In the hours after the Kennedy assassination, after Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit and was identified as the president's assassin, a Secret Service officer named Mike Howard was dispatched to Oswald's apartment. Howard found a little green address book, and on its 17th page under the heading "I WILL KILL" Oswald listed four men: an FBI agent named James Hosty; a right-wing general, Edwin Walker; and Vice President Richard Nixon. At the top of the list was the governor of Texas, John Connally. Through Connally's name, Oswald had drawn a dagger, with blood drops dripping downward.
Special Agent Howard turned the address book over to the FBI and, ultimately, to the Warren Commission. Only some time later did he learn that the list with its hugely important insight into the killer's motive had been torn out of the book.
I didn't hear about Howard until after I published my book "The Accidental Victim" three years ago on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. In it I argue a circumstantial case that it was Connally, not John F. Kennedy, who was Oswald's target in Dallas. It is the story of a smoldering grudge in which Oswald came to associate Connally with all the setbacks in his disastrous, hopeless life.
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Vice President Richard Nixon? Oswald was still in Russia raising a family and living the communist dream when Nixon left the Eisenhower administration in 1961.
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the 'Oswald really wanted to kill Connally' has been around the block before, e.g., in 2013.
It is, at least a step down from the more elaborate theories (CIA, mafia, LBJ, etc.).
a big problem with this theory is that Oswald had a good view of the vehicle and the people in it for quite a while as the President's car went toward him - Oswald knew who was sitting where and yet two of Oswald's shots hit JFK - if Oswald would have wanted to kill Connally, he presumably would have aimed at Connally.
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OK, he shot Kennedy by mistake. Does that make it all better?
Posted by: ed in texas ||
11/23/2016 8:57 Comments ||
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Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT a bad shot. He was a former Marine and a rated "sharpshooter" but was later downgraded to "marksman". Either of the two ratings would have been enough to make the shots needed from where he was positioned.
I also have been to the window, (Dallas native) and I could make those shots and I am probably not as skilled as he was.
[DAWN] NUMBERS, like words, tell stories. In recent years, the stories told by the numbers of Pakistain have mostly been sad ones that have largely to do with death. Collectively, they enumerate deaths from disease, deaths in childbirth, deaths at the hands of loved ones and the country’s security/state apparatus. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the numbers of deaths from terrorist attacks have been responsible for the state of the most bereft. We have, over the years, counted dead children, dead mothers, dead fathers, dead governors and dead prime ministers. People have died at terror’s hands while shopping, while taking their children to school, while praying and in hospitals while already dying.
It is, therefore, some small solace that one new set of numbers, delivered by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an American think tank, suggests the possibility of hope, of some reprieve after nearly two decades of death’s devastation. According to numbers collected by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), a set of data collected and maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism at the University of Maryland, there were 677 fewer deaths from terrorism in Pakistain in 2015. Overall, Pakistain saw the third largest decrease in deaths from terrorism worldwide, followed by Iraq and Nigeria. The improvement followed a global trend, with the number of deaths from terrorist attacks decreasing by 10 per cent. Along with Pakistain, 76 countries improved their scores in 2015.
This is welcome news for Pakistain, scarred and maimed as it is by the scourge of terrorism and its implications. Not only has the shadow of the sudden deaths of innocent people inculcated a deep sense of paranoia in those who have lived, it has ripped the fragile threads of national unity, religious tolerance and general civility. Even as terror’s shadow seems to recede, the future promises its own challenges.
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Now if Pakistan could reduce using terror groups as an extension of its foreign policy...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The death of Mohammed Surur ended a chapter of the history of political Islam in the Gulf. The Syrian holy man, who hailed from Houran, had spoken about his memories during a television show. His journey began with the traditional affiliation to the Moslem Brüderbund. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the problems which the group encountered in Syria forced him to seek another destination for his fundamentalist theories.
He moved to Britannia and then to Kuwait and to Soddy Arabia
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"In Saudi Arabia, the Brothers were part of a broader social movement called the "Islamic Awakening" (al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya), or Sahwa, whose ideology blended the political outlook of the Muslim Brotherhood with Salafi religious views. Other groups within the Sahwa included the so-called Sururis, named after..., the Syrian ex-Muslim Brother Muhammad Surur Zayn al-‘Abidin. In the 1970s, the Sahwa’s influence grew extensively, especially in schools and on university campuses. [so] that by the end of the decade, tens of thousands of young Saudis were Sahwa affiliates. This is when the young bin Laden, like many in his generation, joined one of the factions of the movement. It was in his case the Saudi MB, because it was the most active faction in his region of origin, the Hejaz."
[The Federalist] In an interview with "The Breakfast Club," a radio show in New York City, rapper Nick Cannon said Planned Parenthood is committing a genocide against black Americans.
