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In reply to the discussion: What if JFK, MLK and RFK had lived? [View all]LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)19. Reagan was shot
I hate hate hate to say this, but I was actually happy at the time. And I was actually sad when he pulled through. I kept thinking, why do the Democrats die?
Isn't that awful of me to think?
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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