JFK death 49 years ago today.

tayto lover

I was just a very young lad but I remember my mother crying at the news of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the U.S.A.
He had visited Ireland earlier in the year and drawn huge crowds.

Anyone else on here remember that sad day?

El Guapo!

Too soon.

tayto lover

Dean09 wrote: »

Too soon.

What is too soon?

cml387

Come back in a year, you'll be fed up of documentaries alleging that whoever it was that shot JFK,it wasn't the guy with the gun in the bookstore.

tayto lover

cml387 wrote: »

Come back in a year, you'll be fed up of documentaries alleging that whoever it was that shot JFK,it wasn't the guy with the gun in the bookstore.

I could be shot in the meantime

Max Power

I remember it well, I was -24 at the time.

DEFTLEFTHAND

There might be some interesting documentaries on the box tonight so, I love the conspiracy type programmes. As for remembering the assassination myself, I wasn't born until 88 I'm afraid. :pac:

El Weirdo

tbh.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I heard his head exploded by natural causes

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FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I remember it well, I was -24 at the time.

Hanging out in Baghdad

AnonoBoy

Can't believe people still believe he was shot.

It was holograms.


New World Order. Lizard people. Flouride. Etc.

Pherekydes

I remember the day my Da came home from work and told my Ma. Their shock was palpable. They probably said a decade of the rosary for him. Meh, I was 3. Where's my dinky?

Ghandee

I was but a pebble in the beach.

Didn't come along for 15 years after it.

coolhull

Joking aside, I remember as a child watching the funeral on a black and white telly (loaned for the day) in school. Young 'John-John' Kennedy saluted the coffin, he was about my age at the time (6)

Suryavarman

In before RTDH.

RikkFlair

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Can't believe people still believe he was shot.

It was holograms.


New World Order. Lizard people. Flouride. Etc.

It was Fidel Castro in a lizard suit...on a grassy knoll.

120_Minutes

Before my time, but something that always interested me as a child. I think it was the fact it was the first "public" assassination of the modern age.

I used to be convinced there was more than one shooter on the day, but now i believe oswald acted alone, but didnt plan it alone.

Bassfish

My parents talk about being out 'at a dance' when they heard and the band stopped and it was like a member of their own family was killed, which is a bit ridiculous but understandable given the small world they lived in in 1960's rural Ireland. To think that someone cut from the same cloth as them could rise to become the leader of the free world.
It's hard for a lot of people to acknowledge but the reality is that it's 95% certain that Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from the sixth floor of the book depository building, the dozens of conspiracy theories simply don't stack up. The 'shot from the grassy knoll' theory is rubbish because at that angle there was no possible way the bullet could have hit him and not gone through and hit Jackie.
Btw I spent my young life being called John John after JFK jr. :-D

franktheplank

And I'll never forget where I was either. Standing on a crazy knoll with a large rifle in a lizard suit.

Good times.

Celly Smunt

i was just a little rattle in my fathers balls at the time.

RIP

brummytom

23 years ago, Thatcher became PM. An even sadder day.

SafeSurfer

It is often said that the events around the JFK assassination were the start of the dominance of television. You had the president being killed that you could see as it happened and then his assassin is shot dead live on TV.

As and American comedian put it, you see these things happen live on TV and your never going to switch it off again.

It was instant. We like our news now, we like to be the first to know. Which is why things like Twitter are gaining such prominence.

SafeSurfer

brummytom wrote: »

23 years ago, Thatcher became PM. An even sadder day.

Aren't they investigating her and her cabinet for crimes against miners?

SafeSurfer

Bassfish wrote: »

My parents talk about being out 'at a dance' when they heard and the band stopped and it was like a member of their own family was killed, which is a bit ridiculous but understandable given the small world they lived in in 1960's rural Ireland. To think that someone cut from the same cloth as them could rise to become the leader of the free world.
It's hard for a lot of people to acknowledge but the reality is that it's 95% certain that Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from the sixth floor of the book depository building, the dozens of conspiracy theories simply don't stack up. The 'shot from the grassy knoll' theory is rubbish because at that angle there was no possible way the bullet could have hit him and not gone through and hit Jackie.
Btw I spent my young life being called John John after JFK jr. :-D

Back and to the left. How do you explain that from the book depository?

brummytom

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Aren't they investigating her and her cabinet for crimes against miners?

Yep, she shafted them.

Rabies

Suryavarman wrote: »

In before RTDH.

Remember The Demon Horde?

Scorpion Sting

brummytom wrote: »

23 years ago, Thatcher became PM. An even sadder day.

33 years.

brummytom

jebforever wrote: »

33 years.

I'm very drunk, and haven't done maths in 3 years. Apologies, 33 years! Good thing Dave's continuing her legacy.

Latchy

Bassfish wrote: »

. The 'shot from the grassy knoll' theory is rubbish because at that angle there was no possible way the bullet could have hit him and not gone through and hit Jackie.

She was splattered with his brains and blood all over which is about as close to been shot as anything and that grassy knoll shot had probably more of a chance of hitting Kennedy with a straight, clean exit than that 'Magic ' bullet theory that supposedly hit Kennedy and then governor Connolly .

50 anniversary next year to .

Bassfish

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Back and to the left. How do you explain that from the book depository?

His head didn't move back and to the left, that's an invention of the Oliver Stone film JFK, that film is factually very inaccurate which Oliver Stone admitted himself.
Sure we're not going to solve the mystery on this forum any way but it is fun to discuss :-D

Duggy747

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Can't believe people still believe he was shot.

It was holograms.


New World Order. Lizard people. Flouride. Etc.

Typical conspiracy nut stories.










It was chemtrails :pac:

120_Minutes

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Back and to the left. How do you explain that from the book depository?

If you're basing your beliefs on an oliver stone movie, stop right now.

that head movement is not exclusive to a shot from behind, a lot of CS nutjobs seem to forget this.

120_Minutes

Latchy wrote: »

S 'Magic ' bullet theory that supposedly hit Kennedy and then governor Connolly .

Magic bullet theory tends to omit the fact that connolly sat lower and further into the car than JFK, making the shot possible.

kincsem

Suryavarman wrote: »

In before RTDH.

He probably says it wasn't a conspiracy.

bbam

I worked in Dallas a few times..
They have a museum in the warehouse where the shot was fired from.. Little silver X on the road where he was when he was shot, you can look out the corner window down the "grassy naul" onto the X..

Its a bit cheesy but there is a section for all the conspiricy nuts to thrawl through... TBH its the only thing in Dallas worth visiting, I'm sure that demonstrates how rubbish the city is..

Intensive Care Bear

Reminds me of this http://youtu.be/IXDOk0vq4aI

Plazaman

I blame that Zapruder lad. Him with his fancy film camera who just happened to capture the shot or did he actually fire the shot himself from a concealed gun*.






*No is the answer to that