plainlogic

Read up on Johnson, his Great Society, the unlocking of the Social Security funds. social justice.

Yeah, there was a lot of conspiracy theories at the time JFK was assassinated, involving Jack Ruby and his connections with the mafia.

SGM B Loc: TEXAS but live in Alabama now

Then there's this one...Jack Ruby Band

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

I had a friend who needed my help to move some cows, they three cabins for deer hunters on their property... when we finished moving the cows... he said one of LBJ's secret service guys was staying in one of the cabins... when we passed the cabin the agent was outside drinking coffee... my buddy pulled over to say hi and if his stay was good and had he got his deer yet... he invited us into the cabin for coffee and to warm up and he shared this after some chit chat... I can't say much, but if you heard something bad about LBJ it's probably true but Ladybird was a class act.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

I wrote the following poem about that day. I was a sophomore in college at NYU when the news came across the radio. It was the Friday before Thanksgiving and we were getting ready Kappa Sig
for a Thanksgiving party the following evening. We gathered around the radio.

The Modern Jazz Quartet was scheduled to give a concert the next evening.

A pledge & I went over to the campus to tell everyone about it. We had chills running up & down our spines. Some people thought it was a joke & others simply refused to believe it.

As the weekend wore on, we all were glued to our radios & the TV, it dawned on us that Lyndon B. Johnson was now president. We shuddered, knowing what he was.

The doctrine of cui bono applied. Who benefited.

And, for whatever it's worth, there was really no constitutional provision for vice-presidential succession to office at the time. It was a tradition. So, everything that LBJ rammed through, Congress, was constitutionally suspect.

What JFK would have done, especially as far as Viet-Nam was concerned is debatable. As late as January 1968, Robert Kennedy stated that his brother had no intention of withdrawing, as many have maintained.




A PIVOTAL DAY



"Get the radio on. Kennedy's been shot!"
I’d phoned my mother. We still hoped not
the worst would be true. After all
the years since then I can still recall
what she replied to me and the way
she said it that long ago autumn day.
It still stands out like yesterday in my mind
and others all say the same, I find.
"Someone shot Kennedy,” a friend had said.
We soon learned it was in the head!
It was immediately after that,
we all turned our radios on and sat
down for the breaking news that so soon
would seem to end our youth. That afternoon,
after a pause, Chet Huntley's voice would hover
in the room and our minds as it came over
the radio. Chet Huntley said,
"The President of The United States is dead".
We stood in silence. Physically, we were fine
but like never before chills ran in our spines
as we walked around in horrid disbelief.
John F. Kennedy was our Commander-in-Chief.
He had a special place in our hearts.
We were like balloons shot with darts.
Our lives have been divided by that day
and after that everyone would say
the same. Good times would come after
but that day changed our laughter.
At the funeral the hymns were sung again
but we knew we'd never be young again.
More than a generation has now gone to its grave
and those who have come since are unable to save
memories they do not have. They can't perceive it
and I'm sure that they could not believe it
could happen. A half century later, it’s still
hard to accept that a madman could kill
and deliver to eternity and the fates
The President of The United States.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Much better than any poem I ever wrote. I was in the 4th grade, the teacher Mrs Hutchins, whom I was a little bit afraid of because she just looked mad and mean all the time, brought a t.v. into the classroom and lets us watch the funeral. Her desk was at the back of the class and she was sobbing. She wasn't as mean as I thought, had a soft spot for her after that.

Loki Loc: Georgia

I doubt I could afford the cat litter.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Then may I suggest an illiterate cat?

Loki Loc: Georgia

May I suggest you clean it up?

son of witless

Johnson should have never become President because he had no clue how to run a war. He was put on the ticket for for political reasons. He let McNamara run the war. I remember his speech, " My fellow Americans I come to you with a heavy heart . " To me as a kid I thought that was how Presidents always started a speech.

Big Bass

LBJ and hellary. Soulmates?