Has 50 years been long enough for that one magic bullet to finally expend its energy and come to rest after its zany trajectory through assassination victims the world over (maybe the universe over)? I'll be glued to the History Channel waiting for their fine expose' (right after the alien astronaut and atlantis show).

How many people still really belive the lone gunman story. It was stupid the first time I heard it.

How back at ya.

I live in Dallas (transplant) and have walked this area many times. It's hard to fathom the 'story' told to the American people...

Mary Jones,

Nothing stays a secret forever. The more time that passes the more people talk. Most of those with a stake in keeping a conspiracy quite are dead. There was only one gunman that day.

What's interesting is that Oswald wrapped his gun in some wrapping paper (I think to make it look like curtain rods). Today, he could walk right in to his place of work with a semi-automatic weapon strapped to his side and be protected by the 2nd amendment. You think I'm joking, a bystander at an Obama rally in 2010 in New Hampshire was armed as such within yards of the president. How quaint 1963 was!

All that promise, gone in a flash. We will never know the full story of that day but it certainly seems that the political climate in the U.S. certainly became more harsh and more coarse after JFK's death. For those who are interested, some years ago, I came across some photos online of the aftermath.....don't remember if they were from Parkland or from the morgue but there was no question that it was the president lying there. The damage was horrendous. I can only say that I wish I had not seen them and that it is a wonder the Jacqueline Kennedy did not lose her mind after bearing witness to that. Fifty years come and gone and the truth is still absent.

I have been called a conspiracy theorist by many here, seems that their are a bunch of theorists here on this one. Funny how this could be more but other one just can't be true. Guess you believe what you want to believe in the end even the truth on this one will no longer matter as those involved are already gone or soon will be and nothing will ever be done same as all the other conspiracies still alive out there.

Oh dear Dallas - you will never be able to wipe JFK's blood of your streets.

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Mary Jones,

Nothing stays a secret forever. The more time that passes the more people talk. Most of those with a stake in keeping a conspiracy quite are dead. There was only one gunman that day.

Thanks for an intellegent post. All one has to do is read the accounts of Oswald's behavior leading up to the assasination...including his attempted assasination of a retired right-wing politician as he sat in reading in his study to realize that he was ready, willing and able to do what he ultimately did. No one else was invloved....as hard as that is for some people to believe

ItsAboutTime-3704531

I live in Dallas (transplant) and have walked this area many times. It's hard to fathom the 'story' told to the American people...

I too have been to Dealey Plaza...and my impression was exactly the opposite; What struck me was how small the plaza actually is. Distances are not as great as you might think from looking at the pictures taken that day. I thought to myself: "Gee...give me a reasonably accurate long gun and a little practice and I could easily make that shot myself."

Our very lifestyle in this country changed that day in Dallas. A new contempt for the law, and mistrust of the government was born. Not to mention the course of history that was altered. There wouldn't have been a Vietnam if Jack lived, the Cold War may well have ended twenty years earlier, and Watergate would never have happened.

So much was taken away from us that day in Dallas, besides just our leader. Our hopes & dreams, along with our youth & innocence were all washed away in a matter of just six seconds.

The worst part about this, aside from JFK's murder itself, is that the American people PAID for the truth six times over, and never got it.

But, we will get the complete truth in just a little over four (4) years when the remaining records pertinent to the assassination are released.

Of course, those who were involved in Kennedy's death will all be long gone by that time, if they aren't already.

I was only 8 years old when JFK was assassinated, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It seemed everything started going downhill for the country after he died. Just think, had JFK lived (along with Bobby and Martin Luther King,) the turmoil of the 60's and 70's might have been avoided. There are many of us from that generation who still long for political leaders of that caliber.

After 50 years, republicans want to mark this day! It would be better to find the people behind the president Kennedy's assassination. In my opinion republicans will be loosing elections, so they need to do something what can help them. The celebration of the 50th anniversary of JFK is just one more trick.

Dietrich the Kaiser, your name says it all. Just another Russian with "Cold War" grievances against the U.S. government. Get over it.

JFK was a sinner just like you and the rest of us. Perfection not, but a man who served his country in WWII and suffered the rest of his life with back problems from recovering his buddies off the PT109. He was a hero for that and could have stopped there. The Kennedy family has given many of its family members in service to this country, they were wealthy people and could have bought there way out of military service as many of their era did.