"Hillary was sneaking and cheating," Cannon said. "Think about all the stuff they did with Planned Parenthood and all that type of stuff. That type of stuff is to take our community -- and forget gentrification, it’s real genocide, and it’s been like that for years. This system is not built for us."
He’s not wrong. Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist and a eugenicist who wanted to stop "biologically unfit" persons from having children. She was a big hit when speaking to a woman’s chapter of the Klu Klux Klan, and confessed in a letter that she wanted to "exterminate the Negro population."
"We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members," Sanger wrote in a letter dated from 1939. In 1934, Sanger proposed a federal law that would legislate who could have children. Here’s an excerpt:
Currently, Planned Parenthood kills more than 850 African-Americans a day in its abortion clinics. African-Americans account for 37 percent of all abortions, yet only represent 13 percent of the population.
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Abortion as a form of birth control, sort of explains the motivation for both sides, does it not ?
Additional motivations from the gov't could perhaps be found in the willful support of illegal immigration. An immigration of people who, due to their faith, denounce abortion as well as birth control. At the risk of sounding 'alt-right' I will leave it at that.
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The culprit is a dysfunctional black community.
Don't take responsibility for one's own choices, blame everybody else for one's condition, and receive dispensation from one political wing for all your self destructive acts. Reward failure and punish success, guess what you get more of?
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The reality is that our species is not yet ready for birth control.
In pretty much every society that gives women the vote, and has easy access to birth control and sacramentalizes abortion, birth rates drop to demographic implosion levels within two or three generations. Western women in particular have done this, but a quick glance at the rest of the world shows that other nations are following suit as well.
What galls is the reasons that women give for this. When asked, it's always some platitude about "the environment" or "overpopulation" or some other nonsense. The reality is that they are motivated - especially in a post-Christian society - by a desire to maximize lifestyle and affluence, and by fear of losing the same, and by a fear of multiple childbirths damaging their ladyparts and causing incontinence, and by a fear that multiple childbirths will diminish their beauty and sexual currency, limiting their ability to manipulate men and have status versus other women. If that sounds harsh, tough. It's reality, outside of a core of a few decent women.
And yes, there are plenty of amoral, sociopathic men who go along for the ride.
The nation that will dominate in 150 years will be whichever one has women who want to have three or more children (if they are fertile enough to do so) at optimum childbearing age, actually have them in intact monogamous families, in a society where the family and not the apparatus of state is the basic unit of society. Right now the West isn't on that trajectory.
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The reality is that they are motivated - especially in a post-Christian society - by a desire to maximize lifestyle and affluence...
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In addition to no mo uro's essay, I think that another related demotivating factor is that optimum childbearing age, is younger, in the West, than that which society supports. Biology prepares women to give birth earlier than society does. Somehow 30 is past biology's plan.
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It would seem wise for Christian preachers across America to promote their flocks to have three children each for God. 20 years later the number of believers will outnumber the unbelievers.
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AlanC is talking about prolonged adolescence. Off topic but society keeps kids of all races in high school where they have hardly any freedom and absolutely no earning potential until they are 18 years old. While in high school they are brainwashed with the idea that they must attend college if they want to be successful in our society. That keeps them in that state of minimal freedom and zero earning potential until they are in their mid-twenties which is past their sexual prime. Then they finally get turned loose to try to figure out what they are gonna do only to find there isn't much they can do and they stay in that limbo until their thirties. What are they learning all those years in our school system? Does anybody tell them that their jobs have been taken by workers in other countries? Are they taught how to start businesses of their own? Are they taught any kind of useful job skills? If any of them figure it out it's in spite of the educational system and not because of it. So the girls who get pregnant have no husbands. In the poor black communities they probably only have mothers who never had any better chance than they do. The communities are flooded with drugs due to a lack of border security, the young men lacking in legitimate opportunities turn to crime and up in jail in proportionately far higher numbers than the rest of the population. So yeah, genocide.
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Interesting that all of our opinionated analysts appear male.
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Skidmark, I welcome the female point of view. Let's hear it.
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So what if they are male? Being correct is not confined by gender. The content and logic of the argument matters, not the gender of the person delivering it. After all, abortion destroys a male or female human live without differentiation.
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Unregulated abortion and sex education from the moment I child enters the school system are the wet dream of our most liberal and immoral opponents.
What better way to ensure a continual supply of concubines than to ensure that our (too) young children know far to much about sex and that abortion will be there to erase any reminders of the downside of all of this knowledge. The powers that be aren't "worried, and wanting to help" the little jimmy's and susie's of the world--they are far more interested in getting them sexually active and hoping there is a *spillover* from that activity that lands (literally) in their lap.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
