen a few documentaries on JFK and there's a lot of fishy things....the Americans since the dawn of time do ''incidents shrouded in controversy'' the best. The FBI shooting JFK erroneously...who knows...but it sounds just as bizarre as the conspiracy theories that knock about; not saying it's not what happened but a documentary won't convince me either way as there are plausible things for all arguments.

I read the other day (again, newspaper so how do you know what to believe?  ) that some top scientist has called for the exhumation of the body for proof of the bullet hole in the head from the grassy knowle vantage point.... it will of course never happen.

I've been to the book depository museum and stood on the grassy knowle. So cool to be standing somewhere that's a very famous part of history.