bet you gonna find some people who live...

 You tube:

a video titled -- Proud Mary (Live)

uploader / channel: Karl Faulkner

It's Tina Turner performing the song in concert, in 1997, on the Wildest Dreams tour.

At 5:46 an instrumental segment starts. They added that in the 90s. At the end of the instrumental part, Tina and her dancers dance back toward each other and dance back up to the microphone...of course that had to be choreographed down to every move and beat, but they make it look like they just felt like doing that.

Play and enjoy.

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If you go down to the river...

 Playing the original version of Proud Mary on YouTube, I saw these Comments:

Marko Knuutinen

This song never get old. It always sound fresh and flows like River.

Federico Quinonez Ocampos 

esta banda representa a toda la humanidad, sin banderas, sin idiomas, sin epoca, Creedence es lo mejor que le paso al mundo. 

On YouTube go to video titled Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (Official Lyric Video)

uploader / channel: Creedence Clearwater Revival 

and PLAY!

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reckless rhetoric

 

The Washington Post

Trump warns of 'potential death & destruction' if he's charged in hush-money case

March 24, 2023

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[excerpts from the article]

Former president Donald Trump warned early Friday of "potential death & destruction" if he is charged in Manhattan in a criminal case related to alleged hush-money payments....

The posting after midnight on Truth Social, Trump's social media platform, was his latest -- and most explicit -- allusion to violence that could follow an indictment stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whom Trump called a "degenerate psychopath."

Trump wrote:  "What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?"

In a post on Thursday, Trump criticized those who have called for his supporters to remain peaceful.  Over the weekend, Trump urged a "PROTEST" over his potential arrest in the case, which he wrongly predicted would happen Tuesday....

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) castigated Trump on Friday for his latest comments, echoing criticism by other Democrats.  "The twice-impeached former president's rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible," Jeffries said at a news conference.  "It's dangerous.  And if he keeps it up, he's going to get someone killed."

"We've already seen the consequences of incitement from the former president," Jeffries added.  "He is principally responsible for inciting the violent insurrection that happened on January 6th, but clearly he has not learned his lesson."

...In an email to staff this past week, Bragg said the district attorney's office "will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly, and speak publicly only when appropriate."

"We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York," he wrote.

On Friday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) said he had not heard Trump's comments, but he said, "There's no place in America for political violence of any kind."

...Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-South Dakota), chairman of the Republican Main Street caucus, said, "In our system of government ... you should never call for violence.  So, you know, we need to do better."

...House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), when asked about Trump's latest comments Friday, said he had spoken about the issue already previously, and proceeded to talk about an upcoming House vote on education legislation.

McCarthy has slammed Bragg's investigation, but he said Sunday that supporters of Trump should not protest if the former president is indicted.

"Nobody should harm one another," McCarthy said, following Trump's call for protests.  "We want calmness out there."

...Trump resumed commentary on the case on Truth Social about eight hours after his overnight post.

"PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!" he wrote in all caps shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern.

Trump will have another opportunity to criticize Bragg and other state and federal prosecutors investigating his conduct on Saturday when he appears at a rally scheduled in Waco, Texas.

Nearly 30 years ago, a lengthy standoff between a religious cult and federal agents ended on April 19, 1993, when the group's compound near the city was destroyed in a fire.  Nearly 80 people were killed.

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reader comments

* This is another fund-raising and publicity scam

* What country is this?  When did it quit being a crime to incite violence?

* ...degenerate psychopath

As we used to say in school:  takes one to know one.

* Trump is a coward, plain and simple.  He yammers on because he's had no serious consequences his entire sordid life.

It is time.

* Trump is inciting the American Carnage he 1st introduced in his Inaugural speech as President

* He needs more attention and the baby sitter is out for the weekend.

* Alvin Bragg just received a death threat.  Way to go donnie.

* Alvin Bragg, whom Trump called a "degenerate psychopath."

Always projecting...

* Threatening "death and destruction" by a person with the public sway that this man has is akin to shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

* Trump never learns.

* Tfg needs to be taken into protective custody, from himself

* Trump is trying to get Bragg killed.  It's just that simple.

