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In reply to the discussion: What if JFK, MLK and RFK had lived? [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)9. I'm a little confused here
If you were 11 when Bobby Kennedy came to your town, that could not have been any later than June 1968. So that means you were at least 19, and thus of legal voting age, when the 1976 election was held
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Your post made me cry for your uncle, your mother and for you. I do want to point out, though,
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#37
It's pretty clear JFK was going to pull out. He signed NSAM 263, ordering complete withdrawal.
Octafish
Dec 2012
#44
NSAM 263, as I understand it, was conditioned upon success by the puppets
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#48
If JFK, RFK, and MLK had lived and had been able to follow through with their visions
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2012
#7
I agree completely they would have changed history add one more name Jerry Litton from Missouri.
gordianot
Dec 2012
#17
MLK (advocate of non-violent change and economic justice) and RFK (advocate of peace and
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2012
#26
I posted this a while ago regarding this very subject (at least as far as the Kennedys go) . . . .
HughBeaumont
Dec 2012
#35
This wasn't done by some cabal...this was done by corporate America in plain view
Taverner
Dec 2012
#42