JFK and his his Brother Bobbie, Attny. Gen., played a shrewd hand in the Cuban Missile Crisis that saved the world from nuclear holocaust, not to mention, made it clear to the Russians that there was no way they could ever station their nuclear warheads just 50 miles off the coast of Florida and get away with it.

I was only 8 years old and clearly remember the tension and anxiety that gripped the nation and later the grief and sorrow when JFK was assasinated. Both these occurences impacted my young life and way of thinking. Freedom is not free and sometimes those who fight for it and civil liberties for all people die young.

It is right to honor the 50th year of the death of one of America's finest presidents, John F. Kennedy. Good luck Dallas planning committee

U Gotta Gun, I would not joke about anything like that, how crass !!!

Barbara, Nice try !! too bad you are quite wrong

Inverway, Dietrich the Kaiser is German , not russian.

Ah yes, Republicans wanting to now "Remember" this day and ensure that the "right" tone is set. I think they should have thought of that "Before" asking people to sign petitions to break away from the US and become their own country. This is just pathetic.

I am one that believes there was a "conspiracy". There is NO way he was killed by one gunman. Look at the video. He throws his head backwards after he is shot from the front also. I also think we would be really surprised who actually was behind his murder!!!! The person I have thought for almost 50 years!!!!!!

Robbo,

I got to visit the book warehouse many years ago when you could walk up to and peer out of the actual window. I agree with you completely!! I am told that they don't allow anyone in that corner anymore and it has been glassed in to preserve it.

It is very close to the actual street and the grassy knoll is even closer.

poor Barbara, you are so naïve. I remember the day he was shot and how over the following years he was the hero of the democratic party and everyone wanted to be just like him. Unfortunately this adulation was swept away by the new democrats who saw the power LBJ wielded in his 'great society' initiatives. From that point on JFK became a liability for democrats, except for the kennedy clan that milked his death for all they could get. When you look at JFK's presidency you will see that he was really quite conservative in most of his policies. So that is why you see the romanticizing of JFK by Clinton and Obama in their using the JFK name. But they were so far from his vision that you never hear of them wanting to be like JFK. Except of Clinton who tried to surpass JFK in one area of his body.

So Barbara your demo's have actually tarnished what everyone considers his greatest speech:

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."

You will notice three grand statements that are now anathema to the democrats.

1. New demo slogan: Ask not what you can do for your country - ask what your country can do for you.

2. Demo world vision: Ask not what the world can do for them selves, ask how much money America can give to you.

3. Demo policy: Know that here on earth God is not a part of it and we are our own gods.

I hear the Texas Governor wants a live re-enactment using the current president.

SteveJ--Now you are cooking with gas.

Read the book The Cold Six Thousand for a scary portrayal of how the hit really went down. The lone gunman lie is always trotted out, and it's always a lie. The JFK movie by Stone was pretty accurate as far as it went.

Been to Dealy Plaza,twice. IT is just one of those times in history,where we may never know for sure.

There is still conspiracy thoughts on Lincoln. Including, was, Lincoln's Sec of War, Statton behind the assanation. Stanton was a known Southern Sympathizer.

...we just will never know,for sure.

Hi Mark, One shooter an excellent marksmen involved. Oswald was decorated by the military for his marksmenship. The only thing I question is if he was a loose cannon or a hired hit man. JFK was not popular in the South. He was not popular with the Mafia. He certainly was respected but hated by the USSR. Perhaps one day if there is any thing to be told it will be, for now rest in peace JFK.

@Inverway: I'm not sure where you got that idea from, but Oswald scored 212 and 191 on his service rifle qualifications in the Marines. These are not decorations, they are badges to show the soldier's proficiency with a given weapon. They're also not very good scores, and Oswald was a radar operator anyway.

Yes, it would be nice to finally know for sure. Castro did a mock up in Cuba some years back and concluded it was multiple gunmen, including one in the storm grate. I like that explaination best.

Mark all Marines are riflemen first and foremost, Inverway, that being said the wounds and ballistics just don't match up with the evidence. 3 shoots. Kennedy the back, the neck, the head. Connolly, the back the chest, the wrist, the leg, Taegu, the cheek, the car, the windshield and the chrome. One bullet damaged but whole, one bullet never found missed one bullet two fragments in the car. Fully jacketed ammunition 1260 PPS MLC Medium velocity carbine. Italian made/w scope. Answer this left or right hand placement on the scoop, what was the shooter? The two officers who found this weapon how did they describe it and what was their former training? What was that police office handing the that FBI agent by the sewer in DP after the assissination and what is he putting in his pocket? Why when no SS were no the or left at the sene were SS agents being Identified by the Police right after the shooting?