* Arrest this putz for communicating threats

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sins of commission and sins of omission

 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg

The Washington Post reported today:

        Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday emphatically rebuffed a House Republican demand for documents and testimony related to his office's investigation of former president Donald Trump, saying the request was "an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution."

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a Reader Comment under the article:

* If Trump hadn't got it on with a porn star, then none of this would be happening.

If Trump had returned all the documents he had when subpoenaed, the documents case would not be happening.

If Trump didn't call Georgia election officials and ask them to "find" votes, the Georgia election case would not be happening.

If Trump didn't attempt to illegally overturn an election and spearhead an attack on the Capitol, the Jan 6 case would not be happening.

        If Trump tried to stop the riot, the Jan 6 case would not be happening.

If Trump did accounting following the rules, NY cases against his business would not be happening.

Do you notice a trend here?

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Can't traitor tot go away already?

"traitor tot."

I would never be able to come up with funny and ironic nicknames for people, in that manner.

Donald Trump himself is better at it than anyone.

So then some of his critics try to "fight fire with fire" and do it back to him and his allies.

        Michael Cohen, a particularly energized former lawyer for Mr. Trump who now argues against him, came up with the name "Rudy Colludy" for former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.  ("Colludy" is for collusion, I suppose.)

I would never think of that, either! - LOL.  These guys are poets.  Poets Of Sarcasm And Contempt.

Donald Trump nicknames for other people:

Sloppy Bill Barr

Mister Tough Guy  (John Bolton, former National Security Advisor)

Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown

Low Energy Jeb  (Jeb Bush)

Sleepy Ben Carson

Crazy Liz Cheney

Leakin' James Comey

Lyin' James Comey

Sanctimonious James Comey

Shady James Comey

Slimeball James Comey

Slippery James Comey

(for Ted Cruz) - Texas Ted; Beautiful Ted; Lyin' Ted

(for Ron DeSantis)  Meatball Ron

(for former U.S. senator from Indiana, Joe Donnelly)  Swamp Person

My Kevin  (Kevin McCarthy, speaker of the house)

Disloyal Sleaze Bag  (Mitch McConnell)

        (Wait -- I thought sleazebag was one word...)

Truly weird Senator Rand Paul

My Mike  (Mike Pompeo)

Rocket Man  (Kim Jong-un)

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Maybe Mr. Trump has writers who make up these names, or maybe he makes them all up himself, I don't know.

I thought, as I typed all this from Wikipedia, it's kind of funny but it wears thin fast.  And I also thought how, before 2016 (or rather 2015, I guess) this would have been unthinkable coming from a president or presidential candidate.

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There's a Washington Post article online from 2021 titled,

Why power attracts the wrong kind of people.

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"couldn't escape if I wanted to"

 

...and a song for today:

ABBA Mamma Mia

uploader / channel:  Craig Gagné

                           Play!

The unstoppable appeal of ABBA is interesting -- reading listener thoughts under these videos on You Tube, I came across one series of comments that were all in languages other than English.  Spanish, Italian, some I didn't recognize, some that used an alphabet different from ours:  characters that were not Chinese or Japanese -- something else, maybe Russian, or an eastern European language...?

In the ones that used our alphabet, even if you couldn't read it, you could still tell that they enthusiastically love these songs!  Like -- they type in their language, and then have the emojis, "100 100" and a picture of a thumbs-up, etc.  It's kind of funny, and joyful.

        Language barriers cannot hold back the euphoria.

Pop group from the 1970s -- global in 21st Century.

One English-language comment said:

* 2022, still playing in clubs / bars, and the dance floor is hopping!  Everyone loves the ABBA classics (and some secretly love them, but will never admit it)

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xi is taller than putin

 

November 22, 1963, in Fort Worth

        92-year-old Rupert Murdoch, after his recent divorce from Mick Jagger's ex-wife Jerry Hall, became engaged to be married to another woman.

        I'm getting the impression that he gets married a lot for the media attention.

        And maybe to manage the media attention away from other things -- a distraction.  ("Look over here!")

        Several people in online comments theorized that he wants to hide assets while the Dominion lawsuit progresses.  (You can hide money by giving it to your wife or husband?)

One commenter wrote, "Eeew -- this is by far the worst season of The Bachelor ever!"

