Never-before-seen photos of JFK's final moments...

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11-14-13

Sonia King was just 10-years-old when her father, a Dallas jewelry wholesaler, photographed the sun-splashed, cheerful scene in Dealey Plaza mere minutes before President John Kennedy was assassinated. After sitting in storage for more than 45 years, her father’s pictures now appear in TIME and on LightBox, seeing the light of day for the first time in five decades. King recently shared the story behind the previously unpublished photos that mark the end of Camelot:

Read more: Never-Before-Seen Photos of JFK’s Final Minutes in Dallas - LightBoxhttp://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/14/never-before-seen-photos-of-jfks-final-minutes-in-dallas/#ixzz2kdzL5wxQ
 

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Really interesting Michie!

I know I had a Life magazine that came out just a month or so after the JFK assassination. Besides a timetable of the event and the articles, it included a number of pictures that were never included in the history books--including some of the impromptu autopsy (and the pictures were different from what the Warren Commission allowed the public to see.) I saved the magazine (I'm somewhat of a pack-rat) and gave it to my son. Unfortunately it was destroyed in a house fire son had. So I'm glad to see that more and more "never-seen-before" photos about JFK are coming out.
 
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Really interesting Michie!

I know I had a Life magazine that came out just a month or so after the JFK assassination. Besides a timetable of the event and the articles, it included a number of pictures that were never included in the history books--including some of the impromptu autopsy (and the pictures were different from what the Warren Commission allowed the public to see.) I saved the magazine (I'm somewhat of a pack-rat) and gave it to my son. Unfortunately it was destroyed in a house fire son had. So I'm glad to see that more and more "never-seen-before" photos about JFK are coming out.


If you want to know what happened to the drawings the doctors made regarding the wounds on the president, read "Best Evidence" by David Lifton. That was the last book I read about JFK's assassination. My brother got me interested in the subject when he shared a copy of "Skeptic Magazine" with me way back in the early 70's. I was only 4 when JFK was gunned down.

Janice
 
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If you want to know what happened to the drawings the doctors made regarding the wounds on the president, read "Best Evidence" by David Lifton. That was the last book I read about JFK's assassination. My brother got me interested in the subject when he shared a copy of "Skeptic Magazine" with me way back in the early 70's. I was only 4 when JFK was gunned down.

Thanks. I know I am still haunted by that scene aboard Air Force One where LBJ forced the still in-shock Jackie to be a witness to his swearing in. She looked so defeated and empty.
 
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Thanks. I know I am still haunted by that scene aboard Air Force One where LBJ forced the still in-shock Jackie to be a witness to his swearing in. She looked so defeated and empty.
He forced her??
 
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Vatican newspaper recalls Kennedy assassination



In a L’Osservatore Romano article marking the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Father Robert Imbelli recalled Catholic life in the United States in the 1960s.

Father Imbelli, a Boston College theology professor and priest of the Archdiocese of New York, recalled that Catholic life seemed to be at its apex in the early 1960s – an era of church and school construction and burgeoning seminaries and convents. “The emblematic portrait depicting John XXIII and President Kennedy next to each other seemed to promise a new era, both for the Church and for the nation: a new Pentecost, ecclesial and civil.”

Following Kennedy’s assassination and funeral, in which “the Dies Irae of the Mass had never resounded more powerfully and fearfully,” “the hopes raised by the conciliar documents” and the Civil Rights Act gave way to the events of 1968: the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, riots in cities, and protests in universities.

“In the Church, the promulgation of the encyclical Humanae Vitae “dashed the hopes of many Catholics. Priests and religious abandoned their vocation in rising numbers.”

“The Camelot of the Kennedy era was short lived,” Father Imbelli continued. “In addition, it later proved to be more myth than reality, all too often disfigured by secret infidelity.” “Without authentic conversion, the well-being and integrity of both the nation and the Church are compromised and corroded,” he added. “The hopes of the believers are not placed in some mythical Camelot, but in the new Jerusalem, which comes down ‘out of heaven, from God’” (Rev. 21: 2).
Tra Camelot e Gerusalemme (L’Osservatore Romano)
 
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If you want to know what happened to the drawings the doctors made regarding the wounds on the president, read "Best Evidence" by David Lifton. That was the last book I read about JFK's assassination. My brother got me interested in the subject when he shared a copy of "Skeptic Magazine" with me way back in the early 70's. I was only 4 when JFK was gunned down.

Janice

I read Lifton's book years ago and it has been debunked by more objective work since that time. If you want an objective view of the evidence, read the works of Gerald Posner and Vincent Bugliosi on the assassination.
 
