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This is a super interesting read about people back in the 60s (...it was written in 1967, so they're contemporaries) who were already poring over documents, con
by onychomys 5y ago
This is a super interesting read about people back in the 60s (...it was written in 1967, so they're contemporaries) who were already poring over documents, convinced there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/06/10/the-buffs https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/06/10/the-buffs
- dboreham 5y agoI believe people (including LBJ and RFK) were convinced within a few minutes.
- tomrod 5y agoBut not before? Just kidding :) It was a shame he died. I wonder what things would look like had he not.
- newaccount2021 5y agoPerhaps nothing. He wasn't regarded as effective during his time in office...maybe he would have just run out the clock on his first term and failed to be re-elected Comments here about Vietnam are way off base...the US mostly fully committed already during his Presidency and there wasn't much pressure at that point to back off...quite the contrary
- robobro 5y agoIndonesia would be completely different. JFK was planning to meet with Sukarno shortly before he was assassinated. Then we got Suharto, New Order, the rest is history (over 1,000,000 communists, atheists, feminists, etc killed, and the third world is set back).
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- rpadovani 5y agoStephen King has some ideas in his 11/22/63 ;-)
- cruano 5y agoI just finished watching 11.22.63 which is based on that novel and it's so good
- sterlind 5y agomy dad is convinced that LBJ ordered the hit. I've never waded into the assassination conspiracy theories but he gets pretty animated about it.
- beachy 5y agoVietnam war likely wouldn't have happened, certainly not in the same way.
- misiti3780 5y agoLBJ got caught on a hot mic talking to Richard Russell saying he thought there was more than one shooter.
- seanw444 5y agoSome believe LBJ was in on it.
- eternalban 5y agoThat was a very interesting read. Thanks.
- xtracto 5y agoFascinating read. Every time I read these sort of old articles, I wonder who the people named in there were. For example: > was being saved by Marjorie Field, the wife of a prosperous Beverly Hills stockbroker, Who was Mrs Field? Apparently she had a really large house and a lot of free time. Who was her husband? What was her legacy?