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JFK death 49 years ago today.

  • 22-11-2012 10:06PM
    #1
    tayto lover
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    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?


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  • #2
    El Guapo!
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    Too soon.


  • #3
    tayto lover
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Too soon.
    What is too soon?


  • #4
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    tayto lover
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    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 ;)


  • #6
    Max Power
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    I remember it well, I was -24 at the time.


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  • #7
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #8
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    tbh.


  • #9
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    I heard his head exploded by natural causes :confused:


  • #10
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
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    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    I remember it well, I was -24 at the time.

    Hanging out in Baghdad


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
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    Can't believe people still believe he was shot.

    It was holograms.


    New World Order. Lizard people. Flouride. Etc.


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  • #12
    Pherekydes
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    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?


  • #13
    Ghandee
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    I was but a pebble in the beach.

    Didn't come along for 15 years after it.


  • #14
    coolhull
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    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)


  • #15
    Suryavarman
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    In before RTDH.


  • #16
    RikkFlair
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    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.


  • #17
    120_Minutes
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    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.


  • #18
    Bassfish
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    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


  • #19
    franktheplank
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    And I'll never forget where I was either. Standing on a crazy knoll with a large rifle in a lizard suit.

    Good times.


  • #20
    Celly Smunt
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    i was just a little rattle in my fathers balls at the time.

    RIP


  • #21
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


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


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  • #22
    SafeSurfer
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    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.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #23
    SafeSurfer
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    brummytom wrote: »
    23 years ago, Thatcher became PM. An even sadder day.

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

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #24
    SafeSurfer
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    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?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #25
    brummytom
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Aren't they investigating her and her cabinet for crimes against miners?
    Yep, she shafted them.


  • #26
    Rabies
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    Suryavarman wrote: »
    In before RTDH.

    Remember The Demon Horde?


  • #27
    Scorpion Sting
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    brummytom wrote: »
    23 years ago, Thatcher became PM. An even sadder day.

    33 years. ;)


  • #28
    brummytom
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    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.


  • #29
    Latchy
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    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 .


  • #30
    Bassfish
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    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


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  • #31
    Duggy747
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    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:


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