Re: Jennings doc
bobbysamd said:
Most of the major figures are dead now. It may never be known. People want closure on the assasination, but it may never come.
I don't want, or need, "closure on the assasination". By all accounts JFK was at best a mediocre president, not that popular (he won the election by the slimmest of margins, some say due to voter fraud thanks to his ganster daddy's influence in Chicago), and I was exactly 11 months old when he got whacked so therefore neither his life, or details of his death, hold any relevance for me. He's always been history-book material.
Unfortunately, as time goes on it seems the media is ever more intent..at times even desperate... on trying to force-feed this Kennedy-Cameolot-myth crap and how it "effected us as a nation" on those of us who, frankly, don't give a rat's-ass about JFK, RFK, or any of the Kennedy whelps who still clutter up the world. Old fossils like Rather, King, and Jennings beat the drum for this current parade of lemmings since they were ga-ga over him way back then.
There's definitely some kind of underlying, inate peasant mentality at work in those who try to sanctify a whole family (as if there were such a thing as an American aristocracy), and those who do nowadays were usually either very young when JFK was shot (thereby having their image of him frozen within the childlike world-view they held at the time) or weren't even alive but are the victims of having been brainwashed by the fawning aforementioned.
And if I hear one more time about how "America lost it's innocence that day in November of 63", I'm gonna puke. Sure, perhaps a few children/adolecents lost their innocence, but tell me how any ADULT at the time...who most likely grew up in the poverty and uncertainty of the Great Depression, saw the carnage and horrors of WW2, another the first hot war of the Cold War in Korea, the Iron Curtain go up, the age of atomic warfare dawn, and then be the first to live under the later, greater threat of thermonuclear armageddon.....lost their supposed "innocence" because somone plinked a fair-to-middlin' Chief Executive? Give me a friggin' break!
In the end, I hope the truth is never known, since it drives the Kennedy-worshipers crazy. It serves them right.
