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4/27/61, “John F. Kennedy Speeches," “The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association,″ “President John F. Kennedy, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City,″ JFKLibrary.org
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11/21/13, "Liberals Rewrite History to Blame Dallas and Conservatives for JFK Assassination," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"I read a little blurb promoting a piece that Bob Costas is doing on some
NBC cable network on the Kennedy assassination and what it was like to
be a member of the Dallas Cowboys that year. The shame, the
embarrassment of being from Dallas.
And the blurb on this program -- now, get this -- the blurb on this
program that I read said that one of the Cowboys from that year, 1963,
to be interviewed by Bob Costas on the NBC cable special was tight end
Pettis Norman, and in the blurb that I read promoting this Bob Costas
show on NBC, some cable network, Pettis Norman is quoted as saying, "We
were all worried that some right-winger was gonna kill the president."
Really? We're being asked to believe that the Dallas Cowboys had a
player or players prior to Kennedy's trip to Dallas that were worried
the right wing was going to assassinate JFK?...
That's an example of how just off the rails this is, and the attempt
to totally change the narrative. Folks, a right-winger didn't kill
Kennedy! A right-winger didn't even get a gun and get camped out to kill
Kennedy. A left-winger, a communist, killed President Kennedy. And the
left still can't accept that. They still have to indict Dallas, the
Dallas of the day. Even though who was from New Orleans?
Well, Oswald, he was from New Orleans but he lived in Dallas. But he was
from Moscow! Oswald was from Moscow.
He came back from Moscow, from Soviet-sponsored training for this. He
was working with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. I mean, really on a
sports show? You know, the Cowboys went into Cleveland and played the
Cleveland Browns. What they're also trying to do is history revision.
Every sports network and website is now saying that that weekend is the
darkest weekend in the history of the NFL, because Alvin "Pete" Rozelle,
the commissioner of the day, made the decision to play the games.
Now everybody still alive that was in the NFL in those days is now
saying, "We now Pete not to do it. We told Pete not to play the games.
Nobody wants to play," and Pete Rozelle was on an island, apparently,
that weekend. He was the only guy now that wanted to play. I mean, this
is revisionist history. This is just over the top. I don't know Pettis
Norman, and I firmly believe that the media can create people thinking
this kind of thing.
I'm sure Pettis Norman, if he says, "Yeah, we were worried some
right-winger was gonna come in and kill Kennedy," that's probably the
result of the media since the assassination that has put the notion in
everybody's mind that Dallas was a hotbed of what? Right-wing assassins!
I just don't believe it. I don't believe in the Cowboys locker room
that week were all worried that Kennedy was coming to town and some
right-winger's gonna kill him.
But that is what he's quoted as saying....It's just out of this world. Kennedy was not
assassinated by anybody right winger from Dallas. These conspiracy
theories -- many of them, I kid you not. Soviet specialists who've
analyzed a lot of these have concluded that the KGB funded a lot of the
conspiracy theories. You remember one of the great conspiracy theories
-- I say "great," but one -- was by a guy named Mark Lane.
He was probably the first conspiracy theorist funded by the KGB,
whether he knew it or not. Mark Lane wrote the first conspiracy book on
the Kennedy assassin. It was called Rush to Judgment. That's before
anybody knew who I was. That's a sign of the power I was yet to acquire.
Rush to Judgment. It was the first to attack the Warren Commission. It
came out before the Warren Commission Report. Lee Harvey Oswald lived in
Dallas for a few months, all told.
He was from Moscow by way of New Orleans, and according to former KGB
officer Vasili Mitrokhin in his 1990 book The Sword and the Shield, the
KGB helped finance Mark Lane's research on Rush to Judgment without
Mark Lane's knowledge. The KGB allegedly used an intermediary, a friend
of Lane who was a KGB contact. I mean, all of this conspiracy crap back
then was leftist conjured....
