Thread: Nov 22nd 1963 --- 50 Years --- Nov 22 2013

Thx for the Vid Jimmey,Brought a smile to my face watching it,thinking the whole time that LBJ was one of the perps involved in the murder

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Thx for the Vid Jimmey,Brought a smile to my face watching it,thinking the whole time that LBJ was one of the perps involved in the murder

Possible for sure, if not in the murder, certainly in the ensuing coverup.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Possible for sure, if not in the murder, certainly in the ensuing coverup.

Has always amazed me why all the people involved in the murder/coverup,went to their graves without a peep

Been an interesting few days here at Casa G

I have the MIL visiting for the Holiday and it was enlightening to talk with her about Kennedy, he was the first President that she ever voted for, even got to shake his hand.. To call her a Kennedy Democrat is a huge understatement..

She has always felt the LBJ was involved somehow

I'm home in Dallas today and the local radio stations have been re-broadcasting the day in real time.
One of the comments is that had it been todays weather (Clouds, rain, windy, temp in the 30's) instead of sunny and the 50s the day would have been so much different (no open car)

For me, I was 8, living in Iceland and we got the news when we came out of a school event. They handed us a copy of a telex that had the Presidents image made out of x's and o's. I wish I saved it.

The base went on lock down and for the second and last time I remember my Dad, a Major in the USMC, came home armed, the other time was the Cuban Missile Crises. (also in Iceland)

My friend Stephen was 12, saw the motorcade leave Love Field that day and made eye contact with Jackie as the car slowed to turn on to Mockingbird - a moment he describes as being like no other since.

Just finished watching Charlie Rose interviewing Clint Hill. Mr. Hill is the secret service agent who was assigned full time to
Mrs. Kennedy when her husband took office. He was on the running board of the limo following the Presidential limo and the only agent to really react to the shooting. Hearing the shot his eyline was on the president as the secret servicemen with that limo were looking up at the depository. Hill reached the the bumper of the presidents limo as Mrs. Kennedy was up on the trunk retrieving a piece of JFK's skull. Hill finally managed to position himself across both Kennedy's to be in a position to take anymore gunshots himself.
I came away from watching this interview greatly saddened by this man who has tortured himself personally for not being
fast enough to reach the presidential limo quicker, because he feels he did not react quickly enough to do his job that he and all the agents were assigned that day which was, of course, to protect the president. He is a study in survivors guilt to the nth degree and he says it has only been the last few years when he has come to deal with it a little better. Rose continued to reassure Mr. Hill that he did, of course, everything humanly possible that day and that no one could have been any faster
nor could anyone have succeeded in taking that last bullet. I was proud of Rose for the depth of his sensitivity with Mr. Hill who was near tears throughout.
Mr. Hill revisited Dallas once after the event and in walking the exact route taken during the shooting he seemed to have cut himself a tiny bit of slack. He reconciled that the distance from the depository window to the president was in reality close and that perhaps he had actually done as well as he could have. He certainly appreciated how close he and Mrs. Kennedy became after the event and the trust they had in each other resulting from that shared minutes of utter horror and shock.
Mr. Hill also made it clear that he has never waivered in his belief that Oswald was the gunman and he (Hill) only heard three shots fired and they came from the depository.

Thanks to all here for contributing their thoughts on the subject that still moves so many of us 50 years after an event that took away our hopes and dreams as we were caught up in JFK as a vibrant young president and the celebrity status we assigned to him in hope of a better, more moral world that we all share. And thanks Glen for the OP.

Great post Iz6.I also watched that interview And my Heart went out to that poor soul.
We all have our thoughts about what happend that day,Sadley we will never find out for sure,maybe Oswald was the lone shooter,I do not think so.
Is pretty hard to move as fast as a .22-250 rnd at 4000 FPS coming from the grassy Knoll when your in back of the target,JMO