Another comment said, "Australians got wise and mostly ignored him last election."

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Contemplating the assassination of President Kennedy, I generally fall behind when they get to the guns - bullets part.

        Checking You Tube, I found a video titled, Testing Joe Rogan's JFK Bullet Theory.  Uploader:  Brandon Herrera.

some of the viewer comments under the video:

* The fact that they still won't release the documents after 60 years says that there are things they still don't want us to know.

* It means some of the people who were involved are still alive.

* Totally agree.  That gives total legitimacy to the conspiracy people.

* they thought 60 years was long enough for it to be forgotten, they really didn't bank on it becoming one of the largest, long lasting most studied conspiracies ever, now they gotta go back on their promise to release the files and hope people forget about it again, if we don't the files will probably go 'missing'

* Maybe now is not a good time to confirm that Russia was involved.

* For future "catch the bullet" tests, perhaps hang the water in trash bags.  That would eliminate the question of the plastic bottles deforming the bullet.  Of course, you'd have to construct a frame to suspend the bags.

* This is where the term "conspiracy theorists" began.  Anyone that questioned the government's "findings" were called a conspiracy theorist by the government to discredit them.

* "There were no gunmen at all.  Kennedy's head just did that.  I call it the 'No Bullet Theory'."

* What you've succeeded in doing is disproving the theory that the head shot had to come from the front.  Here, a rear shot created significant "blood loss" and debris that exploded back in the direction the shot came from.  Good job.

* In the film of the actual events Kennedy's head jolts back from a shot to the front.  His wife grabs pieces of his skull from the back of the car meaning the shot had to come from the front.  

        In the video Brandon shoots the dummy in the back of the head causing the debris to fly out from the front of the skull and you can see the large exit hole.  Debris was flying backwards because it was ricocheting off the water jugs.

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a song for today:

(I cannot get it out of my mind) --

ABBA Take a Chance On Me

uploader / channel:  Craig Gagné

(People can listen to any video of this song that they want to -- I only suggest a particular channel / uploader because I've listened to it and I know the sound is decent, and it doesn't stop in the middle or something....)

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time to stem this madness

 

Over the weekend Donald Trump predicted that he is going to be arrested on Tuesday.  He requested (via social media) that the public please protest on his behalf.

reader comments on the New York Times article:

Kathleen Warnock

New York City

I think that here in NYC, there will be more celebration than protest.  The former president was known here for a long time as someone who cheated his workers and creditors, and treated people badly.  If people who want to disrupt things and violently protest decide to come to New York City, they won't be welcomed.

Michael

Brooklyn, New York

I can't wait.  If it does happen, I will be faced with a major life decision:  Either a bottle of Veuve Cliquot or Prosecco.

Paul Jacobs

Berkeley

The arrest of DJT?  The sooner the better and if his followers do anything more than protest peacefully arrest them as well.  The time to stem this madness is long overdue.

Richard Weber

Placitas, New Mexico

Isn't inciting protests to interfere with due process just another act of Obstruction of Justice?

A.E. Wilburn

Houston, Texas

Trump continues to enthusiastically and publicly demonstrate his unfitness for any public office.  It's a game he enjoys immensely and that may be keeping him alive.

SAO

Amherst, Massachusetts

Does he just wake up and think to himself, 'I haven't gotten enough attention lately, so I think I'll incite another riot'?

Lou Good

Page, Arizona

Maybe they will invade Trump Tower and treat it as they did the Capitol.  Harmless tourists, right?

Alex

New York

As excited as I am to see Trump held accountable (assuming it actually happens), please remember that this won't fix any of the underlying issues that gave rise to his power in the first place.

Jim Steinberg

Fresno, California

Desperate man.  Prediction:  he will go down loudly.

gep

St. Paul, Minnesota

Two and a half years after he left office in disgrace, it's still Trump, all day, every day, all the time, utterly inescapable.  

Never forget that Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, had a golden opportunity to put this guy out of commission politically once and for all and they completely and totally whiffed it.  

        In typical Republican fashion, they refused to take responsibility and have left it to the criminal justice system to do what they were too cowardly to do in the first place.  We are paying and will continue to pay for their epic mistake and cowardice for years to come.

