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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)Thank you for your kind words. Coming from you, someone who has long contributed important information to what DUers know, it means the world to me.
It's hard to believe the assassination of President Kennedy happened almost half a century ago. Most of the people on the planet -- and most Americans -- weren't born then, so it's understandable if the life of one president could make that big a difference. Those of us who do remember what it was like, know the nation was a different place. More importantly, the nation was moving in a new and different direction, to become a better nation for ALL Americans. Looking back, it is easy to see what we have become instead.
PS: Two important names to GOOGLE for information about events from 1963:
Abraham Bolden, the first African America to serve on the Presidential Secret Service detail. After seeing the bigoted and lackadaisical nature of the White House detail's leadership, he returned to Chicago. After Dallas, he reported his concerns to the Warren Commission and was immediately framed and railroaded on false charges.
Don Adams, an FBI agent who interviewed Joseph Adams Milteer, the reactionary tape-recorded by an informant outlining an assassination attempt on JFK with high-powered rifles fired from high-rise buildings in Miami days before Dallas.
Both men are still alive. And they are still loyal to their country, as evinced by their work to tell the truth.