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Jackpine Radical

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2. "The most important assassination…" Wow, that's saying something!

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:57 AM

Feb 2013

Maybe it's just my Eurocentrism showing, but I thought maybe the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, which touched off the First World War (which most historians see as leading almost inevitably to the Second), or the killing JFK, which may have laid the groundwork for both the Vietnam War and the end of liberalism in America…

So, Wow!

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