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Post by marisol on May 20, 2012 6:02:45 GMT -5
On 11-22-63 I was in sixth grade and our teacher told us the US
President had been assassinated, while riding in a motorcade in
downtown Dallas,Tx.
Now fantasize for me a minute. What if JFK had only been slightly
injured instead of killed. What would the US be like now?
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Post by philipkduck on May 20, 2012 8:03:25 GMT -5
On 11-22-63 I was in sixth grade and our teacher told us the US President had been assassinated, while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas,Tx. Now fantasize for me a minute. What if JFK had only been slightly injured instead of killed. What would the US be like now? Amazing question, which I feel unable to answer. You might speculate that the assassination attempt was inevitable, but its success was one of those 'random' events that upset the otherwise inexorable movements of history. I will leave it to people with a better knowledge of US politics to talk about Vietnam, the Cold War and the economy stupid, and just wonder what it would have happened in the Space Race if JFK had lived to see the Moon landings. Another mind-blowing aspect of this question has just occurred to me. The history of conspiracy theories would be completely different. What would the immediate 'witch hunt' have been like ? And would people still be saying today - you know they never arrested the right men - it was all a cover-up.... Kennedy staged the whole thing .... blah blah blah.... I was 15 at the time. I was at a youth club when Jim Brooks put his head round the door (he was far too cool to go to a silly youth club) to tell us all. Disbelief. Can't remember the news coverage in the following days, or any comment or speculation. the news media were very different then. |
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 10:44:41 GMT -5
On 11-22-63 I was in sixth grade and our teacher told us the US President had been assassinated, while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas,Tx. Now fantasize for me a minute. What if JFK had only been slightly injured instead of killed. What would the US be like now? You are older than I thought. I too found out in school from a teacher. |
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 11:04:06 GMT -5
I lived in Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Everybody sure thought it was the end. The man did despise Communists. His willingness to fight for civil rights was impressive.
What we have to keep in mind is the dead Legend is almost always greater than the living Man.
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Post by BadBeast on May 20, 2012 12:01:45 GMT -5
Well before my time I'm afraid. Who was JFK again? Is he the one who cut the Cherry tree down, and lied about it?
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 12:05:36 GMT -5
Well before my time I'm afraid. Who was JFK again? Is he the one who cut the Cherry tree down, and lied about it? Nah, that was George, George Bush I think. JFK diddled Marilyn Monroe. |
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Post by BadBeast on May 20, 2012 12:13:10 GMT -5
Well before my time I'm afraid. Who was JFK again? Is he the one who cut the Cherry tree down, and lied about it? Nah, that was George, George Bush I think. JFK diddled Marilyn Monroe. Wasn't she in the Manson Family? |
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Post by philipkduck on May 20, 2012 12:21:56 GMT -5
Nah, that was George, George Bush I think. JFK diddled Marilyn Monroe. Wasn't she in the Manson Family? You're thinking of Noel Fielding (who looks suspiciously like our Mad Hatter friend if you ask me). Attachments:
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 12:27:14 GMT -5
I'm much prettier than him.
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Post by marisol on May 20, 2012 17:43:09 GMT -5
What do you mean I'm old?
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 17:44:51 GMT -5
What do you mean I'm old? Didn't say that, said you were older than I thought! |
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Post by marisol on May 20, 2012 17:48:38 GMT -5
I would prefer the living man. What has the legend done for us?
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Post by Random Panther on May 20, 2012 18:06:15 GMT -5
Gave us shite movies.
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Post by Tofu DeBeast on May 20, 2012 19:45:52 GMT -5
What we have to keep in mind is the dead Legend is almost always greater than the living Man. Well put. I don't particularly like Kennedy, I think he was a bit too hot-headed during the Cuban Missile thing and the Bay Off Pigs was an inexcusable fiasco. But still suspect we would've been better off had he lived, at least for two reasons. First, he was a lot less gung-ho about Vietnam than Lyndon Johnson would later be. His correspondence shows that he was increasingly skeptical that intervention there made any sense as difficulties were encountered. There is a good chance he would've pulled out rather then escalate as Johnson did, thereby sparing both countries from an unnecessary war, as Clinton did when he got us out of Somalia. Second, the one-two-three punch of assassination, Vietnam war and Watergate did a lot to damage the American psyche and cast a negative shadow over the 70s. Would've been nice to avoid all that. |
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Post by The Mad Hatter on May 20, 2012 19:47:39 GMT -5
Well said.
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