The senate did a review of the Warren Report in the late 70's. It was their opinion that there was at least 4 shots fired, the forth probably from the "grassy knoll" but then elected not to do a full investigation. It was their feeling that the forth shot was just coincidentally fired at the same time as Oswald's and missed so no need to go through all the hassle.

It was also very thoughtful of Jack Ruby to whack Oswald to shield Jackie Kennedy from all the pain of a trial. Instead of focusing on his past as a reason for questioning his integrity it should be inspirational evidence of his transformation to a model citizen. What a guy!

Vindicator, like all the people who talk about this you take one piece of evidence make a statement and prove what, the windshield was photograph by James Altgens during the motorcade there are pictures of the car being cleaned up at Parkland and there is rummer that a picture was taken of the hole. Some say a policeman was seen sticking a pencil through it, but what can be seen is a crack in the windshield, there is also a dent to the chrome above this could have been made from a bullet fired from behind, one that hit Connolly and shattered his ribs. Do you thing a shot went through the front windshield and struck someone in the car, that is ridiculous.

Best wishes and hopes to you, Charlie.

Charlie - your story touched me. Thank you and best wishes.

Charlie:

I was in third grade,the teacher came into the room crying. Composed herself and explained what had haoppened that day. I remember sitting there trying to understand the office of President,and why is this so important.... a third grader's perspective,back then.

For the next 5 days, there was nothing on the networks(we only had three then.THANK God) except Walter Cronkite,Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, Kennedy,and replays of the funeral.

Charlie, my condolences for the loss of your wife, it is touching to me also. I too was 17 and a senior in HS that day. I don't think any of us will ever forget the depth of shock, horror, and sadness as our innocence was so rudely stripped away. I've never trusted my government fully since that day. No one I ever talked with back then believed the "official" story, it just didn't add up, and with the murder of Oswald it just seemed like a huge conspiracy to us. I've always believed the Vietnam war was the reason. Kennedy was going to end our involvement in it after his re-election and it would have cost the money-makers billions.

I'm currently reading another (in a long list of books I've read on it) book that doesn't speculate on the motives, but lays out hard scientific evidence that a conspiracy did indeed occur. It's "Bloody Treason: the assassination of John F. Kennedy". It's quite convincing.

Just like 911...

don't forget OJ...

Sure ......a REAL BELIEVABLESTORY THAT WAS!!! Can't fathom WHY most people really ATE IT UP!! What a LOAD OF PUCKY!!!! Com'on,..... Jules Verne couldn't spin a better tale! As for the memorial,... I think it's a great idea.

And Taxpayer-1543134, an idiot is an idiot. And you are an idiot.

Taxpayer-1543134

You're pathetic and sick.

There was absolutely no need for you to make a comment like that - A Hole !!

...so you can explain RFK getting assassinated by a Palestinian in Los Angeles how?

...so you can explain MLK getting assassinated by a criminal from Illinois in Memphis how?

Texas is the source of America's woes the same was Massachusetts is. Which is to say, no more than anywhere else. And this is coming from a CONNECTICUT YANKEE.

Barlow~~~~~ Reread your post! Are you aware that you said that those destroyers WERE fired upon? Was that a Freudian slip?

Not fair to blame Texas

squirrels

"We The People",... ARE.. almost gone!!!! To bad not many PEOPLE can see that!!! Just SHEEPLE, followers who know not what to do, except be lead blindly through life!

LS777 "We the people" are still in control. How else could PBO win a second term as Prez? I do agree that there are many wealthy people of power and influence that have bought wars to protect their assets overseas. I agree with you that the entire Iraq war " Operation Iraqi Freedom" had little to do with freeing their society. All a sham which was packaged and sold as a war on terror when it had more to do with oil and retribution. Little George was gonna get even with Sadam Husseins disrespect of his daddy. (Factoid: there was a hotel in Iraq with a very large mosaic of the face of George the first on the floor for people to walk on). George the first was really hated in Iraq.

