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In reply to the discussion: One last JFK poll just to prove or disprove a theory I have. [View all]Carolina
(6,960 posts)I was 10 and living in DC. My family, every single family member, loved JFK.
We lived in NW DC but I attended an experimental school in SW DC... so everyday, we drove by the White House. Some Fridays, coming home, we'd see Marine One coming over the Potomac heading to the White House and my uncle would drive us to east side (it was such a different DC then) and we'd run to the fence to see JFK get aboard and leave for Andrews from which he'd then fly to Hyannis.
So, needless to say, his death was like a death in the family. It was the first time I saw adults, especially men, cry. But I also remember well that after Ruby killed Oswald on TV no less, all the adults started murmuring about how fishy it was... They never accepted that Oswald accepted alone; they always said: THEY killed him!
Now in my senior years, when I reflect on how JFK stood up to (and against) the generals during the Cuban Missile Crisis, how he distrusted them after they led him astray with the Bay of Pigs, how he planned to change the policy on Vietnam (which had been inherited from the Eisenhower administration) after the '64 election and how the foreign policy he outlined in his commencement speech at American University just months before his murder was antithetical to US imperialism, I am convinced that the MIC/CIA took him out and Oswald was a patsy!