History Channel special on JFK

[Missouri Mule]

Looks like it might be worth tuning in. On Sunday, the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination.

http://www.historychannel.com/jfk/

I just watched a couple of clips of this and it is well, well worth your time. This was truly history of lasting importance.

[Blueangel]

I'll be watching it too. Heard quite a bit about it.
Are there any Official Secrets documents coming up for publication?

My mum says, when I was 6 or 7years old, I repeatedly insisted that "Nixon killed J.F.K. cos Nixon's got evil eyes." :D
Apparently, I used to get mad at the TV every time Nixon was on the news.

Mind you...I also used to insist that the news reader Robert Dougal was really Dougal the Dog off the 'Magic Roundabout' with his hair tied back, so I wouldn't give much creedence to the hatred of Nixon.

[Missouri Mule]

Not to my knowledge. You aren't referring to "new" information on the assassination are you?

[Blueangel]

Yeah!
It would be a remarkable coincidence if new information does come to light 40years later. After all, it was quite an exhaustive investigation.

[Missouri Mule]

Just within the past few days some computer analysis put Oswald as the lone gunman. I believe logic and factual evidence also supports this conclusion.

[Missouri Mule]

A preview of the program. Ought to be interesting.
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JFK CONFIDENTIAL

By LINDA STASI
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The 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination has inspired new speculation on how - and why- he died.

November 14, 2003 -- NOT that I'm a conspiracy theorist, but how can I help but to be bizarrely concerned with all aspects of the Kennedy assassination?

Presidential assassinations are in my bones. Literally.

I was born on the anniversary Lincoln's shooting, married on anniversary Kennedy's shooting and divorced on the anniversary of Reagan's shooting.

Imagine how I feel on the anniversaries of McKinley and Garfield's shootings?

With the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination drawing near, The History Channel presents "JFK: A Presidency Revealed," and you'd be hard pressed to find a more fact-based, unbiased look at a President who has posthumously been worshipped and denigrated, praised and disgraced.

Shortly after taking office, JFK started recording his phone conversations-and many of the most shocking conversations are in this show.

But even more riveting is film of JKF in a top-secret meeting in the oval office with the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussing the overthrow of Castro. He allowed a TV show about 24 hours in the life of a president to be present! Can you imagine such a thing now?

But don't get the idea that this is yet another whitewash documentary of "Johnny, we hardly knew ye." It isn't.

In fact, the producers delve into the fact that JFK's fragile body was so wracked with constant pain that his personal Dr. Feelgood usually had him pumped with more drugs than Elvis.

They even indicate that during the Kennedy-Nixon TV debate the telegenic senator was high on pain killers. No wonder Nixon was sweating.

They also interview Robert Maheu who was recruited by the CIA to arrange for the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro. It's all there and yes, so are the affairs, real and alleged with mobster's girlfriends, Marilyn Monroe and a former spy.

Had JFK lived, it's very possible that the spy and mob affairs would have been exposed and all hell would have broken loose - but he didn't and they didn't.

(SNIP)

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/10782.htm

[Captain America]

Jackie was portrayed as a spend-crazed, spoiled little rich girl with a "Let them eat cake" attitude. I never knew that.

A reflection on Alabama/old south mentality back during the sixties has to be particularly embarassing these days. Let me do some math. Middle aged people who pretty much ran the country back in the mid 60's would be about 72 plus years old now. You folks should be ashamed! How could you have accepted such attrocities in your day? We still have a ways to go yet. I hope my generation fares better when we reflect during our twilight years.

[Missouri Mule]

It was a different time. I remember when the owner of the restarant I worked at chased a black soldier out who wanted service at the point of a shotgun. That was just outside St. Louis, Missouri.