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Nature might stand up

 

Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, Max Casella as Jack Valenti

JFK Revisited:  Through the Looking Glass  (2021)

Jackie  (2016)

Parkland  (2013)

JFK  (1991)

(these movies can be watched on Amazon Prime)

        Watching these helps me build more understanding of and perspective on the assassination of President Kennedy.

Discussing one of these movies recently, it occurred to me -- All through JFK, and the others as well, I'm having to say in my mind, 'You know, it may not have been exactly like that -- they're putting in stuff that makes sense for the story the movie is telling -- poetic license; artistic license...'

"Camelot in smithereens" one week before the Camelot symbolism for JFK's Thousand Days was created - ?

Did Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy really disagree about how the funeral procession should be?

Did Jack Valenti really stonewall Jackie about the funeral plans, and B-S her the way it looks like he did in 2016's Jackie?

Was the Oswald family really denied services by all Dallas-area churches, as it shows in Parkland?

Or were these things and others embellished or invented to show, or underscore, important parts of the true story?

the true story

the absolute truth

the truth as seen and experienced by various different people

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I thought, why do I watch these movies?  Doesn't it just make it harder for me to see what I can, of the real picture? -- because I have to wonder what is true from the books and documentaries, and then watching movie-movies -- Jackie, Parkland, JFK -- which are not documentaries -- I have to really wonder what's true as far as facts and emphases, because they can show things a certain way, for the sake of the story.  Because they're making a movie, not reporting news or writing history.

        On the other hand, these movies are not "fiction."  Like -- we don't suddenly see a Martian spaceship land in the middle of Dealey Plaza, halting the motorcade, and little green men disembark from it to "Na-Nu Na-Nu" everybody.

These movies are telling a story that is true, in the style the artists choose.

        I realized -- it seems like it would make sense to decide, 'I won't watch movies about the subject, I'll stick to reading books and watching documentaries and You Tube videos.'

        But then my conclusion is the opposite:  it isn't "more work" to decipher the truth from the movies about the truth -- telling the story of what happened, and what was done.  'Cause even with the books and documentaries, what some people say may be slanted, or patently untrue.  They can leave stuff out.

        And what the artistic movies do is help the viewer see different perspectives, and consider things from a variety of angles.  Watching them helps the mind to analyze.

        They let us see.

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"His life was gentle; and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"

~ Julius Caesar

    Shakespeare

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particular umbrage

 

Kevin Costner, Donald Sutherland in JFK (1991)

In Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald was played by English actor Gary Oldman.

Oldman played a role in a Season 7 episode of Friends -- his character, who is acting opposite Joey, has come to work drunk so they have to keep starting scenes over, and Joey's stressing because he's going to be late to Monica and Chandler's wedding.

        At one point the Oldman character bemusedly discovers, "I'm -- wearing two belts!"

Also in JFK is Laurie Metcalf, who played Roseanne's sister in that series during the '80s and '90s.

Tommy Lee Jones (Coal Miner's Daughter) and Joe Pesci (Goodfellas) are in JFK, as well.

When streaming JFK, if you hover the cursor on the left side of the screen, it gives you printed info about the film:

At 1:03:39 -- Veteran movie critic for The Washingtonian Pat Dowell had her thirty-four-word capsule review for the January issue rejected by editor John Limpert, a known opponent of the film.  Limpert didn't want a positive review for a film that he regarded as treacherous.  Dowell resigned in protest.

At 1:04:59 -- Even before this movie had finished filming, the Washington Post national security correspondent George Lardner showed up on-set and wrote a scathing article attacking the movie.  Lardner based this on the first draft screenplay he had read.  Other leading newspapers followed suit upon the film's release, many taking particular umbrage with the liberties with the facts that Oliver Stone had taken.

(Maybe that "Camelot" reference that came too early...?)

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oswald

 

South Portico of the White House

by John Singer Sargent

When I read about Lee Harvey Oswald, or listen to videos about his life, I get the impression that he was a type of person who cannot be happy.  And they keep changing things on the outside -- move to Russia, move back to Texas, etc. -- but nothing works, because the problem is on the inside of their mind and spirit.

His father died before he was born, and his mother seemed like she was crazier than a sack of weasels, from what I've read.  He had a brother, who seemed like more of a stable person.

