JFK assassination -

[BigAltheGreat921]

50 years ago today, can you believe it? Of course most of us weren't even born yet.

The untimely death of John F. Kennedy is still hotly debated, with the official finding (that Oswald acted alone) and countless conspiracy theories involving the government, Russia, Cuba, the mob, LBJ, the list goes on. I personally believe that Oswald was a lone wolf and just angry, disillusioned, and probably not well mentally. And that Jack Ruby killed him simply because he was upset that the president was murdered.

But I digress. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

This happened about 22 years before I was born.

My dad was 11 at the time and in school. When JFK died, they played patriotic music over the PA, said they had sad news and my dad thought the Soviets were launching ICBM's. Then they announced the president was dead.

 

[Foulmouth]

I believe conspiracy theorists from the future went back in time and shot JFK to justify conspiracy theories throughout the ages.

 

[Some JERK]

People need to believe that JFKs assasination was the result of a grand, overarching conspiracy enacted by some super powerful organization (the CIA, the Russians, the mob, etc.) mainly because the truth that one well trained man with a rifle can basically kill at will is too much for most people to wrap their heads around.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

Even Gunnery Sergeant Hartman told his maggots they could do something similar when they graduated from Parris Island.

 

[A-Stump]

It was all a mass hallucination and JFK is living in Tijuana in an old folks home

 

[jaijai]

My dad was 15 when it happened. He remembers it really clearly, as I suppose so many of his generation do. It makes him emotional to talk about it.

As to the conspiracy theories... some people just need to believe in conspiracies, because it's too hard to believe that one person or an organisation can do such things.

 

[The Dude]

I think I'm one of the oldest members on the forum at 31. I know Smokedaddy is older, but don't know by how much. JFK was assassinated 19 years before I was born. I Also believe Lee Harvey worked alone, but that it was politically motivated and he probably had supporters and collaborators. The shots were not all that difficult for someone to make, even with a shitty rifle like his Carcano carbine.

I actually like JFK a lot and laugh every time some idiot who doesn't know history says that he was peaceful and if he hadn't been assassinated that the Vietnam war wouldn't have happened. He was a war hawk. A gunslinger. He's the reason we have USSOCOM forces like the Navy SEALs and the US Army Special Operations Detachment "Delta".

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

Smokedaddy and Chandler Cats are the same age. Chandler Cats revealed her age in chat, but I don't think that's for me to reveal

 

[Oglooger]

OSWALD WORKED FOR VAULT-TECH.

 

[Smokedaddy]

I think I'm one of the oldest members on the forum at 31. I know Smokedaddy is older, but don't know by how much.

Heh.

 

[CatParty]

Does anyone have JFK Reloaded? I remember that being super fun.

 

[The Hunter]

Does anyone have JFK Reloaded? I remember that being super fun.

I do. I still play it sometimes. Why, you want a copy?

 

[CatParty]

Does anyone have JFK Reloaded? I remember that being super fun.

I do. I still play it sometimes. Why, you want a copy?

That would be awesome!

 

[Holdek]

(Can't believe I missed this thread in the past few days.)

It's not entirely accurate to say that the Warren Commission was the only "official" version of events: in the late '70s the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations reported that JFK's assassination was "probably the result of a conspiracy."

Also, Clay Shaw was indicted for conspiracy to murder JFK in '67 by the New Orleans District Attorney.

For these two reasons, if anything, I hold the JFK assassination conspiracy idea apart from other ones like that the moon landing was a hoax or that 9-11 was an "inside job," etc.

 

[Marvin]

I have a copy of the Warren report sitting on my bookshelf. Of course, it's just gathering dust there, but it's still neat to have.

 

[Some JERK]

Does anyone have JFK Reloaded? I remember that being super fun.

I do. I still play it sometimes. Why, you want a copy?

That would be awesome!

Okay thanks to you two I've been playing this all evening. Surprisingly it runs awesome on wine and it is a blast (really, no pun intended). Does everyone eventually just settle into this thing where all they're trying to do is shoot the First Ladies hat off? Or is that just me?

 

[Picklepower]

Does anyone have JFK Reloaded? I remember that being super fun.

DUDE when I played that I could NEVER match Lee Harvey Oswalds shot, that PROVES the shots came from elsewhere! jk That game was hard I would hit everyone around him, like the guys on the motorcycles. I hit him once, but not in the head.

 

[blackie toy]

in the late '70s the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations reported that JFK's assassination was "probably the result of a conspiracy."

I knew one of the guys who was on that committee. One of his favorite stories was about when he heard about the Kennedy assassination, this ex-Marine he worked with in DC broke down crying. Not because Kennedy was dead, but because Johnson had become President. Solid dude. When he retired, the joke going around was that he was going to reveal where Jimmy Hoffa was buried.

 

[Holdek]

in the late '70s the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations reported that JFK's assassination was "probably the result of a conspiracy."

I knew one of the guys who was on that committee. One of his favorite stories was about when he heard about the Kennedy assassination, this ex-Marine he worked with in DC broke down crying. Not because Kennedy was dead, but because Johnson had become President. Solid dude. When he retired, the joke going around was that he was going to reveal where Jimmy Hoffa was buried.

I'm giving you a thanks for writing the term "ex-Marine."