How Soon We (Me) Forget
Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the end of America as it might have been and the beginning of the America that is.
On this date in 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the new president of this not-as-bad-as-other-places country of ours.
Do you remember where you were on this date?
DT remembers …
I was in 3rd grade at North Middleton Township Elementary School when I heard about it. They called an assembly of the students in the cafeteria, surrounded by the teachers and staff when the principal made the announcement.
Many of the adult females were brought to tears and open wailing. It was a thing. For awhile the earth had tilted on it’s axis. Maybe it still is.
I remember reading a book in the 70’s when I was in the army, and I don’t remember the title, and a specific point in the book has always stuck in my mind.
When they were taking the gurney out of the airplane a bullet fell off the gurney onto the floor. Not the whole cartridge, just the bullet and it had obviously been fired and was slightly distorted.
It was about 4 or 5 pm on that rainy day in western PA. I worked night shift and as I put the pot on for coffee I turned the radio on and was “shocked”. Little did I know that the piece of shit that was being sworn in was part of the plan. Our country is corrupt. Only by the grace of God have we made it this far and it is my feeling that our Heavenly Father is just about fed up with us.
A worthwhile read…..
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I was born in 65. I’m one of the youngsters here.
I have no fond comments for LBJ based on history. War on poverty was a complete disaster.
Man’s natural state is war. I’m working through the Old Testament and into Ezra currently. You can quickly read through centuries of history and see the non-stop war that went on over time in that era. It is no different throughout our current history. The only difference is that you can read through centuries of war in Judeah and Isreal in 15 minute sections. Kind of shortens everything and take things out of day to day perspective in our own lives. The world is crazy currently? It has been that same situation, non-stop since Adam and Eve.
I was in 6th grade. The whole school was in the gymn watching the cheerleader tryouts. Memory of the rest of the day is lost.
I was sitting in my 3rd grade class when it all went down. I asked my teacher who is going to be the President now? She said, “I guess Lyndon Johnson.” I asked, “A woman?” I thought she said, “Linda.” She replied, “No, his name is LYNDON. He’s a man.” I asked, “How old is he?” She said, “I don’t know… maybe 60?” I groaned and said something like, “This sucks, he’s some old dude.” It only got worse from there into the future. I watched Lionel Nation do a pretty good video yesterday. He was describing LBJ’s motives to have Kennedy killed and LBJ had many. I wrote these words into the comments below… “I think Lionel must have read “LBJ: the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination” written by Phillip F. Nelson. I read it and it’s about 600 pages of believable sensible facts. LBJ was heading to jail and Kennedy had a future 2nd term all in the works. No LBJ, no Vietnam, no traitors lurking about like the past four years. LBJ was a psychopath dreaming of being President since childhood and he knew the only way he could acquire that was to be Vice-President and then eliminate whoever that President was, in this case Kennedy.”
And I wrote… “J. Edgar Hoover and LBJ were next door neighbors over 20 years at a luxury townhome complex in Georgetown. They were close pals and conniving on every level. It was Hoover’s dirt on Kennedy with the womanizing, plus several illnesses he suffered, that blackmailed him to take on LBJ as his running mate. LBJ was forced upon JFK in a disgusting surprise attack facilitated by Hoover. LBJ promised Hoover he would never forcefully retire him out of the FBI if he became President. JFK was going to get rid of Hoover soon into his 2nd term so small wonder Hoover was in Dallas to help in any way he could.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGeIQ2HsRTQ
I remember in my 4th grade classroom. The gruff elderly janitor came in the classroom and told us. He was in tears, that was the first I saw a grown man cry. We went from the fresh start of a new, young and charismatic leader with a pretty and classy first lady and charming children to the despair of endless war, riots and the death of Robert Kennedy and King and the coup that took out Nixon.
I was 4, almost 5, and vividly remember the bizarre sight of seeing my mother, a staunch Goldwater Republican, sitting on the sofa bawling like a baby when Uncle Walter came on the news to announce Kennedy’s death. It was definitely the end of innocence over politics for most average, run-of-the-mill folks. Ironically, Kennedy would be considered a moderate Republican today, most likely.