Very clever how that administration manipulated the mind set of the entire nation who needed revenge for the 9/11 Osama Bin Laden terrorist attack into a conflict with Iraq. As if 9/11 wasn't bad enough the republican administration propagandized with "weapons of mass destruction" as a reason to go to war with Iraq instead of staying on target and finding the real terrorist, Osama. I never bought it and couldn't believe it when most Americans did and re-elect Bush for a second term.

So, I agree with you that there are those who do get elected from time to time who's intentions are not what they seem.

15 February... REMEMBER THE MAINE!

(Anyone feel a little deja vu just now?)

Mark, don't be disrespectful of all the men and women who died that day when Pearl Harbor was attacked. This and the proposed memorial tribute to JFK is not a "thing" to fill any void.

I was born after WW2. Never thought much about the men and women who fought in that war until I visited the beautiful "Arizona Memorial" that sits in Pearl Harbor. Many people will tell you that there is something very moving and viseral about standing on the spot where so many seaman lost their lives. I have visited this memorial twice and don't know why it moves me to tears each time.

Memorials are important. They remind us of our brightest and worst moments in history. They are reasons to remember to forge ahead positively and not to repeat mistakes of the past. It is through these reminders we know who we are as a people and what we stand for as a nation. I love this country and all those hero's and dreamers who made it possible for me to enjoy a life of freedom.

@Inverway: I did not mean any disrespect to veterans.

Yes, I've also been to Pearl Harbor (3 years ago). And I agree, memorials are important. My snarky original comment was just that -- snarky. However, PH Day is indeed dying off with the members of that generation. Most people I know put it on par or below Flag Day.

Vindicator no differences then wnat texansand other whites did to the native Amarican population since they first landed here and started the westward expansion. Seem to me in any an all scencio you can come up with it is and alays be the white's where the invaders.

"Makes me wonder how great of a President he truly was... when did he actually have time to do his job? He was so busy screwing many many many women. He was a man-whore. HAHA."

What a stupid, idiotic, insensitive, irresponsible and low-class thing to say.

First off - How was that stupid when it is the known truth? Idiotic - How do you figure? Incensitive - Why do I need to be sensitive about it? Irresponsible - Again, how is it irresponsible when what I stated, is the fact? ... Low class - again, how so?

Have you actually studied JFK's personal life instead of Presidential life? Look up his history... he was a very "busy" man when it came to the ladies.

That my friend..... is a known FACT.

I don't discount that what happened to him is unfortunate and sad. I absolutely believe it is. But I absolutely feel bad for Jackie for having witnessed his assasination but for also sticking with a man who strayed every chance he got.

I think Dallas can locally remember that 50 years ago this happened but it also doensn't need to be first hand media talk.

Busy man indeed, but impossible to have done everything he is said to have done. We were a better country for not knowing everything about our leaders. If he had not been killed we never would have had Nixon, we will never know what could have been.

USMC: Not getting any lately?? Why else are your pants or panties in a bundle over someone who had a great sex life to go with everything else?

Jack had an insatiable appetite for gorgeous women. Jealous?? Jackie looked the other way, she understood that powerful men usually have their picadillo's. That doesn't make it right, but you cannot measure the entire span of a mans life by what he had hidden in his pants!

The world is full of temptations for rich powerful men of influence. It was a different time in the 60's. People respected the privacy of their elected officials. Everyone has sex otherwise where would you be now.

@ Inverway -

Ahhh yes... my lack of sex has made me so jealous of a man (JFK) who made Hugh Hefner look like an amature. If only I could've gotten my mitts on JFK... ;)

@ Vindicator -

I knew it! It had to be her! :P

Exactly. You think Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald because of his love for Kennedy ? Jack Ruby had ties to the Mafia who, in turn, had ties with anti-Castro Cubans. Castro threw out the Mafia and their casinos when he took power. The botched Bay of Pigs incident was the alleged payback. He shot Oswald to shut him up. Kennedy was not the saint everyone made him out to be.

Not to go Oliver Stone here, but...

There were a lot of groups that disliked him. Russians, Communist Cubans, even those that believed he sold out the NATO countries when he took the Missles out out of Turkey, and agreeing to not invade Cuba, in exchange for the Russians removeing the Missles from Cuba.

Maybe Jack was not a saint, but he was certainly a hero, big time, for PT109 and the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis and you can take that to the bank. I believe that if it wasn't for his ability to work with the Russians, there is a good possibility we would have ended up in a nuclear war with said Russians.

