President Kennedy Injured in Dallas?

Pleasant Plains, where were the shots fired from? The spectators on the street?

buddy of mine's in the m*fia and told me to stay in today. "some real bullshit's going down." related?

I hope they don't cancel that new Doctor Who show tomorrow cos of this, apparently the special effects are incredible.

You probably had that factoid already stored in what of your ledger books, didn't you, jaymc?

They're not saying yet where the shots were fired. "Pandemonium" is gripping Dallas right now, according to the broadcast.

CBS saying that presidential limo is specifically built for public rides, and that the president's seat is actually lifted higher than regular cars so that the crowd can see him.

Great idea, car designers.

:/

on valentine's day, of all days

i just got back from an afternoon showing of it's a mad mad mad mad world--can someone give an update?

My mom keeps calling me back with what's on the TV. I've been trying to get news from the radio, but they're not talking about it yet. (!!)

However, they just announced that Aldous Huxley died today. Brave New World indeed.

CRONKITE: KENNEDY IS GONE.

;_;

xxp What a day. CS Lewis died today, too.

FUCK.

I'm going to log off for a bit. I'm sure we'll have more to talk about later.

This feels so weird.

Goodbye, Camelot.

too soon.

I'll always remember where I was at this moment. Sitting in front of my computer reading an online message board.

What a day. CS Lewis died today, too.

-- jaymc, Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:40 PM

!!!

Jackie Kennedy, what's on your iPod?

RIP first patsy cline now this can 1963 get any worse

Who will console the widow Jacqui?

Rock Hudson's available.

not to sound like a total geek but does anyone have any idea if this is going to effect the space program?

so i guess this means johnson is taking over then? where ever will they swear him in?

Why? Where is he?

that guy's always made me nervous re: escalating things in asia. but i mean nobody would be that fucking stupid, right?

he could get backed into a corner. fuck. fuuuck.

Don't worry, I doubt he'll be in office long enough.

we need to keep those dominoes from tipping

you're right. gotta figure nixon must be salivating at this, unfortunately.

Yeah, things aren't gonna be too groovy over the next four years.

xpost - yeah, right, nixon's finished

Prime Minister MacMillan is going to make a statement to parliament at 7pm. We got your back over here, America. Stay strong.

they'll probably swear that motherfucker in ASAP, like in a hallway or a car or some shit

We won't have Nixon to kick around any more

Obviously, the worst thing to happen in this country for the next fifty years.

Who would have ever thought that someone would shoot the president as he was riding in a convertible? I mean, it seems so obvious now.

There's this kid in our office, Glenn Anzalone, who says he's already writing a tribute to JFK. Restores my faith in the youth of this nation.

off topic, but good thing i'll be graduating from the university in a couple years and I'll be too old for the draft. Never thought i'd even have to worry about that these days.

i guess LBJ will avoid cars for awhile, right?

youtube link?

lol Macmillan.

Would've made a better speech than Douglas-Homo, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LePOJqevwrg

xp

i can't wait to hear the word "guilty" read to whoever did this

I can't help but think of his children, whose lives will be marked forever by this one single isolated tragedy

The FBI'll be moving to clear this up pretty quick.

"Fidel Castro impersonated Marilyn Monroe and gave President Kennedy a case of syphilis so severe that eventually it blew the back of his head off."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_in_popular_culture

wow...just...wow

I jus gotta say, as an Australian, ALL THE WAY WITH LBJ

dallas: city of hate

wow nabisco being otm officially makes this whole thing real to me

at least we've got bobby

Though I never met the guy, I feel like I knew him just the same. It's like this whole killing has no purpose, no reason or rhyme.

Johnson sworn in on the presidential aircraft. Leaving Love Field for Washington.

I don't know if what my mom is saying is true, but apparently LBJ was reading a children's book to a young group at the Dallas Public Library when the shooting occurred. Took him 20 minutes to finally get down to Parkland Hospital.

jfk's myspace page is still up, kind of eerie and sad.

lamestreamers need a late pass

Spent half-an-hour on this morning. Students were very interested--they always are, today especially--asked some smart questions.

You're not gonna believe this, but Oswald has been shot.

The owner of a striptease-type nightclub, Harry Reasoner says. How could such a person be let in the jail by the cops?

I missed the live stream but looked at the excerpted clip. So Oswald wasn't shot on live television? From the clip, it looks like they cut to a lot of general confusion after he's been shot, and then play the actual shooting on tape a few minutes later.

not on CBS

what network is it on there are only three, people.

well we had the Dumont network a few years ago, but that'll never happen again

Congratulations, America.

http://qz.com/534641/today-the-us-sets-a-record-for-not-having-a-president-die-in-office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

https://i.imgur.com/9PzXTco.jpg

A corps of researchers looking into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy say they have unearthed proof his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was involved in an operation by the CIA mere months before the killing, reigniting questions about whether the Oswald truly was alone in his decision to kill the youngest man ever elected president.

In a Tuesday press conference at the National Press Club, Jefferson Morley—a veteran of the D.C. press corps and a preeminent expert on JFK's assassination with the Mary Ferrell Foundation—told reporters that he and attorneys with the foundation obtained documentation relating to a still-classified covert operation approved by senior CIA officials three months before Kennedy's death that suggested the agency used Oswald for intelligence purposes several weeks prior to shooting.

"This is an extraordinarily serious claim, and it has profound implications for the official story," Morley said Tuesday morning in Washington. "The CIA knew far more about the lone gunman than then they are admitting even today. So this story deserves the closest possible scrutiny."

https://www.newsweek.com/new-documents-shed-light-cias-connection-lee-harvey-oswald-1765105

wish it was Paul Morley making the announcement

i wish it was Robert Morley

The Beatles Industrial Complex

A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers A corps of researchers

Can't believe it's been 15 years already

I remember where I was very well - local courier service EBaum's World sent a very concerning bike message that I thought was pure tomfoolery but on the TV went and he was gone.

The only good President you guys ever elected

Nice wife too :)

Duck and cover.

It was a perfect day in February. Skies were blue without a cloud.

In fact, when the first bullet hit, some still thought it had just been an accident.

feel like pure shit, just want jfk's brainpan back

sir a second bullet has hit the presidential brainpan

My dad became rabidly anti-American after this afaict.

a couple of metal projectiles found him really charismatic so thought they'd go and meet the President.

Can't believe transmission of the first ever Doctor Who episode got bumped for this.