The real conspiracies that held water were that leftists had
permeated, communists had infiltrated the US government. Yet the history
revision is just amazing. It's a great illustration of how the media
gets on to something and it becomes a project, if you will, and they
don't let go of it, and the project is somehow to make everybody think
that, "Yeah, Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger, but that doesn't
matter. Dallas did it!
"H. L. Hunt -- you know, all these rich industrialists in Dallas,
these rich Republican guys, friends of Joe McCarthy! Dallas was a hotbed
of right-wing extremism." I have a New York Times story from yesterday,
written by a guy named Manny Fernandez. Now, I don't know, but I'm
gonna guess that Manny Fernandez wasn't even alive during the Kennedy
assassination. "Dallas -- When President John F. Kennedy's motorcade
left the airport here shortly before noon on Nov. 22, 1963, the man
seated in the lead car was the county sheriff, Bill Decker, 65, a
storied Texas lawman who led the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde.
"Fifty years later, the badge belongs to Lupe Valdez, 66, the
daughter of Mexican migrant farmworkers. She is the only sheriff in
America who is an openly gay Hispanic woman. Voters re-elected Sheriff
Valdez, a Democrat, to a third term last year." What in the name of Sam
Hill does that have to do with the Kennedy assassination? That the old
sheriff is some beat up, broken down right-winger by the name of Bill
Decker and that the current sheriff is Lupe Valdez, the daughter of
Mexican migrants?
This is designed to show how enlightened Texas has become. This is
designed to show how modern Texas is. This opening paragraph is designed
to show how backwards Texas was. Yeah, there was 65-year-old broken
down, gun-slinging, longtime sheriff named Decker who brought down
Bonnie and Clyde, but now somebody who really knows their business --
Lupe Valdez, the daughter of migrant Mexican farm workers who's gay and
Hispanic -- is there.
"Dealey Plaza -- where the darkest day in Dallas history unfolded 40
minutes after the motorcade began -- looks eerily similar to what it was
then, the sixth-floor corner window of the former Texas School Book
Depository still cracked open slightly. But Dallas itself is almost as
different as Bill Decker is from Lupe Valdez."...
"And the tension between past and present has unleashed a wave of
citywide self-reflection a half-century later in a distinctly American
place that is part Dallas Cowboys, part Texas excess and part urban
melting pot, where the public school students come from homes where 70
languages are spoken. Painful, embarrassing memories of the angry
anti-Washington culture that flourished here 50 years ago -- and now
seems a permanent part of the national mood -- have resurfaced,
confronting Dallasites daily."
This is absolute BS. This is absolute, 100% hogwash.
This is just excrement, folks, the first three paragraphs of a New York Times story yesterday on Dallas.
So you see how they're continuing here to try to portray Dallas as
responsible then, and it's still nothing to write home about. But then
there is this: "In 1963, Dallas was the 14th-largest city in the
country, with a majority-white population of nearly 700,000, a
provincial place whose mostly white, mostly male establishment set the
agenda." That sounds exactly like the New York Times today, to me! It
has a majority white population, provincial place, mostly white, mostly
male establishment sets the agenda. Mr. Fernandez, in describing Dallas,
has also described the New York Times.
Pettis Norman, the Dallas Cowboys, says the team was very, very
worried that some stupid conservative right-winger was gonna kill the
president when he came to town. I guarantee you, before this all said
and done, it was the Tea Party that did it. Before it's all said and
done, before they finish with this, the Tea Party will actually be said
to have had its roots in Dallas in 1963 and that the madcap, extremist,
right-wing lunaticism is actually the spawning place of the modern day
Tea Party. Don't doubt me.
Look, even when I make jokes about these people I end up being right about 'em, so don't discount that." image from RushLimbaugh.com
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4/27/1961, "Our way of life is under attack." Pres. John F. Kennedy referencing the threat of Communism in speech to newspaper publishers.
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11/19/13, NY Times: 50 Years Later, a Changed Dallas Grapples With Its Darkest Day -Manny Fernandez
11/20/13, NBC Sports: Costas Looks at Impact of Kennedy Assassination on 1963 Cowboys
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