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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)47. But if you go back and read the post I was replying to,
the poster said that he was 11 when Bobby Kennedy came to his town, but could not vote until *1978*. Since the 26th Amendment gave 18-20-year-olds the right to vote in 1971, that would mean that the poster would have had the right to vote in the 1976 election, since he would have been at least 19 by then.
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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