#jfk assassination 57 years ago today at 11:00 AM Pacific time, John F. Kennedy was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald. It broke my heart when I got the news. The US came to a stop for several days as we all grieved. It never should have happened. John F. Kennedy was 46 years old and appeared to be in excellent health. In reality, he was a sick man who I do not believe would have lived out a second term as president from 1964 to 1968. He had severe back problems and wore a back brace. The first bullet hit him and wounded him. Any other person would have fallen over. A possibility of a second fatal head shot would not have existed. Kennedy's back brace kept him upright. Oswald was able to fire the fatal shot to the head.
Oswald should not have been at the scene of the assassination that day. Oswald was a mentally unstable ex-USMC sniper who defected to Russia and returned to the US with his Russian bride Marina. He went to Mexico City to the Cuban Embassy. He applied for permission to live in Cuba. His initial application was turned down by Cuban authorities. Shortly before the shooting, the Cubans changed their mind. Oswald was given permission to emigrate to Cuba and live there. Had Oswald's initial application been approved, he would have been in Havana on the day that Kennedy was shot.
The US Secret Service also failed to look at Oswald as a person of interest and a potential security threat to the president. This tragedy shook the Secret Service right to their roots. Since then, no US president has been killed. Only President Reagan was shot and wounded.
To all my readers, please observe a moment of silence for John F. Kennedy. He had an incredible intellect, compassion for people, and saved us from a nuclear war in October of 1962.
and saved us from a nuclear war in October of 1962.
No one was gonna launch a nuke. Another 60 years later and more countries have them and still no nukes have been launched. Even though it was not necessary, dropping the nukes on Japan changed the world. First, you don't fuck with the USA. Second, nukes could destroy the world literally in minutes. The cold war was a war no one was going to win because winning it would require killing yourself. Mutually assured destruction and nuclear fallout. Hence why we haven't had a nuke dropped on a foreign entity since WWII.
Hid his crippling illness from the public. Was constantly high on strong meds because of it. Betrayed Cubans at Bay of Pigs. Grabbed many-many pussies. Got US into Vietnam. Etc.
Funny. Lots and lots of ex-mobsters spilling their guts on youtube these days on venues like Valuetainment.
One overarching theme: "We're out of business because the govt is the mafia now and we can't compete!"
One thing I've learned from watching those is that in the golden age of the mafia when they were busted they didn't have to go to jail for very long. Not until Rudy Giuliani started getting them on RICO statutes.
Apparently there are still old school mafia around but they are mostly concentrated in Sicily these days according to these guys.
Then, I hear about the mafia being involved in some of the election fraud so maybe they are still here in some fashion.
Now hearing that Trump has already invoked JFK's National Security Memo 57 to remove power from the CIA, and limiting them ONLY to intelligence gathering and none of their special ops and separate military and airforce. JFK never had the Memo formally executed because of the DoD pushback and his ultimate assassination, but now Trump has done it.
Oswald should not have been at the scene of the assassination that day. Oswald was a mentally unstable ex-USMC sniper who defected to Russia and returned to the US with his Russian bride Marina. He went to Mexico City to the Cuban Embassy. He applied for permission to live in Cuba. His initial application was turned down by Cuban authorities. Shortly before the shooting, the Cubans changed their mind. Oswald was given permission to emigrate to Cuba and live there. Had Oswald's initial application been approved, he would have been in Havana on the day that Kennedy was shot.
The US Secret Service also failed to look at Oswald as a person of interest and a potential security threat to the president.
This tragedy shook the Secret Service right to their roots. Since then, no US president has been killed. Only President Reagan was shot and wounded.
To all my readers, please observe a moment of silence for John F. Kennedy. He had an incredible intellect, compassion for people, and saved us from a nuclear war in October of 1962.