Hey Vindicator:

He took the fall for the Mafia; he never confessed to anything. Otherwise, the Mafia would have gotten to him. Then he died from cancer in 1967.

Everybody gets caught up in who did it not in who covered it up for them!!! Who had the evidence people. You think this was covered up to stop Nuclear War ;-}

Powerful men have many enemies.

Yes Steve "Powerful men have many enemies.", and when you rock the boat too hard your enemies who are also powerful will band together to stop you. Was the mafia involved? Probably. Was Castro involved? Probably not. Were factions within the FBI and CIA involved? Definitely. None of the events leading up to the assassination or the cover-up that followed it could have been possible without the direct involvement of some key people in our own government. That's where the power truly exists. JFK stepped on many toes, some harder than others, but the old saying that "money talks and BS walks" really illustrates the true reason, which I think was his well-known intention to end our involvement in the Vietnam war immediately after his re-election to a second term. This would have cost the big-boys billions of dollars and they weren't going to stand for that. He also wanted to dismantle the CIA, and also reinvent the FBI, without Hoover.

What?!

Alan,

He means because it is a red state.

It was the day Kennedy finally got it through his head that we didn't want him down here.

With the way he died??? How it was covered up??? How our Government was stolen from us??? Peace BobW!!! I was 5 I remember my parents reaction more than my own, it was horrible! There should be no peace for that, we spent days watching the aftermath of this and having them ask whats going to happen? They knew.

If you think his head is in tack in those pictures your sick. even the Doctor at Parkland said you could look at his face and see it was him you had to turn his head to see the damage, it was to the back of the head. I am going to butcher the spelling Partial occipital temporal region, the brain matter that was coming out was low brain matter. He was hit around the right ear and out the back, about top era to bottom era fist size.

Vindicator, That isn't even tried in Best Evidence! A very good book you should read it, along with the ARRB books. Do some reading and get some better comprehension. It's people like you how give the people who know the subject a bad name that is unless your here to just spout out drivel. Mr. Kennedy was worked on after the Autopsy but interesting things went on with the body before. But not before he left Dallas.

Google the name James Files.......interesting ....makes you wonder

I heard about Mr. Files and a couple others all interesting, you want to know whats more interesting. Who knew about this, ordered and had, interpreted, changed, destroyed, and put forth all of the evidence. NOW THAT MAKES YOU WONDER. Should make you think, when is the last time we had a real President?

John Kennedy was a great president, it was a sad day, but this government was scared of a first Irsh Catholic in the white house with his family background. because of his death we got Lyndon Johnson in the white house this man got us into that useless Vietnam war lost 50,000 soliders for nothing, he started the welfare system that now is out of control, because he did not want to be a president with poor people, social security, everything else that the government runs and now is runnng out of money and going broke. So I am sick of blaming the repulicans over everything, the Democrats are responsible for the turn of this country to the worst.

What I do believe is that JFK's assassination followed by inept leadership in Vietnam, Watergate, Iran, the marine bombing in Beirut, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Grenada, Iraq war #1, the 1993 WTC bombing, 9/11, Iraq War II, Afghanistan and now the entire middle east has led to a serious erosion in public trust of our own government.

Er... what?
The Invasion of Grenada and Gulf War I were triumphs of good leadership and the deft use of military force. Gulf War II was not the former, but was certainly the latter. Afghanistan? Too early to tell as we're still there. The 1993 WTC bombing was basically a surprise, and I'm actually surpised you mentioned it and not the USS Cole, the African US Embassy Bombings, BENGHAZI or dozens of other more important events.

Johnson pogressed civil rights much more then Kennedy would have done. It was not the President that made Vietnam bad ending but the press and anti war movement. Watergate worked out great Nixon resigned, (unlike now with Obama (he didn't resign after doing things worse then watergate)). Iran Contra and the rest you mentioned turned out good. The press loved Kennedy and kept a lid on his illnesses,and his sexual escapades in the white house.

Spot on, 300Michael!
Sending advisors to back French colonial dreams was a mistake. The Gulf of Tonkin doubled down, and the press handling of Tet really screwed America's involvement in Viet Nam. What people forget is that the US Military won every battle. Congess lost the war by refusing to fund ARVN after the US left!

That due to many different theories on the shooting that day,that they will attempt to reenact the events of the day.............Obama can play the part of the dead kennedy.

Or Jello Biafra.