November 22, 1963 - This Day In History

[J.R.@A&M]

TAM said "Go to the 6th Floor Museum, and look out the window next to the one Oswald shot from. Look down to where the big white X (just recently removed) would be on the pavement. You would actually be shocked at how close the shot was—not at all like what I had imagined it to be. The distance from the shooter's window to Kennedy was only 181 feet, or just a little over 60 yards. The three shots are spaced over six seconds."

I had the same reaction looking down from the 6th floor. Most of us would not situate a deer feeder that close to our blind.

[sunny beach]

How about Howard Donahue's theory that JFK's headshot was a ND?

"Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by a Secret Service agent from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President's vehicle. However he also decided that one of Oswald's shots had already critically and probably mortally wounded Kennedy before this shot was fired."

[WildBill]

How about Howard Donahue's theory that JFK's headshot was a ND?

"Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by a Secret Service agent from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President's vehicle. However he also decided that one of Oswald's shots had already critically and probably mortally wounded Kennedy before this shot was fired."

Nonsense.

[jmra]

How about Howard Donahue's theory that JFK's headshot was a ND?

"Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by a Secret Service agent from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President's vehicle. However he also decided that one of Oswald's shots had already critically and probably mortally wounded Kennedy before this shot was fired."

Nonsense.

[Charles L. Cotton]

How did Kennedy have the highest approval rating, a rating that still holds up today?

http://jfk14thday.com/jfk-presidential- ... l-ratings/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Any current rating is the product of half a century of lies by the media, Hollywood and the Democrats.

Chas.

[puma guy]

TAM said "Go to the 6th Floor Museum, and look out the window next to the one Oswald shot from. Look down to where the big white X (just recently removed) would be on the pavement. You would actually be shocked at how close the shot was—not at all like what I had imagined it to be. The distance from the shooter's window to Kennedy was only 181 feet, or just a little over 60 yards. The three shots are spaced over six seconds."

I had the same reaction looking down from the 6th floor. Most of us would not situate a deer feeder that close to our blind.

Don't forget Oswald had practiced shooting human beings when he attempted to assassinate Gen. Edwin Walker in April 1963. Shooting from about 33 yards at night Oswald would have struck his target had the bullet not been deflected by a wooden frame on a pane of the window. Bullet fragments struck General Walker. Oswald was not an inexperienced human hunter.

[StewNTexas]

I was in English Comp. class at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, TN when the news came over the intercom. I got up, walked out the nearest exit, threw up into the bushes.

My first 'official' parade duty was his inauguration in January, 1961. Had just finished about 60 days in our unofficial training platoon where we learned how to really polish brass, iron a sharp crease and spit shine damn almost anything. It rained very hard all morning, and the podium was covered. It is very difficult to march on a combination of cobble stones and large pieces of cast iron from the street car plates when wearing steel taps on the bottom of your shoes.

Spent about two years with Presidential Honor Guard, lots of time standing around looking pretty. Lots of real duty at Camp David, and traveling around the globe to various embassies with a brief case locked to a wrist. Spent the last eight months with HMX-1, the fancy helicopter group you see all the time on TV. Back in those days, we were really on duty, not wearing blues for show.

Due to this background, I was glued to a TV for the next 36 hours straight. Saw lots of people I knew and had worked with.

I have always wondered where I would have been then, and now, had I stayed in for one of the many offers I had. As the early 60's were the birth of the hippies, and as many as there were in this age group, any one having Top Secret White House clearance was a rarity. I was approached by every alphabet agency in/around Washington, but turned them all down. Add in that I was a member of the HQ USMC rifle team, with a fist full of 14k shooting medals, and had set a all time high in a match at Lejeune in '62, some of the offers were very good.

This was a long time ago, in a land very far away, but I still remember......

But with my pacemaker/defib unit, I am not allowed the recoil shock any more, but I remember that too.

[WildBill]

I was in English Comp. class at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, TN when the news came over the intercom. I got up, walked out the nearest exit, threw up into the bushes.

My first 'official' parade duty was his inauguration in January, 1961. Had just finished about 60 days in our unofficial training platoon where we learned how to really polish brass, iron a sharp crease and spit shine darn almost anything. It rained very hard all morning, and the podium was covered. It is very difficult to march on a combination of cobble stones and large pieces of cast iron from the street car plates when wearing steel taps on the bottom of your shoes.

Spent about two years with Presidential Honor Guard, lots of time standing around looking pretty. Lots of real duty at Camp David, and traveling around the globe to various embassies with a brief case locked to a wrist. Spent the last eight months with HMX-1, the fancy helicopter group you see all the time on TV. Back in those days, we were really on duty, not wearing blues for show.

Due to this background, I was glued to a TV for the next 36 hours straight. Saw lots of people I knew and had worked with.

I have always wondered where I would have been then, and now, had I stayed in for one of the many offers I had. As the early 60's were the birth of the hippies, and as many as there were in this age group, any one having Top Secret White House clearance was a rarity. I was approached by every alphabet agency in/around Washington, but turned them all down. Add in that I was a member of the HQ USMC rifle team, with a fist full of 14k shooting medals, and had set a all time high in a match at Lejeune in '62, some of the offers were very good.

This was a long time ago, in a land very far away, but I still remember......

But with my pacemaker/defib unit, I am not allowed the recoil shock any more, but I remember that too.

Thanks for your post and insight.

[glbedd53]

Those of you that believe the Warren Commission, I respectfully suggest, there a lot of books on the subject, please read them. A lot of powerful ruthless people and interests had huge motives to kill him. LBJs future and freedom depended on it. He was headed to prison. All you need to do is read a few books about the life of LBJ to believe he played a big part in it. Some people just won't be denied and LBJ sure was one. J Edgar Hoover was another, he was gonna be forced to retire. Allen Dulles had been fired and the CIA was being threatened by the Kennedys. Then there's the mob. They put the Kennedys in power and they were double crossed. Who sent Jack Ruby to silence Oswald? Or do you believe someone with Rubys long history of mob associations was just so much a Kennedy lover?