wtf that is the second time today someone has made a wrecka stow joke/ref to me
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 November 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Jeez, right-wingers are still doing this?? Even when I was a child and every union member and FDR fan was a " Communist" I didn't even hear that one. I knew he was a communist but also a really angry and anti-social loner. You're missing a lot of history if you avoid Oswald.
One of my favorite anti-communists, Fred Schwarz, blamed Maoism for it. Sounds crazy now.
TV coverage is blessedly conspiracist-free - think of all the people who would be hurt and offended.
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Friday, 22 November 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
but TV coverage is not pomp or fatuity free, alas
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 November 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
hey that's a great article, thanks Morbs xxxp
― sleeve, Friday, 22 November 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
here we go, "new footage"
http://www.thewrap.com/jfk-assassination-new-footage-producer-stephen-bowen-lee-harvey-oswald
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
i wonder if pruitt taylor vince and vincent d'onofrio will be in the footage
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 22 November 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
i used to have arguments with a mate of mine about whether 9/11 was a conspiracy or not. i didnt think it was and he did as he'd recently seen "zeitgeist" and was now all about 9/11 being a conspiracy. then he would ask, "did you think the kennedy assassination was a conspiracy?". id say "yeah i think its likely" and then i was hit with "ahhh well if the US government would do that why wouldnt something like 9/11 be a conspiracy??" GROAN
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Friday, 22 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
well there actually are precedents for political leaders being killed by conspiracies, there's not really any precedent for a conspiracy as airtight and leak-proof as a government-planned 9/11 would have had to be. oh and plus there is actually no evidence at all that 9/11 was a conspiracy.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 November 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
rip capnlorax
― buzza, Friday, 22 November 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
the lincoln assassination was a conspiracy: booth and five of his friends.
― goole, Friday, 22 November 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
yes, incl the one who stabbed Seward.
is anyone watchin the CBS News webcast from 11/22/63?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
I feel like it's been on for 50 years the entire month of November
― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Sunday morning w/ Jack Ruby could be innaresting
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
there are some plausible theories that booth had connections to the confederate secret service.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if there are any other interesting comparisons one could make between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations.
― pplains, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Meryl Streep showed interest in playing the heroes in each film adaptation.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 November 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
GARFIELD was SHOT by an ASSAILANT in a TRAIN STATION while MCKINLEY was SHOT by an ASSAILANT STATIONED in a TRAIN of PEOPLE.
― pplains, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Time for FR33M4$0RY!!!!
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Friday, 22 November 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
I'm watching the CBS coverage from Saturday morning, and Marvin Kalb said, I think, that words explicitly referring to the "international Communist conspiracy" were in Oswald's original indictment's text. Then those words disappeared; "we do not know if that was at an official request."
Then Cronkite talked about LBJ's history of heart attacks.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 November 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Texas Theatre rescreens double bill, stops "War Is Hell" at point Oswald was arrested
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-texas-theatre--kennedy-assassination-20131122,0,6120322.story#axzz2lTyWzc16
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 November 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFM02ItYKbY
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
pretty clear to me now
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
comments on that are quality
― I don't even OWN a Television album (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
i used to have arguments with a mate of mine about whether 9/11 was a conspiracy or not.
i'd say a dozen guys from saudi arabia, egypt, and elsewhere spending years traveling around the world plotting three hijackings is the definition of a conspiracy.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
or does the word "conspiracy" have to mean "crazypants theory" now?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
outlandish conspiracy theories about Reptilians/Illuminati theories exist to make the REAL conspiracies like Chemtrails and the moon landing hoax look ridiculous
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
The real puppet masters sit back and laugh while we squirm
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
nicholson baker (and a lot of other people, apparently): the mob did it
http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/dallas-killers-club/
― goole, Monday, 27 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38623/cia-jfk-conspiracy-theories/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 8 October 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Man, Libra is looking less and less like fiction as time goes on
― latebloomer, Thursday, 8 October 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link
it's like Joseph Heller fanfic at this point
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
Barring a presidential block, the final files will be released on October 26, 2017.
Which is also Hillary Clinton's 70th birthday.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
about a year ago I was finally convinced, for once and for all, that LHO did it, and did it alone. but now i've forgotten exactly what convinced me.
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/de/fa/0b/defa0bf928955f8117865c2b2b317681.gif
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
I tried to think of a good President Trump joke but couldn't.
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Kennedy's as dead as that crab meat, the government's alive and breathing. You gonna line up with a dead man, Jimbo?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
:D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
fuck yeah!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
― rip van wanko, Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:47 AM (1 hour ago)
haha tbh i am a relatively recent convert to the idea that it was a conspiracy and oswald was a patsy. it seems oddly fitting that most everyone who takes an interest in this subject ends up going back and forth from version to version indefinitely.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
always loved the house special committee on assassinations' supposedly debunked conclusion: that it was probably a conspiracy, but definitely did not involve any of the parties in an attached comprehensive and ideologically plural list of suggested parties to the kennedy assassination: castro, exiled cubans, the cia, organized crime, the ussr, etc.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
...and this guy Bertrand!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
that is precisely the point of a long dining table
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
that is precisely the point of two brothers
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fN02cmA.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
RIP Mark Lane
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/mark-lane-who-asserted-that-kennedy-was-killed-in-conspiracy-dies-at-89.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 May 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
oliver stone says one of the conspirators contacted him after he made his film to confess his role in the assassination:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3762617/JFK-assassination-inside-job-Ex-government-agent-claimed-team-killed-president-remarkable-deathbed-confession-director-Oliver-Stone.html
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
hearing him talk is weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8fRTLtgzA
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDDuRSgzFk
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
i guess i never got why he played the innocent card and didn't yell stuff like DEATH TO THE TYRANTS USSR IS #1 or something.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
maybe cuz he was innocent?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link