In the movie Parkland, available to view free on Amazon Prime now, they show some scenes about the Oswald family -- the mom and the two sons.  What I saw in that film conformed to what I had read.

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emotions: recognize and organize

 

the Indian Ocean

I went on watching the series about the Malaysian plane disappearance in 2014, and then I got impatient with the pacing of the program.  Talking and talking and talking again, and not giving an answer -- and not saying, "OK, we don't have an answer."

I found myself screaming (silently, inside my head) -- "Come on!  Bottom line, bottom line!"

I turned it off and went to You Tube, typed in Malaysia plane, and got a 10-minute-long video with one guy speaking clearly with no subtitles.  This kind of encapsulated the information that was in the series.

        If I understand correctly, it's about down to two reasonable possibilities:

a pilot who was depressed or frustrated (wife separated from him) decided to fly the plane in a different direction and then down into the Indian Ocean

or

some ion-lithium batteries started a fire and exploded.

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The pilot-theory:  it kind of related to something I had been thinking about lately.

        Someone who was mean and hostile every once in a while when I was a child growing up -- I used to, of course, think the behavior was "about" me -- that if I could do enough good, and cheer up the person, and make them happy, the little micro-snaps would stop.

        They would stop, for a long while, and I would think, "Great!  Everything is OK now."  But then, later -- another one.  (Damn it! - lol)

        I can see now that such behavior is "about" the person who does it, not the person they're doing it to.

        "Why me?"

        Why -- anyone?

        I suppose people suffering this way "take it out on" whoever they think they can badger with no consequences.  No repercussions.

And I contemplate a bit, the unhappiness and dissatisfaction a person lives with, that makes them act like that.  If they asked my advice, I would say, Do something different!  Find your enthusiasms and pursue them!

        But it seems like many frustrated people somehow become locked in a pattern of just -- feelin' bad, while pretending on the surface to be fine.  Emotionally, they're like a temperamental toddler, pushing, kicking, throwing toys.  Metaphorically.

------------------------ Like the Malaysia pilot -- if it was him -- he didn't have a grudge against the passengers on the plane, he's just mad or sad, and wants to end himself, and just doesn't give a darn about the other people he's hurting.

This realization might apply to a lot of things in life.  Many of us are just collateral damage from someone else's problems and emotional chaos.

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♫ ♪ "summer lingers through September / In Camelot"

 

Hyannis Port 

I started watching (listening to) something on Netflix called "MA 370:  The Plane That Disappeared."

It's interesting, and good.  I'm not quite to the end of the second episode, & I don't know how many episodes there are.

I did not want to go to Google to see what happened, because I would rather keep listening to the story and find out the answer (or lack of an answer) that way.

        (As the kids say -- "no spoilers!")

A mystery.

And as I was thinking yesterday that the assassination of President Kennedy was the "Mystery of the 20th Century" -- it occurred to me earlier today, to see a connection -- or, a similarity -- between the missing plane and the murdered president.

        The connection is:  when there's a mystery, people start trying to solve it themselves, and then that becomes a tangle of controversy.  The various people or groups of people working on the mystery start to get mad at each other:  "My theory is right!"

        "No, mine!"

        Etc.

And anyone watching or listening or reading starts to get tired and give up.

"They're just completely wrong."

"Their theory is nonsense."

Various people -- "experts" -- say that about one another.

It devolves into personal attacks, when someone cannot prove someone else's theory wrong:  "Jim Garrison was a crackpot!"

OK.  Maybe you're the crackpot.

(What is a "crackpot"?)

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Like with the Kennedy assassination, in the Malaysian airplane mystery, there's a belief among some observers and experts that someone knows something and they are keeping it from us.

Then somebody will step in and say, in a very authoritative tone and style, that 'people cannot keep secrets.'  If there was an answer to the mystery, somebody would have said it by now, and made it public, because people cannot keep secrets.

There's a quote from Benjamin Franklin:  "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead."

Well -- it sounds clever and cynical and all-knowing to say these things, and generalize, but it isn't true.

It is possible to keep a secret, and lots of people and groups do keep secrets.

