The Day Kennedy Died

There were three policemen who believed strongly enough that the fire came from the grassy knoll that they drew guns and headed that way. This action was discounted as sound bouncing. According to the report Dealy Plaza had an unusual audio feature that made the sounds of Oswald’s gun seem to come from the knoll. There were all kinds of “scientific” tests run to show that. If there had been buildings to bounce off at the knoll that would have been possible but there were none. Trees absorb sound. They do not reflect it. I have learned the harder you have to work to prove something, the less real evidence you have.

Warren report is not valid unless one of the bullets Oswald fires made a 90 degree turn. I have never seen or heard of a bullet make a 90 degree turn except if it hit something hard and don’t know anyone who has seen or heard of it. Without that 90 degree turn there had to be another shooter and the Warren report staff was told there wasn’t another shooter and their report wasn’t going to show there was another shooter. They decided the outcome of an investigation before the investigation. That 90 degree turn was Arlan Specter’s big contribution to the report. So much for his value.

Then there is Lady Bird Johnson. Her daddy’s money took an unknown Texan and made LBJ. He would have preferred it be his offspring but a southern belle couldn’t succeed in politics in Texas in the 50’s. Lady Bird was the ruthless strategist and the drive and money behind the horse’s rear end named LBJ. Seeing her as a ‘Macbeth’s wife’ – and see her killing the king is not beyond my reach, at least by proxy. She hated JFK. But for that young upstart Yankee (which is how she talked about JFK) her husband would have been president. More important she would have been first lady. LBJ oversaw the investigations. If there was a conspiracy, Lady Bird’s money financed it.

Johnson didn’t know the military – JFK did. As an aside, Teddy doesn’t know the military either and his stupid statements today show that. He was too young to understand what his brothers fought and paid for in WW2 and is generally too drunk to care. LBJ brought in MBA whiz kids to run the military. They understood money, not tactics. Most of them wouldn’t have recognized a grenade if one were thrown on the table in front of them. He cautiously committed troops in slow escalation and had them chewed up. The VC acclimated to the incremental increases. Soon over 100 body bags came home each week.

Would JFK handled it differently? I believe a man who took a PT boat with a plywood hull, four machine guns, four torpedoes, and a few hundred gallons of flammable aviation gasoline, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups of up to four against destroyers with 5 inch guns, cruisers with 8 inch guns and sometimes against battleships with 14 inch guns knew better. Go to Blockbuster and get a movie, “They Were Expendable” if you want to see what PT Boat life and death was like. It was made during the war and is realistic. You will get the picture of the metal of the man who is referred to as JFK. Then get “The Right Stuff.” The portrait of LBJ there when he tried to force John Glenn’s wife to do a press conference is essentially accurate. It portrays him as a horse’s rear.

I believe the execution warrant for at least half of the 60,000 men who died in Vietnam and the surrender of US forces was signed in Dallas on November 22, 1962 when JFK died. What I also know is, “we don’t really know what happened.”

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