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Video: the priest who anointed Kennedy and announced his death
Reverend Oscar L. Huber - YouTube
 
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I've never understood Roman Catholic's obsession with him just because he was nominally Roman Catholic.
Obsession? Not the way I see it, but a realization that a Catholic was elected and anti-Catholic issues were fading somewhat. Yes, there was still some in the presidential campaign, but he won.
As for nominal Catholic, don't believe that can be applied, he was observed attending Mass, belonging to the Knights of Columbus, and doing what most Catholics practice. The dirt on his life of sin came after he was gone, and therefore may even be disputed.
 
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Didn't Jackie go to the French to investigate the murder of JFK, and they concluded that LBJ WAS involved?

I know that JFK planned to de-escalate our presence in Vietnam, but within days of the JFK assassination, LBJ rescinded that and escalated the Vietnam War.
 
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Didn't Jackie go to the French to investigate the murder of JFK, and they concluded that LBJ WAS involved?

I know that JFK planned to de-escalate our presence in Vietnam, but within days of the JFK assassination, LBJ rescinded that and escalated the Vietnam War.

Oooooooh.
 
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Didn't Jackie go to the French to investigate the murder of JFK, and they concluded that LBJ WAS involved?

I know that JFK planned to de-escalate our presence in Vietnam, but within days of the JFK assassination, LBJ rescinded that and escalated the Vietnam War.
Why have I never heard any of this nefarious stuff concerning LBJ ?I know about him escalating our presence in Vietnam... but why would LBJ want Kennedy dead?:confused:
 
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Why have I never heard any of this nefarious stuff concerning LBJ ?I know about him escalating our presence in Vietnam... but why would LBJ want Kennedy dead?:confused:

I asked if it's true that Jackie went to the French to investigate and if that was their conclusion (surely you don't think that she'd even be allowed to have an investigation in the U.S.) And don't tell me that you didn't see that picture of LBJ's swearing in with poor Jackie looking like she was still in shock like she was. You know LBJ purposely waited for her--wanted the nation to have the impression that there was a continuance of the office from the Camelot of JFK to his. Good grief! I would have thought that he'd at least have the kindness to see that Jackie had just lost her husband and would want to be with the body and not be interested in any photo-op. Her being there wasn't necessary. The taking of the oath of office is all the continuance that is needed.

As to why, isn't it obvious? JFK no longer needed LBJ on the ticket (who knows maybe JFK was going to replace him with someone else--isn't that what he told his secretary?) Anyway LBJ was long a powerful political figure. I don't think he'd "go gentle". He always got what he wanted.
 
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I asked if it's true that Jackie went to the French to investigate and if that was their conclusion (surely you don't think that she'd even be allowed to have an investigation in the U.S.) And don't tell me that you didn't see that picture of LBJ's swearing in with poor Jackie looking like she was still in shock like she was. You know LBJ purposely waited for her--wanted the nation to have the impression that there was a continuance of the office from the Camelot of JFK to his. Good grief! I would have thought that he'd at least have the kindness to see that Jackie had just lost her husband and would want to be with the body and not be interested in any photo-op. Her being there wasn't necessary. The taking of the oath of office is all the continuance that is needed.

As to why, isn't it obvious? JFK no longer needed LBJ on the ticket (who knows maybe JFK was going to replace him with someone else--isn't that what he told his secretary?) Anyway LBJ was long a powerful political figure. I don't think he'd "go gentle". He always got what he wanted.

All conspiracy theories have been debunked with objective analysis. Why would LBJ put together the Warren commission of very reputable respectful people to investigate the assassination if he was behind it?

People just don't want to accept a goofball like Oswald could have killed a president, but the evidence shows he did. Just a few months before he killed JFK, he tried to assassinate a General in Texas and took a shot at him in his home. He had the means to kill JFK and he did.
 
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I asked if it's true that Jackie went to the French to investigate and if that was their conclusion (surely you don't think that she'd even be allowed to have an investigation in the U.S.) And don't tell me that you didn't see that picture of LBJ's swearing in with poor Jackie looking like she was still in shock like she was. You know LBJ purposely waited for her--wanted the nation to have the impression that there was a continuance of the office from the Camelot of JFK to his. Good grief! I would have thought that he'd at least have the kindness to see that Jackie had just lost her husband and would want to be with the body and not be interested in any photo-op. Her being there wasn't necessary. The taking of the oath of office is all the continuance that is needed.

As to why, isn't it obvious? JFK no longer needed LBJ on the ticket (who knows maybe JFK was going to replace him with someone else--isn't that what he told his secretary?) Anyway LBJ was long a powerful political figure. I don't think he'd "go gentle". He always got what he wanted.
Sorry, but I don't see anything as obvious when it comes to politics & political figures. What I am asking is where all this information is so I can read it.
 
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