        I think the reason why some people like saying (loudly) "PEOPLE CANNOT KEEP SECRETS!" is because they may have had the experience of trusting someone with a secret and then getting betrayed when the person tells it to somebody.

        It was a negative experience for them, and there's an urge to alleviate the painful feelings by saying, "Everyone would do this.  You cannot trust anybody.  No one can keep a secret."

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light spirit

 

U.S. Senator "Jack" Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and Lem Billings

In the 2016 film Jackie, they got an Irish actor named Aidan O'Hare to play Kenny O'Donnell.  He looked like him!  Some help from hair and make-up, we can imagine, but there was a strong natural resemblance, too.

President Kennedy's "Irish mafia" (just an expression) -- Kenny O'Donnell, Dave Powers, and Larry O'Brien.

Powers was from Charlestown ("Chahls-town"), a neighborhood in Boston.  O'Brien was from Springfield, in western Massachusetts, and O'Donnell came from Worcester, Mass.

Dave Powers kept everyone going with witty patter and jokes.  A story that pops up in Kennedy books says that when the Shah of Iran visited the White House, Powers greeted him with hearty friendliness, proclaiming offhandedly, "You're my kind o' shah!"

Another in the president's inner circle was Lem Billings, a friend from school-days, and on through the thirty years until Kennedy's death.  Billings said his favorite of Jack's characteristics was his light spirit:  "I've never known anyone in my life with such a wonderful humor and the wonderful ability to make one laugh and to have a good time.  He never lost this."

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blood on the tracks

 

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 34:14

Jim Garrison

[Wikipedia] --------------- As New Orleans D.A. in late 1966, Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination.  

The result of Garrison's investigation was the arrest and trial of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw in 1969, with Shaw being unanimously acquitted less than one hour after the case went to the jury.

Garrison was able to subpoena the Zapruder film from Life magazine.  Thus, members of the American public -- i.e., the jurors of the case -- were shown the movie for the first time.

...U.S. talk radio host David Mendelsohn conducted a comprehensive interview with Garrison which was broadcast in 1988 by KPFA in Berkeley, California. ...  Garrison explains that cover stories were circulated in an attempt to blame the killing on the Cubans and the Mafia but he blames the conspiracy to kill the president firmly on the CIA who wanted to continue the Cold War. ------------------ [end / encyclopedia excerpt]

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Under a video on You Tube, a viewer wrote this comment:

        They couldn't have killed him in a more brutal, gruesome, public way.  It was as if they were saying, "Here is what we're gonna do with your fair, just, equitable world."  And that's exactly what they did with it.

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the lines he loved to hear

 

Theodore White

Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy; Billy Crudup as Theodore White, in the 2016 film, Jackie

In the 1991 film JFK, in an early scene somebody comes in and says, "The president's been shot in Dallas" and New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner) and the other people in his office go down to a bar-and-grill where "they've got a television set" to see what's going on.

Most of the patrons watch the screen and take in the information in stunned silence, but over by the bar there are a few surly characters growling that it's really great that Kennedy got shot, they hate him, etc.

        The Head Growler is Ed Asner (Mr. Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show) - he is portraying Guy Banister, a real person who had established his own private detective agency at 531 Lafayette Street in New Orleans.

After the news comes through and the crowd learns that Last Rites have been given -- President Kennedy has died -- Banister sneers drunkenly and says, "Good!  Ha!  Camelot in smithereens!"

That's an error because the "Camelot" image had not been applied to the Kennedy presidency yet.  That idea was created one week after the assassination, when Jacqueline Kennedy met with journalist Theodore White at Hyannis Port and gave an interview.

        She brought the Camelot idea, and boy, did it stick! - for almost 60 years now.

"At night," she told White, "before we'd go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records; and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record.  The lines he loved to hear were:

Don't let it be forgot

That once there was a spot

For one brief shining moment

That was known as Camelot."

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So on the day of the murder, November 22, 1963, the Camelot idea was not out there yet, it would not have been available to the likes of Mr. Guy Banister, for him to make "smithereens" out of it.

        But the people writing the screenplay for JFK may not have known that, or they may have known, but thought it was poetic license to use it the way they did, to express the attitudes of a character in the movie and also "ring a bell" with viewers who are pretty well familiar with the 'Camelot' nickname for the Kennedy years.

        That's more important, maybe, for this type of movie, than to be accurate about when the "Camelot myth" was created.

In fact, ironically, 53 years after the assassination and 25 years after Oliver Stone's JFK came out -- a whole movie was made, directed by Pablo Larrain, telling the story just of that Jackie Kennedy -Teddy White interview:  the 2016 film Jackie.

        Or -- the movie isn't only about the interview -- but it uses the interview as a  framework within which to express the things that happened, and how Mrs. Kennedy felt about them, and handled them.

It's very good -- real intense.

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Triple Underpass ahead

 

the Warren Commission

On You Tube, there's a video titled:

The JFK "Single Bullet" Theory  |  Good Night America (Mar 27th, 1975)

uploader / channel:  Geraldo's Vault

It's a television special featuring a line-up of experts and witnesses discussing the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, hosted by Geraldo Rivera.

And his hair.

They show the Zapruder film.

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[Crossfire:  The Plot That Killed Kennedy, by Jim Marrs / excerpt] ------------------------------------------ Mrs. Kennedy later told the Warren Commission, "And in the motorcade, you know, I usually would be waving mostly to the left side and he was waving mostly to the right, which is one reason you are not looking at each other very much.  And it was terribly hot.  Just blinding all of us."  Sensing her discomfort, Mrs. Connally turned and said, "We'll soon be there."

        Mrs. Kennedy recalled seeing the Triple Underpass ahead.  "We could see a tunnel in front of us.  Everything was really slow then.  And I remember thinking it would be so cool under that tunnel."

        Mrs. Connally had wanted to mention the warm and enthusiastic welcome for some time, but she had held back.  Now she could contain herself no longer.  Turning to Kennedy, she said, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you."  According to Mrs. Kennedy, the president smiled and replied, "No, you certainly can't."

        Soon after his remark, Mrs. Connally heard a frightening noise off to her right.

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a cool cat

 

Jim Garrison

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Remember John Candy?  Uncle Buck, etc.?

He had a cameo role in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK.

You can see it on You Tube.

Type in:

JFK - Dean Andrews Lunch Scene

uploader / channel:  TheStochasticBrother

Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, is trying to get some info from Dean Andrews, portrayed by Candy.

"Why're you dancin' on my head for, my man?" Andrews asks, early in the conversation.

Throughout the interview, this character speaks in what I think can only be called "hep-cat slang" -- popularized by swinging jazz afficionados during the 1940s and 50s.

"They put the heat on my man, just like you're doin' -- I gave 'em anything that popped in my cabeza."

"I don't know what the cat looks like -- and furthermore, I don't know where he's at."

"Is this off the record, daddy-o?"

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Compelling, memorable performances, and atmosphere.

Daddy-o.

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The mystery of the missing article

 

Well, this is weird.

I found an article online titled, "The Bizarre Deaths Following JFK's Murder" written by David Martindale.

I had typed several excerpts from the article here on this blog, posts on February 21st, and February 20th.  It seemed interesting, and I wanted to share it.

Today I thought I would type in the next segment from the article, and now I cannot find it on the Internet.  When I typed in the title of the article, some other items came up, but not the Martindale article.

Before, it was easy to find.

Now it seems to have disappeared.

When I typed in the title of the article, some other items came up, including -- this blog.

Oh - kay.

(?)

Hmmmh.

(Perhaps we need to call Kevin Costner...)

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A piece of the assassination puzzle that I don't understand or know much about is the Officer Tippit part.  The official story went:  after shooting the president, Oswald saw Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit and shot him, too.

Why?  Have to research more.

Tippit was born in 1924, a year after my dad, and like my dad, joined the U.S. Army and served during World War II.

        (I like to think of these things in context.)

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And back to the subject of witnesses who were dead before the 1960s were over -- I did keep a note that I read online:

from a book called

Crossfire:  The Plot That Killed Kennedy

written by Jim Marrs

page 555

--------------------------- In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died -- six by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, five from natural causes.

        An actuary, engaged by the London Sunday Times, concluded that on November 22, 1963, the odds against these witnesses being dead by February 1967, were one hundred thousand trillion to one. ----------------------------

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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

~ John F. Kennedy

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